I feel like yelling at the moment. Bear with me while I get this off my chest.

I am completely stumped as to why employers don’t value loyalty anymore. DH went into work this morning to update them on what was happening with his ankle and after a lot of huffing and sighing his boss mentioned things that basically sounded like if DH can’t go back to work they’ll have to let him go!!!! He mentioned about another employee that had a shoulder injury and operation and if he wasn’t better after “x” amount of time that they would have had to “dismiss” him (the other employee). Threatening much?!?!?!

He also implyed that it was self-inflicted…umm hello DH was participating in a sport, you know, healthy living and all that! It’s not like he asked to land on his ankle funny and do serious damage. I mean come on! Would he rather his employees sit around and not do any exercise?

So rather than being supportive of his employee the guy just adds more stress to the situation by using scare tactics. If he knew his employee he would know that DH wanted to get back to work ASAP.

Oh, that’s another thing he brought up the amount of time DH has had off “recently” and do you know what his recently is? It included things like the annual leave days DH took off in 2009 for our honeymoon to Europe, then the days that DH took off later in 2009 when his mum was in and out of hospital after her cancer diagnosis and the operations she had to have – I think from memory some of those days were annual leave as well others were without pay so he may have some grounds there although it would show a lack of compassion. That’s all besides the fact that it was 2 years ago!!!! Then the next days mentioned were when DS was born again annual leave and then there have been the odd day or 2 off when DH has been sick or most recently injured with his other ankle. So I don’t actually know what legal grounds they have to be complaining about time off when the majority of it has been annual leave.

All of the above mentioned have been genuine reasons for time off not that you have to justify what you do on your annual leave anyway surely!  In comparison to other employees who are off constantly for what I’m sure are hangovers or they just don’t show up or they have a hint of a sniffle. Why are you picking on a hard working employee for goodness sake!!!!!

Arrrrrrrgggggghhhhhh. Okay I’m getting all worked up again. Thanks for letting me vent

Ta ta for now

C xx