Re: Member Announcements Thread
Wow, in a story similar to Squid that takes me way back.
I actually got a black mark against my name back at a job years ago because I swapped shift with someone, then didn't make it to the shift I swappde for.
What happened? I was in a car accident the day before. When I turned up on sunday, I was still painfully limping, so it was pretty clear that y'know, something had happened.
And yeah, I don't know who it is you can go and speak to, but you should be able to speak to a doctor for a little piece of paper that says you're unwell, and show that to someone else whose job it is to ensure workplace fairness, and then the boss can't fire you. Of course, I've generally found that any point you need to do such things to keep your job, it's probably not worth keeping as they'll probably be trying to get rid of you. Or just do what they do here in Australia.
Fun fact: Technically speaking, I hold 3 jobs right now. I consider myself working for 1 of them, becaues the other two never give me any shifts. They haven't fired me, because then they might have to prove a reason, but there isn't a minimum hours they have to give me on my contract, so they don't and wait for me to quit. I fight this by leeching off the benefits until they cut me off from them.
