Since HR departments seem to have universally adopted "Bradford scoring", even taking a single day off sick will significantly hurt your paycheck.
I've never heard of it, but i'm afraid to say I totally and utterly agree with that system. Lots of individual unplanned time off have a far greater effect than one prolonged absence.
I agree, my last job where I was the oldest by quite some years and never had a day off in 7 years yet the younger members were off for any and every reason. Even when a attendance bonus was bought in payable for every month without a day off had little effect.
Pretty much. Colds, stomach aches and the like were favoured excuses, not forgetting family problems.
I do think the work ethic has changed with the generations, young folk seem to have a growing sense of entitlement rather than a real willingness to graft to get what they want and where they want. That's something that grinds my gears Maybe getting older myself means I've become one of the old codgers who have rose tinted glasses? I used to dislike them when I was younger
I don’t like my next door neighbour, he thinks it’s ok to shout at his missus 24/7, literally about everything, dinner, washing up, kids, car, money, work, breakfast, lunch, holidays, EVERYTHING. Most of the time he’s a complete anus hole to her. Also I extra specially don’t like him today because he woke me up early this morning, he was shouting at the top of his lungs that he couldn’t find his socks. “Where’s my socks, there’s no socks in the draw!, no socks anywhere, find me some socks, what do you mean there is socks in the bag?, I can’t see any socks, I have found your socks, what have you done with mine?, oh I’ve found one sock”. He’s like a 30~ year old baby. He won’t like me much if I end up going round there for a ‘chat’ I don’t like chatting, I don’t have any time for weak blokes that think it’s ok to talk to / treat women like that, I’d love to put him in his place and give him a taste of his own medicine, usually blokes like that crumble at the first sign of intimidation. Bloke needs a reality check..
In my opinion there is no problem showing up at work with a cold. Personally I draw the line at fevers; if you're running a fever then you can stay at home and wallow in your discomfort. Oh and if you've contracted the stomach flu (norovirus) then you lock yourself in your house for a week! Really don't need that stuff floating around the office! The horror!
Why? We have sick leave and mandatory annual leave for a reason. The older generation gets a huge pension and young people inherit depressed wages, overinflated house prices and student loans. To top it off the older generation votes for brexit. Must be lazy young people!
The Bradford factor should be used as a flagging tool for managers to check on an employees attendance history and see if there's a pattern that might suggest either that they're lying about being ill, or that there is an underlying issue they might need help with. It's not meant to be a tool to enable an endless line of disciplinaries for the sake of stamping some authority on workers and scare them into coming into work when they're ill, as I've often seen it used. I was once forced to take one of my team through disciplinary proceedings because he had frequent days off with back problems and migraines, even though he was an otherwise exemplary employee and we'd built up a large case file filled with doctors notes, hospital appointment letters, dse assessments etc. All because my ops manager was a bitch who was **** at her job and liked to throw her weight around as to warn off any challengers. A little common sense goes a long way with these matters, but sadly that and logic are a rarity nowadays.
People sensationalising stuff in headlines; case in point this gem from the BBC online feed of the F1 testing: And what does this "narrow disaster" look like?
