Thread: Gripe of the day

Originally Posted by yummybrummy

Gripe today..... Every morning I always arrive in the office around an hour early, a) to avoid traffic and b) as office manager it seems fitting I should be first to arrive. Also is nice to have the office to myself for about 1.5 hours. Do my hair, my make up etc. .

Anyhoos when the CEO emerges in the office I sit and pray that he buggers off before 5 so that I can get away on time because if he stays over it means I have to as well. I ended up leaving before him last night and it was almost 5.25 when I left which meant I'd given a good 10 hours in the office. All well and good I don't object to working over IF the work warrants it but when I'm staying over just for the sake of it it does seem rather pointless, irritating and a waste of my valuable time. There's also a knock on effect with the traffic... if I can leave on time I'm home within half an hour BUT staying that little bit extra can easily take me 50 mins to get home.

I was fuming by the time I got home last night. PFFTT

May seem a mild gripe but it is annoying when you have a life outside of work and already put in the extra hours beforehand. Many a time I've had to cancel after work arrangements purely due to staying over for no Goddamn reason whatsoever.

Sorry hun, never saw this, are you not on set times, if so can't you jsut say, oh it's 5pm got to shoot as I have other plans.

Originally Posted by yummybrummy

Have to share this coz am so resentful.

My boss decides to retract our Saturdays off due to big project taking place and wants all staff in office in case we're needed so now we're only getting one day off a week. So far I've done 7 Sats in succession and this is meant to continue until end of June. I'm absolutely bloody knacked with only 1 measly day off and the best bit is nobody is entitled to any recompense :realmad:

The best of it is that nobody has owt to do on a Saturday so we all just sit there on t'internet.
Roll on July.............

Sound a beggar of a company to work for, is it legal what they are doing, or is it a case of people don't question it because they want to keep their job?

A tad difficult as being the office manager he expects all my staff to leave before I do

Originally Posted by yummybrummy

A tad difficult as being the office manager he expects all my staff to leave before I do

Tell them you will give them a bonus if they leave 5 minutes earlier every night, lol x

Originally Posted by Ktee

Tell them you will give them a bonus if they leave 5 minutes earlier every night, lol x

Nice one Ktee.

Actually yes it is legal out here. The UAE employment laws are almost non existent. Believe it or not I work for one of the good companies and I do like my boss. Guess when it's your own company you get carried away.