Is it ok to take holiday while off work for stress?

[funkyrobot]

Oh how the mighty have fallen

Original thread re the shark 'wrestle' here:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[anonymous-user]

IroningMan said:

Suffering from work-related stress doesn't mean being bedridden.

No it doesn't. It just means the job is too much for you, so he's probably got what he needs. Unless he is just another shirker, in which case he got what he deserves.

I hope he finds it stressful at the inevitable tribunal.

[funkyrobot]

REALIST123 said:

IroningMan said:

Suffering from work-related stress doesn't mean being bedridden.

No it doesn't. It just means the job is too much for you, so he's probably got what he needs. Unless he is just another shirker, in which case he got what he deserves.

I hope he finds it stressful at the inevitable tribunal.

I hope the shark jumps on the bandwagon and claims for stress too, off him.

[maffski]

Whilst I can see a trip to Cornwall and a week in a cottage in a little fishing village might be a good way of releaving stress, organising a trip to the other side of the world and the attendant long hall flights would strike me a somewhat stressful.

[vodkalolly]

mph1977 said:

u

unfortunately senior management in charities especially volunteer senior managers consider themselves to be above the law ...

Time to de-register them in their thousands the charity scam has gone on far too long.

[Caulkhead]

maffski said:

Whilst I can see a trip to Cornwall and a week in a cottage in a little fishing village might be a good way of releaving stress, organising a trip to the other side of the world and the attendant long hall flights would strike me a somewhat stressful.

I suspect the two month trip was funded and planned well in advance of the chronologically highly convenient sudden onset of long-term absence due to stress in both him and his wife simultaneously. What are the odds?

[saaby93]

Any idea how much you get as trustee of a charity?

[JagLover]

saaby93 said:

Any idea how much you get as trustee of a charity?

Trustees aren't usually paid.

[mph1977]

vodkalolly said:

mph1977 said:

u

unfortunately senior management in charities especially volunteer senior managers consider themselves to be above the law ...

Time to de-register them in their thousands the charity scam has gone on far too long.

it's also used a way to income and prestige ...

JPs, DLs, NEDs all round for 'senior volunteers' ...

[Megaflow]

Pothole said:

hat crap.

Thanks for the contribution.

[Pothole]

Megaflow said:

Pothole said:

hat crap.

Thanks for the contribution.

What else could I say to your ridiculous statement "wrestling a shark whilst on holiday is not the reaction of a stressed person!"?

[s3fella]

Couple of lead swingers caught out 12000 miles away on the sick? Hmmm.


If they'd have informed their employer of the holiday, I suspect they'd still have jobs, but possibly would not have been paid whilst away, depending on the employers terms etc.

But to both be off sick from the same company, it does seem a bit chinny rec.

[Caulkhead]

saaby93 said:

Any idea how much you get as trustee of a charity?

Good question! Let's use our favourite fake charity 'Brake' as an example:

They turned over £1,024,396 in 2011 with 21 employees. Wages and salaries amounted to £577,740 for the same period. They have six directors (pretty much all solicitors or barristers) and one trustee. The 'charity' made a pre-tax profit of £109,959 and a post-tax profit of £109,959. . . . . . . .

Draw your own conclusions.

[Megaflow]

Pothole said:

Megaflow said:

Pothole said:

hat crap.

Thanks for the contribution.

What else could I say to your ridiculous statement "wrestling a shark whilst on holiday is not the reaction of a stressed person!"?

How about, "Sorry, I don't agree"

Are you this rude in real life?

Do you think wresting a shark is the sort of thin a stressed person would do? I'd wager they have a split second thought of all of the things that could go wrong, mostly irrational thoughts, because that's what stress does to a person and then ignore the situation.

[Killer2005]

Caulkhead said:

saaby93 said:

Any idea how much you get as trustee of a charity?

Good question! Let's use our favourite fake charity 'Brake' as an example:

They turned over £1,024,396 in 2011 with 21 employees. Wages and salaries amounted to £577,740 for the same period. They have six directors (pretty much all solicitors or barristers) and one trustee. The 'charity' made a pre-tax profit of £109,959 and a post-tax profit of £109,959. . . . . . . .

Draw your own conclusions.

In my line of work i don't believe I've seen any charity worker on less than £30k

[saaby93]

Megaflow said:

.... I'd wager they have a split second thought of all of the things that could go wrong, mostly irrational thoughts, because that's what stress does to a person....

and then go and pull a shark by the tail?

[JakesterUK]

Surely if he'd notified his employer of the pre-stress booked holiday it would have been OK, also I though 'fit for work' certs from GP's were a max of 1 month at a time, so how'd they both get signed off for 2 months?

[ShredderXLE]

It shouldnt be ok to be off work with stress anyway. If you're not cut out to do the job in the first place hand your notice in and free up the position for someone who might be.

[Mr Viking]

it's fine to go on holiday while on sick leave, but as said above a few times, you should tell your employer

[Mst007]

On a similar note, I was surprised to read recently that 16 Comic relief employees earn £130k+. I`ve decided not to contribute this year.