Fuckign Furious

Rob's going in to work again. Today was supposed to be TOIL of interrupted paternity leave when he worked last week; they called and he's going in again now.

I'm livid.

I'm much angrier than that, in fact.

This is the fourth time they have interrupted his paternity leave. Twice the day he went in. Once on Sunday - on a Bank Holiday Sunday when he was on paternity leave - and then today. Why? Because they need his help on some technical documentation they've been working on for months. I have never encountered more pathetic time-management. It seems like nothing at all is ever planned for accurately in this place. When he took the job, he asked at the interview about things like daily working hours being adhered to, not being on call, not being routinely required to do out of hours work, all the usual things that enable one to have a life outside work. And he got satisfactory responses. They are completely not living up to this. I'm furious.

Rob's Job

Well, he asked them what they intended to do about the fact that he's been interrupted four times while on paternity leave, and they've given him an extra 7.5 hours' leave. With his annual leave and accrued TOIL, he now has 21¼ days to take before 31 December. This will be mentioned to his manager, because he also has more out of hours work to do, which will mean more TOIL.

When I managed a department of 8 people plus me, I kept a close eye on their leave, because it was important to ensure that they all *took* it, and that they didn't all take it at *once*. It wasn't hard once I'd developed a system. Perhaps I should explain the system to someone.

I'm still simmering.