Depends on the 9-5 I guess. Most places let you go to them and come back like
If you go to the doctor, you are sick, take a sick day.
Dentists have evening appointments.
Or ask to leave work a little early/come in late one day. They can’t really say no.
If your work doesn’t let you take an hour or two to do this, there’s a problem and you should leave your job.
This doesn’t strike me as a GB meme. This is US bullshit here. Since when could you not take time off?
That is one of the most stupid things ever, how are we supposed to function? Am I supposed to be doing these things on my lunch break?
Try going to the bank even if you do have flexible hours.
If I was a conspiracy theorist I’d say it’s to stop people being able to pay off their loans/credit cards in time so they can charge more fees.
7-3 is the better schedule. Even works better for balancing your breaks
You’re lucky that you work 9-5.
9-5 jobs are very rare these days.
This is such a mood. Especially with banks, like if I didn’t work I wouldn’t have money so would have no use for a bank, but because I work I am never free when the bank is open now they have cut Saturday opening hours. Let alone the issue with many banks closing branches in rural areas.
When I was a primary school teacher, I moved house and registered with a new GP in the half term. Receptionist was instant that I had to come in for a ‘new patient check up’ the following week that they only did one weekday at like 10 or 11am. She really struggled with the idea that wouldn’t be able to leave the classroom just to come in for a pointless GP appointment 🙄 eventually she gave in.
I’m fortunate in that the place I work at are pretty flexible with these kinds of things. If I have an appointment I can come in late/leave early without penalty as long as I let them know in good time.
Planned sick days. Simples.
I have never, in twenty-five years of working, been denied being able to go to any appointment. When I’ve been a manager, I’ve never said no either. Even for appointments at letting agents or mortgage advisors. If you’re an organisation that can’t operate when one person is missing for a couple of hours, what would you do if they went on long-term sick?
Tell your manager you have an appointment, simple
I have never denied someone time off for a dentist or hospital appointment.
I’ve never asked them to work the time back.
Nonsense, any decent work place will allow you time for these types of things.
Hello, fellow Brits, your Polish resident here. I would recommend you to enjoy 8-4/9-5 working hours system. It is really easy on the body and relaxing this way. Your biological clocks are set to work around it. Now imagine you had to work in 3 or 4 system shift change. Let me explain:
– 3 shift system: it is basic week after week change from
Morning 6-14 (2 days off)
Afternoon 14-22 (2 days off)
Night 22-6 (2 days off) (no bonus for night shift it is normal in poland)
– 4 shift system (hours stay the same as on “3” just days are different)
Basically, when you get used to one week, it is over, and you have to change to another pattern. Over and over again
I work 8 to 5 and I still go to dentist appointments? Grow a back bone and tell them your going to dentist or doctors they can’t stop you.
Or the bank lol
No-one prepared them for it because it’s bollocks.
No one prepared me for the fact that when I’m sleeping, badgers are out frolicking. When can I have the chance to frolick with badgers?
A lot of the “get a better job” comments miss the point. Even if you have a boss who isn’t difficult about this kind of thing, it can just be very difficult to do these things.
For example, one of my first jobs was working in a warehouse in the middle of nowhere. Going to see the doctor would have involved a more than 2 hour round trip. Some people I know have jobs that involve a lengthy signing in and out process, others have jobs where you have to change in and out of a uniform when you arrive and leave.
Not saying these are insurmountable obstacles, but they are massively inconvenient and it would be so much simpler for lots of people to do it after work
…isn’t it the law that employers have to give paid time off, separate from your holiday balance, for any medical appointment?
Shift work. 6-2. No commuter traffic, empty shops on the way home, peaceful afternoon. Unfortunately it usually goes hand in hand with having a shit job.
“I work 9-5 but other people should work out of hours to suit me”
Edit: downvote me all you like, that is literally what’s being expressed 😂
Enjoy your social and family life outside work then, while all those of us who work odd hours to facilitate it don’t have one.
You just say to your boss “I have a dentist appointment next Monday so I’ll be late in.”
Honestly….yes. A lot of the time. I don’t know who decided that public services should be closed on the days where the majority of people are off work…but it’s a thing.
My previous job were pretty good with these types of things. If you have to take an hour or two to go to an appointment or have an emergency of any kind. Just make up that time by coming in early or staying behind the rest of the days of the week. Really fair and flexible. I even had a chipped windscreen on my car that needed fixing and the only appointment I could get was at 2:40pm. My manager just said “book it, come in early tomorrow”.
Every company should be like that but unfortunately it’s not always the case. Any company that doesn’t allow that flexibility, well, you should leave. We have lives to live.
No-one prepared me for that punctuation.
My company allows us to take upto 6 hours for the doctors without it coming out of our annual leave. Good companies should understand that their staff are human and will always need time off for doctors at some point in their working lives.
Delicate one of your weekend days to admin and the other to relaxation
Very deep. Off to work now with you now
In most EU contries you have 20h peryear (if I’m not mistaken) where you can go to doctors appointments, no questions asked as long as you bring a paper that you were there.
You can take a sick leave to go to a doctor. Just ask, its not rly that controversial.
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Depends on the 9-5 I guess. Most places let you go to them and come back like
If you go to the doctor, you are sick, take a sick day.
Dentists have evening appointments.
Or ask to leave work a little early/come in late one day. They can’t really say no.
If your work doesn’t let you take an hour or two to do this, there’s a problem and you should leave your job.
This doesn’t strike me as a GB meme. This is US bullshit here. Since when could you not take time off?
That is one of the most stupid things ever, how are we supposed to function? Am I supposed to be doing these things on my lunch break?
Try going to the bank even if you do have flexible hours.
If I was a conspiracy theorist I’d say it’s to stop people being able to pay off their loans/credit cards in time so they can charge more fees.
7-3 is the better schedule. Even works better for balancing your breaks
You’re lucky that you work 9-5.
9-5 jobs are very rare these days.
This is such a mood. Especially with banks, like if I didn’t work I wouldn’t have money so would have no use for a bank, but because I work I am never free when the bank is open now they have cut Saturday opening hours. Let alone the issue with many banks closing branches in rural areas.
When I was a primary school teacher, I moved house and registered with a new GP in the half term. Receptionist was instant that I had to come in for a ‘new patient check up’ the following week that they only did one weekday at like 10 or 11am. She really struggled with the idea that wouldn’t be able to leave the classroom just to come in for a pointless GP appointment 🙄 eventually she gave in.
I’m fortunate in that the place I work at are pretty flexible with these kinds of things. If I have an appointment I can come in late/leave early without penalty as long as I let them know in good time.
Planned sick days. Simples.
I have never, in twenty-five years of working, been denied being able to go to any appointment. When I’ve been a manager, I’ve never said no either. Even for appointments at letting agents or mortgage advisors. If you’re an organisation that can’t operate when one person is missing for a couple of hours, what would you do if they went on long-term sick?
Tell your manager you have an appointment, simple
I have never denied someone time off for a dentist or hospital appointment.
I’ve never asked them to work the time back.
Nonsense, any decent work place will allow you time for these types of things.
Hello, fellow Brits, your Polish resident here. I would recommend you to enjoy 8-4/9-5 working hours system. It is really easy on the body and relaxing this way. Your biological clocks are set to work around it. Now imagine you had to work in 3 or 4 system shift change. Let me explain:
– 3 shift system: it is basic week after week change from
Morning 6-14 (2 days off)
Afternoon 14-22 (2 days off)
Night 22-6 (2 days off) (no bonus for night shift it is normal in poland)
– 4 shift system (hours stay the same as on “3” just days are different)
– Morning shift 4 days, 6-14 (1 day off)
– Afternoon sh. 4 days, 14-22 (1 d-o)
– night sh. 4 days, 22-6 (2 d-o)
Basically, when you get used to one week, it is over, and you have to change to another pattern. Over and over again
I work 8 to 5 and I still go to dentist appointments? Grow a back bone and tell them your going to dentist or doctors they can’t stop you.
Or the bank lol
No-one prepared them for it because it’s bollocks.
No one prepared me for the fact that when I’m sleeping, badgers are out frolicking. When can I have the chance to frolick with badgers?
A lot of the “get a better job” comments miss the point. Even if you have a boss who isn’t difficult about this kind of thing, it can just be very difficult to do these things.
For example, one of my first jobs was working in a warehouse in the middle of nowhere. Going to see the doctor would have involved a more than 2 hour round trip. Some people I know have jobs that involve a lengthy signing in and out process, others have jobs where you have to change in and out of a uniform when you arrive and leave.
Not saying these are insurmountable obstacles, but they are massively inconvenient and it would be so much simpler for lots of people to do it after work
…isn’t it the law that employers have to give paid time off, separate from your holiday balance, for any medical appointment?
Shift work. 6-2. No commuter traffic, empty shops on the way home, peaceful afternoon. Unfortunately it usually goes hand in hand with having a shit job.
“I work 9-5 but other people should work out of hours to suit me”
Edit: downvote me all you like, that is literally what’s being expressed 😂
Enjoy your social and family life outside work then, while all those of us who work odd hours to facilitate it don’t have one.
You just say to your boss “I have a dentist appointment next Monday so I’ll be late in.”
Honestly….yes. A lot of the time. I don’t know who decided that public services should be closed on the days where the majority of people are off work…but it’s a thing.
My previous job were pretty good with these types of things. If you have to take an hour or two to go to an appointment or have an emergency of any kind. Just make up that time by coming in early or staying behind the rest of the days of the week. Really fair and flexible. I even had a chipped windscreen on my car that needed fixing and the only appointment I could get was at 2:40pm. My manager just said “book it, come in early tomorrow”.
Every company should be like that but unfortunately it’s not always the case. Any company that doesn’t allow that flexibility, well, you should leave. We have lives to live.
No-one prepared me for that punctuation.
My company allows us to take upto 6 hours for the doctors without it coming out of our annual leave. Good companies should understand that their staff are human and will always need time off for doctors at some point in their working lives.
Delicate one of your weekend days to admin and the other to relaxation
Very deep. Off to work now with you now
In most EU contries you have 20h peryear (if I’m not mistaken) where you can go to doctors appointments, no questions asked as long as you bring a paper that you were there.
You can take a sick leave to go to a doctor. Just ask, its not rly that controversial.
It’s not a meme
From her job as a proofreader?
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