3rd December 2005, 01:52 AM
Sniper has a good point, and its not the first time I've heard it !! I think the paid-in-advance leave system is good overall just badly managed. Just because you get paid for leave in advance doesn't mean that you are no longer entitled to take time off but in practice some staff seem to be constantly too busy working to project deadlines to actually take their leave allowance. This is crazy and as long as staff keep accepting it the longer it will go on. The fact that people become more or less effectively permanent but still on temporary contracts is a separate and probably more important issue that requires tackling by both employer and employee.
I know I only got into this game recently and I have a lot to learn but what I have observed so far there is a lot of "well, that's how it is, just accept it" attitude amongst many staff, presumably either because people have put it with it for a long time, don't want to rock the boat, or have simply have never experienced anything better and don't know what they are missing! I am far too long in the tooth and far too pig-headed to just accept poor conditions of service or denial of agreed benefits/entitlements without good reason so finding an employer that I am happy with is going to be like finding the proverbial rocking horse xxxx.
I know I only got into this game recently and I have a lot to learn but what I have observed so far there is a lot of "well, that's how it is, just accept it" attitude amongst many staff, presumably either because people have put it with it for a long time, don't want to rock the boat, or have simply have never experienced anything better and don't know what they are missing! I am far too long in the tooth and far too pig-headed to just accept poor conditions of service or denial of agreed benefits/entitlements without good reason so finding an employer that I am happy with is going to be like finding the proverbial rocking horse xxxx.