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rosa_heartlily) wrote2022-09-17 07:45 am
rosa_heartlily) wrote2022-09-17 07:45 am
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I've never needed a Bank Holiday more!
We've been given an extra Bank Holiday to mark the Queen's funeral, and I sooo need an extra day!
This week has been one long - oh, this is a Project X meeting, therefore it must be 3pm on Wednesday - kind of week. My calendar had zero space but people still needed me to squeeze more in! Some of the stuff was 'me' stuff, like reviewing the latest PMO blogs or poking at LinkedIn, and a week without those isn't terrible.
Next week, my calendar is similarly rammed and it hasn't even started! Partly this is because I'd already booked Friday as leave, so it was already a full week crammed into 4 days - now it's crammed into 3. But I have an extra day to chill before diving in head first - and I have a long weekend after that.
26 Sep (which I've also booked off - hence the long weekend) is also a day of strike action, which I won't be going on because it's already booked as holiday. But should I cancel the holiday and strike? I mean, I voted to strike. But I found out the result of the ballot from the fucking employer (who also used the announcement to stick the boot in about the timing of the announcement in a time of national mourning, blah, blah). Shouldn't the union be telling me when I'm supposed to strike?!
I joined because I felt vulnerable after 4 colleagues were suddenly made redundant. I've always voted to strike but, so far, it's not come to anything. I've been umming and ahhing over leaving because I haven't actually needed them - but being in the union isn't just about me, it's about the people who REALLY need the union. But, in that case, surely I should have joined YEARS ago, not in a fit of panic over my own job.
Two other days have been ear-marked for strike action (included in the announcement from the employer) and part of me feels like I should do the first one because I did vote in support of it. But then, I don't feel I've had any support from the union. I get that they have to inform the employer because you aren't allowed to book the days as leave AFTER the formal announcement - but they could at least inform members of the OUTCOME of the ballot.
And they handed the ammunition about the time of mourning to the employer.
So, I've decided I'm going to leave the union - the question is whether I strike on 4 October first.
And now I have to finish my talk for church tomorrow! Bye, DW.
This week has been one long - oh, this is a Project X meeting, therefore it must be 3pm on Wednesday - kind of week. My calendar had zero space but people still needed me to squeeze more in! Some of the stuff was 'me' stuff, like reviewing the latest PMO blogs or poking at LinkedIn, and a week without those isn't terrible.
Next week, my calendar is similarly rammed and it hasn't even started! Partly this is because I'd already booked Friday as leave, so it was already a full week crammed into 4 days - now it's crammed into 3. But I have an extra day to chill before diving in head first - and I have a long weekend after that.
26 Sep (which I've also booked off - hence the long weekend) is also a day of strike action, which I won't be going on because it's already booked as holiday. But should I cancel the holiday and strike? I mean, I voted to strike. But I found out the result of the ballot from the fucking employer (who also used the announcement to stick the boot in about the timing of the announcement in a time of national mourning, blah, blah). Shouldn't the union be telling me when I'm supposed to strike?!
I joined because I felt vulnerable after 4 colleagues were suddenly made redundant. I've always voted to strike but, so far, it's not come to anything. I've been umming and ahhing over leaving because I haven't actually needed them - but being in the union isn't just about me, it's about the people who REALLY need the union. But, in that case, surely I should have joined YEARS ago, not in a fit of panic over my own job.
Two other days have been ear-marked for strike action (included in the announcement from the employer) and part of me feels like I should do the first one because I did vote in support of it. But then, I don't feel I've had any support from the union. I get that they have to inform the employer because you aren't allowed to book the days as leave AFTER the formal announcement - but they could at least inform members of the OUTCOME of the ballot.
And they handed the ammunition about the time of mourning to the employer.
So, I've decided I'm going to leave the union - the question is whether I strike on 4 October first.
And now I have to finish my talk for church tomorrow! Bye, DW.