Most generous/most tight employers

[KnackeredBike]

In response to this article about companies offering unlimited holidays and dog welcome offices, what have been your most or least generous employers?

My best has to be Holiday Inn Express where you could book two rooms at any of their hotels, including the 5* Intercontinentals, for a maximum of £20 per night. Stayed in some absolutely brilliant places I'd never be able to afford again.

My stingiest is perhaps unsurprisingly my current employer, the NHS. On day one I was told that everyone has to bring in their own tea, coffee and milk from home. Bearing in mind the staff room fridge is tiny it was unmitigated chaos.

I quickly got on well enough with the kitchen staff to permanently "borrow" a bottle of milk or box of tea bags when needed which has made things a lot easier, but I still go to other wards and see either a milk "club" or twenty bottles of milk with different names on it.

(Getting on well with the kitchen staff also means there are normally some leftovers from lunch and dinner as well.)

Any better/worse experiences welcome

 

[classic33]

New staff having to work a week free(unpaid) to show they could do the work.

 

[Levo-Lon]

All the people that worked for me never complained.
But they were looked after so worked with me.

I was a apprentice in my first job , He was a shyte boss if ever there was one.

I now work for a large organisation in maintenance, no complaints so far...in fact it's easy work for ok money.
The care staff moan like fook tho.
I wouldn't mind but they don't even use hoists or clean arses..so piece of pi55 job

 

[biggs682]

My current employer allows me to work from home so I can look after my partner when needed

 

[TheDoctor]

I now work for a large organisation in maintenance, no complaints so far...in fact it's easy work for ok money.
The care staff moan like fook tho.
I wouldn't mind but they don't even use hoists or clean arses..so piece of pi55 job

FFS. Anyone who thinks care work is easy hasn't done it.
It's challenging, to say the least. A piece of piss it ain't.
One day a care worker will be looking after you, and showing a sight more care and empathy than you are.
Hopefully.

 

[Levo-Lon]

If they dont want to do it they dont want to, if its a private care home they do tend to pay the absolute minimum and just because they are not cleaning bottoms doesnt mean to say its not difficult/boring and dead end.People in those jobs can get burned out for good reason and whats a piece of piss to one isnt to another.

It's retirement living with care.
Pill dispensing and how are you today.
Some care but as most here say , it's a doddle.
We pay far more than most care homes btw.

The ones that come here after working in a Real care environment usually stay and seem happy.

We seem to get quite a few lazy sods who don't last long.

 

[Levo-Lon]

FFS. Anyone who thinks care work is easy hasn't done it.
It's challenging, to say the least. A piece of piss it ain't.
One day a care worker will be looking after you, and showing a sight more care and empathy than you are.
Hopefully.

As per my msg above.
And yes your correct.

 

[Dave 123]

I've worked for 2 multi millionaires who could be generous, but in a heartbeat they could be the most mean spirited gits you'd ever meet.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

I'm self employed and I work for the meanest bastard that walks this earth.

 

[TheDoctor]

At least one employer I've had has told us how important it was for us to attend team meetings.
Naturally, these were unpaid.

 

[Crackle]

The construction industry is a pretty bad employer, long hours, short holidays, minimum breaks, crap pension, in fact, the one I worked for still has a black hole which I hope will be resolved before I need it.

 

[screenman]

In response to this article about companies offering unlimited holidays and dog welcome offices, what have been your most or least generous employers?

My best has to be Holiday Inn Express where you could book two rooms at any of their hotels, including the 5* Intercontinentals, for a maximum of £20 per night. Stayed in some absolutely brilliant places I'd never be able to afford again.

My stingiest is perhaps unsurprisingly my current employer, the NHS. On day one I was told that everyone has to bring in their own tea, coffee and milk from home. Bearing in mind the staff room fridge is tiny it was unmitigated chaos.

I quickly got on well enough with the kitchen staff to permanently "borrow" a bottle of milk or box of tea bags when needed which has made things a lot easier, but I still go to other wards and see either a milk "club" or twenty bottles of milk with different names on it.

(Getting on well with the kitchen staff also means there are normally some leftovers from lunch and dinner as well.)

Any better/worse experiences welcome

You do not pay for my tea/coffee. I have not been employed for over 40 years so memory blocks out what most bosses were like. Many of the people I employed over the years remain very good friends so maybe I was not a bad boss.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

My stingiest is perhaps unsurprisingly my current employer, the NHS. On day one I was told that everyone has to bring in their own tea, coffee and milk from home. Bearing in mind the staff room fridge is tiny it was unmitigated chaos.

I quickly got on well enough with the kitchen staff to permanently "borrow" a bottle of milk or box of tea bags when needed which has made things a lot easier, but I still go to other wards and see either a milk "club" or twenty bottles of milk with different names on it.

I too, work for NHS
I take my own teabags, but maybe I'm just particular about type
Given the milk that's used, & indeed thrown away, at my Hospital, letting Staff use it wouldn't bankrupt them
Some Wards used to get 30 pints a day!, with the Dieticians also labelling cartons of 'full-fat' specifically for some patients

As for staff-rooms (& fridges), most of them look like there's been a cross between a riot, & a landfill site
Yet, it's generally the worst offenders who complain about everyone else, & the state of the place

I've worked for 2 multi millionaires who could be generous, but in a heartbeat they could be the most mean spirited gits you'd ever meet.

I've also worked for one ( '86 - '97), who built his company up from a student bedsit, to owning 90+ Shops, all his machinery, the fleet of vans
He would walk in, in ripped jeans (not 'fashionably ripped', just worn out), with sandwiches in a bread bag

I know that he once walked into the Leeds Ferrari dealer dressed like this, to look at (at the time) a F355, & was actually treated decently
He opened up a rucksack & took out a cash deposit!!!!!

(for the car buffs, from memory, he also had M-B 560SEL, M-B 500convertible, Aston Martin Virage)

By 1995(?), he'd had enough, plus a divorce made him sell the Company, a management buyout cost £15million+
Martin, his real name, showed even more acumen, as he certainly got out in time, as it was a photographic developing company, & we'd already seen the first digital cameras brought in by Reps from Kodak, Fuji, & Agfa (our machinery, paper, & chemical suppliers)
I still see a few of the staff every so often, who stayed on after me, & they thought me lucky to get out when I did

Conversely, he could be the most genial of Bosses
I never went, but the Chr*stmas parties were all paid for
Travel, food, venue, entertainment
Vouchers for drinks
All you had to do was get to the pick-up point

 

[gbb]

My former employer, a notorious small independant local company that in its day was wallowing in money, expected a LOT from its employees but rewarded those that fitted in with the can and will do mentality, do what it takes...a hard nosed boss paid bonuses weekly if he had a good week, paid huge bonuses at christmas (£2500 in 2006) and when I was travelling abroad for him, usually put you up in 4 star hotels, proper hotels not holiday ones, often sent you business class, one occasion I lost my suitcase and he told me just get anything you need and claim it back...and when I was away never put my hand in my own wallet, never questioned your expenses etc etc.

If you didn't fit in or didn't have the right attitude...you could sling your hook, he wouldn't mess about with people who weren't tryers.

 

[mustang1]

New staff having to work a week free(unpaid) to show they could do the work.

I like your post but for the wrong reasons.