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Date: 26 June 2006 07:51:26
Today I am planning to go into my ex-workplace to empty my drawers and stuff. It's a bit wierd, because I went in to talk to my bosses a couple of times while I was off sick, and the last time was to tell them I wouldn't be going back to work. So that was fine. One would have thought that it would have been fairly sensible to take my personal things at that point and hand back my entry fob and desk keys. That didn't happen. I did agree with them that I would be happy to go in and hand over things to someone else when they manage to recruit someone, so I suppose we all thought that I'd do that and then do the handing things back bit. I have been informed that they are unlikely to have a replacement for me before the end of July at the earliest and if things work out for me in the way of a job at University (trying not to get too excited about the possibility because I haven't heard anything about that yet) then it would be mightily inconvenient to have to spend 2/3 days on the other side of the West Midlands.
So I have decided that it would be best to go in and discuss things with HR, make sure that they are paying my holidays owed (and that they are correct about what it owed - the holiday system is notoriously bad at just doing the basic thing of taking away the correct amount of hours. Earlier this year I discovered that since September, every time I took a day's holiday - 8.5 hrs - the system had deducted 17hrs. My boss was no longer able to approve any holiday for me because I was more than 150 hours over my holiday allocation!!! I am not sure whether this was ever fixed), etc. I will clear all my personal stuff such as herbal tea out of my desk, empty my locker and give back the keys/fob to HR. Then if I do manage to go back in at some later date to hand over to someone else, I can pick up the keys/fob for those couple of days and hand them back at the end of it. If I do not do a handover, then at least things are sorted already and I won't have the fact that I need to go back and sort things out hanging over my head.
That is, assuming that there's someone in the HR office today. I was going to do all of this on Friday, so I e-mailed the suggestion to them on Wednesday evening. I didn't hear anything, so assumed that the HR people were on holiday or unavailable. I received an e-mail on Friday afternoon (bearing in mind that the plant closes at 1pm) saying that Friday morning was ok. It had been sent on Thursday morning. Hmph. Something wierd must have been going on in Cyberspace to delay the e-mail. I think I had better ring them today before I leave the house.
That seemed like a long and complicated explanation. I could probably have given a much more succinct version. Rambling seems to be one of my traits. Oh well.