Most ‘office managers’ I know do rather more than their contracted hours, often working at weekends, late into the evening etc. You might them see them do this, as they’ll be at home.
Unfortunately corporate culture in the U.K. is such that people are generally expected to sell their soul to their jobs, and to work considerable amounts of unpaid and unappreciated overtime. This culture extends to people judging their colleagues for “clock watching” or “not pulling their weight”. Of course this plays into the hands of employers who can get away with employing less staff than they need.
I did it myself for years and frankly, it’s a mug’s game.
Whereas in the NHS the frontline staff have also been working unpaid overtime, not just the management.
Well more fool them. People in safety critical/responsible roles should not be exhausted when they are at work. Maybe this is part of the reason why the NHS is unfit for purpose.
I don't say this to inflame but maybe that person needs a union or a stronger union.
Indeed. It’s an extraordinary and pathetic mentality we have in this country, where people actively resent workers trying to protect themselves, and despise trade unions, often while working copious amounts of unpaid overtime themselves! As you said above this is down to daily mail programming in many cases. Or perhaps it’s a form of snobbery where unions are seen as “working class” and everyone aspires to be middle class these days. Even when they’re earning £25k in a dull office job with a car on finance and credit card debt!
Of course the usual suspects on here have been jealously complaining about train crew wages and Ts and Cs for years, Covid is just the latest vehicle to do this. All the faux concern about needing to save public money makes me laugh. I doubt these same people would begrudge nurses getting a pay rise, or mind the government spending billions paying people £30k to sit at home doing nothing.
What’s the saying? “They’d rather steal their neighbour’s last fiver then split a tenner with them”.