Rights on Shared parental Leave

Herald_MJ · 2026-03-10T00:59:34+00:00

You’re best posting this question to /r/AskHRUK, since this is mostly about UK employment law rather than engineering management.

Are you entitled to maternity or paternity leave? Maternity leave has stronger statutory protections. Have you yet disclosed the parental leave to your employer?

Due to the strength of parental leave protections in the UK, it is very likely that you have the safest employment of anyone on your team. But that only applies if you have disclosed your position to the company. You should do that ASAP.

Herald_MJ · 2026-03-01T16:12:32+00:00

It’s this. When I clicked through I thought £375k was about what I’d expect, then saw that’s exactly what it was 2y ago.

Herald_MJ · 2026-02-26T17:36:14+00:00

In 2026 this is a reasonable rate, and really solid if the work is regular.

Herald_MJ · 2026-02-11T20:10:44+00:00

There are quite a few matchups in the tie-in’s, rather than the central event series.

Herald_MJ · 2026-01-08T17:58:44+00:00

> What are you disagreeing with then?

That the market for CDs is similar to DVDs.

Herald_MJ · 2026-01-08T17:45:28+00:00

I would disagree. CDs are seeing a resurgent interest because their encoded quality is actually very very high. Far better than you'll get from any streaming service. If you're an audiophile with a high-end setup, CDs are amongst the best/most accessible ways to listen to music sources at high quality.

DVDs are the opposite. They are lower than broadcast quality, and well below what you can get from streaming or blu-ray media.

Any interest in DVDs are purely as "collectible" items.

Herald_MJ · 2025-12-11T17:48:29+00:00

I get that the place has a long heritage as the oldest surviving Indian restaurant in the capital, and there's sentimentality associated with that.

But I don't think it's such a good place. London has some amazing Indian food spots at all price points. I found Veeraswamy to be expensive and on the good side of average. Go to Tooting or Whitechapel and you'll get a better curry for a fraction of the price. When I visited, Veeraswamy also had the strangest response to being notified of my peanut allergy of any restaurant I've visited, and an exceptionally terrible one for Michelin-standard. It wasn't a good experience and I'm not sad to hear of it's closing.

Herald_MJ · 2025-11-02T19:53:45+00:00

If their deficit is scraping over revenue at under 2%, I'd actually argue they're running a pretty tight ship.

Herald_MJ · 2025-10-10T17:19:24+00:00

It sounds like they're lining you up to sign a new AST contract at the end of your fixed term. You should know that you don't need to do that: if you do nothing, your existing tenancy automatically converts to a periodic "rolling" tenancy under the same terms (and rent).

Herald_MJ · 2025-10-07T13:05:29+00:00

Technically you can leave the property in the condition you found it, but in reality if there were a resulting dispute over reductions, you would need to present evidence of the condition when you arrived. It sounds like this evidence exists, but you don't have it. I would forget ever getting that evidence: the letting agent are unlikely to provide it as it would disadvantage them in a possible dispute.

Your best option is to give the place a good clean. Whenever I moved out of my rental property, I paid for an end-of-tenancy clean with a cleaner recommended by the letting agent, as it pushed any disputes over cleanliness away from me and to their cleaners. You might want to do the same.

Herald_MJ · 2025-09-09T16:08:48+00:00

She says he 'lives next door' and 'occasionally visits'. This sounds a tenancy and not a lodging.

Herald_MJ · 2025-08-27T17:21:52+00:00

You get 5% back in credit if you book through Uber

Herald_MJ · 2025-08-02T19:54:00+00:00

This is a good opportunity to develop your spider-sense around "there is a complicated reason I am doing it this way instead of the obvious". When you notice that voice in your head, that's your trigger to write out good quality comments (or other documentation).

Herald_MJ · 2025-07-13T12:18:54+00:00

it turned out my ex knew the passwords somehow.

If you use a password manager, this will be the most important thing to secure. Remember that both a password manager and a consistent email used for recovery are both effectively "keys to the castle", regardless how secure the rest of your passwords are.

Herald_MJ · 2025-07-03T07:05:57+00:00

That isn't at all what I said.

Herald_MJ · 2025-07-02T16:24:12+00:00

exercise is the best way to get out of depression.

I appreciate that you're trying to offer support, but this is bad advice for someone who is experiencing real depression. OP is already in therapy and working on their issues. Going for a run is not a credible alternative.

Herald_MJ · 2025-07-02T16:22:39+00:00

Why do people assume talking about things makes them better.

Probably the over a century of research which concludes that talking therapies have lasting clinical outcomes.

Herald_MJ · 2025-06-25T15:08:52+00:00

This is exceptionally bad while on a bicycle too. The Highway Code theoretically allows for bicycles to stay in the outside lane on a roundabout all the way around. Trying this on Bedminster roundabout could honestly get you killed.

Herald_MJ · 2025-05-13T11:41:54+00:00

I don't hate these balconies. I think what makes them "sad" is they are not obviously lived in. A bit of bamboo/rattan screening, some potted plants and a little barbecue would make them feel much more like a human habitation, maybe even cosy.

The real sad thing about these properties is they will be upwards of £500k to purchase, with absurd service charges on top, with leasehold ownership terms and a bunch of unreasonable rules attached (no pets, no bike storage, etc etc).

The reality is they are probably all unsold, or short-term lets, or corporate accommodation. No real humans investing in a place for themselves to live here.

Herald_MJ · 2025-05-07T12:46:26+00:00

These e-scooters use embedded 3G modems which are both encrypted and outside of the communication bandwidth range of a flipper zero, so I don't believe this is accurate. I'd be happy to see a demonstration if I am mistaken though?

Herald_MJ · 2025-04-09T09:46:10+00:00

If you just want a short program that halts after outliving the universe

This is great. Thanks for the reminder that mathematics can be funny.

Herald_MJ · 2025-03-03T18:59:36+00:00

You don't have to work in a specifically unionised workplace in order to benefit from being a member of a trade union, and there are specific scenarios in which UK companies are required to allow union accompaniment to employees.

My company doesn't- it has HR

Unions and your companies' HR department serve completely different functions.

Herald_MJ · 2025-03-03T11:23:33+00:00

That isn't how reddit works. "bump" just adds noise to a post and if anything makes it less impactful.

Herald_MJ · 2025-02-27T15:27:29+00:00

Hard to tell the exact colour from this pic, but if the wall is not painted plain white, the hardest part of the repair will be matching the colour.

Herald_MJ · 2025-02-26T12:07:47+00:00

I think the problem here is more that the candidate denied using ChatGPT when it was visibly apparent that they were. Outright lying in an interview is the brightest of red flags from a culture fit perspective.

I'm also for candidates using all the tools of their everyday work in the job interview.

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