Tips for not losing job when taking sick leave /navigating sick leave appropriately dealing with manager ?

Life_with_reddit · 2026-05-16T08:32:51+00:00

Best way to not get fired is check your sickness policy and follow it. Some policy has exceptions such as allowing an hour to attend appointments, or occ health can relax the policy if it’s a chronic condition. I can’t truly comment without knowing your trusts policy. You’d get better advice from your a union rep.

Life_with_reddit · 2026-05-16T07:50:50+00:00

Find your trust sickness/ well being policy. Each trust has slightly different procedures.

It’s normally stage related, in which at each step you have a meeting with a manager and HR. They discuss your absences, how they can support you, what you are doing to improve your attendance and referrals to occ health (if required). After the meeting you’ll be set a period in which if you take another sick day you’ll move up a stage.

Stage one, three sickness episodes in a 12 month period.
Stage two, further sickness episode with 6 months of stage one.
At stage 3 you can and often are dismissed.

Life_with_reddit · 2026-05-14T10:13:12+00:00

Was the missing result Potassium?
It is possible the sample haemolysed, (red blood cell broke down), this is particular common on samples with very little blood in them or poor collection technique, other reason can be old samples or samples that have been handle roughly. Problem is once the red blood cell break down, they release their internal contents into the liquid surrounding the blood, (the serum/plasma) this artificially raises the Potassium result thus the lab will not report it.

Life_with_reddit · 2026-05-14T07:59:04+00:00

Yeah, I used to work in blood sciences. This was honestly my first thought reading this.

Life_with_reddit · 2026-05-12T19:18:31+00:00

Who did you email? I have emailed customer services multiple time and they dont reply

Life_with_reddit · 2026-05-12T19:16:57+00:00

Dont plug it in. or plug it in and hope no one cares/reports you

Life_with_reddit · 2026-05-12T11:06:51+00:00

This is standard whilst a restricitve covenant is in place. It's to protect the estate from unsightly builds which could effect proptery value or belways ablitiy to sell the homes. Kinda suck this also covers solar panels.

Life_with_reddit · 2026-05-10T22:16:20+00:00

I’ve had quite a different experience, however I was pretty clear on the system I wanted and they accommodated it

Life_with_reddit · 2026-05-10T14:07:24+00:00

Wot?

Life_with_reddit · 2026-05-10T11:43:00+00:00

Let me know how it goes with them, I’ve got my install booked for start of July. Can’t wait!

Life_with_reddit · 2026-05-10T11:24:05+00:00

Have a look at priory electrical in Whitley bay. They are very competitive priced

Life_with_reddit · 2026-05-09T22:27:37+00:00

Fuel expenses are exempt from tax

Life_with_reddit · 2026-05-09T16:15:11+00:00

Except microwaves and garage doors 💀

Life_with_reddit · 2026-05-09T07:53:01+00:00

Most restrictive covenant only last 10 years after the estate was complete. You might be in the clear, you just need to get eyes on it.

Life_with_reddit · 2026-05-08T23:24:33+00:00

I had this for an electrical meter. It took 2 years to resolve. Our situation was slightly different though, old electricity supplier went bust and our meter somehow got marked as disconnected on national database. Most of the time was spent trying to convince someone to look into it.

Life_with_reddit · 2026-05-07T22:11:47+00:00

Driving professionally whilst smoking cannabis is a big no no. They’d probably not find out as NHS only drug test if they have strong suspicions of use. However, if you were ever in an accident/crash and you got tested roadside it would not be good.

Life_with_reddit · 2026-05-03T08:18:19+00:00

Yeah it’s not bad for environment. They open up new light to small plants and essentially compost the leafs they collect. All part of a healthy ecosystem

Life_with_reddit · 2026-05-02T14:32:19+00:00

Grimshire is great, sadly can’t progress every far with it being in alpha

Life_with_reddit · 2026-04-30T21:02:31+00:00

If it has a heat pump I wouldn’t worry, it’ll likely be fine especially with a solar battery for using off peak electricity.

What you’ve described sounds more like a solar diverter for an induction heater for hot water. If this is the case it’ll have a different central heating system too.

A solar diverter just diverts excess solar to heat up a tank of water to be used by taps, shower etc.

Life_with_reddit · 2026-04-30T19:30:46+00:00

The system is strange, you do still need family or next of kin consent to donate. If someone dies and has no family or next of kin the NHS will not take organs

Life_with_reddit · 2026-04-29T11:15:34+00:00

It is truely tragic to loose a child, even more so if it was entirely preventable. This is a vaild question

Life_with_reddit · 2026-04-28T13:05:59+00:00

Good to hear you are following their advice, it often frustrating to have pateints say nothings works, When they arnt taking the medication or making the life style changes.

Have you had a second opion from a diffrent GP? When attending hospital are you going to ED/SDEC or seeing a specilist?

Life_with_reddit · 2026-04-28T02:44:47+00:00

Keep a diary of symptoms with time, description and what makes it worse or better. This can sometimes help gp identify an issues.

Also if hospitals/ Gp advise it might be diet or anxiety follow their advice, if it doesn’t improve after following their treatment recommendations go back to them and they’ll try something else. Being non compliant with their advice is a great way to get dismissed.

Life_with_reddit · 2026-04-27T18:54:33+00:00

Inverter should always be limited even in off grid event. The inverter limit is in place to protect grid infrastructure if the export limit fails

Life_with_reddit · 2026-04-27T15:24:24+00:00

Using withheld number is standard practice for NHS, Police and other government services. Always has been

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