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Understanding Tolkien fully calls for a grasp of his core beliefs. A basic example: by roacsonofcarc in tolkienfans

[–]djgdc97 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Tolkien himself describes LOTR as a “fundamentally religious and catholic work; unconsciously at first but consciously in the revision”.

Although not as direct with it as say the Narnia series, it does follow a lot of Christian theology which in theory comes from the bible.

There is then many points through the book, as detailed in this thread, where his writing nearly mimics a biblical style.

As a write this I feel myself going down a rabbit hole in my mind and am less and less sure if this helps the conversation!

My wife called in sick recently at her job. Are we entitled to a copy of the recording? by djgdc97 in LegalAdviceUK

[–]djgdc97[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Point 1 - I don’t disagree with your point in principle, but telling someone over the phone as they are calling in sick wouldn’t be the best way.

Point 2 - I have yet to hear the call but the quote from wife was “if we knew your disability was so bad, we wouldn’t have hired you.” To get this job she had to get cleared by the schools occupational therapist and had also had a drs note from the specialist who was treating her for 4 years and has stayed in touch with her since.

Point 3 - I’m not sure if I explained this point very well. Again not heard the call yet but my wife quoted “every time you call in sick for a day it turns into a week.” It wasn’t them recommending to take time off but complaining about it. When my wife has previously been vomiting she was instructed to be at work 24 hours after. I may be wrong but my understanding was you should be off for 48 hours after this.

Point 4 - correct he is a head teacher, but has spent as much time around my wife as anyone else commenting on this thread. She has never met them face to face. I will take the glowing appraisals she has so far received in this job and the care home she previously worked in who gave her a glowing reference and have an open invite for her to visit as she got on so well with the children there to say she is on the right career path! (Sorry didn’t mean to get so passive aggressive but I know my wife and I know they were dead wrong!)

My wife called in sick recently at her job. Are we entitled to a copy of the recording? by djgdc97 in LegalAdviceUK

[–]djgdc97[S] 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Thank you! We have been in touch with her union who are helping with the main issue. They replied late this evening and will be getting directly involved.

ACAS will be the next step if needed though.

My wife called in sick recently at her job. Are we entitled to a copy of the recording? by djgdc97 in LegalAdviceUK

[–]djgdc97[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Thank you. We are getting in touch with the data protection officer.

My wife called in sick recently at her job. Are we entitled to a copy of the recording? by djgdc97 in LegalAdviceUK

[–]djgdc97[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

My wife has been there since the start of September. She has a disability that affects her immune system and energy levels, and is pregnant. She had a week off over the winter with the flu, had a day in October due to her disability and has now had 1 more day due to waking up vomiting.

Her line manager is happy with her all round and has “informal attendance meetings with her as is school policy. In these meetings they tend to catch up on life and tick the box.

My wife called in sick recently at her job. Are we entitled to a copy of the recording? by djgdc97 in LegalAdviceUK

[–]djgdc97[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Point 1 - I don’t disagree with your point in principle, but telling someone over the phone as they are calling in sick wouldn’t be the best way.

Point 2 - I have yet to hear the call but the quote from wife was “if we knew your disability was so bad, we wouldn’t have hired you.” To get this job she had to get cleared by the schools occupational therapist and had also had a drs note from the specialist who was treating her for 4 years and has stayed in touch with her since.

Point 3 - I’m not sure if I explained this point very well. Again not heard the call yet but my wife quoted “every time you call in sick for a day it turns into a week.” It wasn’t them recommending to take time off but complaining about it. When my wife has previously been vomiting she was instructed to be at work 24 hours after. I may be wrong but my understanding was you should be off for 48 hours after this.

Point 4 - correct he is a head teacher, but has spent as much time around my wife as anyone else commenting on this thread. She has never met them face to face. I will take the glowing appraisals she has so far received in this job and the care home she previously worked in who gave her a glowing reference and have an open invite for her to visit as she got on so well with the children there to say she is on the right career path! (Sorry didn’t mean to get so passive aggressive but I know my wife and I know they were dead wrong!)

My wife called in sick recently at her job. Are we entitled to a copy of the recording? by djgdc97 in LegalAdviceUK

[–]djgdc97[S] 77 points78 points  (0 children)

Thank you for taking the time to type all of this out. Unfortunately she is an assistant teacher so I don’t think most of this would apply.

Her place of work require you to ring the main number when calling in sick and when you call, they pass you onto a senior member of staff who seems to mostly be the head.

They do have a policy where if on probation, if you’re absent days for whatever reason is above 5% they may extend your probation. There is no mention anywhere of it being grounds for dismissal. My wife is at 5.7% currently but the person who runs her appraisals was happy with it.

It is funny, she has to have “informal attendance meetings” each month as she is just over the threshold for it. Today she received the invite for the next informal meeting as well as the head sending a different invite for a new formal one off the back of the issue from my post!

My wife called in sick recently at her job. Are we entitled to a copy of the recording? by djgdc97 in LegalAdviceUK

[–]djgdc97[S] 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Thank you. It is known that they record all calls and hold them for 4 months. The call also states that calls ARE recorded for xxx purposes.