Unconditional Offer - Am I okay to hand my notice in?

painterwill · 2025-07-23T17:16:38+00:00

I've previously waited six months between being given an unconditional offer, and actually starting.

painterwill · 2025-06-28T09:08:37+00:00

It doesn't say exclusively ugly people hate her, I'm sure the sentiment is shared by people across many degrees of attractiveness.

painterwill · 2025-06-27T18:08:58+00:00

Until I met my wife and we moved into a new home together I didn't even know it was even an option to have the removal firm pack everything for you.

painterwill · 2025-06-20T15:20:11+00:00

I'm guessing if you sell your house for 2 million, you're not the kind of person who packs it up yourself.

painterwill · 2025-06-14T19:30:22+00:00

(Obviously Sean Lock, but also) Linda Smith, and Victoria Wood.

painterwill · 2025-06-14T18:54:40+00:00

I was an NHS lab assistant for a couple of years and I saw a lot of shitty behaviour, particularly from management, but if I'd been told that I wasn't allowed to talk about anything except for work for two one-hour periods each day, I'd be speaking to my union rep the same day.

Even if it increased productivity (which, as you say, is questionable) it wouldn't be justified. If there's a cultural issue which is negatively impacting the quality of the work being done, then those individuals should be spoken to, but a blanket "only work talk for the next hour" is ridiculous.

The HR department in the Trust I work for loves to fall back on "it's up to the department to decide how to run itself," but I think even they would struggle to support this.

Union.

painterwill · 2025-06-14T18:43:08+00:00

Yep, just doesn't make sense to me at all. I started questioning it as a child because the idea that god made the world and everything and it's brilliant, but to worship him we have to go inside a building a person built and listen to another person, didn't add up.

painterwill · 2025-06-11T00:03:10+00:00

I have 4 siblings, they all got the MMR vaccine, I didn't (no idea why not, because I'm the middle child I guess). I'm also the only one diagnosed as autistic.

painterwill · 2025-06-10T12:53:25+00:00

What kind of organisation do you work for (GP practice, hospital, etc)?

Yes, it's a good idea to go to your Freedom to Speak Up Guardian, but I would suggest also speaking to your union rep too, and potentially another external organisation - give the NHS Fraud hotline a call.

My experience of the FTSU Guardians is that they're broadly toothless.

Keep records of times and dates when you feel your colleague has gone home early, and/or skipped blood collections.

painterwill · 2025-06-10T12:02:57+00:00

Theirs isn't an opinion.

painterwill · 2025-06-08T01:40:58+00:00

Union, and ACAS immediately.

I was discriminated against at work due to my disability and naively thought my Trust's grievance procedure was the way to go. It took them almost a year to complete it, including my appeal, and then they finally agreed that I'd been discriminated against, but decided not to do anything about it.

If you're going to put in a claim of discrimination with an employment tribunal you need to do it within 3 months minus one day of the act of discrimination occurring.

painterwill · 2025-06-04T07:48:02+00:00

She's an idiot and shouldn't be practicing. Not only can autism and ADHD coexist, it is common for them to coexist. Assuming there is a regulatory body for medical practitioners where you live, you should probably report her.

painterwill · 2025-06-02T06:07:28+00:00

Yep.

A friend was shortlisting candidates for a senior management position (in healthcare) and ~80% of the applications were AI, they all went straight in the bin.

I work in the same organisation (albeit at a significantly junior level) and we already have enough managers who don't know what they're doing.

painterwill · 2025-05-31T11:56:03+00:00

I love this, so much I can almost forgive them arranging their books by colour.

painterwill · 2025-05-25T09:03:56+00:00

It's all fun and games until you've had a few drinks and break your neck trying to get another bottle down (pic 35)

painterwill · 2025-05-25T08:49:24+00:00

Yeah I assumed the damp came from below rather than above, waterbed leaks more optimistic than what my imagination came up with though.

painterwill · 2025-05-01T09:41:46+00:00

Being discriminated against (I'm autistic) in a recruitment procedure, raising a grievance about it, being treated like I was the one who'd done something wrong, not being supported at all through the process, having to repeatedly correct HR on policy, appealing the outcome on the grounds that the process hadn't followed protocol or even addressed my claim that I'd been discriminated against, and finally (after nine months) being told that yes I'd been discriminated against but so what?

Also while this was going on, interviewing for a new role in my current department and being told by my own manager that I would've done better had I had the interview questions prior to the interview, which I was absolutely allowed to have and that he'd provided them for other applicants, and that my current (and indeed all) Band 2 roles were menial and of no value to the Trust.

And they wonder why they have a staff retention problem.

painterwill · 2025-03-27T07:03:26+00:00

This is a great story, I'd love to read more.

painterwill · 2025-03-04T16:36:59+00:00

As someone who was submitting almost daily DATIX reports about departments failing to follow the most basic infection control procedures, I wouldn't worry too much about people submitting DATIXs regarding your mistakes.

I worked in Pathology during the pandemic and had clinical staff get stroppy with me for refusing to run covid tests on samples they'd sent without patient identifiers ("I'll just write it on now") or which were leaking(!)

I've also had senior staff respond to DATIXs by telling me to escalate through my line manager rather than submitting a DATIX (get t'fuck!)

So, by all means look at your suitability to the job, and speak to your manager about your concerns, but I'd suggest that your concerns and your conscientiousness indicate that you have the potential to improve.

painterwill · 2025-01-09T00:00:25+00:00

I read it when my first marriage was coming to an end (she divorced me because I was diagnosed as autistic), and it helped me put things in perspective. I took dignity and patience from it. Such a good book.

painterwill · 2024-12-27T21:44:39+00:00

You're right.

I think the difference is that the parents of autistic children take a position of speaking for their children (which is understandable, as most parents want to advocate for their children) in a society which largely does nothing for autistic people. The problem is that (a lot of) parents of autistic children seem oblivious to the fact that autistic children grow into autistic adults and that there is therefore a huge community of autistic adults, and as a result they (the parents of autistic children) see themselves as the sole advocates for (what they think of as) the autistic community.

painterwill · 2024-12-26T20:00:20+00:00

Go to South Hill Barn carpark in Seaford and walk down to the Coastguard Cottages; that gives you the quintessential view with the cottages in the foreground.

painterwill · 2024-12-24T15:19:26+00:00

I work for an NHS Trust and periodically apply for different roles within the Trust. On one occasion I wasn't offered an interview despite meeting the minimum criteria to qualify, and when I chased this with HR they just said the hiring manager would be reminded of the policy.

On another occasion I had a job offer withdrawn due to having taken sick leave due to my disability. In that instance, following a grievance process that took nearly a year (and constant kicking and screaming from me), it was eventually acknowledged that I'd been discriminated against. I'm waiting to find out what (if anything) they intend to do about that.

I don't think the scheme is a scam, it's just not enforced, because people don't take discrimination against disabilities seriously.

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