Gutted!
guy909uk
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Hi all,
Just found out that I will no longer be able to make my debut triathlon - HIM Austria on 30th May due to work commitments. I was also due to extend the trip into a weeks holiday which has now also fallen by the way side with the bombhell that I can't get the time off!
I am desperate to do a HIM/middle distance around that date (really needs to be before the 27th May). Was looking at the Swashbuckler but went to enter and it was full (now 14th on waiting list - not sure if that means I'm likely to get a spot??). The other options seem to be the Marshman or the Marazion (West Cornwall) tri.
Does anyone have any experience of these/recommendations. Any suggestions for a dejected tri newbie would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Guy
Just found out that I will no longer be able to make my debut triathlon - HIM Austria on 30th May due to work commitments. I was also due to extend the trip into a weeks holiday which has now also fallen by the way side with the bombhell that I can't get the time off!
I am desperate to do a HIM/middle distance around that date (really needs to be before the 27th May). Was looking at the Swashbuckler but went to enter and it was full (now 14th on waiting list - not sure if that means I'm likely to get a spot??). The other options seem to be the Marshman or the Marazion (West Cornwall) tri.
Does anyone have any experience of these/recommendations. Any suggestions for a dejected tri newbie would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Guy
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Bugger 'em... I'd take a sickie that weekend and do it anyway. They can't cover your planned absence from 4.5 months out? Screw them!
didds
Start looking for a new job if possible, if your employer won't flex for something like this then not worth working for IMHO.
I too find it very hard to get time off work and much like the police we get leave refused and or cancelled at the services discretion.
It is very frustrating but equally I'm not in the type of job that just allows me not to turn up to work or throw a sickie. Should I leave my job too ?
After all we don't know what this chap does for a living.
I sadly can't help with the event issues but I wish you the best.
My wife is a surgeon and if she or any of her colleagues, whether doctors or nurses, give at least 6 weeks notice and there is not a clash with someone else’s leave they will get it. True there may be a short term problem with 'on calls', working on a non-working session to cover etc. but to have leave cancelled other than an extreme emergency, that has never happened with her. Similarly I have friends in the armed forces and the Police, they seem to do OK with leave bar the occassional 'emergency' but otherwise they are hogging the sun loungers on the Costa del sol along with everyone else.
It seems to me that some manangers use the excuse 'work commitments' as an excuse for not exploring the options and to answer Willeverfinishes question let me ask a question in return, what is staff moral, absence and retention like? If you can't plan a holiday, can't have a home life then why is that? It is simply poor management, end of story. I accept that there may be a last minute emergency which throws plans out of the window but if not are you working to live or living to work?
Nobody on their deathbed wishes they had spent more time in the office.
caveat - OP hasn't managed to mention that everybody else on his shift/office/whatever already has leave booked for those dates which could be a reason for a rejection.
didds
If it was at all possible for the Guys work colleagues to cover why didn't they? Did Guy's boss even bother trying to find an alternative? If nobody can be bothered then would one really want to work there? Hence my suggestion
Thanks for the replies..!
Just to explain a little further.. I work as a junior doctor. I work within a team that coversTrauma and Orthapaedics (or will be in May). There must always be appropriate cover on the ward at any time. It seems that we shall be one doctor short during the rotation due to ?resignation. Someone else has also requested the time off during the period of the May Bank Holiday. As a result I will not be able to take this time off for definate at the moment unless they find a replacement for the resigned doctor. I was planning to make a weeks holiday of the event with my girlfriend but that seems very unlikely to go ahead alwell now, hence the reason for looking at another HIM.
I hope thats clarified a little. Very frustrating and unfortunate that someone else wants the same time off as me, but there are other races and other years for the Austria HIM. Just looking to get stuck into an event around the same time. Think Marshman might be the option.
Thanks for all your input.
Guy
Quite impressed (concerned?) that your first tri will be a HIM - maybe look for an OD in the UK in the meantime to test your setup in race conditions?
So get cracking Guy get networking, get someone to apply for the job and get a replacement chop chop!