OK, here we go.
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I work in a nightclub which has had 2 armed robberies since October. Our UAC (Unit Administration Controller, she deals with all the money and personell and stuff) was in the building when the first robbery happened. Now, she's 60-odd and to be fair, it pretty much fucked her up.
She went off on the sick for about 3 weeks afterwards and when she returned, she was very unsure of herself and made demands like 'there should always be another person in the offices with me when I'm at work'. There generally is someone in the offices (either myself or one of the other 3 managers) but there comes a time when you simply can't sit in an office all day (deliveries need to be taken in, things need to be signed for, engineers need to be supervised, that kind of thing) so she then went back on the sick with Post Traumatic Stress claiming that she couldn't work under the circumstances.
A week after she went back on the sick (this would've been on the 23rd of January), we had another armed robbery (or rather attempted robbery, because they all got arrested in the club, mwahah). I was there for this one along with 2 other managers and our lighting technician (it really wasn't as bad as I thought it would be).
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Around about the middle of March, she decided that she was ready to come back to work and offered herself for a couple of hours a week just to try and slide back into the role. We thought this was a good idea so we accepted it. She came in for 2 hours last week and ended up fucking hyperventilating in the office because she'd had a 'funny turn', so she went back home again and hasn't been heard of since today.
We spoke to our HR department at head office and they said that she wasn't allowed to come into work until she was declared fit to work for insurance reasons or something. She basically had two options - come off the sick and come back to work or go on the sick and not come in at all.
I rang her and asked her if she could come in on Monday to help out because we're all going to be in Northampton on the piss. We have a couple of guys in at the moment doing marketing and promotion work, so there's always someone in the offices. She said she didn't feel too well and was going back on the sick.
What I basically need to know is - how can we get rid of her? We're all getting sick of having to babysit her when she's here, and struggle without a proper UAC when she's not. Our HR department is essentially pussyfooting around the topic, not being that clear when we ask them for guidance.
If there was some way we could just fuck her off without any backlash or payouts or anything, that would be just swell. If there's a loophole or something we could exploit, then someone let me know. We're basically paying her to sit at home and do fuck all - we can't even get a doctor to give a second opinion because as far as I know, Post Traumatic Stress is diagnosed only by symptoms and cannot be disproved. She could've looked it up on the interweb and started acting it out for all I know.
I think that's all. I'm tired and I can't think straight, so I'll probably come back to it tomorrow and add/alter something. As usual, any constructive help is very much appreciated.
[background waffle]
I work in a nightclub which has had 2 armed robberies since October. Our UAC (Unit Administration Controller, she deals with all the money and personell and stuff) was in the building when the first robbery happened. Now, she's 60-odd and to be fair, it pretty much fucked her up.
She went off on the sick for about 3 weeks afterwards and when she returned, she was very unsure of herself and made demands like 'there should always be another person in the offices with me when I'm at work'. There generally is someone in the offices (either myself or one of the other 3 managers) but there comes a time when you simply can't sit in an office all day (deliveries need to be taken in, things need to be signed for, engineers need to be supervised, that kind of thing) so she then went back on the sick with Post Traumatic Stress claiming that she couldn't work under the circumstances.
A week after she went back on the sick (this would've been on the 23rd of January), we had another armed robbery (or rather attempted robbery, because they all got arrested in the club, mwahah). I was there for this one along with 2 other managers and our lighting technician (it really wasn't as bad as I thought it would be).
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Around about the middle of March, she decided that she was ready to come back to work and offered herself for a couple of hours a week just to try and slide back into the role. We thought this was a good idea so we accepted it. She came in for 2 hours last week and ended up fucking hyperventilating in the office because she'd had a 'funny turn', so she went back home again and hasn't been heard of since today.
We spoke to our HR department at head office and they said that she wasn't allowed to come into work until she was declared fit to work for insurance reasons or something. She basically had two options - come off the sick and come back to work or go on the sick and not come in at all.
I rang her and asked her if she could come in on Monday to help out because we're all going to be in Northampton on the piss. We have a couple of guys in at the moment doing marketing and promotion work, so there's always someone in the offices. She said she didn't feel too well and was going back on the sick.
What I basically need to know is - how can we get rid of her? We're all getting sick of having to babysit her when she's here, and struggle without a proper UAC when she's not. Our HR department is essentially pussyfooting around the topic, not being that clear when we ask them for guidance.
If there was some way we could just fuck her off without any backlash or payouts or anything, that would be just swell. If there's a loophole or something we could exploit, then someone let me know. We're basically paying her to sit at home and do fuck all - we can't even get a doctor to give a second opinion because as far as I know, Post Traumatic Stress is diagnosed only by symptoms and cannot be disproved. She could've looked it up on the interweb and started acting it out for all I know.
I think that's all. I'm tired and I can't think straight, so I'll probably come back to it tomorrow and add/alter something. As usual, any constructive help is very much appreciated.