Staff having to leave for emergency.?

[testcricket01]

i had this a couple of months back when i lost my grandad i had the tree on the deck got the call he wasnt going to last much longer i dropped everything left the guys onsite they had the landy they had to take 2 trips because there was 3 of them and only 2 seats. Bit of hassle for them but If i hadnt of rushed off i wouldnt have been able to say my goodbyes. Some things are much more important than working, i wouldnt ask questions from our lads if they had the same happen take the truck and get there quick sort it out later.

[Pete Mctree]

Genuine emergencies are simple to deal with - down tools & get them home. How would you expect others to behave if it was you that had the emergency?

[Peter]

Think we're getting a bit off topic here.

 

Obviously the person who has to leave leaves, no discussion there. The rest of the team crack on until finishing time, after all it wasn't their emergency.

[Stoatally]

Think we're getting a bit off topic here.

 

 

Not really getting off topic.

 

The original post and the Poll choices don't really match.

 

Its obvious that the person with the emergency needs to deal with it, but how do you work that when there are 3 people and 1 vehicle - that's what the poll choices are asking.

[benedmonds]

As others have said, obviously the team member suffering the emergency has to go if it is an emergency, no question.

 

How they get there is the issue. Just seeing if I am a heartless employer... To me it comes down to cost, it might be cheaper for me to pay for a taxi then to have the whole team down tools, but then I think, why would I pay for a taxi its not my emergency...

 

These issues come up more and more when you employ more folk..

"My girlfriend cars broken down"

"I have a bad back"

"girlfriend/child/significant other has had to go into hospital"

etc, etc...

 

Not knocking you guys if you read this.... and in this latest "hypothetical" instance I think they came to a compromise dropping the staff member half way..

[DanClimbsTrees]

As others have said, obviously the team member suffering the emergency has to go if it is an emergency, no question.

 

How they get there is the issue. Just seeing if I am a heartless employer... To me it comes down to cost, it might be cheaper for me to pay for a taxi then to have the whole team down tools, but then I think, why would I pay for a taxi its not my emergency...

 

These issues come up more and more when you employ more folk..

"My girlfriend cars broken down"

"I have a bad back"

"girlfriend/child/significant other has had to go into hospital"

etc, etc...

 

Not knocking you guys if you read this.... and in this latest "hypothetical" instance I think they came to a compromise dropping the staff member half way..

 

As others said it depends on the situation surely. If it was a something like a death or car crash then I'd for sure say that you were a heartless bar steward for considering cost before just dropping everything, getting in the car and getting them to the hospital!

 

If the issue was something like "my girlfriend's car broke" down i.e. not life or death then I'd let them go the first time no questions asked and trust their judgement, I'd probably still pay them for the day too if they were on the books. If it started getting regular and the excuses kept getting more desperate or I thought they were just making stuff up I'd probably give 'em notice and look for someone more reliable.

 

Cheers, Dan

[gooseflight]

If someone or something is imperiled by that person's absence, i.e., genuine emergency, then common humanity says you ought to do something about. If it's something that can wait or someone else nearer can be called upon in the interim then the 'employee' can return under their own steam/expense and the job can go on.

[josharb87]

Are you meaning that the one who needs to get home, doesn't have his own transport so would need the team to down tools to give him a lift?

 

Exactly..

 

Then it's got to be down to the nature of the emergency, life and death, hospital, house on fire, leave, no questions asked.

 

Mates car broken down, hamsters died ect, either leave unpaid aslong as it doesn't affect co workers or crack on. Especially if it's late in the day as in OP

[Vespasian]

Exactly..

 

was gonna say what most said, genuine emergency get em home..

 

Then I remembered a mate of mine workin for me on a tree job..

The chainsaw slipped off the rope and dropped on his hands, must of bin a two foot drop..

I never heard as much screaming in all my life, being up the tree I imagined the thing has severed a limb hahahah...

 

Of course he insisted I take him to hospital for stitches, wouldn't show me the wound, sort of screaming and wailing about blood loss an time being wasted..

 

I could of kicked him when he calmed down half way to the hospital, cut myself worse havin a shave...

 

Then there was the phone calls being made, that he'd sliced himself up with a chainsaw to all his mates and girlfriend on the way to hospital..

I think he liked the idea of suffering a chainsaw wound LOL..

 

An to think, all that drama for a plaster hahahah...

[Vespasian]

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Edited February 5, 2016 by John Shutler
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