I know that this is a silly Question but ...

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Fri, 2013-01-18 15:29

We all know that employers are only concerned with what their employees do during their work hours. The employers do not care what their employees do in their spare time. Why, therefore, would an irate boss say to her unmarried female employee: "You are never going to get married. You'll end up as an old maid." Surely that is not the employer's business

Furthermore,I sometimes hear about potential employers making tart and bitchy remarks when learning that some of their potential employees married late in life. Surely that is also none of the potential employer's busisness?

Fri, 2013-01-18 16:58

Parson Thru

People are strange.

Parson Thru

Fri, 2013-01-18 17:18

Highhat

Nope none of their business at all- fire them!

Fri, 2013-01-18 17:26

Highhat

and it's definitely not a silly question!

Fri, 2013-01-18 23:46

ton.car

I work in education and believe me, employers are constantly keeping an eye on what we do outside of our employment hours. Mr Gove and his minions, as well as believing that the vast majority of us are overpaid and incompetent fools, insist that we set an example 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. As to what example this is none of us are entirely sure, but we deviate from it at our peril.

Sat, 2013-01-19 13:44

alibob

...and that's one of the many reasons I no longer work in education. My boss once took me to task for moving in temporarily with my very sick father in the weeks following the death of my mother. She thought it would distract me from my work. People are indeed very strange....

Sat, 2013-01-19 15:55

Linda Wigzell Cress

It has always been true that public sector employers ALL think they own the employees ALL of the time. They now cannot grasp the point that at the end of your paid hours, you should go home. Oh no, unpaid hours of overtime are de rigeur now that they can hold the unspoken threat of redundancy over you, with the equally unspoken statement 'you're lucky you've got a job'. This is the new slavery. Linda

Linda