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WARNING! Got scammed by Myholiday.com - Air Travel Message Board - Tripadvisor
Main Post: WARNING! Got scammed by Myholiday.com - Air Travel Message Board - Tripadvisor
Do I have to report my holiday?
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Hey guys.
I'm on UC-LCWRA and PIP. My older sister booked a holiday for my birthday this year and I’m super worried about going due to my anxiety about normal daily things but I can’t really not go now since it has been paid for and it was a birthday gift. I did say to my sister I was super worried about leaving the country but she said it could be good being in a new place for once. I’m just wondering if I have notify UC or PIP that I am going away for 10 days or not. And whether my benefits will be stopped due to me leaving the country. I don’t want to not go on the holiday and it be an huge waste of money as it was also my birthday present but I also don’t want to go and it then mess up the way things are currently because I won’t be able to handle having to work at the moment. TIA :)
Top Comment: You should inform UC (you don't need to tell PIP), but your benefits won't be stopped if you're out of the country for less than a month. 10 days is perfectly fine.
Is my holiday approved?
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Does anyone know how to find out if your holiday is approved?. Very confusing on the system.
Submitted on 23rd March but it's not unusual to wait a while, even on the old system which was a lot clearer.
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Workday Assistant 17:23
As of today, these are your available balances:
Anniversary Holidays: 0 Hours
• Paid Holidays: 199.5 Hours
The following requested and approved time off has not been subtracted from your available balances:
Paid Holidays - Hours (Full Day): 31 May 2024 (7.5 Hours - Submitted) 2-3 Jun 2024 (14.75 Hours - Submitted)
You can also view your balance for a future date or request time off.
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Turns out I am going to have to wait a month for an answer due to them messing up the admin/hierarchy.
Home shopping manager has been getting requests from bakery colleagues, no one knows where my request has been sent.
No one can sort it out until the higher level manager gets back from visiting family in Asia on 15th April. I requested on March 23rd and am waiting to book flights for the start of June. Thankfully it's for solo travel, I'd hate to have other people waiting because the company is run by idiots.
All my managers are great BTW, no reflection on them, it's just the authoritarian system that insists that it's right - you only have to pick on home shopping to see the complete lack of flexibility.
Confused about my Holiday balance *urgent*
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WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?? Does it mean that I overused my holiday days or that I still have 8 days left??
Top Comment: Look like you’ve used 8 more days than you actually have.
My Holiday to Toronto as a Brit.
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Hi Guys, thought I’d share my opinion on Toronto as a visitor from the U.K. as quite a few people I’ve spoken to in bars seem to be interested that I’ve decided to come here on a holiday instead of other places in Canada and not here just for work purposes. I’ll try keep it as short as possible. (Obviously I’m a tourist so I may be treated differently to a local) just for transparency I come from a well off area in the U.K. make just below average UK salary, took me 2 years to save to come here and frequently visit London, BHAM and Liverpool U.K.
- PEOPLE: varying cultures which is great to see, nearly everyone we’ve spoken to has been more friendly than most of our friends. People are always happy to help, and people even say good morning in stores etc.
- HOMELESS: let’s address the negative in the room, everywhere you go there are plenty of homeless, I’d say most that I have seen have kept to themselves sleeping or stumbling around off their nut. The ones that are either shouting random stuff at me or nude are the only ones I’ve had an issue with. No one has followed us round begging for spare change. But it seems for the size of Toronto there weren’t many especially in city centre or business district. I was expected lines of tents along front street W for example.
- FOOD: will start with eating out, 10/10. The variety, the taste, the portion size, the value. Not sure how I’m going to go back to the UK after eating here. Will I feel sad every time I eat now. Next is grocery foods. About same pricing as the UK depending on what you buy. The sizes seem to be about 2x the size on what ever you buy with great variety.
- HEALTH: people seem to be in good pretty good nick and take care of themselves. Not trying to be rude but I expected to see a lot of fat people walking around due to the food sizes and just prejudice I guess. U.K. currently has a rising obesity issue that is spiralling out of control and I was great to see so many people looking healthy.
- DRINKS: store bought alcohol pricing isn’t fair off home, just with a wider variety and comes in larger sizes. Drinking out on the other hand, couldn’t believe the prices, I’ve been drinking cocktails like pints. Cocktails are considered a luxury drink expecting to pay around $20 per cocktail. I had a Long Island yesterday and it was $14. Oh lord we are in business.
- CLEANLINESS: the main parts of the city are immaculate! Bins seem to be emptied, have options to recycle. Can always find a bin. Outskirts had a bit more rubbish lying round but so minimal that I was still gobsmacked at how clean it was.
- CRIME: Right so this is the hard one but a BIG ONE for me. I hear there are lots of car thefts here which doesn’t affect me so can’t comment, that being said how can I comment on the crime in my week stay as a tourist. Simply putting it, I people watched. It is what I consider safe to walk around at night. Especially In the heavily populated areas. People can walk around with a phone in their hand (100% don’t do in London) Pickpockets in random areas but rarely see it. I have only seen one fight and it was homeless. I can’t believe I’ve been to bars/pubs and not seen at least 1 fight per night. Haven’t seen anyone threatened with a knife too.
- NOISE: only noisy near the hospital areas but to be expected, nothing to comment. Been windy here a bit and expected noisy buildings, none of that. (see Beeham Tower humming Manchester)
- TRAFFIC: This seems to be a bit of an issue to anyone living on the outskirts of Toronto. Honest option is yes it’s pretty bad but it seems to come down to the amount of construction closing lanes/roads etc. I’d take that as a positive that your city is having developments/ maintenance work done.
- WORK/BUSINESS: hard to tell again but with job searches I’ve done online for me and my wife, jobs seem to pay more for doing the same job by about 25% but I can imagine fierce competition for any job at any level with the population.
- CONSTRUCTION: good to see maintenance and development within the city, can imagine outskirts are forgotten about slightly as in other places in the world. Weird to see them actually working too! Rather than standing on their phones. Construction companies seem to be using modern equipment.
- POLICE/SECURITY: seen a few ACAB signs about, happens everywhere. Not sure how it works here, for example if you call them for a break in or assault do they come within 12 hours. I’d count that as pretty good. Purposely went up to a cop to chat to see what they were like. Seemed approachable, in good shape, and had good cop cars.
- VEHICLES: huge, parking spaces are big. All vehicles seem to be very clean. Mostly modern vehicles.
- ARCHITECTURE: modern high rises look great, old school buildings look like they belong in the movies. Beautiful stuff.
- TIPPING: it is what it is, your minimum wage is $3 per hour behind UK. So hopefully the tipping offsets that. I understand companies should pay staff a reasonable living but they don’t that’s just the way it is. (Tipping not done in the U.K.) Tips can have their benefits though, if you were to be paid minimum wage and received $10 in tips per hour you’d be paid more than the average Finance manager in the U.K. not sure if $10 per hour is a crazy amount to hope for.
- NEGATIVES:
- The biggest negative, which is small but annoying as a foreigner. Pricing before taxes, I don’t really understand the point. Is it different per store type. Different outside the city. This isn’t as much of a problem when paying on credit card but when paying cash I had to get my calculator out a few times to check I had enough.
- Another negative is hotel pricing, rooms are very expensive. Sticks out massively price wise compared to anything else here. No idea why.
Bonus stuff:
Took a train to Niagara Falls, couldn’t believe how cheap it was to take a 2 hour train for myself and my Wife. Was expecting around $350-$400 per person each way (same price as my home town to London as it’s around 2hours) and to be stood on my feet the whole way. Was $117 to sit on immaculate train with actual staff on it that were friendly.
Crossing a road here is crazy how perfect it is. Timers for crossing the road, yielding to pedestrians. Love it.
TLDR OVERALL: in terms of the hundreds of cities I’ve been to, this city is within the top 5. A solid 9/10. I would always recommend to come here to family and friends and I would consider yourself lucky to be able to call this your home.
Edit: I forgot a huge positive point! You seem to have great phone signal and the internet speed it crazy. When I speed test the phone internet was the first time I’ve ever seen above 100mb download. It went up to 208mb and I was gobsmacked! My WiFi at home in the U.K. is the top package I can buy in my area and it’s 55mb
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Thanks for coming and appreciating our city. Glad you enjoyed it. It’s not perfect, but it’s a really good place to live and enjoy.
I’d like to give away my Holiday King Altador Stamp to a stamp collector!
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Comment a number between 1 and 100 + your UN! I’ll generate a random number and I’ll choose the person who comments the number or closest without going over. If multiple people choose the same number, I will go with the person who commented it first :) all I ask is that it’s going in your stamp album!! Cut off is 12 pm NST. Happy holidays!!! :-)
EDIT: I bought some bonus Christmas/snowy items as well that I will give away in the same manner!! Make sure your inventory isn’t full :)
EDIT 2: all prizes have been awarded!! Happy holidays everyone :)
Top Comment: Honestly you're a good person
If I hand my 4 week notice in, can I take any holiday ...
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My employer claims I’ve lost my holiday pay
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Top Comment: You could talk to ACAS https://www.acas.org.uk/ . Technically my understanding is your employer has a responsibility to encourage and support you in making sure to take your annual leave if they have a "use it or lose it" policy. Practically I think you're going to have an uphill struggle if the business isn't solvent.