work followup

Oops, reminded me I hadn't updated here yet (as I went from work yesterday to a party, and then home to bed, and then hadn't posted today...)

I neither quit nor got fired. They apparently wisened up to the policies and gave me a written warning as is proscribed, and I got a talking-to of course. Very quickly during that talking-to I asked, "Is this important enough to you that you'd fire me over it?" to which the manager replied, "Absolutely!" which prompted me to tell him that I could just clean out my desk that afternoon and we could part ways. Lemme tell ya, the conversation drastically veered course after that. ;) It became, "You're a star employee when you do your work." "When do I not do my work? When have you ever told me my productivity isn't good enough?" They never had a straight answer to that, of course, simply saying that if I have time to work on "personal stuff" then obviously I could be producing more. *sigh* crimson5, do you have any of those studies available to print out?

So, the conversation pretty much wound down to, "Sign off saying you received this warning, go back to your desk, and if you really want to leave here then submit your resignation in writing." I never actually had to promise that I wouldn't access the stuff from work anymore, although I did sign the warning which said next time was the 5-day suspension. *shrugs* I pretty much see this result as meaning they'll continue to pay me for working there until I actually get hired someplace else, rather than me having to rely on temping for a while. Yay! This is a good result.

Later that day, the other supervisor (the one who used to be my boss, who got in a shouting match with someone on Monday) called a staff meeting with all of us grunts (i.e. excluding those who had given me the talking-to earlier) to present us with a new development: the manager had used time during the rest of the day to print out phone records of the department to mention that he was cracking down on personal phone calls. We work in the basement and no one has ever had any cell phone reception, so any phone call we make has to be from the company phones. I don't know if he was specifically attempting to catch me at something, but for the entire month of May, out of 9 hours of calls, 4 minutes were to home. :30, :36, 1:06, and 1:54, if I remember correctly. HOW DARE I. ;) So other people ended up carrying the brunt of that, as most of the people I work with have children and call home often for various reasons. The best part of that meeting was that it turned into a bitchfest about the manager. ;)

Any questions? ;)

work followup

Oops, reminded me I hadn't updated here yet (as I went from work yesterday to a party, and then home to bed, and then hadn't posted today...)

I neither quit nor got fired. They apparently wisened up to the policies and gave me a written warning as is proscribed, and I got a talking-to of course. Very quickly during that talking-to I asked, "Is this important enough to you that you'd fire me over it?" to which the manager replied, "Absolutely!" which prompted me to tell him that I could just clean out my desk that afternoon and we could part ways. Lemme tell ya, the conversation drastically veered course after that. ;) It became, "You're a star employee when you do your work." "When do I not do my work? When have you ever told me my productivity isn't good enough?" They never had a straight answer to that, of course, simply saying that if I have time to work on "personal stuff" then obviously I could be producing more. *sigh* crimson5, do you have any of those studies available to print out?

So, the conversation pretty much wound down to, "Sign off saying you received this warning, go back to your desk, and if you really want to leave here then submit your resignation in writing." I never actually had to promise that I wouldn't access the stuff from work anymore, although I did sign the warning which said next time was the 5-day suspension. *shrugs* I pretty much see this result as meaning they'll continue to pay me for working there until I actually get hired someplace else, rather than me having to rely on temping for a while. Yay! This is a good result.

Later that day, the other supervisor (the one who used to be my boss, who got in a shouting match with someone on Monday) called a staff meeting with all of us grunts (i.e. excluding those who had given me the talking-to earlier) to present us with a new development: the manager had used time during the rest of the day to print out phone records of the department to mention that he was cracking down on personal phone calls. We work in the basement and no one has ever had any cell phone reception, so any phone call we make has to be from the company phones. I don't know if he was specifically attempting to catch me at something, but for the entire month of May, out of 9 hours of calls, 4 minutes were to home. :30, :36, 1:06, and 1:54, if I remember correctly. HOW DARE I. ;) So other people ended up carrying the brunt of that, as most of the people I work with have children and call home often for various reasons. The best part of that meeting was that it turned into a bitchfest about the manager. ;)

Any questions? ;)