work followup
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juldeaOops, 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*![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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? ;)
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? ;)
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on 10 Jun 2006 21:40 (UTC)So... what they're saying is that they'd rather have an employee who struggles to keep up and never has time to attend to personal matters, instead of a productive person who can take time for personal stuff without getting behind?
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on 11 Jun 2006 00:28 (UTC)Actually, for a long while there I was overburdened with stuff, mainly during the time I was working more than one job without being compensated for it (and believe me, I brought up that point to my boss yesterday. I was wholly taken advantage of for several months.) So I imagine they heard me saying two months ago, "I have too much to do, my brain is leaking out my ears," and then seeing me on gmail this week and thinking the two coincide.
There was a reason I stopped posting on LJ at all several months ago, and have started getting back into it now. :P
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on 11 Jun 2006 00:34 (UTC)I am convinced that office jobs need a union.
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