Got suspended from work.

POSTED BY: Gorramreavers
UPDATED: Saturday, January 22, 2005 20:31
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DIETCOKE

Thursday, January 20, 2005 7:37 PM

My heart goes out to you, Gorramreavers. *hug*

Couple of questions: Are you a shift worker? Does another employee have to stay at work until you arrive? Are you a union employee?

The reason I ask, is that if you are a union employee, your boss doesn't have much flexiblity and has to go by the union contract. The employee that has to stay at work until you arrive, must be paid over-time (time and a half.) In places that I've worked the employee that stays over their regular shift must be paid a minimum of a 1/2 hour's pay. So, it costs the company money.

Also, if someone else can't leave unil you arrive it can be very frustrating for the employee that wants to go home and can't until you arrive. Often they will put pressure on the manager to do something about it, which could explain this new policy.

Now, if your job is not the type of job that relies on someone being there at a particular time for another employee to leave or that someone must be there to cover the phones, you might have some options.

Are you working a shift that just goes against your internal clock? If that is the case you might ask the manager if you could change or hours so that you could arrive an hour or two later and the work your full shift.

Is it because of a bus schedule? If so you might again ask your boss if you could plan your schedule so that you arrive 15 minutes later going forward.

If it is a written company policy, your manager really has to follow it. If they allow one person to be five minutes late then they have to allow ALL employees to be five minutes late. If the company has 12 employees and all of them are five minues late that adds up to an hour of lost productivity every day. If being five minutes late is okay, do you then fire the employee who is six minutes late?

If you start leaving your home at least 15 minutes earlier you should be fine. Bring something to read if you get to work early. It's just not worth loosing a job over it.

Best of luck!

RUXTON

Thursday, January 20, 2005 10:21 PM

How do all you clowns like being SLAVES to corporate America?

Yup, you're all slaves. The whole idea of ANY successful corporation hiring you is that you earn more for them than you get paid. Otherwise you have no value to them, corporations being what they are to produce a PROFIT. Once you understand this simple condition, you realize you're screwed unless you TOE (not TOW) the company line.

It doesn't matter how much you make, just understand you're being paid less than you earn for the company for which you work.

The solution has always been: WORK FOR YOURSELF.

Good luck.

BRUISERSMOM

Thursday, January 20, 2005 10:37 PM

A friend of mine worked for Dillard's department store. The third time late to work or back from lunch, you were fired. That's how she lost her job there. She was covering for a sick employee on her day off when she punched in a couple of minutes late from lunch.

BRUISERSMOM

Thursday, January 20, 2005 10:43 PM

A friend of mine worked for Dillard's department store. The third time late to work or back from lunch, you were fired. That's how she lost her job there. She was covering for a sick employee on her day off when she punched in a couple of minutes late from lunch.

I would mentally plan to arrive at work at 7:55 every day. That's what I do where I work, so that I don't show up a minute or two late.

I know how you feel. I've had that sort of thing happen to me. I went on a trip abroad with a professor who must have been a member of the gestapo in his previous lifetime. He was very rigid and authoritarian. We had to show up for breakfast at 8 a.m. and be done with breakfast at 8:30 a.m. every morning. I was always done with breakfast before 8:30 a.m. and ready to do what we needed to do that day but a couple of times, I showed up for breakfast at 8:01 and 8:03 and he pulled me out of breakfast to lecture me about showing up on time to eat. That's when I started telling myself that I needed to be down there at 7:55, so that I would be a couple of minutes late. I moved on after my obligation that summer was over.

BRUISERSMOM

Thursday, January 20, 2005 10:44 PM

A friend of mine worked for Dillard's department store. The third time late to work or back from lunch, you were fired. That's how she lost her job there. She was covering for a sick employee on her day off when she punched in a couple of minutes late from lunch.

I would mentally plan to arrive at work at 7:55 every day. That's what I do where I work, so that I don't show up a minute or two late.

I know how you feel. I've had that sort of thing happen to me. I went on a trip abroad with a professor who must have been a member of the gestapo in his previous lifetime. He was very rigid and authoritarian. We had to show up for breakfast at 8 a.m. and be done with breakfast at 8:30 a.m. every morning. I was always done with breakfast before 8:30 a.m. and ready to do what we needed to do that day, even if I showed up for breakfast at 8:02 a.m. However, a couple of times, I showed up for breakfast between 8:01 and 8:03 a.m. and he pulled me out of breakfast to lecture me about showing up on time to eat. That's when I started telling myself that I needed to be down there at 7:55, so that I wouldn't be a couple of minutes late.

VETERAN

Thursday, January 20, 2005 10:55 PM

Man 'reavers that sucks. I'd take the time to get my resume together and find a new job.

A while back, the firm I worked for had a sign in sheet. Everyone used to put the time when they came in on the sheet. That's the way it was when I was hired, so I just followed suit. Well I came in late a couple times and my supervisor spoke to me about it. When I pointed out that he arrived after me he said it didn't matter.

I asked the VP incharge of the office why we had a sign in sheet, since we filled in time sheets and submitted them every Friday. The VP said it was a "Fire List." If we ever had to evacuate the building they would use the list to take a head count and know if the building was clear, or not.

The next day instead of putting down the time I just put a check by my name. Within a week all 50 people in the office were doing the same. (even my stuperviser... I mean supervisor).

BRUISERSMOM

Thursday, January 20, 2005 11:01 PM

I wonder if those employees like their jobs and if their jobs keep them interested in their work. Sometimes I think that behaviors from childhood follow us into adulthood. I work at a school right now and when students don't like the work that they have to do in class, some of them spend as much time as possible doing other things like getting ready to do their work, going to the bathroom, staring at the wall, talking when they're not supposed to be doing it, etc. and they try to wrap up the class at the end of the period as early as possible. I've had students start packing their bags to leave as much as eight minutes before the bell rings and they're not done with their work yet.

ZOID

Thursday, January 20, 2005 11:24 PM

Ruxton wrote:

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How do all you clowns like being SLAVES to corporate America?
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The solution has always been: WORK FOR YOURSELF...

I'll answer your question with a question, dumbass. Why do all the unemployable shitheads like you join a fan club website and then start insulting people you don't even know?

I mean, if you're such a successful entrepreneure, why would you need us to put down? Couldn't you just insult one of your thousands of employees?

To wit, Half-Wit: If everyone owned their own businesses, we'd be living at a pre-Medieval technological level. Unless you're claiming that your business is mining and refining ore, manufacturing steel and then single-handedly crafting automobiles, that is. In which case, you have my sincerest apologies.

Otherwise, go get stuffed, you wanker.

Angrily,

zoid

P.S.
To everyone else, trying to add something useful (or at least humorous or thought-provoking), I apologize for the profanity. I just don't like being called a 'clown' any more than being called a 'sheep'.
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"Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me." The Ballad of Serenity

RUXTON

Friday, January 21, 2005 6:06 AM

Some guy gets dunned because he was tardy, comes looking for sympathy in the form of a website thread (on this beloved Firefly forum) dovoted to his mistreatment, and people actually bother to respond? What else are you but clowns?

In self defense, the translation of my suggestion (to anyone who wants to take control of his life) was to realize the overall state of affairs in which you are submersed and take responsible action.

If you take offense at being called a clown, that's your problem. If you persist in the wanton use of profanity, your Bozo nose only gets bigger.

ZOID

Friday, January 21, 2005 8:40 AM

Ruxton replied:

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...What else are you but clowns?

We're people who've made mistakes ourselves, and over the course of our lifetimes, have tried to improve on those mistakes. We feel that this experience may be helpful to 'reavers.

The reason people are responding is to try and help another human being. Ponder this in some depth, before repeatedly insulting those who have sympathy for a guy who's struggling...

Instructively,

zoid

P.S.
I'd rather be a wage slave any day, than a wage slaveowner. Nobody ever got to be rich without first lusting after more than their rightful share, and then exploiting the efforts of others to take and keep it.
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"Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me." The Ballad of Serenity

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