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I mean, what do they expect you to do, risk your life in snow and ice just to sit and push their fucking papers all day? That was a rhetorical question, btw, because we all know what the answer to that is! But maybe it will be better for you in the long run, you'll end up getting something even better that you like. That's what happened to me.
I have many, many, many, many, many, MANY examples of similar employer stupidity and insensitivity, especially when it comes to their fucking absence or tardiness "warnings", but the one that would have to absolutely, positively take the cake would be Trans-Union Employment Screening Services, where I worked for four years until they finally put me out of my misery and gave me the choice of quitting or being fired.
Right after Christmass 1999, and into the first week of 2000, I was very ill with a particularly vicious form of bacterial bronchitis going around that year, it came on suddenly on my way home from a family Christmas shindig in Toledo, I had to stop and check into a hotel on the turnpike, and remember almost nothing for the next couple of days.
I had my son with me, who was eight at the time, and thank God I did, because he handled everything and did it beautifully, calling my parents (they had to come get us) and other anxious relatives, ordering and paying for food (which he had to eat himself, I couldn't even breathe, much less eat!), etc.
I spent New Year's Eve 1999 quite ill, what a way to welcome in the new century and millenium! Anyway, I ended up in the hospital for a day and then I ended up off of work, by doctor's orders, for nearly two weeks, which pretty much wiped out all of my sick time for 2000 and the year had only begun.
Then, just when I recovered from that, I fell on ice and broke my wrist in three places, had to have surgery, recovery time, etc., etc. I had no sick time left, so I was screwed right there. Fortunately, I had broken my left wrist and not my right (I'm right-handed) so I was still able to work.
When I returned to work a few days after my wrist surgery, still feeling sick and in pain, they called me in and wanted me to sign their fucking absence warning for missing too many days within a certain time period!:mad: :puke: I asked if they thought I'd rather have dealt with being very ill and the pain of a broken wrist than be at work, and if they thought I had enjoyed my lovely experiences of the past few weeks. Didn't matter, you have to sign it, they said. I said I wasn't going to sign their goddamned fucking ridiculous warning, because it wasn't as if I'd simply blown off work to go scuba diving in Hawai or some such thing. Didn't matter, you have to sign it, they said. I repeated that I wasn't going to sign their goddamned fucking ridiculous warning because I'd had no choice in the matter. You sign it or you're out of here, they said. Never mind that I'd been there almost four years, I said. Sign it or leave, they said. So, I signed the goddamned fucking ridiculous warning and went back to pushing their stupid ridiculous papers for the pittance of a salary they paid me. And did I mention that this job was 45 miles from home and my "pay", if you could call it that, was a hefty 10 bucks an hour, even with a college degree?:puke: :puke: :puke:
So it was hell in the winter, because I had to drive all that way in Northeastern Ohio, and winter here means endless snow and ice and traffic jams so that you're lucky to get to work within four hours of your starting time, and lucky to get home before midnight. So I was late more often than not during the winter, and of course had to sign their goddamned fucking ridiculous tardiness warnings, never mind that my bitch of a boss, who'd taken over halfway through my employment there and who was only in her mid-20's, which means she was full of the power trip with no fucking clue as to what she was doing, lived the same distance and conveniently excused herself from any tardiness warnings.
The boss before her had given all of us breaks, understanding our situations and that we usually weren't late or absent on purpose or for unimportant reasons. But this boss was a total power-tripping legalistic bitch, and so were the rest of the management staff. It was several months later, after I had supposedly made a "mistake" on an applicant's letter for which the client had terminated its relationship with the company (allegedly) and the company had to pay some bucks to the applicant (allegedly). I say allegedly because they'd pulled that shit on other employees before; it had turned out not to be true, they'd just wanted to get rid of us. We were all at-will employees anyway, no contract, so they could do whatever they wanted.
And it was hell for me, as a single parent, because there were many times I needed to do take care of something my son needed, etc., etc., and they were none too happy. So, while the eleven months of unemployment were total hell because I had no money at all, I couldn't get unemployment because the agency sided with Trans-Union's version, and wasn't even getting any child support, no health insurance, NOTHING, six months later at Christmas I didn't even have five bucks to get the kid any gift at all, and I couldn't even get a job pushing a broom for minimum wage because the bitch was telling lies about me to prospective employers.
I was damn near close to just ending it all when I finally got this job, my boss was an attorney who attended my church who needed a temporary paralegal due to a maternity leave, which ended in me being permanent, and here I remain today! Only a few miles from home, a far better salary (still not nearly enough, especially for my education and experience, but a lot more than before), and a boss who allows me the flexibility and understanding I need as a single parent. So it was all better in the long run, although it was sure hell going through it!
I still think that the best way to go in employment is self-employment for those who can do it, because then you don't have to worry about all of that warnings nonsense and fear over "if I get ill/have to take care of my family member/ etc., etc., will I be fired because they don't want to deal with it" bullshit!
And on an even better note, I learned later from my friends there that the company was bought out and the purchasing company came in, said there were too many managers and too many problems with those managers and too many bad management policies, and fired a lot of them, including the bitch that fire me! So what goes around, comes around, WHOOOOOO-HOOOOOOOOO!
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