And yet more....

[kizayaen.livejournal.com]

Last Thursday I wrote this post about the latest antics of the Evil Manager.

To summarize: My schedule was changed with no notice by cancelling two hours which I'm generally allowed to leave early on Thursdays. This was done by email with no prior notification until I arrived at work, this giving me six and a half hours' notice.

Call volume ended up being dramatically slower than anticipated... by 8pm it was pretty dead. I sent a mail to the Evil Manager, cc: my team lead, explaining that:

• I carpool with my wife, who also works here. Our schedules have been specifically coordinated between my old manager and hers so that we can work the same hours and do this.
  
• I had no notice and thus no ability to arrange to bring two cars rather than one.
  
• I was not willing to strand my wife for two hours while I was working.
  
• Call volume was ridiculously low.
  
• I'm taking off in contradiction to your mail.
  
• I would have consulted a supervisor for permission but every single person who is directly over me on the hierarchy charts was on vacation. Anyone over -that- was gone for the day.

Today she got back from her vacation and sent an email basically reprimanding me for not using her "Emergency Contact" cell phone number which is in her email signature to check with her.

Now maybe it's just me, but I'd hardly call "Can I go home early?" an emergency. If I were a manager and I were on vacation and somebody called me at 10pm with that question, they would have received a shrill bitching indeed. In fact, I'm about 85% positive that that's exactly what would have happened if I had called.

    IF (do) THEN { damned(); } ELSE { damned(); }


On the other hand, I've been getting a couple of resume nibbles.

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