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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Comments

[hisamishness.livejournal.com]

good luck on the bailing out

[ravenshrinkery.livejournal.com]

My advice: get out. She had you trapped and if they wanted to be real assholes about it they could say you left without permission. It sounds like the definition of reasonable they are expecting is "whatever management needs out of the peons, including for them to be watering posts when necessary". Maybe other people on this list have had better luck with HRs, but my experience is you have to basically be 100% in the right and they have to know it in order to get any relief from them. Documentation still can't hurt, though.

Unless you got a contract they effectively set the rules. Time to find an employer that plays nicer. Sorry to be such a cynic, but well... glad to hear the nibbles are coming :).

[jecook]

+50000000.

They can also use that as grounds for delaying or denying unemployment insurance as well. ::glares are former employer::

[duality.livejournal.com]

well if they want to be really technical about it, he asked the highest person in the building at the time. granted it wasn't someone over his specific desk, but that's what happens when everyone decides to go on vacation when they also want to screw over their peons.