I never thought I’d be posting here but this really just irked me to the core so I thought I’d share
Let me preface this by saying I’m in construction and my job sites are usually (45-1hr 30) away from my house. I’m usually there before any of my coworkers most days because I work at 7 A.M and I leave around 5:15-5:30 to go to work and wait in my car until 7, I do this mainly to beat traffic and to gradually start my day.
Yesterday however we were told to be there at 7:30 AM so I decided I’d leave my house at a time that would get me there around 7:20.
I get there AT 7:30, grab my tools and go see my foreman. He tells me (insert supervisors name here) had just left at 7:25 and he has been waiting on me to show up and told him when yungquaalude shows up call me.
I get this information relayed to me and decided I would just call him myself. I then started getting a lecture about how “I was late and I need to leave earlier because that’s not acceptable.” I cut him off to tell him I wasn’t late I arrived at the specified time and the argument ensued for the next 20 min to the point I had tears in my eye from the level of rage I had reached.
To sum up the phone call these were the key points made by him
1. 7:30 is the time you need to be on a ladder ready to do work.
2. Your tools are you’re responsibility and taking them out of your car needs to be done before the specified time
3. Somehow also sad that I don’t have equal rights (“you can’t do what everyone else can”)
I pointed out the facts of the matter being
1. I could leave my house to be 30 minutes early yet a couple of car crashes and I’ll be an hour late and you can’t account for that
2. I’m not going to be here for free if you want me here before the specified time to get ready for work then you need to pay me for that time
Etc etc.
So not only does he expect me to be there before the specified time which I usually am but to also do work for free.
I just can’t fathom why he thought I would just “yes sir, sorry sir” my way through our conversation. All I can do is tell him that’s bullshit and keep trucking, fuck right to work states.