Author: Olivia

In the US, prospective employer's HR Manager called today to schedule a day to shadow. I asked if it was paid. She said that it wasn't because it is technically part of the interview process. Is this legal?

I'm a shift worker. I had called out sick once and then called out again about a week after that. Manager pulled me into the room to warn me about my sick calls because they can see when staff has stretches of days off in a row for vacation. I was not in vacation. I look Manager dead in the eye and said I called out because my pet is undergoing treatment for an illness and did not respond well to the treatment. Manager's response was “aww I'm sorry” and proceeded to warn me that “staffing” looks for patterns and I could end up on the watch list. A watch list that I'm sure the managers puts people on. Other coworkers who have actually called out “sick” prior to vacations or after vacations have yet to be warned and at least one of them is in negative sick hours. The…

I guess it is easier and will inspire less backlash than just straight up telling us we can't WFH anymore. What the fuck are these bootlicker assholes in IT to go along with this plan anyways? I go to the office 50% of the time at the rate things are going I'm going to have to be 95% of the time to get anything done.

Boss said we have to stop and we have to take the full hour. Youre paying me the same amount of money. Who tf cares if i leave a half hour early as long as my 8hrs are worked?