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Denied sick leave pay resigned on the spot

I worked at a security company for around 3+ years and probably would still be there if not for a new micromanager.   He would monitor gps and phone calls were made if at same place for more then 5 minutes.  Expected 50km walk patrols despite clients already being happy and him never even visiting site to understand how stupid that was.  Anyway what pushed me over the line was that I had apparently no sick days left and had to come in even if I had covid.  Despite working on a site with eldeley I am supposed to go there and infect them??  Also I had around 250 hours of leave accunulated due to me working often 6 days a week 12 hour shifts regardless of public holidays.  I didn't get paid for days off so I didnt show up and said I resign effective immediately.  If I am not…


I worked at a security company for around 3+ years and probably would still be there if not for a new micromanager.   He would monitor gps and phone calls were made if at same place for more then 5 minutes.  Expected 50km walk patrols despite clients already being happy and him never even visiting site to understand how stupid that was.  Anyway what pushed me over the line was that I had apparently no sick days left and had to come in even if I had covid.  Despite working on a site with eldeley I am supposed to go there and infect them??  Also I had around 250 hours of leave accunulated due to me working often 6 days a week 12 hour shifts regardless of public holidays.  I didn't get paid for days off so I didnt show up and said I resign effective immediately.  If I am not paid I am a slave and I aint here because I like it.  He also never responded to my emails but would jump at trying to get any guard fired even over trivial mattera.  

 I got my union to organise the leave process and got paid around $8000 in leave entitlements which equaled about 6k in nett value but sure lets not pay me sick leave that makes sense.  

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