I work in social work. My position was described to me as “WFH because it is a mobile position” and also because there was essentially “not a space” for me.
I have been dealing with some mental health issues and a family death. We have personal days and self-care days. I have used them each time I have called in. I believe we have a total of 13 available to us annually, combined, and I have used 10 or 11 since starting in December. About 6 or 7 of those days I was sick and the rest were used for “self-care”.
I was told and made to sign a paper that I:
– need to have a more “determined” schedule instead of clocking in/out at different times of day/evening. Although I have seen multiple other people “flex” their time.
– am not allowed to WFH “for now” because it is a “privilege” and apparently I messed that up
– I am not allowed to text to call in anymore. “This is happening to everyone, not just you”
– “the self-care days are allowed to be used ‘last minute’” but also not. Because “only if they’re not being abused”. Contradicted themselves.
– I need to check my email before/during/after trainings or if I am on the road that day because I need to respond faster, but also emails only have to be responded to within 24 hours. This was because I missed an email sent to me while in an all day training. My boss called me within an hour of sending the email. I texted her a couple hours later that I was in a training. She “didn’t see it”. Contradicted themselves. I am also supposed to respond to every email from my boss and say, at least, “got it”. Mind you, I email her all the time and she doesn’t respond to half of them. She also told me she “checks her email on lunch but not to do that”. And that I “could/should be checking it during breaks if I am in a training.”
– i have to keep my calendar updated as to my whereabouts and what I am doing that day. Even though I have been. The day of the above point , I had on my calendar that I was in the training. She also “didn’t see that”.
– I am doing all my work correctly and doing what I need to be doing in regard to my actual work. But also I have to be better about not making mistakes in the database (of which I have probably made about 5 that I have been emailed about and fixed myself. The mistakes were simple, such as: what time I ended a session or began one.)
– I am “just barely getting 35 hours a week and the expectation is 40.” Though I was told by HR that I have to get 35 hours to qualify for benefits/etc. I looked at my hours. My average is ~37 a week.
– I need to be better about clocking in/out. When I started, I had to get used to clocking because I would be doing something with a client and simply forget. I got better about it and recently have probably had to make 1-2 requests for corrections since then.
I’m sure there’s more but that’s all I can remember right now. I just don’t get how I’m “doing my job how it needs to be done and doing everything correctly” but also I’m not and I need to improve? And all of the contradictions are blowing me away.
The two things I know I am responsible for is using too many days since recently starting. And being late to/leaving early from trainings that are 9 hours long. (This was because they’re extremely triggering and part of what’s affecting my mental health so negatively). Everything else, I don’t understand.