Highlights from today's meeting with HR:
Me: In regards to the message I sent you, I have to care for my mother two days a week and am also responsible for her hospital transport. If you allowed me to work from home on certain days, this would greatly ease that burden. I've proven I can do my job quickly and efficiently, I am incredibly knowledgeable and am well liked by my coworkers. Other times where I have been allowed to work from home, there were no issues or problems that arose as a result.
Yes, the job can be completely done from home, but we do not want to offer that. Instead, Support can have 1 work from home day a month. Otherwise, PTO will need to be used. If there is too much in negative, we will cut pay for the excess time.
Me: Our building just had a COVID outbreak. Our second most senior support person is pregnant and her son just had COVID. Are you going to force her to use all of her PTO, go deep into negative and start cutting her pay?
This is our standard policy going forward. Look, don't think of me as HR, think of me as your older sister. Keep in mind, that it would just be cheaper and easier for the CEO to lay off support personnel and open a support line overseas. (Cool thinly veiled threat, big sis!)
Me: That is unfortunate.
Also, I would like to talk to you about your performance. You've been here nearly a year and I feel you aren't growing as fast as your coworkers.
Me: I have successfully handled every ticket handed to me for the last seven months and rarely needed help. I am also consistently the go-to person for many products that the other support staff need assistance troubleshooting.
Ah, yes. Your department head does put a lot of hope and trust in you for your job, but when I come by, I don't always see you working.
Me: Then how is all of my work getting done? Are you saying you've never heard me interact with a customer? Seen me testing at the test bench with a totally different department? Did you not see me programming a wall plate for over an hour the other day when you came by and asked me what I was doing?
I feel like you're getting defensive. Where is this hate for me coming from? (This is not hyperbole, she legitimately asked if I hated her. This was fucking weird.)
Me: I just want to go do my job, if there's nothing further.
Because of your negative PTO, we'll need to look into reducing it from your pay.
Me: The negative PTO you forced me to take despite being able to do my job completely from home? Including when I was sick, when my wife was sick and I begged for days to help? The negative PTO that my coworker next to me doesn't have because you let her work from home for two weeks when her child was sick? I'm not agreeing to that. (About here is where I had enough and stormed out.)
Tl;Dr Either I'll be fired or quit, but I'm finding a new job very soon.