Used to work for an insurance comp processing claims. Had worked my way up to a level just below supervisor extremely fast. The position had quotas that you had to meet each day, which i always far surpassed and always took on the tougher challenges. Nasty little files that i took pride in finishing easily.
Had a little stomach issue most of my life, that would cause great pain and really severe issues. Would literally lay in bed wanting to die.
Well sick policies were based on occurences not days. So if sick Mon thru Wed that was an occurence. But sick only Monday and then Thursday was 2 occurences. And if you had 5 occurences in an amount of time you werent eligible for promotions, raises or bonuses.
Guess i had forgotten an occurence and was up to 6 occurences. A position opened up big bump in pay bonus structure and other incentives. Guess who didnt get it? Went ro H.R. as 2 of the occurences were those within a week of each other and if were included as 1 would change my number. But to no avail.
Guess what happened?
Now my quota was 50 claims a day where my average was always 75 or more plus. Guess where my average went to? When the really tough claims came up guess who stopped taking them? Whenever someone needed help ( always came to me before notnthe supervisor) guess who said sorry too busy?
This went on for a month and got called into then big managers office. He asked me what was up…….i laughed so hard. Asked him qhat he meant. Said my production was down and wasnt helping out in the team anymore. Asked him simply what my job title entailed and id been meeting the qualifications of it. He said i was. So what was the problem? Told him you get what you pay for. I worked my tail off to get to where i was and when an oppurtunity came up all of that sisnt matter. Nobody would do anything to help me……so why should i do more? He had no answer. Lasted about 3 months more and decided to move across thr country.