Tuesday, November 13, 2007

a word to the wise

so ... today i was given a formal warning about my sick time usage. turns out that using more than 3 sick days without a doctor's note within a 6 month period is somehow unlawful. well, i'm just screwed.
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4 comments:

*Bitch Cakes* said...

You'll love this story:

My department was outsourced 4 years ago. I had been employed with my original company for about 14 years and took only a handful of sick days in that time. I lost all my sicktime when we were taken over... to the tune of 800 hours. That's EIGHT. HUNDRED. HOURS. Which breaks down to 100 days, or 5 whole months!!!!!

4 years later and I'm still fuming over it.

By the way, do you work in Brownsville?

November 14, 2007 at 2:47 PM
*Bitch Cakes* said...

PS The moral of my story: TAKE YOUR SICK TIME! (can they really monitor you to that level? Is that legal??)

November 14, 2007 at 2:56 PM
Miss Dewey Decimal said...

i don't know about the legality of holding back people from promotions based on their sick time usage. i stand firm with "if you offer me sick time i will take it." i mean, i accepted this job knowing how much sick time was offered to me. if they didn't want me to use it, they should have given me less.

November 17, 2007 at 9:48 AM
fifi said...

Yeah, your acceptance of the job symbolizes a contract in good faith & that contract was for a certain salary, working certain hours, and receiving a certain amount of vacation & sick time for your trouble. If they then take any of those provisions away or modify your work environment in any way, that constitutes a change in contract, to which you should be able agree in writing. Otherwise, they've breached your contract & you can take them down in no time.

Of course, I'm not a lawyer, but I play one in my mind occasionally.

November 19, 2007 at 2:10 PM

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