Topic: Shit Days (Read 227948 times)

Brentai · « **Reply #2840 on:** July 03, 2012, 06:03:51 PM »

On what grounds?

Royal☭ · « **Reply #2841 on:** July 03, 2012, 06:16:29 PM »

Poverty.

Niku · « **Reply #2842 on:** July 04, 2012, 01:17:15 AM »

Thanks for celebrating your right to blow shit up outside of my window at one in the morning, cock gargling ass fucks. The fever I appear to be getting totally helped me get right back to sleep.

On the other hand, a full shift on time and a half! I'll take it!

NexAdruin · « **Reply #2843 on:** July 06, 2012, 03:53:50 PM »

I've called off about 6 times since I've started working in January. According to my boss this is the equivalent of calling off "every other week" and now she's really pissed at me. In related news, my doctor suspects I have stress-induced irritable bowel syndrome.

I'm going to start looking for another job. I like papa john's but I have a very low tolerance for stress and my manager constantly threatening to write me up (it isn't just me - she's pissed at everyone in the store except for one blonde girl that she likes) isn't helping me get my life together.

Joxam · « **Reply #2844 on:** July 06, 2012, 05:38:08 PM »

I hate to play devil's advocate here but you are calling in about every other pay period and that is, frankly, just as unacceptable.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #2845 on:** July 06, 2012, 06:18:28 PM »

You and I either have radically different definitions of "pay periods" or "every other".

Also, a friend of mine used to work for Papa Johns, and he quit after one of his co-workers got fired for being mugged.

Joxam · « **Reply #2846 on:** July 06, 2012, 06:35:05 PM »

He's been working there for six months, most jobs average two pay periods a month. The math wasn't exact, that's why I said 'almost'. Alternatively, he's called in once a month since he's worked there. I don't see how even that is acceptable.

Stush · « **Reply #2847 on:** July 06, 2012, 06:45:11 PM »

People get sick, Some people more than others. I used to get sick all the time.

What should we do? Just have special jobs for people who get sick more often?

Lottel · « **Reply #2848 on:** July 06, 2012, 07:02:39 PM »

Quote from: Constantmean on July 06, 2012, 06:18:28 PM

one of his co-workers got fired for being mugged.

Hahahahahahahahahahaha

NexAdruin · « **Reply #2849 on:** July 06, 2012, 07:32:14 PM »

Honestly, I can understand her frustration, and even I think calling off once a month is a bit much, but most places give at least 6 sick days (or a combination of sick/personal days) especially with doctors' notes, and if this was an isolated incident I wouldn't be ready to quit, but it isn't and I have no indication that things are about to get any better.

Hell, she could have just said "I'll need a doctor's note" and I would have gotten one and that would be the end of it, but frankly I'm tired of working in an environment where every day there are new signs up directed to the workers that any slightest mistake will get us a write up. For the past 3 weeks we have been directed by managers both to stand still at our stations and to go wherever we are needed without being told to move.

One of our managers is usually a driver (fun fact: being a driver is less work and more pay than being a manager), but since one of our managers walked out one night and never came back he has been volunteering to do more work for less pay to pick up the slack, and she's even threatening him with write ups to the point that it's making him feel uncomfortable.

As poor as I am and as much as I need money I simply am not paid enough to continue working in an environment like this, and with signs up all around town offering work elsewhere I don't see the need.

EDIT: Oh, and the manager who has been volunteering? he makes $9/hr. He's just been offered a job elsewhere as a receptionist for $13/hr but he's not sure about taking it because he's been comfortable doing what he does.

Rico · « **Reply #2850 on:** July 06, 2012, 10:28:04 PM »

In most environments, even if x writeups equals firing, x writeups do not equal firing.

Cthulhu-chan · « **Reply #2851 on:** July 07, 2012, 03:14:48 AM »

If you can find someplace else with equivalent of better pay, go for it. Your current work environment sucks dick, to be frank.

Silversong · « **Reply #2852 on:** July 07, 2012, 07:07:40 AM »

Nex, I just suggest #1 find new job, #2 quit current job, in that order. Also tell that other guy that being a receptionist is the laziest way to make $13 ever and he should totally take it.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #2853 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:13:35 AM »

Yeah. A $4/h pay upgrade plus not working at Papa Johns should be a no brainer.

R^2 · « **Reply #2854 on:** July 07, 2012, 10:21:24 AM »

I've worked service, and I've worked corporate, and calling out one day a month for six months is pretty bad business anywhere I've been. If you have some sort of medical issue that may keep you from working, your employer needs to know upfront that it's something that'll come up to make it slightly less likely they'll hate you. If you have the sniffles a lot, there's nothing to do but suck it up.

Niku · « **Reply #2855 on:** July 07, 2012, 11:03:23 AM »

Every time you call in, someone is getting fucked. Usually the person who calls in the least, simply by virtue of the fact that statistically they are more likely to be there to get fucked when all of their hypochondriac coworkers decide they don't feel like working what they're scheduled.

I MAY BE BITTER FUCK YOU

Joxam · « **Reply #2856 on:** July 07, 2012, 11:17:53 AM »

Yeah see that's part of the problem also. You are screwing your co-workers over. It is bad business to schedule more manpower than you need to get the job done so you not being their means that they will be short staffed and strained. I haven't called in at in the time that I've worked at the theatre, not because I haven't had days where I've woken up throwing up and felt like shit all day, but because I have never been in a position where I felt like I could call in without fucking over my co-workers, and I'd rather work with a tummy ache than fuck over people who respect me.

Respect here really is the operative word.

When I worked at Wal-Mart I, quite frankly, didn't give one fuck about the people I worked with or the 'culture' at that place.

Now though, I genuinely respect most of the people I work with, and the people I don't respect are in a position that makes it squarely my job to mold them into workers that I do respect.

You need to find a job you like and take pride in it. You'd be surprised how much having a job you like, instead of one you can tolerate, makes going to work, even when you don't feel like it, a lot easier. Furthermore if you genuinely care about the people you work with, not wanting to dick them over generally fills in all the other holes.

I probably sound like an old man or something I'm sorry.

Shinra · « **Reply #2857 on:** July 07, 2012, 12:43:13 PM »

I'm going to be the voice of dissent here and say that if you get sick often and you take it into work you're an asshole and your boss in anything but the most mom-and-pop short-sighted doomed-for-bankruptcy business is going to hate you if you combine having a poor immune system with spreading germs all over the workplace. One guy toughing it out because all he has is a sore throat is three coughs and a snotty nose away from six people missing work for 3 days because they suddenly and mysteriously all came down with strep throat. If you work for a guy who browbeats you for being sick, chances are good that he is shortsighted and a miserable asshole, fuck off out of there as fast as you can because you are going to be miserable and eventually they are going to fire you at the worst possible time and in the most smug way possible.

When you work minimum wage you can absolutely expect to get jerked around any time you get sick. Same goes if you temp, or you work contract in corporate. The former, it's because minimum wage jobs are usually managed by small-dicked idiots with power complexes who get off on watching people suffer to distract them from the fact that they're 50 and make 26,000 dollars a year telling teenagers how to bake a pizza, and the latter it's because your contract company isn't getting paid the hilariously inflated wage they charge the company they're contracting for - when I worked for Sprint through Alorica, we were paid 9.00 an hour and Alorica was paid 30. Needless to say, it fucked them off when we weren't there to warm seats.

If you want a job you can comfortably take time off with when you're sick, get a job working for a reputable company. Unfortunately that pretty much rules out all minimum wage, all small businesses and any company that makes most of their money off hiring people to work for other people. Good luck!

for the record: I've taken about 20-25 sick days this year (since january 1st) and haven't even had a stern talking to from my manager. Most of those were because of a horrible cyst on my ass bubbling with staph and spraying puss everywhere, but really.

Niku · « **Reply #2858 on:** July 07, 2012, 12:46:50 PM »

I should probably clarify that I also work with stoners.

Shinra · « **Reply #2859 on:** July 07, 2012, 12:53:06 PM »

I should clarify that I got pretty bitter about being yelled at for taking sick days half the jobs I ever worked. Like when I had the worst strep infection of my life, had a fever, migraine headaches, vomiting and on top of that was taking a shitload of codeine based painkillers, and my boss called me a hypochondriac. After I'd been to the doctor to confirm that, Yes, it WAS Strep and Yes, it WAS infectious.

If you're legitimately sick or feel legitimately sick, fuck everyone else in the world, even if you're letting down everybody you work with, your health comes first and no job* is worth that shit.

*(ok Google Breast Inspector might be worth it)

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