A delimna at work

[BFMF]

I've got a problem.

When I was hired at the local grocery store to be a ceurtesy clerk, I told the owners that I had to have part of the 2nd week in June off. they told me, "Not a problem". About a month ago, I filled out a request form for Leave of absence, unpaid time for June 11-14 and turned it in. a couple days later I talked to them and asked if I could specify it as medical leave, because it was very important. again, "Not necessary because it was not a problem". Last Thursday, I went in and confirmed my time off. Again, "Not a problem".

Saturday evening I went in to view my schedule for this week, and to my surprise, they have me down to work friday and saturday! I talked to one of the managers and he wrote a note asking them to change my schedule and posted it on the owner's office door last night. But now, even at 11:30 this morning, my schedule has not been fixed and i'm supposed to leave day after tomorrow. I'm almost to the point of screaming out of frustration.

This bi-yearly doctor's appointment is down in Portland, Oregon on friday. My mom already has the time off, my appointment has been confirmed, and sleeping arrangments have already been taked care of. I can't easily cancel my appointment because to re-schedule has to be done several months up to a year in advance

[Craig.]

hey andrew if you filled out the form and the manager has said its ok for you to go, then go, especially if its something important, its their screw up let them deal with it.

[BFMF]

THe thing with a ceurtesy clerk is that if you're supposed to be gone and you're scheduled to work anyway, you can't just leave because that shift HAS to be taken care of. It's not like an office job where you can just go.

Anyway, I went into town and finally got it fixed. So after I work tomorrow, I don't have to work for the rest of the week.

But what a hassle

[Craig.]

glad to hear its sorted, rather tight that they arnt paying your for time off or did you ask specifically, where i used to work if it went down as time off in advance you would be paid for it

[loomex]

for the future, get it in writting. You ask for the time off, put it on a piece of paper and when they say no problem, have the person initial the paper. Its just a basic CYA

[denishc]

 A bit more of CYA, get a written release from your doctor, just incase your employer wants to be a real moron about this.

[Fly2e]

Posted by: Andrew N.P. Esselbach Posted on:
This bi-yearly doctor's appointment is down in Portland, Oregon on friday. My mom already has the time off, my appointment has been confirmed, and sleeping arrangments have already been taked care of. I can't easily cancel my appointment because to re-schedule has to be done several months up to a year in advance  

Andrew, When it comes to something as important as your health, the broccholi can wait!!!
If you have plans with your family, there are rooms booked and doctors expecting you......
They will find somebody else to fill in.  You come first,.. the ...."Spill in isle 11, can wait!"  ;D

Dave  8)

[ozzy72]

Andrew you've just learnt one of the most important lessons in the adult world, here is the Ozzy dictionary definition;
Manager - a mindless jerk who is more stupid than a bowl of potato salad and is in charge of you, responsibilities include blaming everyone but themselves, spending hours scratching their head/ass/genitalia and making little charts and holding meetings to show how busy they are! 'Nuff said.
Oh and here is a happy fact for you the word busy is pronounced the same way as the Hungarian word buszi (which means serious Elton John/George Michael fan ). So whenever your manager says he's busy sit down on a good stout chair ASAP
Good luck at the quacks.

Mark

[Hagar]

Well, as an ex-manager myself I have to disagree with Ozzy's generalisation of managers. As with most things in life, there are good ones & bad ones - maybe more bad ones come to think of it.

[Craig.]

hey hagar, according to my old manager he pays other people to worry about the staff, now he was an example of a lazy, big ego, useless manager. and he doesnt get any extra brownie points by screwing me out of my job.

[Hagar]

Well Craig, there's managers & then there's managers. I don't know how the average store operates or how well-trained their management is. In my case, if a member of staff didn't turn up for whatever reason I was qualified & quite prepared to do their job myself. I was responsible for training them in the first place. The CEO (or whatever the Boss is called now) would do the same. In fact we could do their job better than they could.  8)

[BFMF]

glad to hear its sorted, rather tight that they arnt paying your for time off or did you ask specifically, where i used to work if it went down as time off in advance you would be paid for it

We don't get any paid vacation leave untill I've been there a year. In my case, i've been working there for 2 months

[BFMF]

for the future, get it in writting. You ask for the time off, put it on a piece of paper and when they say no problem, have the person initial the paper. Its just a basic CYA

That's a good idea, thanks. What i'll do is give them the request form, have them sign it and then make myself a copy