The black cloud continues…
Got in to work today and first thing I see in my work mail is “2nd Tardy” - stemming from being late to work yesterday. I nearly walked off the job right then and there.
I told my boss (in email, of course, so it’s all documented) that I thought a tardy citation happened if one is 20 minutes late. She said no, it’s 10 minutes, and told me to examine the new policy.
Well, I looked all over the network for the policy and couldn’t find it, so I wrote back to ask why we weren’t GIVEN the new support policy. She wrote back saying she TOLD us verbally where to find the policy.
Well, you know me and my memory… so she told me again and I went and found it. Tardy = 10 minutes late.
I then saw something else in the support policy:
Illness and Personal Emergencies
Please notify your manager and [the HR Lady] by 10:00 a.m. if you are taking a sick day. As a general rule, employees get an unlimited number of paid sick days during the year. Sick days may be taken when you are too ill to report to work or when you have an ill dependent that needs care for the day. Employees will be expected to make up any work missed when out sick.
So I again wrote to my boss, “Why have I not been eligible to use the sick days for my medical condition?” to which she replied, “Unlimited sick days was being abused by the Support and Sales team, so that policy you pasted below does not apply for Support and Sales.”
Lovely, eh? Friggin lovely. At least I have it in writing.
Other shit that’s been pissing me off at work is that we moved next door - we moved in with the sales team. Everywhere I’ve ever worked, the sales team are a bunch of slimey pigs - both men and women - they are filthy and lack all sense of morality. That’s why they’re sales people. You need that type of …animal to keep your business running. They are notorious for making a raucous party out of any work gathering, of sleeping with each other even (especially?) if already married to another person (one couple was caught by the janitor in the janitor’s closet during a christmas party at a dotcom I had worked at), and of being generally filthy in the corporate kitchen and bathroom facilities.
So the first day in the new building two weeks ago, I went to prepare my lunch on my break, and when I opened the microwave door, UGH!!! Crusted, filthy splatters COVERING the entire inside of the microwave!! So I went next door and used the microwave. I complained and by the next day, facilities had cleaned the microwaves.
The refrigerator in the sales building is also a wreck - shoved full of peoples’ containers and bags of food that’s been in there since before we moved over, taking up space. And then last Friday,
Yesterday, I went into the bathroom downstairs, which is THEE saleswomen’s bathroom (the support team works upstairs and has their own bathroom), and found two problems - a bright pink capsule laying on the floor. No idea what it was - probably a diet pill. I threw it away. And the free-standing soap container was empty. So I reached for the soap container affixed to the wall and EWWW! The end of it was crusted over with BLACK MOLD! And some soap had dripped from that filthy end onto the sink countertop, leaving a pink soapy and black mouldy mess! GRRROSSSS!!!
I went in there today and there’s STILL no soap in the free-standing soap container and the black mold is STILL festering on the tip of the wall dispenser.
Next up is that on both floors, one has to practically break one’s hand trying to lean on the toilet handles and waiting for those suckers to flush.
I swear, they’ve moved us into substandard housing.
I’ve reached my limit with that place. I had a realisation that my one year with that company doesn’t actually hit in October - it won’t hit til February next year. I started as a temporary employee sent in from an agency in October, so for ME, I’ll have been in that nasty hellhole for a year come October. But as a full time employee, my 12 month anniversary is not til February.
Trust me, I WON’T stick around for my one year as a full timer.