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Boss really pissed me off.

ni4ni

ni4ni

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My grandmother (raised me since I was 2) had a stroke so I took off work Wednesday evening. I work Security for a small hospital. My facility boss seemed a little upset but he found a replacement.

Advance to Thursday. I saw my boss from the corporate office. He said, "I am sorry to hear about your grandmother. I hope she gets better. But understand, if something happens and she was to pass away, we would still need you to come in a work since it is New Years. We will give you grieving time next week."

I was shocked.

Just needed to get this off of my chest.
 
Originally posted by: ni4ni
My grandmother (raised me since I was 2) had a stroke so I took off work Wednesday evening. I work Security for a small hospital. My facility boss seemed a little upset but he found a replacement.

Advance to Thursday. I saw my boss from the corporate office. He said, "I am sorry to hear about your grandmother. I hope she gets better. But understand, if something happens and she was to pass away, we would still need you to come in a work since it is New Years. We will give you grieving time next week."

I was shocked.

Just needed to get this off of my chest.
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That's pretty bad. Sorry about your grandmother. Hope she recovers.
 
That sucks bad. About your grandmother and your boss. Hope your grandma recovers.

Sidenote: Rants tend to be longer 😉
 
The importance of family is unmatched by anything else in my life. I would drop everything and have no problem even telling a sole I was leaving to go be with my family in a situation like yours.
 
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f your boss.
 
Originally posted by: Mike
The importance of family is unmatched by anything else in my life. I would drop everything and have no problem even telling a sole I was leaving to go be with my family in a situation like yours.
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yeap
 
I would look for another job. I have been there, while working for K-Mart and CompUSA where they tell you no matter what, you need to come in, there is no such thing as being sick unless you are dead. So unless you're dead, you need to be here and if you call in sick, you're gone. That is what I call stupid. In most corporate companies they allow you sick days and emergencly leave for situations like this. You call in and say hey my grandmother died or is sick I need to take a sick day and they don't even question it. They don't say "Well you better bring in a doctor's note otherwise, you're fired."
 
Originally posted by: Nocturnal
I would look for another job. I have been there, while working for crap jobs where they tell you no matter what, you need to come in, there is no such thing as being sick unless you are dead. So unless you're dead, you need to be here and if you call in sick, you're gone. That is what I call stupid. In most corporate companies they allow you sick days and emergencly leave for situations like this. You call in and say hey my grandmother died or is sick I need to take a sick day and they don't even question it. They don't say "Well you better bring in a doctor's note otherwise, you're fired."
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Originally posted by: Nocturnal
I would look for another job. I have been there, while working for K-Mart and CompUSA where they tell you no matter what, you need to come in, there is no such thing as being sick unless you are dead. So unless you're dead, you need to be here and if you call in sick, you're gone. That is what I call stupid. In most corporate companies they allow you sick days and emergencly leave for situations like this. You call in and say hey my grandmother died or is sick I need to take a sick day and they don't even question it. They don't say "Well you better bring in a doctor's note otherwise, you're fired."
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When I worked for Wal-mart, they weren't this bad. I was able to take off when she had surgery.
 
Originally posted by: Nocturnal
I would look for another job. I have been there, while working for K-Mart and CompUSA where they tell you no matter what, you need to come in, there is no such thing as being sick unless you are dead. So unless you're dead, you need to be here and if you call in sick, you're gone. That is what I call stupid. In most corporate companies they allow you sick days and emergencly leave for situations like this. You call in and say hey my grandmother died or is sick I need to take a sick day and they don't even question it. They don't say "Well you better bring in a doctor's note otherwise, you're fired."
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Our company used to give people three paid days off for just about any death in the family but now it's restricted to immediate family only. Other than that you must use vacation days. And only because people were badly abusing it, which sucked. And what really infuriated me is that when they changed the policy, the abusers were the ones whining louder than anyone else about the "raw deal" and "uncompassionate" company.

We had people saying "Hey, my Aunt Margie died and I will need to take funeral leave. She lived in (Alaska, Puerto Rico, anywhere that was far away) and I need to be gone for a week, so I'll take my three funeral leave days and use two vacation days." Then they'd brag about how they were able to get a week's vacation but only get charged for two days. One guy had three "deaths" in a year and all of them were in Colorado in the winter (he went skiing).

Literally, because of about two dozen people who kept abusing the system, they changed the policy for the entire company of over 1,000 people.
 
Originally posted by: kranky
Originally posted by: Nocturnal
I would look for another job. I have been there, while working for K-Mart and CompUSA where they tell you no matter what, you need to come in, there is no such thing as being sick unless you are dead. So unless you're dead, you need to be here and if you call in sick, you're gone. That is what I call stupid. In most corporate companies they allow you sick days and emergencly leave for situations like this. You call in and say hey my grandmother died or is sick I need to take a sick day and they don't even question it. They don't say "Well you better bring in a doctor's note otherwise, you're fired."
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Our company used to give people three paid days off for just about any death in the family but now it's restricted to immediate family only. Other than that you must use vacation days. And only because people were badly abusing it, which sucked. And what really infuriated me is that when they changed the policy, the abusers were the ones whining louder than anyone else about the "raw deal" and "uncompassionate" company.

We had people saying "Hey, my Aunt Margie died and I will need to take funeral leave. She lived in (Alaska, Puerto Rico, anywhere that was far away) and I need to be gone for a week, so I'll take my three funeral leave days and use two vacation days." Then they'd brag about how they were able to get a week's vacation but only get charged for two days. One guy had three "deaths" in a year and all of them were in Colorado in the winter (he went skiing).

Literally, because of about two dozen people who kept abusing the system, they changed the policy for the entire company of over 1,000 people.
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the squeaky wheel gets the grease and one bad appl ruins the bunch
 
A real boss would cover your shift himself if he had to for you to be with your grandmother. I would have told him to go f himself.
 
America is the looser internationally in leave time. I'd love to have it like most countries do. Many industrialized nation's workers get much more than the normal 2 weeks off. If companies would give you 3-4 weeks off a year there would be little reason for these policies and people trying to circumvent them.
 
Originally posted by: episodic
America is the looser internationally in leave time. I'd love to have it like most countries do. Many industrialized nation's workers get much more than the normal 2 weeks off. If companies would give you 3-4 weeks off a year there would be little reason for these policies and people trying to circumvent them.
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In my company, past 29 years of service you get a grand total of just shy of 9 weeks of leave. This is on top of 3 days of grievance leave, 5 family days, special leave, etc.

I personally, with just under 6 months with the company, get 4 weeks of leave with all the family days and such still. We all get 15 days of sick leave a year, up to 10 taken without a doctor's note required.

People still abuse their sick leave. However...I don't see abuse of family days or grievance leave.
 
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