Son Of Boss, and Salary hijinks....

Big deal. Half an hour is the kind of time that slips by if you're
not a chronic clock-watcher. Meanwhile, the original poster has been
strangely silent on the subject of his vacation time.

I do agree that dumping in extra unpaid time is a sucker's move.
Also, extra time is an exceedingly poor measure of a worker's
dedication and effectiveness.

 

First off, remember he should have used his vacation days during his fathers
funeral. Then there would be no issues. Sometimes people need to use there
head before losing it.

 

Just so I'm clear on this, taking extra days from the employer is a big
deal, giving them
extra days back is not?

True enough but it does add up to 15.5 days a year, I doubt the employer
would
be so dismissive it were a 1/2 hour wasted and costing him 15.5 days per
year.

I don't see how its relevant, maybe its different in the US, but most
employers don't expect you
to use vacation time to bury a parent.

True enough, I am of course taking this fellow at his word and since he
commented that the boss
told him that he was pleased with him directly his dedication or work ethic
doesn't seem to be an
issue.

Further to your point though, I have worked at places where employees come
in on weekends, stay late etc just so the bosses see them "putting in extra
time." Meanwhile they are surfing the net, screwing around with Photoshop
etc. and once the boss goes home they are out the door like a shot.

 

Yeah because nothing says "vacation" like burying a parent.

Sounds like you should have been born in the Dickens era.

 

I recently experienced this one. I pointed out that SolidWorks was
still rebuilding the whole time I was in there and they let me off the
hook.

There was the addendum to this notice thast prunes would no longer be
served in the lunch room.

 

No , unlike you i know how to use my head. Also its the workers
responsibility to figure it out not the bosses. It sounds like you come from
a idiot union mentality.

 

This is facinating stuff ... Don't you guys in the USA have contracts of
employment? All this stuff should be agreed and in writing before you ever
started working with these companies. In Europe this is like a time warp
going back to the Victorians. To accept these conditions and vacation
entitlements you must be getting paid one hell of a lot of basic salary.

Roger (UK)

 

CONTRACTS? Naw, man, that's a Europe thing & very unusual here. I saw
that when I worked for a French company, but it was never offered to me.
Them Frenchies protected their own, dumped the Americans when the economy
tanked. Nah, not on this side of the pond, we're too "pro-business" for
that silly nonsense. Churn'em & burn'em is how it works over here. But we
(usually) get to make more money if you can survive the ups 'n' downs.

oh, that's funny. contracts in the US

I'm_Curly_Today

 

"Using your head" isn't going to stop the death of parent, somethings are
beyond
one's control. Expecting an employee to use vacation time to bury a parent
is
draconian and assinine.




Also its the workers

Figure what out? Did you even read the orignal post?


It sounds like you come from

Not at all, unlike you, I'm not a sucker.

Just like employers ask their employees to give extra when the business is
in trouble,
it is not at all unreasonable for employees to ask for the same in
situations like this. Jobs
come and go, but you only have one family, most employers (and human beings)
realise this.

I guess that hasn't dawned on your pre-industrial revolution mind yet, go
back to sweeping
chimneys.

 

2 options I see are:

Pull a gypsy flip in the wherehouse and take them for everything they
are worth.

Get a job with the EPA and shut them down cause you know where are the
skeletons are buried


Respect