This is your official permission to stop being productive for one minute. If you have been reading my pieces for a while, then you know how much I love Friday and the weekend. I mean… we all do… but there’s something that I always crave when it’s the middle of the week. I’m not sure …
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Categoría:time off
Hospital Denies Employee’s PTO Request For Her Sister’s Wedding 6 Months in Advance, Approves Assistant Manager’s 3 Week Vacation Instantly: ‘I’m The Maid of Honor.’
How do they know that they’ll have a staffing shortage in six months? PTO can be such a contentious issue in already contentious workplaces. If your company is functioning well, an employee should be able to take off any days of the year they please with the paid time off they’ve earned. If they’ve earned …
Seguir leyendo Hospital Denies Employee’s PTO Request For Her Sister’s Wedding 6 Months in Advance, Approves Assistant Manager’s 3 Week Vacation Instantly: ‘I’m The Maid of Honor.’
Elderly Employees Ask Coworker Why He Was Out Sick For 2 Days, Won’t Stop Asking Until He Answers With Specifics: ‘Were You Sick, or Just Feeling Down?’
Why is it any of their business what was going on with him on his sick days? When you call out sick from work, there are really only two kinds of responses you can get from your manager. They will either say, «Get well soon!» or, «Are you really so sick that you can’t come …
Seguir leyendo Elderly Employees Ask Coworker Why He Was Out Sick For 2 Days, Won’t Stop Asking Until He Answers With Specifics: ‘Were You Sick, or Just Feeling Down?’
Company accuses employee of taking excessive time off on his first day off of the entire year: ‘I’ll be using all my time to handle the complex estate my grandmother left behind.’
He takes the same days off every year, and now it’s a problem? Few things are more annoying than your company micromanaging your time off. It’s one thing if your minimum-wage service job doesn’t have a concrete time-off policy, and you call in at least once a week for «personal reasons.» Failing to show up …
Seguir leyendo Company accuses employee of taking excessive time off on his first day off of the entire year: ‘I’ll be using all my time to handle the complex estate my grandmother left behind.’
Company denies leave request sent in 6 months prior, claims they’ve run out of PTO after draining it for closure days
Should your company get to drain your PTO without warning? Your time off is precious, and it should be used exactly how you want it to be used. You don’t want to have to run every last thing by the people you work with. After all, your life is your own, and you should be …
Seguir leyendo Company denies leave request sent in 6 months prior, claims they’ve run out of PTO after draining it for closure days
Boss denies employee’s leave for father’s memorial service: ‘It was an undue stress on the team’
Should you have to constantly justify your personal life to your boss? Asking for time off can be a personal thing. You don’t wanna have to constantly explain yourself to the people that you work with. You want to live your life in a way that your employer understands, but doesn’t have a part of. …
Seguir leyendo Boss denies employee’s leave for father’s memorial service: ‘It was an undue stress on the team’
Boss asks night-shift worker who works 70hrs/week to miss their son’s soccer game because they can’t find coverage
Where do you draw the line when it comes to work-life balance? «Work-life balance» is one of those phrases that we hear all the time, and probably don’t really understand what it means. because it’s different for everyone. Everyone in different eras of their life has different comfort levels with how they spend their time …
Seguir leyendo Boss asks night-shift worker who works 70hrs/week to miss their son’s soccer game because they can’t find coverage
Boss threatens to fire employee over non-refundable family trip they were notified of 8 months prior, offers them $500 as compensation: ‘Why does my being away for 8 workdays cause a complete meltdown?’
8 months notice is plenty of notice. Unless you’re the boss in this story. Scheduling a vacation can be a stressful thing. There are a lot of pieces of the puzzle to figure out, and it’s hard to get everything aligned at once. Once you do, you want to do your best to lock it …
Seguir leyendo Boss threatens to fire employee over non-refundable family trip they were notified of 8 months prior, offers them $500 as compensation: ‘Why does my being away for 8 workdays cause a complete meltdown?’
Pharmacy fires employee, tells remaining employees that they’re not allowed to take time off: ‘I’m afraid I‘ll lose my job if I ask to take a few days’
What would you do if you couldn’t take any time off? Time off is essential. It’s part and parcel of the employee experience, and you need to be able to use it to your advantage. No matter if you’re hourly or salaried, you want to be able to take the time that you need to …
Seguir leyendo Pharmacy fires employee, tells remaining employees that they’re not allowed to take time off: ‘I’m afraid I‘ll lose my job if I ask to take a few days’
Employee gets no coverage for long weekends off, is expected to cover for colleagues taking 2-3 weeks off at once
Should you get to use your time off however you please? When work gives us time off, we should use it however we want to. We likely don’t get enough of it anyway, so we should feel free to use it in a way that suits our needs. We should use it to support our …
Seguir leyendo Employee gets no coverage for long weekends off, is expected to cover for colleagues taking 2-3 weeks off at once