I hate policies at work

[NS_scaper]

I got a msg to day at work that my husband called and I had to call him back it was an emergency. So get off the phone in personal time and call him on the cell. He got a registered letter today about our house insurance being cancelled I know I paid the bill but it was late he says I have to go to the insurance brokers office and see what's going on. I say can't you call them. no I have to go in to the office. so I think ok I have sick time! come back to my desk to sign out (I'm crying by this time)someone asks if every thing is ok I say yes just some insurance stuff call the absentee line and say I'm taking sick time. I go to the insurance office and as I thought they have my money and will be reinstating the policy shortly I get back to work an hr or so later and the absent form is on my desk so I take it up to my sup to sign and they say is it "really" "family care" time? Yes family emergency. I get back on the phone and am speaking with someone who was wondering where I was so I tell them. someone else overhears and comes to me to say that since it wasn't really family car time I now have an unexcused absence and a blemish on my record!!! boy am I upset!!!

[Nicola]

:hug: Appeal it. Make a stink. Don't let them push you around.

[Spedoinkel]

What kinda crap is that?

[NS_scaper]

What makes it worse is a lady down the row from me went to bc for 2 weeks didn't get one of her days as vacation and used her sick time for that day. They didn't make a fuss about that at all.

[malachilenomade]

It should be family care time... it's about the house you live in, your family lives in... that's family care. What if the house burned down? Are you expected to be in the next day?


We were purchased by a corporation last year and now a bunch of people have started SERIOUSLY backstabbing each other in an attempt to climb the corporate ladder. The worst one was one sales woman who backstabbed our original company CEO/Co-Owner... the backstabber is the backstabbee's neice!!! :rolleyes: Gave her the damned job! Never asked questions and was grooming her to be in a higher position in the company before it got bought... nope, knife in the back, thanks Auntie! :no: (Thankfully, I'm pretty much untouchable :yes: I work alone and no one wants my job :) Well, maybe one person, but no one is dumb enough to give it to him because he's an idiot and everyone knows it)

[AgentSun]

what kind of idiot comes up and goes "that's not really family care time"? i mean, what kind of immature bickering is that? people who want to make other people miserable just because they are too makes me mad. just cause your life sucks, don't rain on my parade! sorry you had to deal with her, NS_Scaper. i think she should've just left you alone.

[NYPinTA]

I ditto the 'appeal it, and make a stink' because that's just ridiculous. It wasn't like you skipped out to get a frozen smoothie! It was an emergency! :grr:

[Clarsax]

I know work policies all to well, and I can sympathise. I'd say try to appeal. Good luck. :hug:

[NS_scaper]

It was a guy that came up and said that isn't really family care!!
I tried to appeal but it is still unexcused........ now they will be watching to see if i do it again, what a bunch of frelling ........

[Clarsax]

I'm sorry to hear about that. Try not to let it get to you too much.

[NS_scaper]

I'm ok i just have to be more careful who i talk to and what i say and that is just too bad!!

[Nicola]

NS_Scaper,

I am so sorry this happened, but I would suggest you document everything. Exactly what happened. Timeline, who you talked to, who talked to you. This is probably an isolated event, but you need to make sure that everything you did and said is backed up... 'cause sometimes these things can come back and bite you on the ... well - somewhere sensitive.

And I still have a hard time comprehending how this was NOT family care time. Do you have documentation that spells out what family care time is and is not?

[NS_scaper]

I'll have to double check there has been some shuffeling in the job that monitors such things so ........