So back in the beginning of April there was this whole thing about my employees wanting to have a "secret meeting" with my boss, Nick, without me
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Nick's attitude towards me only changed last week, and with no explanation.
When I called HR on Sunday they asked me if I had any documentation of our conversation. So I checked in Nick's mailbox to see if he had emailed Mark like he said, and it looked like he had. Before reading it, I clicked "print." He happened to be sitting right next to the printer and saw it and confronted me about "Why did you print this and where did you find it?"
So I let him have it. I told him that Shawn is so angry that he wants to hire a lawyer about this. That Family Comes First, and I feel sorry for anyone who feels differently, but I am not willing to compromise on that and I shouldn't have to make excuses for it. It shouldn't matter if it was my grandmother or Shawn's. We may have 4 more months before we're legally married, but that doesn't mean that we're not family. Shawn's grandmother has been like my own grandmother for the last two years.
It was coincidence that I was there on Friday, in the grooming salon. It was a difficult decision for us to keep Sapphira's vet appointment. That for the last 6 months I have repeatedly heard "Labor! Labor! Payroll! Payroll! Watch your time, no over-time allowed! Take your lunches! Leave On-Time. If you have to be late, try to make it up by leaving early the next day!" Now suddenly I'm expected to take it upon myself to just punch in on my day off without approval? Am I supposed to have a wire-tap on the Salon phone so I know exactly when someone calls off, like a Bat Signal in the sky, so I can swoop in and be the coverage they need? It should have been Maggie's responsibility to help them, not mine, and it was ridiculous that she was alone on a Friday with a task list 5 miles long.
I've worked for PetSmart for nearly 10 years. The motto has always been "Where Pets Are Family." And now I'm being told that I should have put my anxiety-ridden dog in a kennel where she can tear her feet to pieces while she tries to escape, or tether her on the ground until she chews through it and becomes loose. Sapphira is family too, she's my baby. That's why she comes in on my days off for her grooming and vet appointments. She cannot be dropped off safely.
In my ten years, I have rarely called off. In fact, I'm almost always early and I almost always volunteer to stay late. I frequently volunteer to come in on my days off when I am available to do so. In this instance, I'm not asking for 3 bereavement days... I'm asking for ONE day off for the memorial service, and I'm coming in on Saturday (eventhough I have a family reunion to attend that day, which is why I requested it off,) to help absorb some of the business from not being there on Thursday. All of this new talk about "CARE" for associates and pets... And I'm told "It doesn't matter."
Nick himself said that I could do 99 things right, and then the one thing that someone doesn't agree with will be held against me forever. He just did that to me. He told me on Saturday that I basically gave the salon team the middle-finger by not helping them on Friday... And he just did it to me on Saturday by not recognizing that I had family issues to deal with. He said that this could have been my chance to win them over, and I told him that it could have been his chance to let them understand that I am a human being with a life to take care of outside of PetSmart.
I have never been embarrassed to say that I work for this company, until Saturday. And to tell me that Mark agrees 100% with everything Nick said, I'm not sure this is a company I want to work for anymore.
But the truth is that I can't afford to be unemployed. Not only do I have a wedding to pay for, I also have a house, two cars, pets, etc. I can't afford to be looking for a new job.
(I had to keep editing this because I forgot key points, and now it's too long for one comment...)
When I called HR on Sunday they asked me if I had any documentation of our conversation. So I checked in Nick's mailbox to see if he had emailed Mark like he said, and it looked like he had. Before reading it, I clicked "print." He happened to be sitting right next to the printer and saw it and confronted me about "Why did you print this and where did you find it?"
So I let him have it. I told him that Shawn is so angry that he wants to hire a lawyer about this. That Family Comes First, and I feel sorry for anyone who feels differently, but I am not willing to compromise on that and I shouldn't have to make excuses for it. It shouldn't matter if it was my grandmother or Shawn's. We may have 4 more months before we're legally married, but that doesn't mean that we're not family. Shawn's grandmother has been like my own grandmother for the last two years.
It was coincidence that I was there on Friday, in the grooming salon. It was a difficult decision for us to keep Sapphira's vet appointment. That for the last 6 months I have repeatedly heard "Labor! Labor! Payroll! Payroll! Watch your time, no over-time allowed! Take your lunches! Leave On-Time. If you have to be late, try to make it up by leaving early the next day!" Now suddenly I'm expected to take it upon myself to just punch in on my day off without approval?
Am I supposed to have a wire-tap on the Salon phone so I know exactly when someone calls off, like a Bat Signal in the sky, so I can swoop in and be the coverage they need?
It should have been Maggie's responsibility to help them, not mine, and it was ridiculous that she was alone on a Friday with a task list 5 miles long.
I've worked for PetSmart for nearly 10 years. The motto has always been "Where Pets Are Family." And now I'm being told that I should have put my anxiety-ridden dog in a kennel where she can tear her feet to pieces while she tries to escape, or tether her on the ground until she chews through it and becomes loose. Sapphira is family too, she's my baby. That's why she comes in on my days off for her grooming and vet appointments. She cannot be dropped off safely.
In my ten years, I have rarely called off. In fact, I'm almost always early and I almost always volunteer to stay late. I frequently volunteer to come in on my days off when I am available to do so. In this instance, I'm not asking for 3 bereavement days... I'm asking for ONE day off for the memorial service, and I'm coming in on Saturday (eventhough I have a family reunion to attend that day, which is why I requested it off,) to help absorb some of the business from not being there on Thursday.
All of this new talk about "CARE" for associates and pets... And I'm told "It doesn't matter."
Nick himself said that I could do 99 things right, and then the one thing that someone doesn't agree with will be held against me forever. He just did that to me. He told me on Saturday that I basically gave the salon team the middle-finger by not helping them on Friday... And he just did it to me on Saturday by not recognizing that I had family issues to deal with. He said that this could have been my chance to win them over, and I told him that it could have been his chance to let them understand that I am a human being with a life to take care of outside of PetSmart.
I have never been embarrassed to say that I work for this company, until Saturday. And to tell me that Mark agrees 100% with everything Nick said, I'm not sure this is a company I want to work for anymore.
But the truth is that I can't afford to be unemployed. Not only do I have a wedding to pay for, I also have a house, two cars, pets, etc. I can't afford to be looking for a new job.
(I had to keep editing this because I forgot key points, and now it's too long for one comment...)
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