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I've had a bad week. it started Monday when I came to work and learned that a coworker lost her 16 month old nephew over the weekend. He had snuck off somewhere while his family was unloading groceries, and checked out a coy pond. He liked looking at the fish. His family found him there. He had drowned.
Because our society favors organizations over the individual, this Co worker couldn't get bereavement leave because the family link wasn't close enough. She had already used up all her personal time, vacation and sick days and she couldn't afford going without pay.
I don't know if she will be going to the.funeral or not, but the whole experience left me devastated and a horrible taste in my mouth.
Gisele needs swim lessons but now I am so terrified with the thought of her near water. I need to empower her though, give her the tools to live if anything similar we're to happen. I can't stop thinking about that poor boy. And I can't stop stewing over how an organization can be so distant from their employee needs. Sometimes I think the organization worries too much about their own needs and severely neglects the needs of their employees.
I tried talking to one of the hr analysts here and while she was sympathetic, she reacted with institutional coldness. She told me that the line must be drawn somewhere.
That made me so mad. Let me count the ways organizations have crossed the line with individuals and the expectations orgs have of their employees, but the lack of loyalty when the tables are turned. I have personally witnessed that sudden lack of loyalty when I needed it most and after I thought I had proven my loyalty to the organization.
Families matter. Sometimes I think our society doesn't give a fuck because family values don't equal highest profits.
My Co worker has to fight for a breast feeding room at my work. In an org of over 300 employees and several pregnant women, hr hasn't provided a mom room. And when it gets brought up, management scoffs at the need. Male management, might I add, which makes me sad.
Because our society favors organizations over the individual, this Co worker couldn't get bereavement leave because the family link wasn't close enough. She had already used up all her personal time, vacation and sick days and she couldn't afford going without pay.
I don't know if she will be going to the.funeral or not, but the whole experience left me devastated and a horrible taste in my mouth.
Gisele needs swim lessons but now I am so terrified with the thought of her near water. I need to empower her though, give her the tools to live if anything similar we're to happen. I can't stop thinking about that poor boy. And I can't stop stewing over how an organization can be so distant from their employee needs. Sometimes I think the organization worries too much about their own needs and severely neglects the needs of their employees.
I tried talking to one of the hr analysts here and while she was sympathetic, she reacted with institutional coldness. She told me that the line must be drawn somewhere.
That made me so mad. Let me count the ways organizations have crossed the line with individuals and the expectations orgs have of their employees, but the lack of loyalty when the tables are turned. I have personally witnessed that sudden lack of loyalty when I needed it most and after I thought I had proven my loyalty to the organization.
Families matter. Sometimes I think our society doesn't give a fuck because family values don't equal highest profits.
My Co worker has to fight for a breast feeding room at my work. In an org of over 300 employees and several pregnant women, hr hasn't provided a mom room. And when it gets brought up, management scoffs at the need. Male management, might I add, which makes me sad.