The latest way in which I have been completely fucked over by my employer
Tomorrow is Veterans' Day. All the government employees have it off, paid. They are prohibited from working due to their being no budget for overtime.
I don't have it off. At least not paid. I am also forbidden from working, unless I can come up with work that doesn't require users. Which I means I am required to use my own leave to take off a day which I am being required to take off.
This mightn't be a big deal if we didn't get an absurdly small amount of leave. As it is, if one of the kids or I get the flu, I'm fucked. I am at risk of not being able to make my rent. I can't afford to lose another day off of my already low leave levels.
We get no sick days.
If I had known, before today, that they were going to do this, I wouldn't have busted my ass to get the annual hardware inventory done, solo. I wouldn't have catalogued and tested every printer in storage and repaired the broken ones. I wouldn't have cleaned out the fans of every computer in the building. I wouldn't have completed dozens of projects, and then made up more and completed those as well. I would have saved SOMETHING for tomorrow.
Instead I am being punished for overachieving. Fortunately, I had several printers break today. Maybe I can stretch them into eight hours.
Something tells me that I'm not going to bother to overachieve anymore.
I don't have it off. At least not paid. I am also forbidden from working, unless I can come up with work that doesn't require users. Which I means I am required to use my own leave to take off a day which I am being required to take off.
This mightn't be a big deal if we didn't get an absurdly small amount of leave. As it is, if one of the kids or I get the flu, I'm fucked. I am at risk of not being able to make my rent. I can't afford to lose another day off of my already low leave levels.
We get no sick days.
If I had known, before today, that they were going to do this, I wouldn't have busted my ass to get the annual hardware inventory done, solo. I wouldn't have catalogued and tested every printer in storage and repaired the broken ones. I wouldn't have cleaned out the fans of every computer in the building. I wouldn't have completed dozens of projects, and then made up more and completed those as well. I would have saved SOMETHING for tomorrow.
Instead I am being punished for overachieving. Fortunately, I had several printers break today. Maybe I can stretch them into eight hours.
Something tells me that I'm not going to bother to overachieve anymore.