Employment
Can my boss fire me if I am unable/slightly unwilling to do a task that is in my job description?
Some of you are my LJ friends and may have read part of this on my personal journal, so I apologize for the repeat... but here is the situation:
I am a student secretary working 20 hours a week at my university. I work down campus in the main dining facility called the Marketplace. Every day the MP secretaries have to run the invoices. They cannot be mailed due to how damn slow on campus mail is. So it is our job to collect the MP invoices from the back of the house, and then walk them up campus to the University Center, where all the main offices are. There are three secretaries in the office, including myself, but we are hardly ever working at the same time. We have to stop at the other three dining services locations on the way up and grab their invoices as well. I never really used to mind doing this, even in winter. It was a good reason to leave the office for a few minutes. Now, it is a huge pain in the ass, well... in the TUMMY! It used to only take about 20 minutes total to do the invoices if the sidewalks were clean. By clean I mean free of ice, ect. But now I'm pregnant. And the university is really shitty this year about keeping the sidewalks clean, and we don't use salt up here because its so effing cold that it doesn't work. So now it takes me around 45 minutes to do it, and that's quick. Yesterday it took me an hour and my boss yelled at me for taking so long. But what, I'm supposed to hurry up and run on the icy sidewalks and slip and fall and injure my pregnant self and baby?
I'm only at 17 weeks right now, and I will be keeping my job until the last week of April. I have to do this twice a week, every Monday and Wednesday.
Do you think I can do anything about this? Can they fire me?
Some of you are my LJ friends and may have read part of this on my personal journal, so I apologize for the repeat... but here is the situation:
I am a student secretary working 20 hours a week at my university. I work down campus in the main dining facility called the Marketplace. Every day the MP secretaries have to run the invoices. They cannot be mailed due to how damn slow on campus mail is. So it is our job to collect the MP invoices from the back of the house, and then walk them up campus to the University Center, where all the main offices are. There are three secretaries in the office, including myself, but we are hardly ever working at the same time. We have to stop at the other three dining services locations on the way up and grab their invoices as well. I never really used to mind doing this, even in winter. It was a good reason to leave the office for a few minutes. Now, it is a huge pain in the ass, well... in the TUMMY! It used to only take about 20 minutes total to do the invoices if the sidewalks were clean. By clean I mean free of ice, ect. But now I'm pregnant. And the university is really shitty this year about keeping the sidewalks clean, and we don't use salt up here because its so effing cold that it doesn't work. So now it takes me around 45 minutes to do it, and that's quick. Yesterday it took me an hour and my boss yelled at me for taking so long. But what, I'm supposed to hurry up and run on the icy sidewalks and slip and fall and injure my pregnant self and baby?
I'm only at 17 weeks right now, and I will be keeping my job until the last week of April. I have to do this twice a week, every Monday and Wednesday.
Do you think I can do anything about this? Can they fire me?