Sep 28 2002
It’s only four hours
The telephone rang. I answered it. Big mistake. It was the office calling. They asked me to come in this evening from 5 to 9. Seeing as how two supervisors have resigned in the past month, it seems they are somewhat understaffed.
I should have said “No, sorry, but this is my day off. This is my time. You are not paying me enough as it is, and I know that if I give you four hours of my day off I will never get anything in return. I will never get it back.”
Instead I said “Will you comp the time?” to the manager who called. He assured me that he would. I know it will never happen. I know I am going to give them an extra four hours for nothing. I can be such a pushover sometimes.
My only consolation is that there was nothing good on television, and the s/o is at work, so I basically would have been doing nothing anyway. But that is beside the point. I am going to make them give me these hours back. Really, I am.
4 Responses to “It’s only four hours”
Quit your whinin! Just be glad you have a job!
True, true…. if you wanna call it that!
(Reference my post of 09/23, entitled “Cold Showers”)
That’s not a job, that’s contractual slavery. Seems like there’s a good, solid reason not to work for this company (my favorite so far being the rewrites on the evaluations because they were too positive. Too positive?)
If you don’t get comped for the time, take mini vacations during your work days — you know, just wander off for ten minutes or so every once in a while until you have the 4 hours back.
I can sympathize with your plight. I often get called to ‘help out’ even though said helping out can be at 3 am in the morning.
So I can understand how it feels to be exploited. Yes, dear jackass, it is great to have a job. But it is not great to have a job that takes advantage of you.
Best to your s/o.
-Todd