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I left work early for me today, at 5. I was pissed off beyond measure...now I'm in the "fuck it" mode. It's not worth it. Last week I received an email from my corporate HR person after she had left the building that day for union grievance meetings.
The basis of the email was requesting more information on a termination I had done that she forgot to gather herself while she was there. At the bottom of the email she politely informed me that I had 75% more union grievance terminations then any other building, and I had filled my quota. I brushed it off. I figured if she didn't have the "balls" to tell me in person fuck it.
Over the weekend a nursing assistant was suspended by the supervisor for not giving care to her patients. Falsifying patient records that she had showered them and also had been found sitting in a room on her cell phone. According to THE company rule books this is negligence and of course falsifying legal records. Both grounds for termination.
Well I emailed my corporate HR person with the info and what I was going to do, fire her ass and she sent me back an email basically saying she was not happy with my decision. She asked if she had anything else in her file.
This person was a transfer in from another facility a year ago. I know I have given her 4 disciplinary actions in the past year myself. So going through her file, which consisted of the previous facilities disciplinary actions I find that she had been terminated there two weeks before "transferring" to my facility.
So their stupid ass HR person processed a transfer with references on a terminated employee. Hello.
Now my pissed off meter blew a gasket. So I fired off an email to the HR corporate yahoo and told her I was highly upset because if her department had been doing their jobs I wouldn't be in this spot of being damned if I do and damned if I don't.
Within minutes I received an email response from her with two words in it: Do it. Yeah..fucking right I'll do it.
Don't you just hate it when someone tells you how to do your job, when they can't even get their own down? Dipshits.
Ahh...one other thing, 20% of my yearly bonus is based on low turnover rate. Guess that just sucks for me..don't it? Now I can be a little slow on the get go here....but doesn't seem to you I can be highly rewarded for not doing my job? Assholes.
I'm done now.
Sounds to me like you are just doing a good job. Somebodys got to make a decision and go with it. Thats the problem where I work. Nobody can make a decision because of all the red tape. As it's said "No good deed goes unpunished"
Posted by: greybiker at November 11, 2003 09:59 AMI was always stuck between the "can't increase headcount" and "eliminate overtime" conundrum.
The only way to accomplish both was to leave the job unfinished and THAT was not an option.
Hang in there.
Posted by: LittleA at November 11, 2003 01:50 PMSee, I’m the union guy who pushes the grievances through concerning terminated employees. I can’t tell you how many hours I’ve spent in meetings with management and the hr department concerning the caliber of people they decide to hire and the lack of disciplinary action taken towards those who screw the pooch six ways from Sunday.
I don’t mind making sure that the company minds it’s p’s and q’s when it comes to dealing with employees but what I absolutely hate is when the company hires complete fuckups and when said fuckups do what fuckups do; that is fuckup, they blame the union.
That being said, I also hate it when the union goes to bat for every fuckup. Someone gets shit-canned and it’s an automatic grievance with step meetings and the slow march to arbitration even if the fuckup deserved to be shit-canned and the company crossed all it’s t’s and dotted all it’s i’s. It is these cases that I DON’T take on because, in my opinion, it makes the union lose credibility. If the executive committee insists on pushing one of these lame grievances through they can do it without me.
Thankfully, the last few years, the union has chosen it’s battles more wisely. In fact the union has even started going to management to point out problems with certain employees; blowing shifts, showing up late, etc. but management refuses to do anything about it. How ironic is that?