I just pencil in that I was on time and keep on truckin...Im my own boss.

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they don't care


BUT take me for example ....

THe official work day is 8 to 12 14 to 18


I usually come in around 7.30 .... regurlaly work between noon and two ..... and I leave usually around 19


so if one day I'm late 3 hours they don't care ..... or if I randomly need to take a day off it's no biggie ( not that it isn't a big issue for our production at work ... but that's another matter ).


I get to leave, be late whenever I want but I make up for it big time with all these crazy ( unpaid ) extra hours I put in....

they DO care and i get fired relatively quickly if i fuck up. it's a point system-

1 point for being absent (but called in before shift)
.5 point for being late 4 hours or less (called in or not)
2 points for no call/no show

6 points and you're fired. no sick days, no excuses, that's what vacation is for, or so they say.

I am threatened with write-ups all the time, but my boss never follows through with them... yet.

More than 5 minutes late though, and someone is on my ass.

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On More than 5 minutes late though, and someone is on my ass.

fuck we're supposed to be at our station by the time the bell rings, ready to work, so if we punch in even ten seconds late it's considered "late." half point. bunk shit.

That is excessively lame. I'd be looking for a new job, if I were you. Flexibility with management in most aspects of a position is one of the most important components of working, to me. It's practically on the same level as pay rate.

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Originally posted by tubularbills unless you are coughing up blood, vomiting, or having explosive diarhea (sp?) you're expected to stay at work (i.e. no going home sick because of a headache or something simple like that). as far as calling in sick, you better have the same items as above, or be in the hospital.

haha... that was definitely the truth...

i left work to go to the doctor one day b/c i had a 102 fever, this was only after telling my boss at 530am in person that i was sick... i had to tell him face to face and then it was his call to let me to go the doctor at 7am...

the Army doctor put me on 24hr quarters, but not before my boss made me MC a ceremony before 100 people and 3 Colonels... i felt special to get the rest of the afternoon off...(technically i was allowed to leave, but in my boss's eyes since i was there i might as well take one for the team and stay a bit)

broken colarbone and broken foot was just a 30min leave to get the doctor to write me a profile explaning why I wasn't allowed to do PT (physical training) as if each cast wasn't enough...

but yeah like Will said... 30 days paid vacation a year and whenever there is a federal holiday the military goes ahead and makes it a 4-day... so i guess that means like 40+ paid non-hoiday days off a year and there are also Passes which are days off that your boss allows that wont count against your given 30 days off... and i was able to use 10 of those this year... and those 30 days of regular leave do rollover..

both this year and last i took 60+ paid days off..(my days ON though this year though were 5am-7pm mon-fri and 5am-2pm sat, excluding the nights we had to sleep out in the field)

but that was then... pre-out of Army status...

with scheduled raises/promotions regardless of performance (pratically unless somebody died), free full health care, and extra pay for living expenses and rent,... 80% of the military get even extra pay each year for uniforms and for having kids/dependents...

I know i rambled on about military perks... all of it wasn't worth it... I'd rather go back to Iraq than be in the Army state-side...

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On That is excessively lame. I'd be looking for a new job, if I were you. Flexibility with management in most aspects of a position is one of the most important components of working, to me. It's practically on the same level as pay rate.

that's not such a bad idea now that you mention it. i've been laid off for the last three weeks too. hm. just gotta find something that pays as well as this one..

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Originally posted by UWM Oh and I get 25 vacation days and 25 sick days a year, plus 12 paid holidays, not too bad!

holy shit, that's like 3 months of paid time off (if you took all the sick days).

we only get 6 paid holidays, and 4 sick occurences (which basically means if you're sick for a week it only counts as 1 occurence, so you can do that 4 times per year if you need to).

i'm just happy that i get 15 days of vacation starting this October. yay for staying at the same job for 5 years. only thing that's been consistent in my life for that amount of time since i was a kid, lol.

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Originally posted by Omega_Blue that's not such a bad idea now that you mention it. i've been laid off for the last three weeks too. hm. just gotta find something that pays as well as this one..

It's so easy to fall into a submissive position at the workplace...I know all too well. Don't sell yourself short though - that's honestly what success means, to me at least. It's not really too important how much you make (within reason, of course) but whether you enjoy your job or not. On that note, people who say things like do what makes you happy in life really irk me, haha. Like, it's not so easy to land a great job that pertains to your exact interests in life - trying and all that is cool, but being content with the job you have is not such a terrible fate at all.

Not many people deserve to be stuck at a job that they absolutely loathe going to each day. You're likely not one of them. :P

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On It's so easy to fall into a submissive position at the workplace...I know all too well. Don't sell yourself short though - that's honestly what success means, to me at least. It's not really too important how much you make (within reason, of course) but whether you enjoy your job or not. On that note, people who say things like do what makes you happy in life really irk me, haha. Like, it's not so easy to land a great job that pertains to your exact interests in life - trying and all that is cool, but being content with the job you have is not such a terrible fate at all. Not many people deserve to be stuck at a job that they absolutely loathe going to each day. You're likely not one of them. :P

i don't like to bitch about my job because it seems to be the only thing i'm doing lately. anyways i'm in debt and i'm taking a semester off to get that shit taken care of. this job pays the most i've ever been paid before so i want to stick with it. HOWEVER, it takes me an hour to get to work, and i have to wake up at 4:30am every morning soo...

also, unlike 90% of you who posted in this thread, i don't work in a cubicle or whatever. factory work ftl. so no, i don't enjoy my job, but it's the only thing i have experience in (and is therefore hard to find a different, cleaner job). vicious cycle.