On the whole it is an ok job so I am not in the pit, they really annoyed me lately. I am a salaried employee and have worked for this company for just over a year. we get 5 vacation days that accrus on our 6 month anniversary, 5 more that accrue on our 1 year anniversary and every year after that on our anniversary date we get 2 weeks. So far so good. (this is by the way a multi-billion dollar company with sites all over the world.) No sick leave or personal time either. So my company acquired the account I work on about a year and half ago and every one spent a year working really long hours and working a lot of holidays and weekends to make the new customer happy, which they are. The problem comes in with the time after the quarter closes whcih are very hectic and we try to pull forward every bit of business we can. this leaves not as much work for some of the time. In january after a spectacular year end, the company asked us to each take a vacation day so they money for running the plant came out of a different bucket. Ok so I give them a day of the 5 I had so far. I had already planned to take 2 days in March and 3 days in July which leaves 4 days to last me until the following April. Except they came around in February and asked for another day. and then they annonced last week that we would be closed on july 1 and july 2 and we had to turn in vacation time requests. Now I want to take off again next march so I told them I didn’t have any more to take it was all earmarked. Oh No they say That’s ok we will let you go into negative numbers and when you accrus more next April we will take that. But we will have to turn down any further requests you turn in because you won’t have any time left. So I trot down to the HR office and ask about this. she says yes it isn’t Adhemars vacation time, it is Com[any’s vacation time and we can tell you when to take it. Tehy are doing this because there are some bozos that work there who never take “official leave” so they have accrues all of this vacation time that is sitting on the books. They don’t have time to search out those folks and make them take their time so they are taking my time that I havne’t even earned yet. I dint’ think to ask them what happens if I quit oweing them time, but I would bet it comes out of my last paycheck.
To make matters worse, I can’t plan to go out of town on a long weekend like Labor day because there will be emergency shipments I ahve to cover and I will lose whatever money I paid. this happened several times last year. I made plans and then couldn’t go becaue I couldn’t be sure I could make and receive phone calls to track shipments. Grrrr. Argh! Stupid job. I need to win the lottery, the big one.