As some may have heard I was fired from my company last Friday. 
What truly sucks more is my roommate was also from another company. Guess the saying of when it rains, it pours is true.
Anyways here are the events that lead up to it. Just wondering if anyone founds this unjust.
My company has in affect a unlimited personal time policy that is based off the managers approval. During the months of May - June of this year I took a good number of time off. This ranged from a few hours here, to a day or so from time to time. All of this was approval by my manager. In addition all time was made up, there was not a time since I worked there that I did less than 80 hours. This time off was to help my girlfriend (of 4 years) with her dad in the hospital, and my aunt who just got out of a 2 month coma after a doctors mistake. Pretty legit reasons I do believe.
Fast forward to November-
HR got wind of this and said that it was unaccepted and put me on a warning basis. This had some conditions-
*if sick bring in a doctors note
*Make sure to call in at least 1 hour before arriving late
*Any full days off was to be given with a 24 hour notice.
*Work 8:30-4:30
This was to last one month.
Not a problem, adhere to it exactly expect one time. Was sick so said I would be one hour late. HR said a doctors note was required, but I convinced them that it is not feasible to ask that. Instead of being 1 hour late, I would be up to 4 hours late (time to make a doctors visit, see them, and get to work)
So they changed it to bring the note the following day; fine.
Then on last Wednesday I was 15 minutes late, which I called ahead way before due to HEAVY traffic. Manager said fine.
HR however disagreed. Two days later they made the decision to fire me based on that.
Now my complaint is where HR has the right to over right the policy that the manager has approval of time off. More importantly where to they have the right to get rid of someone who is filling a key vital position. We were to start work on an audit that if not done by Feb, would cost the company 2 million. It was barely manageable with the three of us, it is now near impossible with 2.
It seems to me that they are trying to set a example out of me, in regards to next year where they are in control of the time off.
Going to talk to my VP this week, as this simply seems to cross the boundaries that they set in place early in the year.
I loved the company and group I worked for, but now unsure if I would take the job back if it was offered. Just don't want to see them get away with these types of actions. This comes from a HR that ranks extremely low in employee surveys. They say they have a open door policy that you can walk in and speak with them, yet no ones badges opens that door. They also rarely show up till around 10am. This is not representative of a large corporation.
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Though something good may come out of it, and I should be able to find a job more keen to my degree and skills.
What truly sucks more is my roommate was also from another company. Guess the saying of when it rains, it pours is true.Anyways here are the events that lead up to it. Just wondering if anyone founds this unjust.
My company has in affect a unlimited personal time policy that is based off the managers approval. During the months of May - June of this year I took a good number of time off. This ranged from a few hours here, to a day or so from time to time. All of this was approval by my manager. In addition all time was made up, there was not a time since I worked there that I did less than 80 hours. This time off was to help my girlfriend (of 4 years) with her dad in the hospital, and my aunt who just got out of a 2 month coma after a doctors mistake. Pretty legit reasons I do believe.
Fast forward to November-
HR got wind of this and said that it was unaccepted and put me on a warning basis. This had some conditions-
*if sick bring in a doctors note
*Make sure to call in at least 1 hour before arriving late
*Any full days off was to be given with a 24 hour notice.
*Work 8:30-4:30
This was to last one month.
Not a problem, adhere to it exactly expect one time. Was sick so said I would be one hour late. HR said a doctors note was required, but I convinced them that it is not feasible to ask that. Instead of being 1 hour late, I would be up to 4 hours late (time to make a doctors visit, see them, and get to work)
So they changed it to bring the note the following day; fine.
Then on last Wednesday I was 15 minutes late, which I called ahead way before due to HEAVY traffic. Manager said fine.
HR however disagreed. Two days later they made the decision to fire me based on that.
Now my complaint is where HR has the right to over right the policy that the manager has approval of time off. More importantly where to they have the right to get rid of someone who is filling a key vital position. We were to start work on an audit that if not done by Feb, would cost the company 2 million. It was barely manageable with the three of us, it is now near impossible with 2.
It seems to me that they are trying to set a example out of me, in regards to next year where they are in control of the time off.
Going to talk to my VP this week, as this simply seems to cross the boundaries that they set in place early in the year.
I loved the company and group I worked for, but now unsure if I would take the job back if it was offered. Just don't want to see them get away with these types of actions. This comes from a HR that ranks extremely low in employee surveys. They say they have a open door policy that you can walk in and speak with them, yet no ones badges opens that door. They also rarely show up till around 10am. This is not representative of a large corporation.
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Though something good may come out of it, and I should be able to find a job more keen to my degree and skills.
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