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[star seed 7]

Starting to dabble in this.  Went home at 2 yesterday unannounced.  No one has said anything yet.

I do this a lot. For the most part I can make my own schedule though. I have 5-6 deadlines a month and as long as I hit those deadlines no one cares about anything

[420seriouscat69]

I have crap PTO.  It sucks.  I can't wait to get out of here for that reason alone.

When my mom was fighting through her cancer this year, they let me stay at the hospital all week without docking me anything. It was pretty amazing. They knew I had used a lot for my wedding and honeymoon too and they wanted to be with me through that time.

[Emo EMAW]

Since I drew this special elk tag I wanted to take an extra week off unpaid.  My boss didn't know how to do that so I went to HR.  They were gutless, said "have to check with corporate."  They basically came back and said no.  I asked for copy of employee handbook.  "We don't have one."  "We're a seven billion dollar company without an employee handbook?  "Yes."  What's the policy on paternity leave?  "Two weeks.  I think it's two weeks.  Yes, I think so."   

[420seriouscat69]

 

[IPA4Me]

Lol. That's nuts.

[star seed 7]

Lol

[Tobias]

we sure don't appreciate elk hunting time like the danes do

[Asteriskhead]

hahaha

[Mikeyis4dcats]

Since I drew this special elk tag I wanted to take an extra week off unpaid.  My boss didn't know how to do that so I went to HR.  They were gutless, said "have to check with corporate."  They basically came back and said no.  I asked for copy of employee handbook.  "We don't have one."  "We're a seven billion dollar company without an employee handbook?  "Yes."  What's the policy on paternity leave?  "Two weeks.  I think it's two weeks.  Yes, I think so."   

if you're an exempt employee, short of firing you there isn't much they can do about it.

[Emo EMAW]

This isn't the Danes.  That was my old job (which I miss, which had an employee handbook, 4.5 weeks of vacay, 2 weeks paternity, basically awesome, but was underpaid probably).

[Tobias]

that's why i typed what i did

[Emo EMAW]

Ah, right.   

[CNS]

Starting to dabble in this.  Went home at 2 yesterday unannounced.  No one has said anything yet.

I do this a lot. For the most part I can make my own schedule though. I have 5-6 deadlines a month and as long as I hit those deadlines no one cares about anything

DO NOT GIVE THIS UP TO BE A PM!

[star seed 7]

Super boring tho

[Emo EMAW]

Since I drew this special elk tag I wanted to take an extra week off unpaid.  My boss didn't know how to do that so I went to HR.  They were gutless, said "have to check with corporate."  They basically came back and said no.  I asked for copy of employee handbook.  "We don't have one."  "We're a seven billion dollar company without an employee handbook?  "Yes."  What's the policy on paternity leave?  "Two weeks.  I think it's two weeks.  Yes, I think so."   

if you're an exempt employee, short of firing you there isn't much they can do about it.

Ya I ended up taking off some days anyway.  Got sick.

[CNS]

Super boring tho

Find several things outside of work that you like and dig in, or go work somewhere smaller where you can be estimator and a PM on projects. 

PM, in my experience, can swing you to the far opposite end of the spectrum for pretty similar money. 

[Mrs. Gooch]

I'm posting this in here because it reminded me of all you guys who can get away with not going to work.

[420seriouscat69]

I'm posting this in here because it reminded me of all you guys who can get away with not going to workwho don't work, but get a paycheck.

Fixed your post

[CNS]

Complete misuse of tealizard

[michigancat]

Holy crap at emo's company

[halfEmpty]

The bureaucracy of my company sucks (80,000+ employees so to be expected), but i do get 5 weeks of PTO, 8 holidays(1 floating, so can be used just about any day), 2 weeks of paternity, and every other friday off.  So I can't complain about that.

[Emo EMAW]

@michigancat, we were having an ISO audit, and mgmt found out we weren't following our own standards/procedures, so they went and obsoleted everything that they knew we weren't following.  Because I guess it's better not to have a defined process than to know you're not following a defined process.  I found this out because as part of a contract requirement I was supposed to send info on some processes to a customer, and I got in the document and everything had big red X across the whole page and the words OBSOLETE.    /  / 

[star seed 7]

Yikes

[kim carnes]

If u guys don't like your job then quit, otherwise the rest of us don't want to hear about it.  Ya know?

[Gooch]

@michigancat, we were having an ISO audit, and mgmt found out we weren't following our own standards/procedures, so they went and obsoleted everything that they knew we weren't following.  Because I guess it's better not to have a defined process than to know you're not following a defined process.  I found this out because as part of a contract requirement I was supposed to send info on some processes to a customer, and I got in the document and everything had big red X across the whole page and the words OBSOLETE.    /  / 

I worked at a VERY mumped up aircraft parts manufacturer and not even those idiots would have tried something this stupid.