I work for a government agency. I’m required to give my state agency 35 hours per week, 7 hours a day. I’m salary, so if I work overtime I don’t get extra money. I do get 1 hour of vacation for every hour extra I work. The catch to get that OT is you have to have worked 35 hours that week. If you take PTO or call in sick during the week you did ot, you won’t accrue that bonus pto
past period I had 14 hours of PTO scheduled. Earlier in the week I did 4 hours of OT over 2 different days to make sure all duties were taken care of because I’m doing the job of 3 people right now. I checked with the payroll people, and they said it was ok to remove/save 4 hours of PTO since I worked 4 OT on different days. Basically, I save 4 PTO hours in exchange for not getting credit time for the OT I did.
Cue my boss. He refused to sign off on my time sheet. According to him, every work day must have 7 hours accounted for, doesn’t matter that you have OT time on other days. This was a direct contradiction to what payroll said was ok. FUCK YOU PAUL. I will never work a single minute of OT for you ever again. Shit doesn’t get done? I’m all out of fucks. Fire me when I am the only one running shit. End rant.
Did you actually tell Paul that you had already cleared it with payroll? I’m assuming you did, but you didn’t say that you did.
Yes, I did. I spoke to payroll after this happened, and they offered to have our legal team reach out to Paul. I told payroll I didn’t want to rock the boat, and that in the future I would just not work OT. I said if they want to educate Paul regarding time/attendance/payroll policies they should not do so on my behalf. (I work in a human resources, this shit is in our handbook. I’m not taking action related to this issue until I have a new job. I’m looking.)
A sensible person for once. I always read about people who quit their job or go make trouble, BEFORE they’ve found alternatives. It doesn’t make any sense
Sometimes, burning a bridge lights the way forward. I have rage quit jobs before and had new jobs within 2 weeks - 3 months. I always have $ saved for expenses, so even my rage quits had contingencies in place. Aside from this one thing, which pissed me off, this is the first time I have ever felt angry here. I am being overworked, but I’ve gotten sizable raises in appreciation. This is a good enough job that I haven’t reached a point where I’m willing to throw it all away.
It sounds like the problem is Paul, not the organization. Why not rock the boat a little bit if he’s violating company policy?
Because a new boss could be worse than the current boss, and I don’t want a target on my back. It’s chill here otherwise.
Yes, but if you like it and are advancing, then you could stay. If the next boss is same or worse, the option to leave is still there, but the jobs market may be better by then.