So many people find this out the hard way. Even when my paycheck is short because they ‘forgot’ to pay PTO for a scheduled or call in absence, I never call HR as long as my PTO bank didn’t go down. No good ever comes from being a blip on their radar. Especially as you get old and more expensive to insure.
The problem with that is that quite often protecting you is what protects the company. I’ve worked with a lot of HR people in various sectors, and a large chunk of their job was telling management what they couldn’t legally. do.
I was in an IBEW union a while ago. I was an average employee, but it was like 9 or 10 bucks an hour, so that’s the work they got. I’m not going to bust my ass all day coming home dead, while all I management just walks and talks and sits in meetings all day. They tried to fire me one time and tried to get me to go with them to take a drug test and I said sure who’s car we taking to go do this? Let’s get this over with cuz I still have work to do. They stopped bothering me after that, but I left not long after cuz the pay was shit. But all my coworkers were cool as fuck inner city peeps from NYC.
Friendly reminder that HR is there to protect the company, not you
So many people find this out the hard way. Even when my paycheck is short because they ‘forgot’ to pay PTO for a scheduled or call in absence, I never call HR as long as my PTO bank didn’t go down. No good ever comes from being a blip on their radar. Especially as you get old and more expensive to insure.
The problem with that is that quite often protecting you is what protects the company. I’ve worked with a lot of HR people in various sectors, and a large chunk of their job was telling management what they couldn’t legally. do.
This clearly should have been one of those cases
I was in an IBEW union a while ago. I was an average employee, but it was like 9 or 10 bucks an hour, so that’s the work they got. I’m not going to bust my ass all day coming home dead, while all I management just walks and talks and sits in meetings all day. They tried to fire me one time and tried to get me to go with them to take a drug test and I said sure who’s car we taking to go do this? Let’s get this over with cuz I still have work to do. They stopped bothering me after that, but I left not long after cuz the pay was shit. But all my coworkers were cool as fuck inner city peeps from NYC.
I almost joined the IBEW but it gave mlm vibes.
It kinda felt like they were going to scam me or make me subservient in a culty kind of way.
They are there to steal your labor for profit.