I was just laughing at the absurdity in robocop rouge city where a corporate announcement says “reminder, a gunshot wound is no longer basis for time off unless it requires overnight hospitalization…”
“… for time off without an approved request two weeks in advance.”
You need to let them know, need to find someone to cover for you, and need a manager to approve the request.
Having a job where you’re responsible for dealing with a cover gives me the work ick.
Bro, I’m sick. Take the L and live without me, nothing is my problem today. I can’t live on pins and needles about going in when I’m dying just because I can’t find a replacement. Or being terrified that my day off might belong to someone else who needs cover.
That’s just a hostile workplace imo. The instant I feel like shit I instantly don’t gaf at all. Just calling to say I won’t be there is already annoying and work-like enough.
Granted I’ve only had jobs where I was a replaceable cog (well, mostly replaceable-made myself pretty knowledgeable) so it wasn’t like I had individual-specific responsibilities and clients that would be put out or anything.
But work life balance kinda depends on not having to only get sick when someone else feels like voluntarily covering. That shit is oppressive af in my eyes.
I literally quit over that kind of thing, on top of a bunch of other issues.
Got really sick on a Tuesday, but I had my laptop and was able to push myself and work half the day before passing out and sleeping 18 of the next 24 hours. I had let my boss and coworkers know I would be trying to work, but was sick and may not be able to do much. Because I slept so long, I was not awake prior to my start time the next day. I was then berated during a meeting with my boss a month later because I didn’t let them know I was going to be sick for a second day.
What the fuck am I suppose to do, set an alarm to ensure I wake up in the morning to send a “Hey, still fucking sick.” message? If the last thing you hear from me is that I’m sick, chances that it will be true the next day and that is an easy assumption to work off of. Perhaps having no backup to my position, which I had been pushing for since the interview for the job, was a shit plan!
I handed in my resignation the next day; that kind of de-humanizing outlook on employees is not worth the pay.
berated during a meeting with my boss a month later
A MONTH later. I’m willing to bet it didn’t even impact anything, and boss wouldn’t even have remembered it happened at all if they didn’t scribble it down in their little black book.
Good job getting the heck out of there.
I had a boss like this too. Would never just talk to me about any concerns, they would act like everything is fine and then suddenly blindside me with a laundry list of petty complaints they’ve logged over like 4 months.
All it proved was they spent more time side-eyeing my work and spying on me than doing their actual job. When they weren’t wandering off to the other side of the building chatting up other management about nothing, for hours on end, while I handled their job too, alone every day, of course.
Not all people are bad. But the intersection between stupid and evil tends to converge in management.
What is a request for time off? I am informing you I will not be there. There is no request.
Request denied. We are informing you that should you choose to ignore your contractual obligations by neglecting to perform, we will be forced to recover any potential damages because of your actions through binding arbitration. We thank you for being part of the Amazon family and your continued dedication to our family.
Mark as spam
- laughs in america -
Exactly.
What wonderful country do you live in and can we all move there?
I think its called “the Rest of the Western World”
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If only workers could band together and use their collective bargaining powers to improve their treatment.
But this is how the socialists and commies win!!! Oh… Wait… Yeah
The taft-hartley act already subdued them.
If they can just ignore money regulations with cryptocurrency, then we should make a wildcat strike coordination app. Somehow.
They won’t protect unions at all anymore, so we have no incentive to cooperate with the state. It’s become purely a tool of the wealthy. (🌎👨🚀🔫👨🚀?)
An Amazon spokesperson told HuffPost on Friday that the denial was due to an error in Scott-Windham’s time off request and said she has the company’s “full support.”
What sort of reasonable “error” could possibly deny something like this?
It’s the “we didn’t expect the news to pick this up and start reporting on it. We don’t want this kind of bad press” error.
Really though it does sound like a retarded mistake I don’t think anyone was sipping on a whisky, smiling and hitting the deny button.
It’s clearly an automatic deny button.
You understand how thats worse right?
Yep
The sort of error that only occurs when it might become bad PR.
The small error that when they decided to violate FMLA laws, they didn’t realize anyone was watching.
“Bad, bad, BAD, naughty mega-corp!! That’ll be…$5000, megacorp, due immediately!..Or next business quarter whichever works for you!”
–The justice system, probably.
I don’t know how Amazon works but I imagine it’s some sort of form submission and she chose the wrong option.
Don’t think that makes it okay, time off requests should be considered by a human who actually interacts with the employee, in my opinion, but I can see it happening. Dealt with that when I worked for Walmart. I definitely got a few days off that I submitted through the automated system online and have no idea if anyone ever approved.
My entire impression of HR at amazon warehouses is HR is there to onboard new hires and occasionally act as an equivalent to t1 tech support. You go to the amazon worker subreddit and about half the posts talking about a problem have comments like ‘yeah just call corporate HR they’ll fix it’ because onsite HR fucked something up.
edit: Also worth noting, that same subreddit is pointing out that medical leave of absence is always approved by default with 30 days to provide proof so yeah she probably put in for the wrong type of leave.
Most people who have worked at an amazon warehouse will tell you the same story: yes amazon sucks, no not for that reason in the news. Amazon was the 2nd best warehouse I’ve worked at, but that’s more a condemnation of the industry than praise for amazon.
It’s a PR lie to save face.
The same thing insurance companies say when people go to the media about them.
She made the error of neglecting to go public.
“The wrong amazon is burning.”
- quoting some comment I read somewhere
If you still use Amazon, you’re supporting this kind of capitalism
Unfortunately it’s very difficult not to support Amazon indirectly because they make a lot of their money from AWS, which a large fraction of the internet runs on.
don’t let perfect be the enemy of evil. punching back a behemoth corporation whose policies actively hurt people is significantly better than just letting them steamroll you.
better late than never, cancelled my subscription last week!
Thankfully I’ve managed to buy any sorta niche stuff I needed from literally anywhere else.
A cursory glance at Amazon revealed it’s basically a bloated corpse stuffed with trash at this point.
I’d put more trust in careful Ebay shopping to avoid straight-up fakes anymore.
This is one of those open and shut FMLA violations that even shitty companies can’t get away with though and they know it.
The lady will be canned one way or another once they get back to the office because they violated some bullshit policy about how you can’t talk to the press or some bullshit. Will probably take a couple months and involve a PIP for “poor performance”
Very few Amazon warehouse workers qualify for FMLA. They intentionally have a system designed to use up people and spit them out in just under a year so they don’t qualify.
There are entire industries of low-skill jobs that intentionally try to keep worker retention low to keep from having to comply with labor laws.
If she’s been there less than a year or worked under a certain number of hours in the last year she doesn’t even qualify for FMLA.
I wouldn’t be surprised if an AI handled the schedule.
I mean, yeah it would be on brand to change out a handwritten program that says “If request(leave): deny()” with an AI.
You can’t make this shit up. Reality is so horrible, especially with mega corporations.
As soon as I read “Alabama”, somehow the rest of the news became unsurprising.
Same but “Amazon”.
I wonder how many lawyers are offering her their services? Because that sounds like a slam dunk lawsuit if I’ve ever seen one.
Slam dunk how?
What employment laws are they breaking?
Is Alabama. She’s got no chance
It’s a federal law they’re breaking. The state doesn’t matter.
Is it America? Is it an at-will state? Where you can be let go at any time, for any reason. Corporations over people. COP. All cops are bastards. All corporations are bastards.
See, it all works out in the end.
We are all bass turds.
Fish shit in the water. Totally unsiftable. Totally fucked.
God save America.
From itself.
This, brought to you from Canada. Who is about to be next in the new global fascist “catch and release” system.
Catch democracy, release democracy.
Like a parent with an errant child. And the parent is too lazy or incompetent to stop the child from hurting itself. And bringing the parent down with it.
Oops.
/rant
Good rant. Sorry from this side of the border, I still can’t fully believe so many of my countrymen voted for the villain
From the article:
“The Amazon warehouse where she works originally denied her request for a leave of absence, but the company said in a statement Friday that they’ve since spoken with her and given her time off with pay.
“We wish her a full recovery and look forward to welcoming her back to work once she’s able,” said Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel.
Yep, all you need to get reasonable time off is for your specific plight to make national news…
Remember remember the 4th of December…
Bezos needs her to suffer more
That’s what their fans are field with. Liquified Human Suffering (LHS).
