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So yesterday my office BFF told the boss she's putting in her two weeks notice. Boo. I'll miss her but I'm happy for her. He asks her if she thinks I'm going to be quitting soon, too, because we're such close friends I guess. She, of course, says he'd have to ask me. (Which he hasn't.) When she told me I asked her if it was a hope or a fear - that I'd leave. She said he was definitely worried about me leaving, as in he wants me here. Fine. Fast forward to today.


First he sends around this nasty email about how a group of us (every single person in my office) haven't turned in this report to him. That's because all the people in our office thought it was due at the end of the month (as per his secretary). But whatever. He shouldn't have been rude and nasty, considering it was obviously a miscommunication - why else would every, single person in our office have not sent the report yet??


Then I go to lunch around 1:30 am back by 2:30 and I find this note on my chair to talk to him when I get back. So I go over to his office and ask him what he wanted to see me about. He tells me I have to start signing out if I'm going to be gone for extended periods of time. I said, "seriously? For lunch?" He was like, you took a late lunch? Yes. At 1:30? Yes. Well you still need to start signing out. (He gets in at 7, I get in at 9, so we are naturally on different schedules.)


If I wanted punch cards, I'd go work at Wal-Mart. I am a professional in a professional environment. Now I have to account for my every second I'm away from the office for an hour, of which I'm completely entitled? I'm so pissed off right now.


If he wants to make sure I stay here, he's going about it in a very funny way. Sorry for the long rant. Just needed to vent.



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ugh - - - ugh!  i'll have to comment on this later, girl, that's so frustrating!



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Sorry you had a bad day (*cue "The sun'll come OUUUUT to-mor-row!"*).

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That's ridiculous! Doesn't he know that asking salaried employees to sign in/out is against the law?! (It is, isn't it?)

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Oooohhh - is it? That would be awesome. I'll have to do some research on that...

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Sorry for your bad day.  I hope it gets better tomorrow.  Is he always like this or do you think he is in a cranky mood because your friend is leaving?

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Lisa wrote:


That's ridiculous! Doesn't he know that asking salaried employees to sign in/out is against the law?! (It is, isn't it?)


oooh, is it? my job requires us to sign in/out anytime we leave campus.


ETA: I forgot to say that I am sorry your day sucked. Your boss sounds like kind of a tool.



-- Edited by halleybird at 19:28, 2005-10-19

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aww...i'm sorry you had a crap day. tomorrow will be better.


lisa, i don't think it's against the law (maybe it's a state-to-state thing) but i have to sign in and out of my office each day.



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honey wrote:
aww...i'm sorry you had a crap day. tomorrow will be better.
lisa, i don't think it's against the law (maybe it's a state-to-state thing) but i have to sign in and out of my office each day.


I don't think "In/Out" is against the law, but I do think forcing you to include the TIME is, for the simple reason that they are not supposed to track the time of salaried employees. I'll check with my HR pals.

Blubirde, you could always practice passive resistance by simply signing "IN" or "OUT" instead of the time.

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Lisa wrote:

 Blubirde, you could always practice passive resistance by simply signing "IN" or "OUT" instead of the time.
haha - I'm think about writing "running an errand instead of actually eating lunch on my lunch break. will be back in approx. 22 minutes." Too obnoxious?

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blubirde wrote:


Lisa wrote:  Blubirde, you could always practice passive resistance by simply signing "IN" or "OUT" instead of the time. haha - I'm think about writing "running an errand instead of actually eating lunch on my lunch break. will be back in approx. 22 minutes." Too obnoxious?


Not at all--I would totally do that!  It's ridiculous to make a professional "sign out" to go to lunch.  Aren't you working in a law firm??  I don't know anything about it being against the law, but I've never heard of a partner (which I assume he is) making an associate (which  assume you are) or anyone else in the firm, lawyer or nonlawyer, sign out to simply go to lunch!  What a joke.  I've never had to do that nor have I ever worked in an office where any of the staff had to do that.  Your boss sounds like just as much of a tool as mine! 


btw is he making anyone else do that or is he singling you out??  


ETA- edited to take out unintentional italics in above paragraph 



-- Edited by alb at 09:25, 2005-10-20

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