...to continue with the story...
One fine sunny Friday, I walk into the office...earlier than usual, looking forward to the weekend and eager to get to work! Without warning my sails were deflated faster than you can say "what just happened here?"
I'm taken aside by a co-worker, a great gal, who says to me "have you heard?". I had no idea to what she was referring, so I asked the obvious question...with a lump in my throat..."heard about what?"
"There's a staff meeting this morning," she tells me. "Oh, okay, what about?" I ask. "No idea", she responds. Although it souded ominous, nothing happened for another 15-20 minutes; finally "the meeting" begins.
The boss starts by asking those of us who were assembled, "where is 'Lina'?" Noone answered. She then launches into a tirade about how this person never showed up to any of the staff meetings, was always late...and how she just didn't know why she kept her around. This gal was one of the two long standing, loyal employees. The room fell silent, as noone knew what to say first off, and second, I imagined most were thanking their lucky stars they weren't the topic of conversation that morning.
Just as quickly as she began her tirade about 'Lina', she started playing these obnoxious 'jingles', so that we could giver her our opinions on which ones were best representative of her company, etc.
...to make a long story short we sere there for over an hour, listening to her disparage a co-worker, and enduring the jingle session.
We finally received our assignments, loaded into the company cars, and headed out to tackle our day!
Before we'd driven a mile, the most tenured employee says to me "you know we didn't get paid for that hour right?"
"Excuse me" I respond!
She went on to tell me that although we're required to be at the office ten minutes to the hour each morning, we're not actually paid until our vehicles pull out of the drive!
This is regardless of how long it takes the boss to prepare our assignments for the day, or whatever other inane excuse she dreams up to prevent us from leaving at the designated time of 8:00 AM.
We're also not paid for the time we spend loading our cars up with the required cleaning supplies/equipment to comlete our assigned homes.
I ask the obvious question, "why then must I be at the office prior to 8:00 AM?"...I'm told "because the boss says so!"
Now lets discuss lunch/break time!
LOL, what break time?
On any given day whether we've worked from 8-7, or 8-4 (no kidding folks), we don't dare take more than one 20 minute break. If we do, then the boss gets on the 2-way and berates one, or all of us...yeah, she really knows how to motivate the employees!
...to be continued
POST A COMMENTFreedomringer(08/01/2006)
This woman is into control. She has no idea that control is a fleeting, non-existing, amibigous verb. If I were you I would take my 15 min break and if she did not like it I would tell her to take her jingle and shove it. This woman in her previous life was probably a slave master. She gets her jollies from trying to control other people. What she does not know or possibly can not understand is; the only thing you can control is yourself and sometimes I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut. I would have probably been fired by now if I was working for her! I hope you can find something better and soon! I am sending you all the mojo you need to handle this control freak. When you depart from this horrible job, please give this woman a piece of your mind. Burn that bridge to the ground.
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