Work is it just a vent or am I actually in a questionable environment

[Daft12]

I took a job with a temp agency for a well known company. There was multiple weeks of training with other newly hired which felt like more of a inner city high school because the adults could not behave. They ended up needing to bring in two additional supervisors to bring this class under control. Well now that I man six months into this jobs some of their practices are questionable. First of all if you missed any days at all you must provide a doctors note or get a formal discipline in your record which prevents you from applying for different shifts or with the company during open bids. They regularly cut breaks to 5 minutes they have cut lunches to ten or fifteen or tried to create a environment that if you work through your lunch you will have a better chance of being hired in by the company. One email sent out asked that you don't go off the phones yonuse the facilities I suppose they think this is for your break which may be only five minutes. They recently cancelled previously approved unpaid time off which pp paid for their vacations leaving them scrambling bc now unpaid time off cannot be submitted for approval until 7 days in advance so they cancelled everyone's effective immediately. They humiliate workers by confronting them with their mistakes in front of others and if they were out sick without a Drs note they let everyone else know too bc it's done in the open. They also have mandatory overtime and one girl was written up bc she was off the day they posted it and we cannot access r schedules from home they must believe everyone should contact them on their day off to inquire about that. I was offered employment with them company but I get no credit for my time as a temp so I cannot take a day off for over a year so if my furnace breaks and I need to stay home I won't have that Drs note got which they will then come sit next to me in front of everyone and make your sign a paper and discuss this. Pp are forced to come in sick with fevers or vomiting bc they need the money but cannot afford the Drs bill. From day to day you don't know if you will be their 6 hours and get only two 5 minute breaks or the stand two15 minute breaks. It's non stop call center work. They try to build up a mentality that bc it's a more highly regarding company that if you can't cut it your not worth it. There are more incidences that happen during one group meeting bc there wasn't anything to really talk about the younger make who was heading the meeting asked me how long I was married and I we still slept in the same bed bc a lot of pp don't he knew didnt. There is just so much but when I went for the formality of getting hired on and found out I couldn't take time off without a Drs note or only 7 days in advance with approval if it meets their needs I am truly questioning leaving

 

[Marionnette]

I took a job with a temp agency for a well known company. There was multiple weeks of training with other newly hired which felt like more of a inner city high school because the adults could not behave. They ended up needing to bring in two additional supervisors to bring this class under control. Well now that I man six months into this jobs some of their practices are questionable. First of all if you missed any days at all you must provide a doctors note or get a formal discipline in your record which prevents you from applying for different shifts or with the company during open bids. They regularly cut breaks to 5 minutes they have cut lunches to ten or fifteen or tried to create a environment that if you work through your lunch you will have a better chance of being hired in by the company. One email sent out asked that you don't go off the phones yonuse the facilities I suppose they think this is for your break which may be only five minutes. They recently cancelled previously approved unpaid time off which pp paid for their vacations leaving them scrambling bc now unpaid time off cannot be submitted for approval until 7 days in advance so they cancelled everyone's effective immediately. They humiliate workers by confronting them with their mistakes in front of others and if they were out sick without a Drs note they let everyone else know too bc it's done in the open. They also have mandatory overtime and one girl was written up bc she was off the day they posted it and we cannot access r schedules from home they must believe everyone should contact them on their day off to inquire about that. I was offered employment with them company but I get no credit for my time as a temp so I cannot take a day off for over a year so if my furnace breaks and I need to stay home I won't have that Drs note got which they will then come sit next to me in front of everyone and make your sign a paper and discuss this. Pp are forced to come in sick with fevers or vomiting bc they need the money but cannot afford the Drs bill. From day to day you don't know if you will be their 6 hours and get only two 5 minute breaks or the stand two15 minute breaks. It's non stop call center work. They try to build up a mentality that bc it's a more highly regarding company that if you can't cut it your not worth it. There are more incidences that happen during one group meeting bc there wasn't anything to really talk about the younger make who was heading the meeting asked me how long I was married and I we still slept in the same bed bc a lot of pp don't he knew didnt. There is just so much but when I went for the formality of getting hired on and found out I couldn't take time off without a Drs note or only 7 days in advance with approval if it meets their needs I am truly questioning leaving

Why would you stay?

 

[Happyinwonerland]

It sounds like pretty much every large company.

I'm a nurse. I work 12-16 hour days with usually about 10 minutes break to eat my lunch. I am required to turn in a doctor note for any missed days or face a write up. Large companies have very strict, rigid policies.

The girl that missed a day because she didn't know her schedule is at fault. If you are not at work when the schedule is posted, it is your responsibility to find out when you are expected to be there next. She could have called or gone up there to find out her work expectations

If you need to get things done, you do them on your days off. That's just how most working people have to do things.

Mandatory overtime is becoming common, especially in entry levels positions that dot require much experience or education. If you are in an at will state, you don't have much recourse.

If you truly hate it, quit. No one is forcing you to work anywhere.

 

[Daft12]

Schedules are posted but are changed and if they are changed on your day off and you didn't prepare to come in early the following day and had an appointment etc. you woukd be written up

 

[Daft12]

Most companies including hospitals realize they are employing humans and humans get sick they have occurrences outside of work and pp shoukdnt be threatened by a occasional day off especially when done in front of fellow workers. There is no such allowance here

 

[Daft12]

Most large companies do not operate in this fashion also

 

[Happyinwonerland]

Daft12- yes, companies realize employees get sick. So if you are sick enough to call in they want you to see a doctor.

Like I said before, nobody is forcing OP to work there. There are thousands of companies. If it is unbearable, go somewhere else. Maybe the temp agency hash some leads.

 

[Daft12]

And there are many with degrees as well. It's not normal customary practices in any workplace and sinevofbthise tactics are bullying

 

[HM]

There is no way I'd be looking to take a permanant position with that company. No wonder they hire temps. I need to be someplace where I felt like a person not a cog in the machine. Start looking for new employment or ask your temp agency to place you elsewhere.

 

[Daft12]

I am sure the nurse who has a great respectable profession is working 3 long shifts so she has 4 days off has personal as well as paid holidays is not embarrassed in front of patients or staff unless she put a life in danger and probably has a little more down time in the day to answer texts or search the web or chat with others.

 

[perditax]

Based on your description, it sounds like a call/customer service center. Unfortunately that type of job/department has no incentive to treat their employees like adults, based on what you describe of the way people acted during training.

Two things: First, you can pay your dues and hope you eventually get to work in a different role. But it's a numbers game with that many people, and probably some element of luck or butt-kissing.

Secondly: There's always another job. No, really. I know people get spooked by the 'economy' and whatever. But there's always another job and it doesn't have to be at a mega-corp.

I wouldn't work at that kind of job now. But when I was 21, I *did* work the call-center gigs for a few years. And yes, it did suck.

 

[Daft12]

I have a degree as well

 

[perditax]

Well, it sounds like you know what you need to do, and it's not work at a call center.

 

[SirDuff]

Daft12- yes, companies realize employees get sick. So if you are sick enough to call in they want you to see a doctor.

Like I said before, nobody is forcing OP to work there. There are thousands of companies. If it is unbearable, go somewhere else. Maybe the temp agency hash some leads.

Daft12 is the OP. And, given all the follow-up posts, is obviously looking for confirmation that the environment is questionable (and doesn't want to hear that other places are similar).

 

[Marionnette]

I am sure the nurse who has a great respectable profession is working 3 long shifts so she has 4 days off has personal as well as paid holidays is not embarrassed in front of patients or staff unless she put a life in danger and probably has a little more down time in the day to answer texts or search the web or chat with others.

LMBO! You don't know anything about hospital nursing, do you?

You answer texts and surf the web on your own time, not your employer's. That goes for any job!

 

[Daft12]

I believe there are other places who have these tactics that verge on sweatshop mentality but why when they put time and money into training only to have such a high turnover. Month long paid training than loose most within two months it's senseless

 

[Chaoster]

Sounds like the Post Office. Management tries really had to push and some push back. So its a very hostile work environment. They will push the ones they can intimidate, argue with the ones they cannot and leave the ones alone they are afraid of. We have people quiting every couple of months. I know some cannot quit because some income is better then none. Try looking for something else while you are there. Doesn't sound like a place you would want to work full time anyway.

 

[Daft12]

Most pp would be wriiten up if they gad to submit their own cell phone records to the company they are employed with to prove they are not doing this on company time. Perhaps we will see that day in the future

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Take the job for now & keep looking for something better. What's the worst they can do, fire you? if you're thinking of quitting anyway, why sweat it?

 

[Marionnette]

Most pp would be wriiten up if they gad to submit their own cell phone records to the company they are employed with to prove they are not doing this on company time. Perhaps we will see that day in the future

Because the "everyone else does it" excuse didn't cut muster when my kids tried it, either.

*I'm beginning to wonder if this newbie crawled out from under a bridge just to post here today. Aren't a lot of high school kids beginning their spring break this week?*