icefisherman
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I shouldn't say harrassment, but i can't think of another way to put it. My work place doesn't follow many labor laws, but with the economy the way it is, they pretty much have everybody by the "goods". To give you an idea, the whole pressroom worked 27 12 hour days without a day off in Feb-March. OK, now to the CF side of things. I went back to the doctor about 2.5 years ago after not seeing a doc for a while. So of course first thing he does is puts me in the hospital on IV's. First off i try see if i can work light duty for the 2 weeks. they wouldn't let me, which they don't have to so i'm fine with that. The HR people called and asked if it would be ok to use my vacation time to cover my insurance for my week off. So i did that. So i come back to work after missing almost three weeks, and i am told that i owe them over $300. I withold money for federal, and state taxes, and they didn't take that off for the 3 weeks. So that was a mistake on their part, and it wound up being more than my disability check plus i used a couple days of vacation. So this started my frustration.
I had requested the first week of deer season off, but since I used a few days of vacation, i had 2 days to use. So i took the first weekend off. Then i had to work 15 days strait (still 12 hours). At the end of deer season, my boss was picking on me because i didn't get a deer this year. I told him "its hard to go out hunting when your at work all season". his reply was "it's not my fault your sick so often" I took that as I had to work all those days because i took time off for IV's the month before. Also not everybody was working overtime during that time.
So now it's starting to get into the "harrassment part" (for lack of a batter word). Now we are into the beguining of January, work had slowed down and were were working 3-4 12 hour days a week. I was working mon, tue, wed. My clinic sees people on monday. I requested a day of for an apointment about a month in advance, and when it came to that week i was on the schedule for monday. I told them i requested the day off, and there response was "you have 4 days off a week, re-schedule it when your not working" I told them i see a specialist and they only see people on mondays, there response was "we need you here Monday" So i got PO'ed and said scew it. When it comes to my health, or my job. The job comes first. So i worked Monday.
After this we had our 3-4 weeks strait. After our insane amount of overtime, the work dropped out like somebody flipped a switch. We had a meeting saying that the next month would be slow, there may be lay offs, and anybody not willing to work all the overtime now would go to the top of the lay of list (this was after one guy said that he shouldn't have to work his 14th day). The next day I'm walking into work, and my boss who gave the meeting(actually my bosses boss, i have a lot of bosses lol)walks in with me. He asked how i was feeling, then he asked what caused me to have to go on IV's, and the final thing was "That was a one time thing right?"I lied and said yep. It just didn't feel right after all the lay off talk, but maybe he was just wondering and it had nothing to do with that.
Work is steady again and lay offs never happened, so it all worked out ok. I dunno maybe i'm just getting paranoid. But what defines harassment when it comes to health issues. I would like to know more about these laws, or my rights just incase something happens to my job, i can defend myself a little better.
I had requested the first week of deer season off, but since I used a few days of vacation, i had 2 days to use. So i took the first weekend off. Then i had to work 15 days strait (still 12 hours). At the end of deer season, my boss was picking on me because i didn't get a deer this year. I told him "its hard to go out hunting when your at work all season". his reply was "it's not my fault your sick so often" I took that as I had to work all those days because i took time off for IV's the month before. Also not everybody was working overtime during that time.
So now it's starting to get into the "harrassment part" (for lack of a batter word). Now we are into the beguining of January, work had slowed down and were were working 3-4 12 hour days a week. I was working mon, tue, wed. My clinic sees people on monday. I requested a day of for an apointment about a month in advance, and when it came to that week i was on the schedule for monday. I told them i requested the day off, and there response was "you have 4 days off a week, re-schedule it when your not working" I told them i see a specialist and they only see people on mondays, there response was "we need you here Monday" So i got PO'ed and said scew it. When it comes to my health, or my job. The job comes first. So i worked Monday.
After this we had our 3-4 weeks strait. After our insane amount of overtime, the work dropped out like somebody flipped a switch. We had a meeting saying that the next month would be slow, there may be lay offs, and anybody not willing to work all the overtime now would go to the top of the lay of list (this was after one guy said that he shouldn't have to work his 14th day). The next day I'm walking into work, and my boss who gave the meeting(actually my bosses boss, i have a lot of bosses lol)walks in with me. He asked how i was feeling, then he asked what caused me to have to go on IV's, and the final thing was "That was a one time thing right?"I lied and said yep. It just didn't feel right after all the lay off talk, but maybe he was just wondering and it had nothing to do with that.
Work is steady again and lay offs never happened, so it all worked out ok. I dunno maybe i'm just getting paranoid. But what defines harassment when it comes to health issues. I would like to know more about these laws, or my rights just incase something happens to my job, i can defend myself a little better.