I'm freakin mad, gotta vent. Has to do with work
 

This makes me wanna bite nails...

Last week the wife kept on and kept on about going to St. Louis to Six Flags with the church. I asked one of my bosses on Monday if I could go on Friday and he said ask again later. Well I asked again Thursday and he said it was fine because NOTHING was going on. Well I went ahead and went on the trip. It was hotter than a preacher in a whorehouse, but that's another story.

Anyways, on Friday while we were gone I was on my cell phone the whole way up there trying to buy rice. (That is what I do, purchase grain from farmers) Well I ended up buying 150,000 bushels of rice. More than I have ever purchased from one farmer at a time. Just imagine a $384,000 deal being sealed while I was on my "Vacation" I'm on salary by the way, not hourly.

Well I get back to work today and a stupid SECRETARY calls me and asks why I didn't let her and the OWNER know I was going to be off on Friday? I said I told my main boss and he okay'd it. She told me I was out of vacation days, and that she was going to deduct 8 hours from my paycheck...I was like yeah whatever, and then called my boss. He says well you were out of days, so we have to deduct you.

I'm like WTF?? I just sealed the biggest deal of my career and you a$$holes want to punish me for it, because I wasn't in the office?? A 40 hour week would be nice! How about more than 60 at times and never less than 45. And how about the times on weekends when a farmer calls me on my cell and I happily assist him, even when I don't have to? They wanna deduct 8 hours from me...WTF would you do that when I was working?

Plus I was promised a raise 3 months ago and never got it...

Anyways, nobody will probably read this, but I just had to vent.

Got to love being salaried... It's pretty pathetic when a concept for high payed execs gets twisted so that it is now used to wring 15-20 extra hours of work a week out of the rank and file without paying them overtime. Been there, done that. Sorry man, that sucks.

Time to find a new job dude. That's not right.

Hey, I read it man...and I feel your pain...I am gearing up to have a yelling match with our "accountant" who is also in charge of our vacation time...I took last Friday off and she came in while I was gone and yapped at my boss because I took a day off an did not "fill out the paperwork"...yet I had my boss's approval...she told him that she was gonna dock my pay....well, that b-atch is got another thing comming to her if that happens, because I am too, on salary and I put in 45+ hours every week....and topped out last week at 78hrs....I am not gonna put up with bull**** like that either...

So here is a beer for ya...cause I sure as hell could use one too: :beers:

Sucks dude, I really like my job. I really really liked it before but the old company was bought out by a new one, and I've been the red headed step child every since.

wstahlm...went to six flags dude...it was a hot sumbich. Went in the arch while the game was going Saturday :rocker: The arch is cool.

Get this...A$$holes made me sign an "Agreement not to compete" when I went to work for the new company after the merger. So I'd have to find a new line of work, which is kinda hard in this part of the world. They got me by the sack kinda.

Not all "agreements" are ironclad when brought up in court...seems to me like buying rice is your lively-hood...how can a court in their right mind keep you from your lively-hood that has provided for you and your family?

And yes....it is a hot son-of-a b-atch in the STL area...102 yesterday...I spent the weekend in Bull Shoals, AR and it hit 106 (not including the heat index)! :eek:

And don't get me wrong...I love my job and where I work...I just get frustrated sometimes at how things are done...I like to keep things simple and sometimes things are so bueracratic around here that I just want to break things....but the good news is it never gets to a point that I have to vent in that way when it comes to work...cause I just drive down the road and have a beer... :beers:

Number one, ask them about comp time off for the overtime you have worked. Mention that you will check with the Labor Board if necessary. Number two, non-competition agreements are not worth the paper written on. Even if they decided to spend the money for legal process to go after you, most times it is decided in the favor of the worker. You can not keep a person from earning a living if he is trying to be gainfully employeed in the field he knows.

See I've thought about comp time. I don't know if it would do me any good since this is an agriculture industry? I know farms don't HAVE to pay overtime, but I didn't know if a grain elevator could get out of it or not. I WILL mention this though.

I just figured since I signed that agreement they could make it stick. And what if they did come after me...Lawyers, court...AHHHH. I'm thinkin worse case scenerio here, which can happen. I'm not a court kinda guy. :mad:

I need to check in with the rules and regulations of the labor board myself...I intend to have a sit-down talk with our general manager about my situtation in the next week or so, and if I had federal regulations/mandates to back up my argument...the better.

Yeah man, we're in the same boat sounds like.

Well, I submitted a more detailed question to the U.S. Labor Board since their site's search feature is not the most productive of features...They are supposed to respond via email...but if it is like anything else that is government, it will be about 4-6 weeks before I get a response...so until then, I will continue to hunt through all their paperwork in hopes to find something relative to my situation.

Okay, don't keep a brotha in the dark! I'll see what I can't drum up too.

Tell me about that *****...

My boss busted my arse for coming in at 3:07 PM when I was due at 3:00 PM- even though I ROUTINELY worked 60-hour work weeks, never took a lunch break, attended her planned and impromptu meetings that took place during my off hours, not to mention her calling me during my off hours to ask about this issue or the issue- all with courtesy & professionalism.

Then she's like- just because you're a MGR doesn't give you special privleges... B!tch started calling me at 2:59 to make sure I was in my office... I bet if I started goign home at 12:00, no matter WTF was going on in the shop; that would be a problem too... Don't expect me to work 10-12 hours a day on the back side- if you can't front me the extremely rare 7 minutes on the front side...

Meanwhile her @$$ takes 90-120 minute "lunch-breaks" and comes back with "Dillard's and Foley's" bags bragging about sales that she's caught...

Like I give a "F"...

No offense to women in the work place...but it seems like this b!tch is on a powertrip... :mad: