Open letter

[mousme]

Dear Boss!Man,

I do feel for you when you say you're tired. We all are, because it's been a rough few months. However, I'd like to point out that you do get most of your weekends off (except when you choose to come in for a few hours on a Saturday, for which you get paid double time), and your shift is from 07:00 to 15:00, Monday to Friday, with no exceptions. You may not get constant vacation time, but you work 40 hour weeks like most regular folk.

Keeping all this in mind it might not be politic to tell the person who's been working for 22 days straight, most of it night shift, a lot of it OT, and a lot of it 12-hour shifts, how many "sleeps" you have left until your 10-day vacation in the south, on a beach. Especially when that person's Christmas vacation got canceled for said OT. Especially when that person has had all their vacation canceled until the end of February, at the very earliest.

See, if you brag about your 10-day vacation on a beach in the sun, the aforementioned person may well feel very tempted to strangle you with your own intestines. We'll do the OT and not complain (much), but it would be nice if you didn't rub our noses in it.

No love,

Me

Comments

[moskevyu.livejournal.com]

With the amount of non-thinking some managers do, it's truly a wonder they're in management in the first place. :oP

[gmarc.livejournal.com]

When you're running the place in a few years, don't do this. :D

MLG

[luvenditti.livejournal.com]

what an asshole! sounds like my union president who, last year, wished everyone a happy vacation over spring break last year. um, we don't GET vacation over spring break.

[rmstmartin.livejournal.com]

Frankly, I think you should take him aside and mention this to him.