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Re: Why are people so horrible.....
From: anon (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat Jul 13 11:21:08 2002
ARe you protected by a union? Can you contact them and tell them about
the problem. It smacks of workplace intimidation and violation of your
employment rights on several levels. I would have your doctor fax a
more detailed instruction to your boss ASAP (explain to the nurse you
talk to on the phone and make sure to tell her if your job requires
lifting. Tell her what your boss said)
If you are given difficulty about it, you can sue for intimidation and
violation of labor laws.They have organisations that would help you do
that if you ever had to. If it was me, I would complain to corporate HR
about her anyway. I would send a certified letter to corporate HR with
an attached note from the doctor and an explanation of how badly you
were treated. She sounds like a potential liability for UPS.
you are not powerless and your boss sounds like she should not be in a
supervisory position. I am sorry that she is being such a shrew when
you are already stressed as is.
At Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Chiara wrote:
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>Sorry to be venting here, but I dunno where else to rant right now.
>I have 2 jobs...I work days 8 hrs a day for the YMCA doing childcare and
>then at night I work 3rd shift for UPS. I have been reminding my
>supervisors at both places for almost 2 weeks now that I am slated to
>have surgery (lap) at the end of the month and that I will be using my
>vacation time so I don't miss out on pay for the week I will be off
>post-op. Well the Y has been griping about wanting a Dr. letter for
>verification so I finally bring one in which details what is being done
>etc. and one of my sups comes to me today wanting to know why I'm
>taking one of our busiest weeks off when I am only having out patient
>surgery? She then proceeds to say that if I only need the one day she'll
>give me the one day but since the letter from my physician said nothing
>about length of recovery etc or needing time off for such that she
>wasn't sure if she would be able to give me the whole week! GRRRRR!!!!!
>I was mad enough about this but then when I went into my job at UPS last
>night my left side was really killing me. I mean pain so bad I could
>hardly walk much less move boxes and I was going at a snails pace. I
>had wanted to call in but I've already got to many absences. Well my
>sup. there...a 21 yr. old single male...comes up to me and tells me to
>pick up the pace and when I say I can't and why he walks off shaking his
>head and says to one of the other guys we work with that he wishes he
>could have been born a woman so that he could MAKE UP these mystery
>aches and pains whenever he didn't feel like working. I'm normally
>pretty good about ignoring the stupid little remarks they make but for
>some reason I just went into the bathroom and cried.
>I just wish I could make people understand that I'm not using this as an
>excuse to flake off. That even though I may look fine that there really
>is something wrong and it really does hurt like hell. God I can't wait
>for this lap so I can start getting better!!! I'm so tired of feeling
>pain and not being able to make it better and of people thinking I'm
>using this illness to slack off and not do my share.
>Sorry to vent, but it's been a bad few days and I needed to let it out
>somewhere.
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