I stepped off the elevator at work and I could hear Marcia hollering about something. Stomping. Cussing.
Marcia’s been counting down to January 1st, when we both hit our fifth year and earn three weeks of vacation.
This morning the boss of all bosses sent an email announcing that starting in the new year, people with only three years service would earn three weeks of vacation.
Marcia did not take it well.
6 responses to “Rage”
Oh, I would be MAD.
Booh!
Get negotiating!
Tami – Marcia is mad. I am phlegmatic. Libby, I don’t know how she feels.
Mrs. Hall – Meh!
Hattie – I’d negotiate if I lost rights, but I’m still getting what was offered me.
I think they should give everyone with 4 or more year’s service a bonus of 1 week’s pay for every year of service over three, to make up for the vacations they missed. (Did they also lower the years to get 4 weeks?)
Reminds me of when I started teaching. The salary offered starting teachers at Gettysburg was $x lower than the state average, so I negotiated to start at the the average. You were guaranteed a raise of $x each year. The next year, they gave every teacher in the school a raise of $x in addition to the contracted $x raise, to bring everyone up to the state average – except me, because I was already at the average.
It annoyed me. I figured every teacher in that school owed me!
~~Silk – But, you got something extra, you got a year’s worth of additional salary they didn’t. Good for you. I’ve never been able to do things like that. Once I tried to negotiate extra vacation and they slapped me down.