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I have mega-flexibility. Write a shift on the call board or send an e-mail at where I work and people will JUMP to take it, and the same is true in reverse so I can make up the hours pretty easily. It's a little disappointing knowing a full-time job in the "real world" won't be like that.
I see the point in workers reporting for the 4 day a week shift. But what about vacation days? Let's say OP gets 3 weeks of vacation per year. Sounds like the only way to get it approved is to schedule it many months in advance. while that is ok for some vacation days, not every vacation day can be planned several months in the future.
Since the company is so rigid, then use the sick days. What ya going to do.
To answer to those who say, "but you're off 3 days, you should take care of personal matters on those days". I do. Thus I don't abuse it, with regard to taking time off, ever.
But the instance that I cited, with regard to my car. My normal days off are on Wed., and Thurs. My car, suddenly developed some kind of issue, on Thursday afternoon (while I was off on one my normally scheduled days off, but the mechanic couldn't fit me in til the next a.m.), it kept dying on me, idling weird and dying on me. This was on a Thursday afternoon before I am expected to return to work on Friday, a normal workday for me. And of course, Saturday also (days that the mechanic is open, not on Sundays though), Saturday also a normal workday for me.
I'm off on Sundays, but so is the mechanic that I desperately needed to fix my car. I work again on Monday and Tuesday and then am off, again.
No way the car, and whatever was causing that, would've gotten me, limping along like that, back and forth to work for Friday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, before I could've finally .... on one of my 3 days off, ...... to the mechanic.
That's a prime example of where the inflexibility really is a problem. Really.
Now had I called them first thing in the morning and told them I had a car issue, I'm not quite sure what would've happened. I guess in that instance, they'd "have to" code it to my vaca time, ... I don't know. I don't know the answer to that, because I simply don't do it. I'm expected to be there, and so I'm there.
I do expect that an employer be more understanding and flexible in situations like the above. I don't understand why it has to be a situation where I go on into work, explain my dilemma, that I won't have the opportunity to get to the mechanic, on a "day off" again, until Wednesday, and no way the car's problems will last that long, and get me back and forth to work. And have them grant me the ability to leave at let's say noon. Or maybe even a bit later.
I'm willing/able to use the time allotted me for just that. Not sick leave, which is not what it's intended for.
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