I TOOK ON MY BOSSES........ AND WON!!!!!!

[Darth_Kitten]

:woohoo: :bounce: :woohoo: :bounce:

What a day. :(

Anyways, to make a long, long story short, they wanted to bypass regular permanent staff to give overtime to summer students. :mad:

I had my suspicions they were going to do this and called the union. They were going to check into it, and told me to definitely call tomorrow if the students did work, because I and others could possibly grieve. Funny thing was, the union rep knew where I worked before I could tell him. :(

They wanted people to stay tonight and tomorrow. So the boss dude in charge of arranging the overtime was canvassing everyone. I and another gal at the same level as I were willing to work the o/t, but hadn't been trained.
So, I check with boss guy, and lo and behold we couldn't stay, but the summer students could because they had been trained. Well, that's not OUR fault, we are permanent staff and we have rights. :eyes:

I told him I'm calling the union. He said go ahead. :(

Well, a little later, it turns out (I overheard his second in command talking to one of the summer students) you cannot stay because it will bypass permanent staff and they can grieve. So they backed off!!! :woohoo:

So, the office is a-buzz, and little me caused the whole kerfuffle. :evilgrin: Summer students hate management now.

Hope it doesn't backfire on me, sometimes when you stand up for yourself at my workplace it comes back somehow to bite you in the butt. :scared:

But I had to stand up for myself, why should people like me be punished because they were too lazy to do things the right way?
I don't mind senior staff to me staying, but when you bypass perfectly legitimate, hard-working staff then, sorry.

From what the union rep said to me, this was trouble brewing from the start.

[skygazer]

1. Good for you

Just out of curiosity, do the people they were pushing to stay make less money than you? Might that be why they wanted them to get the OT so they wouldn't have to pay out so much?

[Darth_Kitten]

2. Could be....

but then staff that make way more than I do are staying. Actually the people who usually stay make way more than I do.

They were being lazy as usual.

:(

[DS1]

3. Congrats!

Sure, summer students were looking towards getting in an extra helping of cash before school, but they're in school and you've got real bills to pay :toast:

[sasquatch]

4. Did you challenge them to a duel afterwards?

:shrug:

[Darth_Kitten]

5. I should have....

:)

[shrdlu]

6. Well done!

...but watch your back.

[Darth_Kitten]

7. Every day.

Every day.

:)