[gnat]

The work load at my job has always been high, but recently we are down 5 staff members (out of 12) and things have been insane. I've been putting in about 55 hours a week (and yes, I'm salaried) and it's not enough. I have explained to management that I have young children and need to get home to pick them up from daycare and I was told I need to figure out a say to work it out possibly work from home after I get the kids an then come in on the weekends. I think they are unreasonable, they are saying I will be held accountable if I do not make my deadlines.

I am thinking of contacting HR and asking them what is considered reasonable (I think they have to sign off on write ups based on job performance), but I am concerned it will come back and I'll be on management's radar as the one to get rid of.

As all of this is going down I am looking for another job, but it is difficult. They are not granting any PTO because we are behind. Tomorrow I will leave pretending my son is sick for an interview. I have never lied about why I'm not at work and even with the lie I will get an occurrence for not being there, but I guess that is irrelevant aside from I will have another piece of documentation in my file.

[RichardBrooks]

In my experience, it depends on the company. I once worked for a nightmare boss. When things got so bad I decided to call HR, their solution was to contact the very guy I was complaining about and say "handle it." And I don't work there anymore.

[Webgoji]

Originally Posted by RichardBrooks

In my experience, it depends on the company. I once worked for a nightmare boss. When things got so bad I decided to call HR, their solution was to contact the very guy I was complaining about and say "handle it." And I don't work there anymore.

Yeah, this has been my experience with every place I've worked. HR is the last place I will EVER go for personnel issues.

[StrongerMan]

Some bigger companies may have an ombudsman who works as a neutral 3rd party in mediating such disputes.

Hr works for the company not the employee no matter what they say. You might get them to work with you in short term but your bosses are going to know. Sorry to be so bleak.

[gnat]

Well, I did it. I felt I didn't have anything to lose since my supervisor was in the process of writing me up for leaving undone work and making a couple small errors (I forgot to put a date on 3 emails).

I presented the situation to HR- the size of my caseload, the hours I've been putting in, the pressure and threats of write ups that management has been putting on us and how I've been working so fast trying to meet their demands and I am human, so yes, I made a mistake on those emails. In the end HR declined my supervisor's request to write me up and management has quit threatening write ups (at least for now) and quit asking for more hours (although they continue to pressure us to get caught up). Hopefully I can make the place a little more bearable until I find something else and maybe even a little better for my coworkers after I'm gone.

[vans1974]

Originally Posted by gnat

Well, I did it. I felt I didn't have anything to lose since my supervisor was in the process of writing me up for leaving undone work and making a couple small errors (I forgot to put a date on 3 emails).

I presented the situation to HR- the size of my caseload, the hours I've been putting in, the pressure and threats of write ups that management has been putting on us and how I've been working so fast trying to meet their demands and I am human, so yes, I made a mistake on those emails. In the end HR declined my supervisor's request to write me up and management has quit threatening write ups (at least for now) and quit asking for more hours (although they continue to pressure us to get caught up). Hopefully I can make the place a little more bearable until I find something else and maybe even a little better for my coworkers after I'm gone.

That's awesome that HR actually was one your side...glad to hear!!

[gnat]

Thanks. I still worry about management retaliating, but there isn't much I can do about that aside from continuing with my job search and getting the heck out of there.