Unjust mandatory time on the clock on day off.

10 Comments

1. AnonymousMay 8,2024 at 6:16PM UTC

   Your best option is to find another job. This is mandatory time and you are being paid for it but sounds like you are just all around miserable in your current job.

2. AnonymousMay 8,2024 at 6:50PM UTC

   Seems like you should move on and find another job. Thats never an easy option and sometimes not possible. Maybe proactively bring it up to your group leader in a really thoughtful way to express what it’s doing to you. Suggest a workaround ? Sorry that’s happening to you.

3. AnonymousMay 8,2024 at 6:56PM UTC

   Outline your schedule and explain how difficult the schedule is and how damaging to your mental health it's become. Request accommodation due to your mental health issues.

   Don't worry about former employee's options. This is about you doing what's best for your health.

4. AnonymousMay 8,2024 at 7:45PM UTC

   I assume you are not part of a union. However, I would still check your state and local laws to see if there is a requirement or ordinance that outlines a minimum number of hours between shifts. If you end your shift, then two hours later, you have to clock in for a meeting, are there any rules or laws that work on your side? If they are not legally violating anything, can you speak with your supervisor about finding another day or time that works for the group and you? Can you get copies of the meeting notes or can they be recorded if they are remote meetings? What solutions can be worked out with your employer?

   If they are not accommodating, then yes, I might occasionally be sick, have a doctor's appointment, or anything else that provides me with legal protection during those dates and times while I look for another job.

5. AnonymousMay 9,2024 at 6:58PM UTC

   Thank you! Yes you’ve made some great points however the state that I’m in has some of the worst worker’s rights in the nation. It is one of the top 5 worst states to be employed in but it’s one of the top 10 for businesses to thrive in. That absolutely makes sense to me. In all my years of working these terrible jobs, I’ve seen everything from sexual harassment that got swept under the rug by a company, they fired the worker and kept the manager. Also employees being let go for looking too old on the job, to photoshopping of their whole staff to where people looked more attractive on the internet to attract clients and customers. I’ve seen so much garbage in this state over the years! I have no long term plans for a job like this it’s so I can survive. I just need to walk a fine line of I can’t always make it to these meetings because I have obligations outside of a dead end job and I’m exhausted after 5 days on a graveyard shift and need to care for myself. As someone mentioned, if it starts to effect my mental health, I can always go to county health and maybe get a mental health excuse for this. I’m prone to depression and the 3rd shift is making me moody and angry but I suspected it’s more so being treated unfairly that is causing the real issues here. I don’t appreciate other employees being given my initial schedule and they were hired after me plus having my schedule modified 3 times in a 3 month period! I’m sorry but after all of that, I don’t feel so inclined to fully comply with their monthly meetings. They need to fully understand, they don’t own my personal time nor dictate it in my days off!

6. AnonymousMay 8,2024 at 8:30PM UTC

   I think your best solution is to start looking elsewhere.

7. AnonymousMay 9,2024 at 12:57PM UTC

   I hope they are paying you overtime for it. Is this meeting remote? Ask them to record it and watch it (on the clock) later in the day after you wake up. The only pushback to this would be that it does not give you a chance to contribute during the meeting, but you could follow up with reflections or follow-up questions by email. It doesn't sound like this is an issue for you, as you don't appear to be participating in it actively anyway. If not, insist that they pay for your commute time (either as your hourly pay or as travel mileage) in addition to the meeting.

8. AnonymousMay 9,2024 at 4:42PM UTC

   Thank you and yes it is remote. It’s a remote job. I’m also expected to be on camera after working 9 hours and sleeping for 2 just to make myself presentable for this 1 hour. I’m going to simply skip the meeting this month as things come up in people’s lives. As a company you can not expect someone to give you time on their days off especially if you compensate them poorly to begin with. If I had a second job, there’s nothing they could say or do because they under pay me anyway! I’m going to have to lie because it seems like they think I’ll put up with anything. They have already catered to an employee that they hired after me by giving them my schedule and changing my work schedule 3 times in less than 3 months! I’m rightfully angry and at this point want out but can’t afford it yet!

9. AnonymousMay 9,2024 at 1:38PM UTC

   Being excluded would be worse.

10. AnonymousMay 9,2024 at 4:33PM UTC

    Being excluded would be wonderful because I have no long term plans as this is a job to survive on. It keeps me from homelessness but need another job and more money. It’s keeping me from drowning but barely.