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I heard from the Time Lord - mom2huskies

Posted: Jun 22, 2015

I asked if I could flex a couple of hours tomorrow. Of course, I was shot down. I was told that was a last minute request. However, she was off all last week.

There going to make it where no one will ask for - these types of things ahead of time

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just wait until the day it is needed and say it is an emergency. Same thing with PTO, if people keep getting told no, they will just not even ask and just call in sick. Then Time Lord will not even be able to make a plan ahead of time. Serves her right.

Since we are in OT, I do not even ask. - LDSMT

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I start my shift early and leave if I need to, then come back and make up the time at the end of shift. (I'm just pretty much working whenever and as much as I can anyway.) I don't really see how it much matters when we work since they can't seem to keep up with the work anyway. You would think they would rather you flex, rather than call in sick and not work at all, which is what I would do if they want to play hardball, or you could have a power or internet outage, which is completely out of your control. ;)

thats what i do also. I dont even clock out most of the time - x

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why would i?

I would not dare take it that far. - LDSMT

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I have had them call to ask why the system shows I was working at a certain time and my time card did not show I was, which would be the opposite scenario, but they do have the ability to see that you were not working when you said you were.

flexing hours - sm

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I am not sure who your "time lord" is, but our pod has a really nice one who sent this out just a short time ago. This is not the whole e-mail, but the most important part to the subject you are all talking about.

Just a reminder, I do not need an e-mail if you need to flex your schedule a bit on any day so long as you are getting your hours in. She basically also says as long as you do not do this any more than twice a pay period you will not show up on the "schedule compliance tracker". Only if you do not make up your time on the same day, that is when you need to do the stupid schedule swap, so flex away on any given day just don't do it more than twice a paycheck.

Miracle!! - fadingstar

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The hoops I've had to jump through to get an hour or 2 off is INSANE. The fact that they expect you to predict things so far in the future is RIDICULOUS. Who plans things that far in advance? Other than big things like out of town vacations or reunions, most things that come up in your day to day life are within a week or 2. I've been turned down for flexing my schedule so many times, I've just come to expect it. The few times it was approved it was because she had no choice, it was an emergency but I got a verbal smackdown about planning things in advance. I apologize for being unable to plan emergencies. Don't you think if I could plan an emergency...I wouldn't.

Whatever pod you're in...I WANT IT.

I want it----reply - sm

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I suggest just do it. What this is saying to me is that she is not going to notice and you are not going to come up on the "compliance tracker." With them keeping track of 400 MTs in each POD, do you really think she would notice?? I think it must be company policy and she is just not saying so. How can things be so different from POD to POD. That in itself is totally unfair. I would even mention what I said above if she questioned it and tell her why can one POD have a flex policy and not ours?

Thats what i came to say. How on earth could they possibly - track every single person they have

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if you flex a couple hours here or there?? it's insanity at it's finest.

They get a print out of every variance. - dnr

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Time czar has let us know that she gets a report of everyone who has had any variance from assigned hours.

MM has software that tracks every little statistic you can think of, and it sends reports to each manager, time czar, etc as it relates to their position. Heck, they even send us those "Smart Summaries"with our personal quality and line count statistics. (Which I don't find useful at all, so just ignore.)

Even when you do try to plan things in advance the PTO request sits unanswered - in another POD

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Our time person left over a month ago to take over another POD. So all the time requests just sit unanswered. Not denied but not granted either.

So I played their game and requested in advance, but it still sits. I don't know whether to make different plans or just take off anyway as I had requested months ago.

In your same POD. - LDSMT

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I would just take off anyway. I also have a request sitting there not being addressed one way or the other. It is frustrating to say the least. This having to plan everything 2 months in advance in order to even have a chance at getting something approved is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen. I normally don't advocate game playing or lying, but with this company when you have an emergency or last minute event, you just have to do what you have to do. Certainly at this point, they are not in a position to fire a good employee over taking PTO when they need it.

U must be in my POD - sm

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they have been very lenient so long as you do all your hours

I thought you can request flex time on the swapboard or something now. - Turkleton

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NM

swapboard - fedup

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That's what my scheduler told me. I sent her an e-mail about flexing schedule and she said I should do that on the swapboard and if nobody picks up my hours, they won't hold me responsible for those hours. So that's what I've been doing (by the way I saved that e-mail) ;)

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