This seems just slightly unreasonable to me: You’re Scheduled to Work and Expected to Be Here. Right now. In Houston post-Ike. At a Walgreens with no useful stock. I wonder what’s going on.
This seems just slightly unreasonable to me: You’re Scheduled to Work and Expected to Be Here. Right now. In Houston post-Ike. At a Walgreens with no useful stock. I wonder what’s going on.
September 15th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
This is when business and people disconnect and why I hate corporations. Granted this is a manager of a store asking someone to do something stupid, but I always wonder if it isn’t a top down mentality. Is corporate saying… be open, or else?
Grrrr…. let the man deal with his roof!
September 15th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
I do wonder about the pressures on the manager. Like perhaps he has to have a sales quota for the day, or week, or month, with or without the hurricane. Even so, one would hope he would have some common sense!
September 15th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
I would guess that they need their employees to come in and clean up the store. That seems like a reasonable thing to ask of an employee. Just guessing, though. Who will know better what needs to be replaced, etc.?
September 15th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
It does raise some interesting issues in terms of what assumptions we make about when it’s appropriate to go to work. For example, if my car breaks down, it’s my fault if I don’t get to work. But if a hurricane devastates my city, and takes away my roof, it seems much less my own fault if I don’t make it to work. I remember that when I worked in NM, often it was assumed that we would make it to school (to teach) in blizzard-like conditions, which seemed unreasonable.
September 15th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
My cube mate was telling me that she got fired after one month at Conde-Nast because she didn’t show up to work when a snowstorm shut down the LIRR and most of the city for five days.
September 15th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
I can remember being afraid of something similar happening at Houghton Mifflin. But they were usually fairly decent.
September 15th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Agreed—-sometimes it is downright foolish to buck the weather. And you shouldn’t lose your job over it.
September 15th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Since the web site that I linked to is a heavy traffic one, I’m hoping that the manager writes in and clarifies exactly what was going on from his/her perspective.