At Least Other Companies Pretend to Give a Shit

As many of you might know, I have regularly scheduled appointments every couple of weeks in Spokane (roughly a three hour drive). In addition, as I will be returning to UW in the fall, I will be having at least one appointment with advisors before September in Seattle (also a three hour drive).

In any normal job, I would request these days to be taken into consideration for days off at least two weeks in advance; if the request is put in inside the two week window, it's understood that I may be assigned to work those days.

At any other job, I may also be given a blank calendar with which I'd fill in the days up to a couple months in advance in which I'd like to have off.

This is the case at many other jobs. But not at my newest.

I was finally handed an employee handbook a couple days ago, after I had made a few requests for upcoming days in which I'd be out of town for said appointments (coincidental? I doubt it). Over the weekend, I perused the document and came across this:


I put boxes around the most shocking parts and underlined the outrageous.

I've never worked for a company that basically says to its employees "I don't give a fuck about you" in the handbook.

What's more, employees are given their upcoming schedules one week at a time. And the management has until Wednesday afternoons to give us our schedules for the upcoming weekend. So I have to wait until tomorrow to know what I'm doing on Friday.


As much as I enjoy the free movies, I think I may have to start looking for a new job.