Here in Southern WV, we were under a severe weather advisory Tuesday and everyone and their mother were in the store buying up everything for a storm that never came. Wednesday's weather was rainy and cold causing some pretty icy roadways Thursday morning. Personally I knew of a couple people who where involved in accidents because of this.
Well to make a long story a little bit shorter, our store manager said Thursday morning that noone is allowed to call in because of the weather and anyone doing so will be written up. My driveway was a sheet of ice, and the road by my home was slick but passable. Not everyone I work with are so lucky.
Anyway can management write you up for calling in during bad weather? And does the union have a position on this? While we didn't have any snow, we did have a lot of ice covered roads.
-- Edited by krogerman77 on Friday 8th of March 2013 01:10:17 AM
it sounds like he is blowing a lot of hot air to imitimidate the meeker employee. a person who calls out once for that should be fine. however calling out excessively can be cause for a write up. what is 'excessive'? well i personally was written up for calling out twice in a 6 week period. so if people at your store call out due to the weather, he can look at their track record and possibly write up based on what each employee had done in the past. the union then really cant intervene if he terms it excessive and it falls in a reasonable range of time
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it sounds like he is blowing a lot of hot air to imitimidate the meeker employee. a person who calls out once for that should be fine. however calling out excessively can be cause for a write up. what is 'excessive'? well i personally was written up for calling out twice in a 6 week period. so if people at your store call out due to the weather, he can look at theirtrack record and possibly write up based on what each employee had done in the past. the union then really cant intervene if he terms it excessive and it falls in a reasonable range of time
That is exactly what we do.
Everyone knows policies are real, but highly manipulative. It goes back to what I've been saying: salaried managers can do pretty much whatever they choose to do. I'll give you a recent example of this:
We recently had a girl break a piece of equipment in the gm back room. She was confirmed on camera as having done it; the SM left it up to the CM to leave it up to one of us to deal with it. She could easily have been fired for it. But the assistant who dealt with her left it at a 'verbal coaching'....which is on your file, but no big deal. You can still transfer departments/stores, advance with one of those. It was an act of pure grace and class on that manager's part.
Point is, Dude is right: You'll get managers who will abuse that very power. We have an over night manager who once tried to convince his people that, if they called off sick, they would first have to be evaluated by him before it was approved. WTF~~~
