Re: Checking In
- From: "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <evgmsop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 09:54:09 -0700
CatNipped wrote:
"Enfilade" <decepticoncommand@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1151633140.262510.137950@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Your boss sounds like an ass. The sooner you are rid of him, the
better. Has he always been like that or has he done a Mr. Hyde in just
the past little while?
--Fil
He may have always been this way, but when I first went to work for him he
didn't have an office - and then he bought out another firm, but the office
was still too small to fit me in among the employees that he needed there.
But now he's leased *HUGE* new office space and all of a sudden he decides
that the job I've been doing perfectly well from home can only be done there
so he can "communicate" with me easier!!!
Looks like good advice for the future is to have a signed, written "understanding" of your duties and where you will perform them! Obviously you can't depend upon this guy's unsupported word (which might be reason enough to look for another job, in any case). Why are some employers such s**ts?
Mine, on the other hand.... Although I hadn't really planned to completely retire, quite yet, they warned me about a year ago that they didn't expect after this year's tax season, to have enough work for me to continue with my three days a week part-time salary plus partial benefits arrangement. I assumed they meant I'd have to cut down my hours and switch to "per diem" (meaning "as needed" and no benefits). To some extent that may be true (I'll be around for most of July, anyway), but they decided to officially retire me, as of yesterday. Because the nature of the practice has changed, they will spread my remaining clients among the rest of the staff, and hire another CPA (I'm only a "staff accountant" - with a degree in music, not business or accounting, and no certificate).
I can't really complain, though. First of all, they DID warn me more than a year in advance. (And I've known for two months that this was going to happen before the end of the summer.) So yesterday they took me for a two-and-a-half hour lunch at a nice French restaurant, The staff gave me a couple pieces of Lennox jewelry - a pendant of a sleeping cat curled into a heart shape, and a wristwatch with bracelet-links that are a string of sleeping cats. (Really neat, and I'd never buy such expensive stuff for myself.) In addition to paying me all my accumulated "banked" overtime and vacation, the firm gave me about three months severance pay and a Best Buy gift certificate for $1,000! (I'm thinking lap-top?)
True, I'd been there over thirty years, but I've never felt an employer "owed" me more than the agreed upon salary and benefits. The fact I've liked most of the people, and they've treated me well over the years, I always considered a "plus", not a "given". I have pretty well decided to move to Arizona in the fall (after my brother is in residence in his winter home there, so I have a place to stay while I apartment hunt). From what I've seen listed by the various sources on "move.com", apartments in the area around Scottsdale/Northeast Phoenix seem to offer at least as much as I have here, for roughly $200 a month LESS than I now pay in rent. (That should make living on my retirement income much easier.)
Sorry, didn't mean to wander so far off topic! Purrs to CatNipped that her health problems are quickly resolved, and she finds a job that is everything she wants.
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