Re: Were my rights violated?

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Which of your rights do you think were violated? Your right
to get paid without working for it? Your right to walk off
the job without telling your boss where you were? Your
right to avoid work assignments by not being available to
receive the assignments? Your right to become a permanent
employee without showing that you have any value to the
firm? Your right to read you boss's private emails? Your
right to be a complete idiot by accepting a job without
having any understanding whatsoever of what the job
requirements are?

If I were you, I wouldn't count on surviving the
probationary period.

On 10/26/07, Makai wrote:
> I was hired as a legal assistant at a small firm. The
> first 90 days are probationary as a contract employee and
> then you become an employee after the probationary period
> is up. 1st - as a contracted employee, I should be able to
> come in on my own time to perform the jobs he gives me
> right?. But I realized he wanted me there 9-5 with no
> lunch breaks after this last week, when I would leave at
> 11:30 for a couple of hours for my PT appts after a week
> without checking in with him, he pulled me aside and asked
> why I was "disapearing for hours". He had been monitoring
> when I was coming and going and disputed the time I had on
> my invoice. I explained that I thought I was contract and
> could come and go and he said no, he needed someone there
> 9-5. (which is basically an employee!) Today he left town
> and I went to retrieve an e-mail from his computer per his
> request and he had left an e-mail up from his fiance that
> proceeded to give a day by day play by play of my schedule
> for this week. (EXAMPLE "it is 1:45 and she is still not
> here...she snuck out the door again...seems to be leaving
> everyday at 11:15, she must have some kind of appt...."
> etc.) then they proceeded to plot to have me followed to
> see where I was going!!! She followed me one day to see
> if I was really getting my tire fixed! My question is 1)
> is it legal for him to dictate to me as a contract
> employee my schedule and if not, if he terminates me if I
> don't comply to I have any recourse and 2)can he violate
> my privacy like that by having me followed?? If I was an
> employee I was say this is slander and defaming my
> character as he joked that I must be attending NA meetings
> daily. But since I am contract, I want to know if my
> rights have been violated and if so, what I should or can
> do about it. Thanks!