Re: Were my rights violated?

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Don't judge me. You obviously didn't read my post
thouroughly. First, It is a contract position! I am given
assignments that I complete on my own time. (from home
wherever... I choose the office because my home isn;t and
ideal work set up, others work from home) If I had been doing
these assignments from home and left for an appt. he would
have never known or cared. Just because you use the office
space shouldn;t give him the right to dictate your hours if
you could have been doing the same thing at home.

The prior person never checked with him when she left because
we come and go. My assignments are always complete. I check
in with him more than anyone else does. (in fact I have more
work because of it and get more done for him than others. I
work twice as fast and don't drag out the time and try to bill
for it) The former contractor are the ones who gave me the
details of the job as well as 2 of the other attorneys because
he was working from home when I accepted the position. After
their probationary period then you would stay at the same rate
but without having to pay your own taxes which from my
understanding, was the only thing that changed. I even asked
at that time, if it meant a schedule would be dictated at that
point, Doing the work on your own time would still never
change.

Everyone else works from home. I Was told they tried working
from the office but they found they liked it better from home.
He liked people to be there. I always wondered why nobody did
stay there if that is what he liked. SO I chose to so I could
demonstrate my value to the firm even though it meant I was
getting more work and having to sit at the front desk
sometimes or help other attorneys. From what I was told
yesterday, this has been an issue before which is why he can't
keep people. He has been burned and is overly suspicious
because this type of agreement leaves room for a lot
of "taking advantage of".

2nd, he told me to go into his e-mails, he left them up so he
could have whoever was there, go in if he needed something.
He happend to leave that one up. This is a red flag to me. I
worry about someone so capable of plotting without
communicating.

3rd, this was only going on for a few days, because I wasn;t
sitting there all day as I once had. This was not a regular
thing. He was very happy with me as I was the only one who
was producing work for him.

I am not looking to sue, I am just trying to figure out how to
remedy this situation and get an understanding of how these
types of agreements work as in prior contract positions, I was
never told what hours I needed to be completing my
assignments. As a contractor, you should be able to have the
right to do it at night, weekends, early mornings, etc. I get
that he has been burned, but I shouldn;t have to pay the price
of what other people have done to him.

I may not last the probationary period, but it will be by my
choice. I would be the 4th that hasn't in a year. The only
thing that makes me an idiot is ignoring the red flags and
thinking I would be treated different or that I could make it
work when others couldn't. And BTW, trusting others does not
make you an idiot. Making assumptions about a person before
you even understand the situation does though. If you don't
have anything positive or constructive to say and just want to
sit around on chat boards to burn people with legitamate
questions, find someone else.

On 10/27/07, Curmudgeon wrote:
> 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.
>