Re: Were my rights violated?

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Sounds like someone who needs to be fired. Looking at the
poster's response to Mudge, I doubt discussion would do any good.

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