As some of you may or may not know- I'm quitting my fulltime job at Standard Furniture (http://www.standard-furniture.com) to take a position wth Plugit (http://www.plugit.com) or (http://www.efileshare.com).
Through my quitting experience, I've developed some office-related Pet Peeves I wanted to share.
First and foremost - Pettiness.
The entire IT staff of Standard worked all memorial day weekend and through the holiday on a major IT project that we had all been involved with. Shortly thereafter, I took a day off to recoup from the Holiday weekend that I worked 38 hours in before Tuesday. Most companies, in situations like that - will let an employee float that Holiday to another day. I like the principle behind that - an employee is flexible with their holidays and the employer is flexible floating that holiday...
When discussing the eventuality of my exit with Payroll, I'm informed that day was a vacation day and docked that from my accrued vacation time.
Vacation accrual, also bugs the crap out of me. So, you are promised X number of hours of vacation a year and if you don't use it in the year, it's gone - but if you leave before December 31st, you only receive a portion of X. (Hey, at least I'm respectful enough to not disclose the number of vacation hours or salary info - I'm a good little boy, aren't I?)
The exuberantly cool IT Director said he would look into that situation with payroll but I wonder how many people have left the company, been screwed on their vacation and not had the clarity of mind to realize it.
Anyway..I say all this to say, all the more reason to be excited about the new position.
=)
Anomaly