I’ve been in France for the past 2 weeks or so & have had limited internet access. However, I did receive an email from the leave of absence caseworker, apparently responding to my comments to the representative that had contacted me via telephone (see previous post). As you can see, they didn’t contact me within 48 hours as promised. It took them more than 96 hours (4 days). They’re not only slow in responding but they’re apparently incapable of passing along accurate information as well. I didn’t submit a question as to why my leave of absence was denied. I already know this. As I’ve stated since the beginning, I suspected that I didn’t qualify & that it would be denied before I was even forced to apply for it. What I actually asked for was information on why my peer review request was denied.
Hi Michael,
I did receive your question as to why your leave of absence was denied. We spoke on 9/29/09 and you stated you were unable to get the doctor to complete the physician certification and I explained without the physician certification I could not approve any time away from work and you would be held accountable to the attendance policy for any time missed from work and you stated you understood.
If you have a question regarding the amount of points that lead to your termination, you will need to speak to your Manager for a breakdown.
I hope this answered your question and if you need more information, please let us know.
****
LOA Caseworker
As you can see, this email is an absolute waste of my time. The caseworker is basically just reading to me her notes on a telephone call that we had. I can’t help but feel a little frustrated by this. Why? I was in the fucking conversation. Not only do I not need a review of our conversation because my own notes are far more accurate but it gives me flashbacks from a horrible database management course that I took in college where the teacher would spend an hour of our day reading a powerpoint presentation to us that was verbatim from the book. I always thought that this teacher appeared to be jaded & had simply given up. I get the same feeling when it comes to this caseworker. I gave her a more in-depth review of our conversation & asked her for answers.
Hello. When I spoke with you on the telephone I told you that the nurse practitioner that I saw wasn't going to sign for the dates previous to my visit with her & that I wanted to know from you what would happen knowing this. You stated to me that I would accrue attendance points. I told you that I wasn't concerned about this because even with 1 point per each day that I was absent (per the "2009 Attendance Guidelines") this wouldn't give me enough to justify termination (I would've been at 7 or 8 & not the 10 that are needed). You simply stated "OK" & asked me if I needed anything else. I was never given any indication by you or my local management that my employment could be terminated with less than the 10 points that are required. The company doesn't appear to have justification in firing me for attendance & I haven't been given any other reason so the fact that my peer review was denied & no reason was ever given is a bit suspect. Also, when the representative called me to tell me that I was declined for a peer review, she stated that it was "per the guidelines" but didn't have any further information. She stated, upon my request, that she would have an HR representative with more details call me within 48 hours. This was over a week ago & I have yet to receive a reason. I would appreciate it if you could tell me why I was terminated for having less than the required points & why my peer review request was denied. My manager, *****, stated to me when he fired me that this came from corporate & that he had nothing to do with it. If that's the case, contacting him will be a waste of time. If it isn't true, please let me know so that I can try to contact him (this is assuming that he's still allowed to email an employee that has been terminated). Thanks!
I was amazed at how quickly she responded. If only she had been this prompt all along.
Michael,
I will have to research your questions regarding the peer review and the attendance policy. Please allow me some time to research these issues and I will get back to you.
****
LOA Caseworker
Her last email was sent to me 11 days ago. I don’t know how much time “some time” is but I’m certainly not going to wait much longer because I’m afraid that I won’t receive a response at all & that I’ll end up with even more lost time. After all, how much time is a current employee going to waste speaking to a former employee before she feels that our conversations are wasting her time? I intend to find out.
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