That's not cool AT ALL!

[Lady Pi Phi]

So, my big boss comes down and hands 2 of the guys I work with tickets to this afternoon's Blue Jays opener. I figured it was just those 2 that got tickets, because they're guys and sports fiends and I assumed that she only had 2 and figured they would like them (while it's not cool to do that, she should have raffeled them off or something) I'm like whatever.

No it turns out everyone in our group got tickets, except 3 of us. The temps.

I just think it's very rude and unprofessional to exclude people that work very hard for the team, just because they are temps. So, now everyone from my group has gone to the baseball game and we're stuck here.

I honestly feel like leaving, because why should I work for you if you don't give a rats ass about me.

Luckily I have applied for 2 jobs, so hopefully I'll get one them. Otherwise I just might quit.

[cashmoney]

Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi

I just think it's very rude and unprofessional to exclude people that work very hard for the team, just because they are temps.

You're mad because your boss didnt give you tickets to the game because you're not a real employee?

[Lady Pi Phi]

No, I could care less about the tickets. My brother works for the jays, if I want tickets I can get tickets. Secondly, it's about professionalism. She didn't just exclude us, she excluded serval managers on our team. Who are "real employees".
The point is, if you only have a certain amount of tickets you either ask who wants to go and if you have enough tickets for everyone who wants one you give it to them. If you don't you raffel them off.
It's the fair and professional way to do. That's why there are so many problems in the work place. Some companies don't even give perks because of issues like this.

[navane]

That's wrong!!!

I used to work for a company where I was a permanent staff member, but we had a couple temps in our department. One of them was a guy who had been working for the company some 6 to 8 months - he had been there longer than me!

My "big boss" (the one above my immediate supervisor) was his immediate boss and she never gave him the time of day. One particular day he was really singled out as an "office nobody". He and his co-workers had to go to a mandatory conference at another regional location. They were all sitting in a row at the meeting room when she arrived. According to him, she waltzed in and greeted everyone down the row except him. Apparently she literally skipped right over him!

"Good morning Linda, Paul, Tom, _____ , Amy and Michelle!"

She knew his name. Not only did she sign off on his temp time card, but you can't really use that excuse after 6 months for a guy who sits right outside your office! Maybe she just thinks that all temps must be losers who can't get a "real job"? Right, this guy was a hard worker, with a college degree, who was working as a temp while he attempted to get a place with the police academy. I quit working there before he did; but, last I heard, he did eventually make it into the LAPD!!

Grr! For you bosses out there, don't treat your temps like non-people! That is so uncool!

.....Kelly

[kddani]

did the manager do this in front of those of you who she wasn't giving tickets to, or was it in private?

If it was in front of you, VERY tacky and unprofessional...

I won't even get started on temps and contractors in the workplace..... employers LOVE to screw them, and try to get away with it by saying they're not really their employees.

[Lady Pi Phi]

No, she did it right in front of me! That's how I knew about it. Otherwise I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have found out.

[kddani]

lol, very tacky then.

I suggest you give HER a gift- an etiquette book. Put a post it on the appropriate page, lol.

Or sneak onto her computer and make her home page Emily Post or something... hehe

[AlphaSigOU]

Ya gotta remember... temps sometimes are treated lower than whale sh*t on the bottom of the ocean. Been there, done that, don't want the T-shirt! Unfortunately, it's where the jobs are at in my line of work right now (design drafter).

Pretty damned tacky to say the least!

[Lady Pi Phi]

Yeah I know temps are treated like sh*t...I've been a temp for far too long (september hurry and come so I can go back to school). That's whyu I have no qualms about quitting on the spot. You have no respect for me. I have no respect for you.
I know I should be the bigger person, but I don't want to!
I come to work on time, I do my work, and then I leave. I will not work over time.

My manager is actually really cool and I'm sure if she had been here she would have said something to her boss. I have a lot of respect for my manager because she doesn't treat us like crap.

[33girl]

How long have you been temping there? I mean, there's a big difference between someone who's been there a week and someone who's been there 6+ months and is an employee in everything but the person who signs their paycheck.

I don't understand that you say the only people who didn't get them were the 3 temps and then say the managers didn't get any either.

Sorry but I agree with Craig - even though it was tacky to do it in front of you, non-employees of the company shouldn't be treated to the same things employees are. I'm sure the tickets were through company connections.

[Rudey]

Every firm I know has boxes everywhere. I was jealous that I didn't get to shoot the shit with Mayor Daley and Michael Jordan in our Bears box, but hey whatever. I got tickets to so many bulls games and concerts that others didn't. That's just what happens. If you let these small things bother you, you'll lose your sanity.

-Rudey

[Lady Pi Phi]

I don't think you realize that I don't give a shit about the tickets. I have my own connections and can get tickets whenever I want. It's that fact the she did it infront of my and showed me her lack of professionalism.

I have been here for 6 months.

I initially didn't know that she excluded other full time employess in our department until I over heard one of them taking about it.

Again, showing her lack of professionalism.

[Rudey]

Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
I don't think you realize that I don't give a shit about the tickets. I have my own connections and can get tickets whenever I want. It's that fact the she did it infront of my and showed me her lack of professionalism.

I have been here for 6 months.

I initially didn't know that she excluded other full time employess in our department until I over heard one of them taking about it.

Again, showing her lack of professionalism.

So she should take people into her office, waste some time, all in the interest of nursing other people's emotional wounds?

You don't get it. People get gifts in front of other people all the time. It's not unprofessional. You'll learn that things are not rosey in the work world. People will talk about things and do things in front of you that you hate, but you put up with it until you get your own office.

-Rudey

[adpialumcsuc]

Even though I don't believe temps should be treated different there are liability issues that do come into play. I know the tickets aren't you huge complaint but to use them as an example....If a temp is given tickets to an event by the company and something were to happen to that person at the event, the temp agency is liable for the actions. This is a huge problem for most agencies because usually they are not in the loop. Also most temp agencies require their customers sign contracts that state specifically that they will not treat the temps like employees due to co-employment issues. This can be a huge problem with Workers Compensation, Unemployment, and any other lawsuit that can be brought about due to harassment etc.
It Sucks but that is probably why.

[chideltjen]

just wanted to add my two cents...

i worked as a 'temp' in a contracted company for Agilent. Our team grew to over 50 people and we successfully helped agilent with a bunch of outstanding backorders. We thru our own parties and invited agilent to them. We were watched like hawks by managers so agilent wouldn't cut our contract. Toward the end of my time there, Agilent decided to throw a beer tasting party to celebrate their successful turnaround and increase of profits... somewhat due to our hard work.

Well signs went up to mention the party and in a big tacky red font read "for agilent employees only."
Some of our employees were pissed off after all we had offered them and after we basically kissed their feet. But oh well. Whatever.