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You think you know the people you work with. Including your bosses. You see them for 9 and 10 hours a day. You stay late beyond quitting time, when they ask you to, routinely. You begin to actually trust them and have each other's back.
Until something like this.
One of the salaried assistant managers at my supermarket was reassigned to the overnight shift. Back in December, when I was a day and evening cashier and supervisor, this manager personally came to me and invited me to come with her to the overnight shift - said she'd hand-picked me to come with her to the overnight shift. I started on the overnight shift January 25th.
Well, in order to reassign someone in our system, you have to temporarily reassign them to part-time status. Then, after the change is made, reassign them back to full-time status, so that the employee doesn't lose their benefits, medical and otherwise. It's that last little leap from part-time back to full time that wasn't made. And I didn't know about it until my dentist calls me the day before my cleaning appointment (Tuesday - day before yesterday), and tells me my dental insurance is supposedly no good.
I call my company's health insurance hotline, and explain the situation, and that's how I find out why my dental insurance was cancelled. I was never put back at full time in the system. Despite working 40 hours-plus a week with overtime, sometimes even staying an extra up to 2 hours per day above my scheduled 7am time to go home after I'd put in a full 8 hour night, and in some cases even came in early the night before (at the beginning of the shift) to help out.
I worked like a damn dog for these people, including almost putting my health in jeopardy running myself into the ground, and this is what I have to show for it? That the promise to put me back at full time was just lip service. And when I need the dental insurance I thought I had, Oh, I'm sorry, you don't have any dental insurance.
According to company guidelines anyone getting over 35 hours a week is considered full time. And changing someone to full time is just a matter of a salaried manager going into the computer system, in MS-DOS and with a few keystrokes, and going through a few screens, the process takes literally all of 90 seconds to do.
Wow, I seriously don't know, anymore. Just wow.
I'm not going to quit the job - I need the income, and don't have that luxury. But trust and believe - When Open Enrollment comes around, in October, You better bet that I'm going to cancel my workplace-provided health insurance all together. Quit flushing my hard-earned dollars down the fucking toilet, then when I need the coverage the most, I don't have it. I'm gonna see if I can get the coverage I want on the open market, just paying for the health insurance out of my own pocket. I can get the coverage I want (medical, vision, dental, and life) with no nasty surprises like this to ever come up again.
This is not cool. So incredibly not cool. I'm trying to make a better life for myself, and work on my health and my body with this health insurance I'm supposed to have. I honestly don't have time for shit like this.
/pissed!!!!
Until something like this.
One of the salaried assistant managers at my supermarket was reassigned to the overnight shift. Back in December, when I was a day and evening cashier and supervisor, this manager personally came to me and invited me to come with her to the overnight shift - said she'd hand-picked me to come with her to the overnight shift. I started on the overnight shift January 25th.
Well, in order to reassign someone in our system, you have to temporarily reassign them to part-time status. Then, after the change is made, reassign them back to full-time status, so that the employee doesn't lose their benefits, medical and otherwise. It's that last little leap from part-time back to full time that wasn't made. And I didn't know about it until my dentist calls me the day before my cleaning appointment (Tuesday - day before yesterday), and tells me my dental insurance is supposedly no good.
I call my company's health insurance hotline, and explain the situation, and that's how I find out why my dental insurance was cancelled. I was never put back at full time in the system. Despite working 40 hours-plus a week with overtime, sometimes even staying an extra up to 2 hours per day above my scheduled 7am time to go home after I'd put in a full 8 hour night, and in some cases even came in early the night before (at the beginning of the shift) to help out.
I worked like a damn dog for these people, including almost putting my health in jeopardy running myself into the ground, and this is what I have to show for it? That the promise to put me back at full time was just lip service. And when I need the dental insurance I thought I had, Oh, I'm sorry, you don't have any dental insurance.
According to company guidelines anyone getting over 35 hours a week is considered full time. And changing someone to full time is just a matter of a salaried manager going into the computer system, in MS-DOS and with a few keystrokes, and going through a few screens, the process takes literally all of 90 seconds to do.
Wow, I seriously don't know, anymore. Just wow.
I'm not going to quit the job - I need the income, and don't have that luxury. But trust and believe - When Open Enrollment comes around, in October, You better bet that I'm going to cancel my workplace-provided health insurance all together. Quit flushing my hard-earned dollars down the fucking toilet, then when I need the coverage the most, I don't have it. I'm gonna see if I can get the coverage I want on the open market, just paying for the health insurance out of my own pocket. I can get the coverage I want (medical, vision, dental, and life) with no nasty surprises like this to ever come up again.
This is not cool. So incredibly not cool. I'm trying to make a better life for myself, and work on my health and my body with this health insurance I'm supposed to have. I honestly don't have time for shit like this.
/pissed!!!!
