Originally posted by MxRacerCam:
jesus... you people are harsh!

perhaps you haven't worked in/around a college town before, or in a large one like AA or EL. but around those areas, it is common knowledge that students schedules will get a little hairy around finals, and as i had said, i've never seen an employer have a problem with it, even with short notice.



As I said in my posts, I worked for the college for all 4 years I was there. I know exactly how it is. And if you skipped out on work you were fired. Plain and simple. This was made very clear; and I saw a lot of people skip work and be subsequently fired. If they were lucky and were good workers theyt got one warning. 2 days and you were fired without question, no exuses. This was the policy at every department on campus I worked for.

If we asked for time off during finals we got it. More often than not. But only provided that someone was willing to work your spot (which was usually me). The work still has to be done. It doesn't just stop because you're not there. If your boss could get by without you at work he wouldn't have hired you in the first place.

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it has more to do with accepted common pratices. if people are used to employers being very flexible about calling off for finals, then why is it so wrong for someone to wonder why this particular employer wasn't?



Don't tell me that the common practice is just not to show up. To be unusually flexible that time of year, yes. To call in and get confirmation that you won't be there even at the last minute, I could understand. Even calling in "sick" I could understand, we had a lot of that when I was working on campus. But just not showing up is not "common practice" no matter how much you want to believe that it is.

And e-mailing that you're just not gonna show up. I wouldn't respond to that email either. I'd fire you just for having the outright gall to tell me when you're not going to come to work. I wouldn't respond and give you the luxury of coming in and trying to save your ass or getting an extra week to look for the new job you're going to need.

If it was "common practice" then the school would just shut down and no student employees would work. It'd be easier for everybody.

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