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<blockquote data-quote="supercool" data-source="post: 284588" data-attributes="member: 8811"><p>I've never seen any paperwork for option days before (even ones scheduled well in advance). Basically, there's a calendar in the office, and they write down the days people are taking off on it. Maybe it's different where you are, but where I work that's just how they do things. This was a spur of the moment thing. I understand that it would be my word against theirs, but I feel like the evidence was there -- why else would I go to the trouble of getting my doctor's note changed? I have both the original note and the "corrected" note. </p><p></p><p>This is a dispute over $88. It's about the principle more than the money. I don't care about getting the option day; I tried taking it so I could get the holiday pay without the hassle (and that's now out the window). It's still in my bank of time off I could use at a later date. </p><p></p><p>My feeling is this: I hurt myself right before the holiday, which might seem suspicious. I wouldn't go through that much pain to just get a day off, though -- I have tons of vacation, etc., I could have used to do that. I have the doctor notes to prove it was a legitimate injury. Four management people also saw the my ankle and how swollen it was (softball would be an adequate description of what it looked like). Instead of going in and "working" that Wednesday with my busted ankle, it just seemed more sensible to take that night off. I could have gone in on my crutches and risked injuring myself more (I wasn't very coordinated on them), or I could have stayed home. I was attempting to use one of the optional holidays I've accrued. From their standpoint, that should have been ideal: get the guy to use an option day on a day he was unable to work anyway, give him his holiday pay, and be done with it. I guess not paying me at all was even better.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="supercool, post: 284588, member: 8811"] I've never seen any paperwork for option days before (even ones scheduled well in advance). Basically, there's a calendar in the office, and they write down the days people are taking off on it. Maybe it's different where you are, but where I work that's just how they do things. This was a spur of the moment thing. I understand that it would be my word against theirs, but I feel like the evidence was there -- why else would I go to the trouble of getting my doctor's note changed? I have both the original note and the "corrected" note. This is a dispute over $88. It's about the principle more than the money. I don't care about getting the option day; I tried taking it so I could get the holiday pay without the hassle (and that's now out the window). It's still in my bank of time off I could use at a later date. My feeling is this: I hurt myself right before the holiday, which might seem suspicious. I wouldn't go through that much pain to just get a day off, though -- I have tons of vacation, etc., I could have used to do that. I have the doctor notes to prove it was a legitimate injury. Four management people also saw the my ankle and how swollen it was (softball would be an adequate description of what it looked like). Instead of going in and "working" that Wednesday with my busted ankle, it just seemed more sensible to take that night off. I could have gone in on my crutches and risked injuring myself more (I wasn't very coordinated on them), or I could have stayed home. I was attempting to use one of the optional holidays I've accrued. From their standpoint, that should have been ideal: get the guy to use an option day on a day he was unable to work anyway, give him his holiday pay, and be done with it. I guess not paying me at all was even better. [/QUOTE]
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