Sorry I got incredulity creeping my spine spinning
webs at my shoulder blades Again What did you saycall it
Wage compression
I dont understand What I do
understand is that the company is gypping me eleven cents an hour
thats what its called when
corporate takes your merit pay – the guy in H-R denied it was called incentive disbursement(I made that up during our telephone call to exacerbate the ridiculousness of
eleven cents either being merit pay or an incentive – mixing metaphors(meta-something)
– like mystics and alchemists attempting to change rude metal into gold – King Midass
touch is fable) – then he tried to insist that corporate provided me an
astonishing 3.9 percent an hour pay increase
Youll excuse meI know you know
this The 3.9 percent increase youre touting
was mandated by the state Corporate is
following the law It didnt give me anything Though it did incentivise me last year to the tune of eleven
cents
the telephone receiver was
silent
as a wordsmith he appreciated the
euphemistic wage compression which said
nothing which was the best a euphemism
offers misdirection
he broke the silence as if it was
thin pretty ice dusted with snow atop a dirty puddle Now if youll look at my
second payment stub this year youll see a meal break entry
Yes
No Thats wrong
Its a faulty entry
No I dont think so What was the date
You must have it thereyoure on
the computer looking at my time card records
silence(Silence isnt good when trying
to communicate over the telephone Mr H-R)
Alright By my reckoning by my paper planner here at
hand the only possible date would have been January 21 a Saturday Im strictly parttime and Saturday is the only
time I ever work long enough to incur a lunch breakalbeit nearly eight in the
evening
Yes I see it
Correct
Incorrect I understand that a meal break inclusion is
derogatory
Yes You either worked more than five hours
without a break or you didnt take at least
thirty minutes for it Here Here
you have itYou logged in at 1459 and didnt take you break until 1956(he was
ignorant of the ah-ha moment)
And what was the duration of my
break
You punched back in at 2028
And from 1956 to 2028 is how many
minutes(he knew)
T h a t w o u l d
b e 32minutes
Which by anyones reckoning is two
minutes longer than a halfhour thirty minutesYes
Correct
So
I took an appropriate break
Yes
So why did I get dinged a meal
break
You exceeded five hours without a
break
Its in front of you Didnt you say I punched in at 1459 and out at
1956three minutes shy of five
hours
Oh This never happens
No
You cant say never when its glaring you in the eyeball
So what youre saying is you shouldnt
have been paid for the meal break It is
incorrect
I shouldnt have been paid It is incorrect and derogatory to
me I can tell time
Well were not going to make you pay that back
Thank you Ill accept it as it diminishes my lost
incentive disbursah merit pay since January One per corporates philosophical
wage compression One other thing
Yes
Corporate and I disagree philosophically However it seems that philosophically
corporate and its on-the-ground in-the-store employees ought to be in agreement
Employees shouldnt be informed after the factafter
decisions are made which will affect them and their customers
There ought to be a period for input take questions The fact is corporate doesnt work in
the stores and hasnt a clue of those unique transactions we have to mitigate in
real time on our feet
silencio
Anyway
Im happy to have had this
discussion after making twelve telephone calls since January 24 And that you returned five Thank you
Be well
Youre welcome
1550, Friday,
24 3. 17
1034, Saturday,
25 3. 17
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