start May with a BANG!

I'm starting off May with an act of stubbornness--or an act of standing up for what's right, depending on which way you look at it.

See, tomorrow's Labor Day, ayt? It's a declared public holiday so we working stiffs are supposed to have the day off. But my boss instructed us to continue this day's work tomorrow. Supposedly, I could file for overtime and receive double pay since it's a non-working holiday. So I confirmed if that was so with her.

To my rage and dismay, she said people from Sales--including yours truly, of course--are not qualified for OT since we could reimburse our food and transpo expenses. In my mind I was like, what the fuck? But since I couldn't afford to antagonize her so soon after my mess-up yesterday, I simply told her that it wouldn't be right to go to work--for a rather tiring task too, I must say--and not get paid, even if I could reimburse my food and transpo expenses. I even tried to bargain with her to let me work tomorrow and just let me have my day off on Friday instead.

It didn't really help my case that the requirements for tomorrow's task are all with me. So for the sake of being nice, I just told her that if she wouldn't let me file for OT or exchange tomorrow's day off for Friday I'll just give the requirements in the morning to another co-worker who'll be working tomorrow--but who'll get paid, mind you--but otherwise I won't be working.

I may be new at my job and not know everything, but I do know when I'm right and when I'm wrong. And whichever way you look at it, I'm right and within reason this time. She really had no choice but to agree. Which, I'm saying with complete satisfaction, is what she did. Ha.