Thread: DAYS OFF

It's true. Although I was onlyon the message board,their impression was that I wasrunning "my business" from work.

Do suspensions meanno paycheck either? Ball players frequently get suspended, but I don't recall that it always meant their pay was docked. Does that mean not accruing benefits for that two week period, also? :shock:

This is a no pay suspension. They said I could use annual leave but I'm choosing not to. Maybe I'll tack on two weeks with annual. I can't remember the last time I had two weeksin a row off, let alone 4 weeks.

Tom I hope you are filing a grievance on this 14 day suspension

I don't plan to. I was definitelyonline a lot.

I Just don't understand why they care if you were online so long as your work was getting done. Would the ybe so quick to discipline if instead of being online you sat in your office and justed chatted w/ your coworkers for 10 minutes an hour instead of doing work? What agency do you work for? I'm scared to think what would happen if they checked our computers at work to see if we were online alot. For me I check e-mail and the newspapers. For many of my fellow employees it is internet shopping sites, ebay and the like. Most of the time I am online, however I am multitasking(on the phone concerning work, or doing timesheets), so I don't think it interferes much w/ completing my work. However others might think differently.

Enjoy your time off and make the best of a bad situation.

Yes, yes, yes and yes. I couldn't have said it better. I guess I'm the example.

Isn't your retirement part of your "business" and theirs? So what, you were on the chat board. Most of the supervisors in our office surf EBAY most of the day anyway.

Here at our office we were speculating that you would start charging for TSPTALK. Guess that won't happen unless you separate from GOVERNMENT service. Or sell the site.

Glad to see your not bitter.:^

Tom,

14 days is pretty stiff. The next step in my agency's table of penaltiesis termination. I'd be careful.

tsptalk wrote:

It's true. Although I was onlyon the message board,their impression was that I wasrunning "my business" from work.

I believe you when you say you weren't profit motivated when you started this up, you were filling a need and taking money for it. Hard to defend against that. Well, a lesson learned for all of us at Tom's expense.

tsptalk wrote:

Yes, yes, yes and yes. I couldn't have said it better. I guess I'm the example.

Definitely, there are sanctioned and unsanctioned ways to not get work done at work. If I quick check on eBay to see if a late payer has finally kicked in with what he owes me, I feel like I’ve gotten away with a bank robbery given management’s attitudes about internet use, especially eBay. Or post something on this board (less guilty about that) but someone could hold forth for 40 minutes about why Mike Shanahan must go and tie up a half dozen other GS11-13’s while he does it and nothing is said. We can all think of examples along these lines. Internet use at work really gets the bosses motor running. :@