'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Andi, I'm not going to fold and run away screaming (at least not long-term ... in the evening, perhaps, or for a lunch break).
I'm afraid that by asking for anyone else in there, it's going to escalate and things will get worse (and, yes, they can get worse). And as I said, the HR person is in worse shape than I am and the head person is the one driving this whole situation.
....can you just secretly record it? Or, better yet (because I think that's illegal), not-secretly record it? (Maybe make them think it's a joke, but get their agreement on 'tape'?)
Ooooh, yeah. Recording... tell them your reason is that you feel you have not been remembering details as carefully as you should, and if recorded you will be able to go back and get precisely what they said so that you can do a better job.
Parasitic flatworms, now in comic form: [link]
Captain Higgins rules! What a guy.
Parasitic flatworms, now in comic form: [link]
That was pretty awesome.
Parasitic flatworms, now in comic form: [link]
I'm now in pain from laughing so hard after digging through other strips from the same artist.
A few more boxes added to my pile of moving stuff, with stuff from my office. My officemate helped me carry them from the office to my apartment. (Well, "helped" in the sense that he did all of the actual work, and I just pointed at where I wanted stuff.) I would estimate that I have two or three more boxes worth of stuff to pack at the office, about maybe six or seven more here at the apartment.
From an HR POV it would be weird to have somebody asked to sit in on a "clear things up" meeting that wasn't another supervisor or another HR person, or possibly a Union rep.
There's no reason to have somebody else in the room. And having a witness or recording anything doesn't really matter. They can stay entirely within guidelines while making unreasonable requests and negative performance evaluations. If they want you out they can just keep making the job horrible until you've got to go.
It actually might be beneficial to take the HR person in with you because if she's fired too, you could use her as a witness if you wanted to file an unlawful termination suit against them. (You're old enough, Todd, that your age would be a protected class - I think. Depends on the state.) Which you could probably leverage for a better severance.
But ultimately if they want to make you miserable to quit then the entire work situation has turned toxic.
that's close to the end Hil! That's great! How's it feel to live in Box City?
Any word from PixDesign camp? How ya feeling Drew??