Probation Period and declining extra day offered....

muchlovex | 08:12 Fri 01st Oct 2010 | Jobs & Education

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I am 3 months into my prob period. Basically, my boss asked me if I could work 1 extra day in addition to the 2 days I am contracted for. I work 20 hours over 2 days contracted. I said I would work the extra day and see how it goes. I did not sign any contract for this extra day. After 1 month of working this extra day I advised my boss that can no longer work the extra day (due to personal reasons) and I would like to return to my contracted hours. Since then she is being really petty with me. Picking up on the tiniest of errors I may make. I am new so i am still learning the 'ropes'. I have my review meeting next week and I am worried that she may include all these petty errors I make, so I fail my prob or leave. So she can advertise the job as 3 days not the 2 days.
I have worked within this industry for 7 years and I have just the same, if not more knowledge of my field of work, then my supervisor. It's only I need to learn their own procedures and contacts. I feel that a comment she made to me yesterday was very unfair and uncalled for.

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bednobs

not sure what your question is, but as i am not your boss(or psychic) i can only tell you that they are perfectly at liberty to get rid of you for any reason, or even no reason. If they now find they want someone for 3 days, then they can sack you and re-advertise

muchlovex

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P.s. I did say to him that I will give him a 1 month 'notice' period for the 1 day i was working, just so he can sort something out. He seemed grateful for this.
The comment he said was he was disappointed of the fact I sent an email to the wrong member of staff. It was a query. I had asked my colleague who I should send the email to and they told me 'administrator of **** dept'. I mean, this was only a very small query, which was solved when they replied back and said no, I am not the person for this, but forward the email to *** dept, which i did. Problem solved.
Now he was making me feel stupid my saying he was disappointed about this.

woofgang

if she wants to fail your probation period and she is being petty with you she is silly...what are the terms of your probation period? If its a "does not suit for whatever reason" She's only got to say that you are unable to be as flexible as the post requires.

muchlovex

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I know I fulfill the job requirements and more as I've 7 years experience and in my previous role was a manager. But as I moved to a different part of the country and I wanted to work part time, i took this admin role, with-in the same dept I worked for for 7 years.

muchlovex

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I have told her I am flexible. But I have explained the problems I am having so to why I had to decline the extra day.
They advertised the post as 2 days and that is what I am conmtracted for. there are other part timers there who were asked to work an extra day but they can't either. At least I tried it out for 1 month, but due to issues I cannot commit myself to it. I was honest with him from the start that I'll see how it does.

woofgang

not really relevant if you can't be as flexible as they want...

ummmm

But your not flexible...

muchlovex

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He knows I am flexible as, sometimes we are required to change our working day, or come in and day off for extra training - all of which I am happy to do.

He knows the circumstances and reasons of why i have had to decline the extra day. I have told him that when the situation changes I will let him know.

woofgang

But but but if they want someone to do 3 days instead of two......
I am not getting at you. When I was at work (retd now) I could only do short days because we had an elderly dog. I was clear what I could do (move time of work at short notice, work at home etcet) and what I could not. This meant that I got passed over for jobs that I would have loved and been good at....c'est la vie.....