I want to ask my HR dept for last month's salary. How can I write it in a formal email?
Hi,This is very unfortunate, anyways it could be settled and do not delay.Since you want to write an email,make a clear subject line first. That’s the line which will appear on the mail box. Do not write long mails/stick to your point and be very direct. Keep it short and very simple.So write a direct line example “Salary Due__________ (month) 2018”or more direct “Salary Not paid_(month) 2018”(then the email part-body of the mail)Dear Sir,This is to bring to your notice that my salary for the month of_____________2018 is not credited into my account.Employee id:Date of joining:(its okay to mention, though HR should have all these details of yours)Please do the needful.Regards“Your name”And after sending the mail do not hesitate to call, the HR (to whom you have addressed the email) and tell that you have sent an email. And keep following up.Hope this helps!Good luck!
Is Costa Rica considered a safe vacation?
My friend and I are planning on going to Costa Rica either by the end of this year (2012) or in February 2013. I'm wondering if Costa Rica is considered to be a safe country? Would I need to be worried about getting raped on the streets, or is there nothing to be worried about? This is going to be our first time travelling together and I'm wondering what resorts would be recommended, what parts of Costa Rica are recommended, as well as sight seeing we should be doing while we're there. *We're planning on being there for about 7-10 days.* *I'm not expecting five star resorts, we want to see to Costa Rica, not just a beach.* Thanks a bunch!
How do I tell my manager about a pre-planned vacation?
I just got my summer job at McDonald's (I've been working there for a couple weeks now). I work pretty hard, always do what I'm asked to do and do it well, and have never been late or anything like that. Unfortunately, I have a mandatory family vacation coming up toward the end of June which will last for 12 days. It's not an option to not go on the trip since I would probably be disowned haha. How do I tell my manager about this trip? It's about a month away (slightly less now). I didn't tell her before because I really needed the job for the summer and I wanted to wait until they knew I was a good worker before I told them. I'm still not perfect at my job, but I think they know I'm very conscientious and will become very good at my job with a little more practice. My schedule (other than the vacation) is extremely flexible for them too since I told them I'm available any day of the week at any time of the day and for up to 40 hours per week. I also volunteered to stay late a couple of times when they were short on help during a busy time of day. I think my managers all like me (including the head manager who is the person I have to tell and who will make the decision as to my job). How do I tell my head manager? In other words, how do I word it to make it sound better?
How do I respond to an email, which was sent to me by a very senior person with an apology for replying me late?
If you feel like you have to reply to this, say "thanks for replying" or something not overly humble, etc. The other choice is to... treat it like you didn't notice at all. They're feeling guilty (more likely if it was a woman; just google women feeling the need to apologize in email), just spend your time worrying about the content of your response instead of being overly polite. The only time I wouldn't do this would be if you are in a culture/work environment that -is- overly polite. However, if they were, you'd already have significant fodder for what to write in an email, and you probably wouldn't need to google the answer.
How much vacation time do people actually take at companies with fixed or "unlimited" vacation time? How plugged in are they when they do take vacation? What influences their behavior: personal preferences, peer behavior, workload patterns/seasons?
I work at Factual (company), which has an unlimited vacation policy. The amount of vacation that people take varies greatly.At the high end, I've taken about 8 weeks of vacation during each of the last two years. I tend to do some work during vacations, however, so it's more like 8 weeks abroad in which I happened to squeeze in 4 weeks of work at odd hours. I think a few of my coworkers also take 4-6 weeks per year. Most of these people are pretty disconnected when they travel.On the low end, some of my coworkers don't take vacations at all, or take one week per year and then feel guilty about it. I understand their guilt about as well as they understand my wanderlust =).Things that affect how much vacation people take:How long you've been at the company. Someone who just joined is much less likely to take a vacation than someone who has been around for a few years.Your place in the company hierarchy. More senior people seem more comfortable with taking vacation than more junior people.Schedule pressure. If you're working on a huge project that will take 6 months, you probably won't try to take a vacation during that time.Being the only person on a project vs. being one of many. If you're the only person who knows how something works, you tend to worry a lot about what can happen while you're gone.Personal budgets and travel preferences. If you like hiking trips, 6 weeks of vacation won't set you back very much. If you like overwater bungalows in Tahiti and private cruises in the Galapagos, then you need to have a lot saved up to take more than a few weeks off every year.How much you like to take vacations (or how much you love your work). Some people like work enough that they don't want to take vacations. Others don't really care for vacations, so they might take a personal day or two but not go on longer trips.Your, ahem, cojones. Generally, if you ask your boss reasonably, you will get a "yes" 90% of the time. A lot of people are afraid to ask.When our unlimited vacation policy was established, it seemed like people were waiting for their peers to set the boundaries of what was appropriate and what was not. Over time, I've realized that people are just different. People who don't take breaks don't seem to change their habits even when they see others take frequent vacations. Conversely, people who take frequent vacations don't seem to tone things down in the presence of non-vacationers.
My boss is trying to sabotage my education, what should I do?
If in general school won't affect work then just let school be your little secret. If you need an hour for the orientation just tell him you have a medical appointment or something. If you were warned about his attitude towards employees going to school, why in the heck did you let the cat out of the bag? Well, it's done now. What does your company handbook or attendance policy say about sick leave, personal leave or vacation leave? What is the procedure for taking it? How far do you have to schedule it in advance? In all honesty, you are NOT obligated to tell him why you need the time off and I suspect it is ILLEGAL for him to deny a request for time off based on how you want to spend it. Whether you end up having to get another job or not, don't sacrifice your education. Believe me...ten years can just fly by and you do not want this to be one of your life's regrets. Sometimes these bully managers just need someone to point out the paragraph in the employee handbook that states how things WILL work. I don't say that very often....I have been a manager for 17 years...lol...but I think someone needs to give this guy a wake-up call.
My manager won't let me leave the country for an emergency?
I'm currently working for sam's club (Walmart) and I have to leave the country for the rest of the season, my grandmother is in very bad shape(she is in the last stages of alzheimer's disease and I want to see her before it's too late and regret it later. I know it's a very long time (about 20 days) but that's the cheapest flight i could find to Colombia and I don't have the funds to pay for a week trip. I planned on going this last summer using my vacation time and my manager kept postponing my vacation and and by the time i got them, the flights were too expensive. My manager told me he's not going to accept it because they need me really bad but it's no my fault the place won't hire anybody and 4 people just quit this last month. I told him I was willing to give all my vacation hours and leave without getting paid but he still said no. Is there anything I can do?
How does the Walmart attendance policy work?
You really shouldn’t play the game with attendance at any company. Unlike some companies, Walmart is very serious about it. Most Walmart stores are short-handed and call-ins just make it worse.With 3 absences in 6 months, you’re on the verge of being fired and you don’t even have to miss a full day. What happens if power goes out and your alarm doesn’t go off so you oversleep? What if there’s an accident on the way to work and you get stuck in traffic because of it?Somebody in another answer said if you switch jobs, word gets around about what type of employee you are. A former coworker of mine played the attendance game at Walmart and eventually lost so he was fired. About 2 months later, he had a job interview with another company and when he showed up, he discovered that the interview was with one of his former managers from Walmart. Now, this manager actually decided to give him a chance and as far as I know, he’s still at that company and doing well, but it could have very easily gone badly for him just because he wanted to say he had a job, but didn’t want to go to work.
Are Temporary Agencies Destroying America?
It was not so many years ago that temp agencies filled positions for companies who had: people on vacation forming a new department people out ill maternity leave people who quit or were fired Those jobs lasted for a specified amount of time, and sometimes a company would ask a temp to stay--but not in the majority of cases. Then there were regular Employment Agencies. These agencies were for people looking for a full-time or part-time career. Applicants were not looking for temp to hire--they wanted a career. It's always been with Temp Agencies that they charge much more (perhaps double) for an employee per hour. Employment Agencies got a fee up front from the employer (or in some instances from the person hired), and that was the end of it. I have noticed in the classifieds, for some time now, that nearly everything is temp-to-hire. This really sux for people--those three months as a temp could have been their probation period on the company's payroll, and they could soon be receiving their benefits.