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The Dr. Laura Podcast

I'm Ready to Confront My Employer

The Dr. Laura Podcast

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

I'm Ready to Confront My Employer - Heather thinks her supervisor is being unfair by not granting her time off request, especially given how instrumental Heather has been to the company's success. - Dr. Laura: "Professionally but bluntly put forth your demands, and be willing to quit if they are not met." - Are you happy with your employer? Email me your thoughts at: drlaura@drlaura.com | Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://www.drlaura.com/privacy-policy for privacy information.

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0:00.0

This is Dr. Laura, the call of the day is coming right up after this message from my sponsor.

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1:03.0

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Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on serious XM Triumph 111.

1:21.0

Heather, welcome to the program.

1:23.0

Good morning drlora. Thank you for taking my call. It's my pleasure Heather. What's happening?

1:30.0

Well, this is a job related question. I am a licensed therapist and I work.

1:37.0

I work in an organization where I've been here for eight years and I have a new supervisor. I'm having a face to face.

1:45.0

We have monthly supervision and having my first face to face with her next week and she used to be she so occupied the same level of job that I do and she recently got promoted to a higher position.

1:58.0

My dilemma is that recently I received what I felt was a sort of cast sizing email. I had requested some very reasonable time off and it was declined.

2:16.0

I got a long email about how I need to be willing to flex for the needs of the organization and we're down steps so we all need to be available all the time.

2:28.0

Especially over the last couple of years. We work in person and the challenge now is a lot of clinicians are working the zoom call from home.

2:38.0

So they have had a very hard time recruiting to have people actually show up at a Monday through Friday job. I've covered more than my fair share to help the organization.

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