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mrmpa

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6. I interviewed for a job recently, and then job shadowed a worker..........
Tue Dec 25, 2012, 11:29 AM
Dec 2012

for a day. This was a job where you are in your car all day meeting with behaviorally challenged individuals in personal care home and their own residences.

We ate on the fly in the car. I asked the employee, what you do about lunch, because you are paid for a 37.5 hour week. She said "I don't know". Apparently no one takes 1/2 hour off, because if they can do so many billable hours in a 3 month period, they will receive a "bonus".

I can't get a reply from the woman who interviewed me. Apparently I asked the wrong question. If I do get the job, one of the first phone calls I make is to the SEIU.

So it's not only vacation time, it's breaks and lunches that we don't get.

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