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First off, thanks everyone for the addresses! I'll be getting cards out in the next few days. I have to purchase stamps, and then I'll get them all taken care of. So if you would still like a card, please let me know in the last post.
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OMG, this day was so screwed up.
The gal I work with, E, got fired/quit for something she really didn't do. It's been building for a while, my manager is a bit scattered and takes her frustrations out on those around her. But it really took me by surprise.
E went to the back to deliver some papers, and was asked by one of the nurses to make a few post-op calls to the Spanish speaking patients. She called up to my desk to let me know what was going on and everything was fine. She was gone maybe 10 minutes, at the most. In that time, I got a sudden influx of patients. I was fine, but busy, so I didn't mention to my manager what E was doing. I really feel bad about that now.
When E came back up, S, my manager, asked her where she had been and that she had been looking for her for 15 minutes. Which was untrue, as she hadn't asked me once where E was, and she had only been gone a max of 10 minutes, if that. I apologized to S and told her E had told me where she was and it was my fault I hadn't told her, as I had been busy. S assured me it was fine, and she would talk to the nurses about not highjacking E in the future.
But then S turned on E, and started accusing her of not being with me, saying I'm not able to handle the front by myself, which is absolute bull-pucky. But E told S, again, what had happened, and explained that she had called me and that I was capable of looking after the front. S told E that she was in charge of me, and therefore I was her responsibility.
This was when E told S that they were both upset and the discussion should be postponed until they had both calmed down and weren't upset. S told her if she didn't want to talk about it right then she could get out and not come back. So E gathered her stuff and left.
This all took place within a matter of a few hours, escalating until it finally broke. So now I'm alone at the front, which is fine, I can handle it, but I'm worried because there were still things I was learning. The little things that don't usually happen in the day to day, but someone who's been there a few years has seen before. And it doesn't exactly make me feel great that my boss thinks I'm incapable of doing my job, a thought which has been encouraged by the girl who sits at the desk behind me and who tried to get me in trouble a few weeks ago when she told S that I wasn't doing my job correctly. I set the record straight for that, but OMG, I'm already tired of the office politics.
Right now, I'm honestly fine if they don't keep me on in January. I still like the job, and it's a hell of a lot better than Amazon, but if they let me got I'll be able to collect unemployment and look for another job. If they keep me on, I'm just going to really have to watch my back, even more so now, and try to get it through my manager's head that I can, honestly, do that job they hired me to do.
Urgh. Why is being an adult so hard?
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OMG, this day was so screwed up.
The gal I work with, E, got fired/quit for something she really didn't do. It's been building for a while, my manager is a bit scattered and takes her frustrations out on those around her. But it really took me by surprise.
E went to the back to deliver some papers, and was asked by one of the nurses to make a few post-op calls to the Spanish speaking patients. She called up to my desk to let me know what was going on and everything was fine. She was gone maybe 10 minutes, at the most. In that time, I got a sudden influx of patients. I was fine, but busy, so I didn't mention to my manager what E was doing. I really feel bad about that now.
When E came back up, S, my manager, asked her where she had been and that she had been looking for her for 15 minutes. Which was untrue, as she hadn't asked me once where E was, and she had only been gone a max of 10 minutes, if that. I apologized to S and told her E had told me where she was and it was my fault I hadn't told her, as I had been busy. S assured me it was fine, and she would talk to the nurses about not highjacking E in the future.
But then S turned on E, and started accusing her of not being with me, saying I'm not able to handle the front by myself, which is absolute bull-pucky. But E told S, again, what had happened, and explained that she had called me and that I was capable of looking after the front. S told E that she was in charge of me, and therefore I was her responsibility.
This was when E told S that they were both upset and the discussion should be postponed until they had both calmed down and weren't upset. S told her if she didn't want to talk about it right then she could get out and not come back. So E gathered her stuff and left.
This all took place within a matter of a few hours, escalating until it finally broke. So now I'm alone at the front, which is fine, I can handle it, but I'm worried because there were still things I was learning. The little things that don't usually happen in the day to day, but someone who's been there a few years has seen before. And it doesn't exactly make me feel great that my boss thinks I'm incapable of doing my job, a thought which has been encouraged by the girl who sits at the desk behind me and who tried to get me in trouble a few weeks ago when she told S that I wasn't doing my job correctly. I set the record straight for that, but OMG, I'm already tired of the office politics.
Right now, I'm honestly fine if they don't keep me on in January. I still like the job, and it's a hell of a lot better than Amazon, but if they let me got I'll be able to collect unemployment and look for another job. If they keep me on, I'm just going to really have to watch my back, even more so now, and try to get it through my manager's head that I can, honestly, do that job they hired me to do.
Urgh. Why is being an adult so hard?
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Thanks. It was so shocking, but things seem to have quieted down. The word lawsuit has come up, so everyone is being on their best behavior.
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*hugs*
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*Hugs*
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But really, it sounds like S has issues and maybe is not secure in her own mind--declaring that she's "in charge" of you like that is a way of asserting her power (not her actual authority, which is something else completely). She also sounds like she takes her personal stress out on others.
Watch your back, because she's unstable.
Every place has different workplace issues--things that are not that big a deal in a big company turn into soap opera drama in a small place; OTOH, in a big organization like Amazon, everyone is just a number and a "resource", not a person. It's six of one and a half dozen of the other.
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But since E left, and the word lawsuit has come into it, everyone seems to be on their best behavior. I'm thinking it's the calm before the storm and keeping an eye on my back.