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Werk Iz Fun? Part 2
Jan. 23rd, 2009 01:24 amWell, my manager said after he came in last night to fill in for the sickie that I'd have to fill in on the Friday morning shift (Now, that is) if my coworker called in sick again. He also said that he'd call to let me know either way.
Right.
What ACTUALLY happened was they apparently called and left messages on my nonfunctional answering machine, and assumed that doing that somehow guaranteed that I'd magically show up. SOP in any situation like this, anywhere that I've heard of anyway, is that you do NOT assume that leaving a message is good enough, and you HAVE to get a direct response from the person in question. Well, he apparently doesn't know this, and allowed a subordinate to call and, with the leaving of a message, assumed I'd agreed.
I hadn't, and I never got ANY message.
So, at ten after midnight I get a call from the second shift office. "Aren't you coming in?" I ended up talking to my manager, who was pissed that I didn't magically bend to his desires. I agreed to come in, but not being willing to take the bullshit and grief of him trying to pin this shit on me, I called the Area Manager, who essentially said that I was right, the manageer was wrong, and could I please help by showing up?
I said I would, but that I didn't want to take grief from my manager. He said he'd be talking with him in the morning. I actually feel for this guy, as he's only been Area Manager for a month- and to top it off he'd been dropped in a figurative shitstorm of problems, my situation only being the most recent.
So I'm at work, pissed off and likely to be even MORE pissed when the manager gets in and tries to light into me for all of this.
It is NOT my fault my coworker got sick. He shouldn't have been made to work that night in the first place! It isn't my fault that they made a stupid assumption that I'd be in, either.
I reiterate once again, I HATE STUPID PEOPLE.
Right.
What ACTUALLY happened was they apparently called and left messages on my nonfunctional answering machine, and assumed that doing that somehow guaranteed that I'd magically show up. SOP in any situation like this, anywhere that I've heard of anyway, is that you do NOT assume that leaving a message is good enough, and you HAVE to get a direct response from the person in question. Well, he apparently doesn't know this, and allowed a subordinate to call and, with the leaving of a message, assumed I'd agreed.
I hadn't, and I never got ANY message.
So, at ten after midnight I get a call from the second shift office. "Aren't you coming in?" I ended up talking to my manager, who was pissed that I didn't magically bend to his desires. I agreed to come in, but not being willing to take the bullshit and grief of him trying to pin this shit on me, I called the Area Manager, who essentially said that I was right, the manageer was wrong, and could I please help by showing up?
I said I would, but that I didn't want to take grief from my manager. He said he'd be talking with him in the morning. I actually feel for this guy, as he's only been Area Manager for a month- and to top it off he'd been dropped in a figurative shitstorm of problems, my situation only being the most recent.
So I'm at work, pissed off and likely to be even MORE pissed when the manager gets in and tries to light into me for all of this.
It is NOT my fault my coworker got sick. He shouldn't have been made to work that night in the first place! It isn't my fault that they made a stupid assumption that I'd be in, either.
I reiterate once again, I HATE STUPID PEOPLE.
