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I need to blow off steam so here goes 1) Once you are at work I really do not care as your supervisor that you have a flat and are calling AAA, get it fixed and get to work. May sound cold but I am not here as your daddy or your husband, I am your supervisor and really once your here you are here for 8 hours so you have time for the assistance to come, I do not need updates every 15 minutes as at the very least it shows you are focused on the car and not work 2)If I ask you to do something to make sure life goes a lil easier in case of emergency, please do it. I have a woman that is ill in my unit. She has a flu that she seems unable to kick. I knew this yesterday when she was here.Timesheets are due today and I really have little time to dig thru the records, espcially in these two weeks when people take an hour here and there because of holiday stuff and figure out what you took(sick vs vacation vs administrative time) and when. All I asked was that when they left yesterday that they update the sheets so that should they get sick or have a sick kid or their car breaks down that all I need to is fill in one day and submit it. i did this w/ this woman in mind yesterday. I sent an email out..I prepared and reminded them..And as expected she called in...and I needed to sort through her sheet. 3) Stop counting everyone else's cookies!!!! I work in an enviorment where you might get 4 assignments while someone else gets 2 while someone else gets 5. But I do not control the assignments, that is above me, and it usually all is a wash in the end. Also when I did the job they do, I loved more work as it kept me busy. They all seem to be like children worried how many cookies Johnny got vs how manyt they have. LIFE IS NOT ABOUT FAIR. is it fair that one man's great idea never gets funding, while another's does and he becomes rich while the first guy is still a working slob?...nope but guess what that is life. 4) Take "Yes for an answer!!!! I have a woman that works under me that for one I think is so insecure that it feels like she might as well be asking me the equivlant to the ingredients to a petter butter and jelly sandwich every day to make sure she has it right, yet she should know that and much more by now...and the thing is she does yet she keeps asking to make sure. She also does not stop the question when given the answer, almost as if the question was prerecorded in her head and nothing will stop her from asking the entire thing. If you ask what time it is and i tell you, I really do not need to know the history of the watch and clock. I would think that this might just be me, that I am a guy that likes an economy of words and so i see this more, but people have asked me if i notice it w/o me saying a word so it is not just my way of seeing things. ...there are more but I will stop here for now.... WAIT just remembered the other one! 5) I am not paid to be nice. I am getting a lil tired if this idea that as a supervisor I need to always have happy pills in me. Maybe you are not producing, are whining about not having enough time to get it all done (which falls on slightly deaf ears with me as I did that job and did it well in the same amount of time for 20+ years) and I just got an email or a phone call from my supervisor asking why you are behind...or maybe tyou are the 3rd person with this sob story.....and then you wnt me to be nice. And the sister gripe I have to this is that work is not play. I come to work to work and not to decorate the office or have parties or all that. So if I am not really that crisp on the 15 minute break bing a 1/2 hr because it is Sugar Plum Pumpkin Day and you are having a cake, forgive me...and finally 6) What i call Last-Supper-itis. Remember in the Bible when Jesus says someone will betray me and the whole table looks at him and has to be told it is not them? Why does it happen that everytime I send out a memo or email on a subject, and do it in a way that it masks who did the thing I am trying to correct, does everyone run up and ask me who it was or do a "Not me right?" ???? If I wanted you to know who it was you would know and if you think it is you, maybe it is...and then the other part of this is the person who the email is not aimed at that comes up all upset because it must be them because the email is about littering and they dropped a crumb on the floor 3 weeks ago while the cubical next to them is a pig sty yet I must mean theircumb and why would i be so mean? ........ *long deep clensing sigh* Ok that is off my chest now i can move on
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Posted by whiteknight on 2008-01-04 11:27:42 | Rating: | Views: 114
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I think you need to take a chill pill, otherwise your in the wrong job !
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Posted by Headinclouds
on 2008-01-04 11:39:07
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Well I agree(as an employee not a supervisor) I would think you have no compassion,BUT this is bussiness we are talking about. My supervisor has given me alot of chances so its a wonder I still have a job.(forgetting to do tasks)I have alot on my mind.no excuse.If a person has car trouble Ok if the same car keeps messing up,find another way to work. I wouldn,t last working for you,(from reading this entry) not your fault.Mine Compassion can go so far in the work place. Iam wondering why I don,t reassigned. Iam starting to rant and rave.Every situation is different.However its a bussiness
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Posted by flipmaster
on 2008-01-04 12:02:43
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Let me clarify,,if your car getting a flat makes you late I am understanding as long as it is not every week. What I am talking about is that you are here, someone says you have a flat and now I need to hear about it over and over while you work to get it fixed. If I walk out at the end of the day and you have a dead battery or a flat I will most likely help you but given that you have AAA and you have all day to get it fixed it is not a situation where you face any danger...all it is is wanting to tell me like I am your daddy or husband
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Posted by whiteknight
on 2008-01-04 12:32:54
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Man, you really need to chill. I can just see that you're the type that if your people ask you how to do things and get your approval each time, its wrong, but if they don't they are in trouble too. So many of your type!
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Posted by Youthful1
on 2008-01-04 13:39:40
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Youthful I would rather that someone would try, fail and learn then wait like a timid bird that never leaves the nest
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Posted by whiteknight
on 2008-01-04 13:58:36
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Bein' a Supervisor has those problems, I'm a checkout supervisor to 49 cashiers, 6 Service desk, 4 Home Electronics, 4 Jewellery, 4 resturant, 5 CAPS, plus 1 Assistant than my supervisor. Somedays, it gets overwhelmin', but I stick along side with my employees, they are there to make a livin'. I do my best to make them feel good about bein' there. And when I feel, I'm too hard on them, I will go back and apologize to them...I'm sorry for the people workin' for you...You must have a hell of a boss to work for...xo
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Posted by olp76
on 2008-01-06 09:17:20
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Like I was once told, I have a work ethic from the 60's, the 1860's
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Posted by whiteknight
on 2008-01-06 11:51:07
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I thought my last employer was a good one ,and they turned out to be mentally abusive,slanderous , most of all unprofessional.In my interview a couple years back they had told me how family oriented they were,how caring and professional.They talked about now that they have their own business they were going to be more professional and respectful of their employees than what they had -had before starting their own company. OH WHAT A LOAD OF DOO-DOO !!!!!
For starters they are far from family oriented !! They lacked respect ,well for anyone but theirselves. They thrived on people bashing,down grading,gossip, ect. The last thing welcome in their company was good natured people ,with good work ethics. Being a family business ,there were troubles between the family members.Oh my the things they would say about one another.And feel nothing wrong with it in the least.I am talking very personal things. And employees were drawn into it like a moth to a flame. I always preferred to stay clear of it,I think that is why I did not fit in.Well that and me being a non believer in drug use in the work place.That too was another big problem this company had.In my time there I have seen more than 14 people come and go.Most of them by their own choice,some because they had gotten into trouble out side the work place and could not return. But the biggest reason people left was the way the family members treated them. One member was the worst,She had and most likely will always have trouble with everyone. I don't think she could get along with a rock.As a matter of fact she was the worst for exploiting the families personal affairs. I mean to tell you,she held nothing back. There was nothing she did not tell. I only wish (some times ) before I got laid off I would have let her very unprofessional behavior be known.
I know I sound bitter ,and I am.I aplologize. On the day I got laid off,I was told it was because of down sizing.Certain recalls had hurt their business and their company profits were down. But also in the same meeting They had said MEAN AND NASTY things to me.Down grading me.I was in a spin.Just in november I had been given a bonus because they said I was doing such a good job.After the holiday they said they had a good year.The mistakes were minimal. They were happy about that.A big part of my job there was the QC of shipments. So I took that (at the time )as a compliment. Needless to say I was shocked to hear the things they were saying to me while laying me off.
A few days after I was laid off,I had gotten a call from a woman I worked with there,and she was telling me of how they called a meeting after I had left and said the most horrible things about me. I by that time was not suprised. I had exspected that .
I think it is a shame how people in positions higher than others think they have such power to treat others as if they are the scrapings off the bottom of a shoe. People now a days are more satisfied with being hateful and hurtful to others. Thats a shame. I have met a lot of people in my life,I have known a lot of good hard working people and seen a lot of them put up with abuse in the work place because they needed the job.But in the end they were the ones who lost their jobs because the turd higher up ,that lacks respect ,screwed them over.
I would like to close in saying "POWER TO THE LITTLE PEOPLE"
Work at Will was brought up just so companies could get away with abuse !!!!
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Posted by just_dooped
on 2008-01-10 10:17:08
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(to just dropped)ok fine....WOW
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Posted by whiteknight
on 2008-01-10 10:24:44
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Don't let them get to you. Not that you would. It seems like you have a pretty good hold on things. I mean they are "individuals" you can only control so much of them. As being someone who works on the other side (being the clerk/asst/recp) I can see both sides. But I whole heartedly agree that work is work.
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Posted by CryDemiFey
on 2008-01-21 14:35:54
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