Just quick warning, this blog gonna be just me bitchin' bout work. Oh and me swearin'... a lot.
Alright to start off, right now I hate my manager with passion! (can't say the name due to work policy) Now, this is my point of view and my point of view only, so it might be bias... but who care, this is my blog, so I can write about my point of view right?
lil info. I work at City Library.
Little background, last week I took off, cuz I have tremendous amount of vacation and if I don't use it, I loose it. My assistant manager was bugging me to use it.
Moving a long, this week... to be more specific, Thursday when I came to work I found out that teleform system has been broken for WEEK and haven't calling the patron for their item is ready to pick up. To be more specific 775 patrons. Now, my manager wanted us to call all of them and tell them to pick it up the hold that was going to expire in 1~3 days (some were already expired)... To make it worse, 2 of my co-worker called in sick that day and my mangaer FUCKIN' LEFT US TO DO IT BY FRIDAY NIGHT! AND THIS WAS NOT OUR FAULT EITHER! Fucking moron computer tech, fuck it up (to be specific computer tech manager asshole), but we're the one fixing this mess. WTF!?!?!? Is it just me or this is fuck up! If it was our department's fault then, yes our department should fix it, but why in the FUCK we gotta fix the problem that other department did?!?!?!
Oh, where's my manager while having this nightmare was happening? She went home early to prepare for her daughter's birthday tomorrow (Friday). To certain level, that's fine. She was telling us how excited about her daughter's party for a while, so I'll let her slide on this one... BUT cannot let her slide her is she left us with stupid instruction which pretty much said "call all 775 patrons"... Fuck you!!!! Now, to make it simple for everyone to understand, that night we had 4 people working (cuz 2 called in sick) and I was suppose to get off at 6pm. Totaling 5 people (including me) isn't much. 3 people work on front desk to check out books & other stuff to patron while 2 people checking in the material that comes in... How does she want to work to call 700 plus patrons in 2 day? Manager worked on it for 2 hrs and she could go through 50 patrons. 50 patron in 2 hrs, yeah that's not scratching the surface of the pile of paper we had.
No one and I mean, LITERALLY NO ONE wanted to call or to work on this problem. So I stood up and took different rout of solving this problem (can't explain too detail cuz it suppose to be technical stuff and "secret" for public to know), when I took the charge of this problem and showing other co-worker how I'm going to solve this problem, they were willing to help out. I ask my assistant manager if I can take extra hrs that night to work on this problem and my assistant manager said that HR (higher up people) gave us 10 extra hrs to work on this problem, so I worked whole Thursday without lunch or break.
End of the night, we had all figured out and by tomorrow (Friday) noon it should be all done. Friday, I wasn't schedule to work, so I called work in the morning to see if I can come to work to finish up and again, my assistant manger approved it, so I went and finish it up. Now our department stuff was all solved, but 5 branch's hold problem wasn't solved yet (our City Library has 5 different branches that connect our library)... so me and one of co-worker went physically to each branches to bring their portion and show them how we solved it.
Most of branches were kind and thanking us for physically coming over there and showing them how to fix this problem and all of them agree that our department shouldn't take all this problem to solve it.
After finish delivering it to them, me & one of co-worker divided up the all the info, so when manger see what we did and even left sticky notes to show every folder to detail information. When all was done, I was going to log off and go home, but again 2 of co-worker called in sick and they ask me to stay to help them out. I wanted to say "No"... but I said "Yes" and again, I worked whole day again. I was dead exhausted today and didn't want to go work, but I've kicked my ass off the bed and went to work.
When I got to work today and I saw my manager, she had upset face and didn't want to be here. When I checked the work e-mail, there wasn't even e-mail from her for any "thank you" or "good job". I thought cuz it's been busy, so she didn't have time to check or write her e-mail... but when I check the schedule, she was actually working only one hour! Rest, she was on her office doing data base stuff.
Now, bout the e-mail, I'm not asking her to sent it direct to me saying "thank you" or "good job", but want her to sent it to all of our department staff saying "Thank you to all the staff that worked on the hold problem we had few days ago. With everyone's effort, it was quickly solved." or those kind of thing. Just simple thank you to everyone's e-mail.
So waited for while, but she didn't say anything or e-mail bout it, so I ask her if she knew bout what we did to solve the problem. Her respond was "Oh yes, **** (assistant manger's name) called me this morning and told me about it.".... that's it? No thank you or anything? What the Fuck!
To finish me off, when I was logging off my time sheet (on online), I notice that my pay vacation hours last week was taken off. I was like WTF? So I ask the manager to see what's going on, SHE HAVE FUCKING CANCELED IT! Again WTF!!!! I ask her why and her response was "Oh because you took extra hour this week and we're really tight on our department hours."... Oh, so because we're tight on hours, we can fucking cancel my pay vacation hour off! Now, I was letting it go about other bullshit stuff she made us do this week. For the shit she left us and I got approved from assistant manager to work extra hours to fix the fucking problem... now, she's finishing me off by cutting my paycheck? She told me that "Oh I'm pretty sure you can use those hours that you couldn't use. June is long way" (July 1st is our work's beginning of the year). "**** (manager's name) FUCK YOU!" Oh~ have no idea how much I wanted to say that to her... but I hold it in and told her that "If you're not going to let me have those vacation hours last week, I'll use it on May and June and no one can't tell me that I can't take those days off." and bout 1/2 hours more of bullshit talk & excuses she was blabbed. In the end she still cut 2 hours of my vacation. Yes, 2 hours isn't much, but how much shit I had to go through this week, I think 2 hours going over not gonna hurt! Also I get paid $12 an hour. Now that's $24 I lost from this pay period! I didn't want to talk with her anymore, I just walked away.
I had enough of her bullshit, I'm done. Next time if there's a problem happens. She can do it by herself, cuz no one will help. I was kind enough to hold it in til now, but this is where I walk away and say "You have messed with wrong person. Fuck you, I'll do my job and only my job. Not doing any extra mile, not even a inch."
Right now, I'm so pissed off that whoever see me or try to talk with me, I might bite their head off, so I'm trying to stay in my house to calm myself down. These time I wish, I had punching bag to hit my stress off.
If you're still reading this, thank you for reading my bitching. I just had to let it off my chest. While writing this blog, most of my friends have texted me like crazy to comfort me... so I don't have any steam coming out of my head... but I'm still pissed. Hopefully, if I'll be calm by Monday. If not, I might rip my manager's head off. lol
Anyways, hope everyone has better weekend.
