Saturday, January 17, 2009

He said what now?

One of my biggest pet peeves about any job is the comparable difference between time paid and time spent. Unless I volunteer, any mention of my company's name should involve paying me.

So it annoys me to no end when I wake up on my day off to find a text message from my boss saying, "Call me. I have questions and I'm NOT HAPPY." Nothing sours my experience for the rest of the day like a good berating from the next rung up the ladder.

The insult to injury here is the hypocrisy. I got chewed out just 40 minutes ago because we overran our labor. The reason we did this is because the manager already mentioned left EARLY so we scrambled for coverage and I wasn't going to make someone split their shift across hours just to cover it. The final result? I went OVER by 35 minutes.

Furthermore, he lectured me about scheduling and all these proper procedures, a talk that not only should I have been paid for, but not on my day off so that it didn't ruin the rest of my weekend. Yell at me on Monday so that way I can look at the time clock and mention that you always come in an hour earlier than you need to so you can leave early and not deal with customers. Talk about blindsiding.

And don't fucking use CAPS in a text message before 12 pm. It's just not professional.

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