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WWYD? Work related (sorry kind of long)
Ok, so I am kind of stumped on how to handle this. I am having some major issues with my asst manager. I know I should talk with the manager but not exactly sure how to approach it. Recently when manager was on vacation the asst did somethings that I don't feel were the right thing to do. One of the things I know i need to because i don't want it to come back and be a "you knew this happened, why didn't you say anything" thing. The other things are things like having another employee go do her errands for her, after the employees alloted lunch break. I don't know if the manager will find this a big deal or not, so I am trying to figure out if I should be kind of general about it and see if she wants more info. But not sure how to do that.
Then comes the scheduling. I was hired for 20 hours a week. Which is fine because I have my other job. In August/Sept. they were short handed and just started scheduling me for 30 hrs a week, which almost caused me to loose my benefits at my other job. I got them to make it so I could get my required hours at the second job. I was asked a few times to cover shifts on my days off, and change my schedules around at both places. I did so to be nice a help out. Well this month we are short handed again I guess and I am scheduled for 30 hours each week for the rest of the month. I had kindly asked the asst manager to schedule me as light as she could at the end of the month as it is inventory at job 2 and they could really use my help that week. I told her what type of schedule would be helpful, and what did she do? She scheduled me the exact opposite! I asked her nicely yesterday if she would remember all the flexiblility I have had with her to help her out when it comes summer time and there some must have time off, and she basically was like "no! you owe me. I scrabbled to get you this friday and saturday off." which I had requested off back in October. I just feel like I have given alot of extra time to them in 6 months and she feels that barely made up for 2 days off. Don't get me wrong, I am glad I have all the extra hours, since they pay more. But I just feel like she is taking but not giving. You know? What would you do?
Am I just crazy and should just get over all this and move on in life?
Re: WWYD? Work related (sorry kind of long)
I'd talk to mgr. I'd start off with the scheduling and the stuff that affects me directly and then I'd throw in a "BTW, saw this and thought you'd want to know" about the errands (unless mgr doesn't seem responsive to concerns that impacted me directly).
Good luck. Let us know how it goes
Ditto this. Also, from both standpoints, the longer you let the problems go that occured while your manager was gone unsaid, and then say they happened later, the more chances are of it #1 happening again and #2 the manager may not be happy that you knew this and didn't say anything. It needs to be nipped in the bud.
K, i have to agree with this too. It's better to just come forward, than to know about something and have to get called on the carpet for it later.
wanna have an assit manager *** session with me? i can vent about mine, you can vent about yours and we can have drinks at the same time. win/win
Ditto. I'd make the scheduling the focus of it though. At the end you could mention the errand running thing with a "hey, I'm not sure how much of a concern this is, but I thought I should mention it..."