10:34 PM : : Work sucks : :
Why does the company I work for feel that it's 'okay' to hire a person that has one job title and then assign duties and goals that are so off proportion to what they were hired for? Why have one person wear 6 different hats for thier job?! Believe it or not, one year ago, I was in this situation... actually I still am, but I've learned from it and have a whole different attitude towards it. Before, my mind would go into 6 million different directions to the point where I was literally at a mental breakdown. I'd actually attempt to accomplish everything on my plate. I realized that my plate was entirely too small for the food that was getting placed on it.
Now, my attitude is "fuck it". If I can't accomplish what I want to do today, it'll be there the next day. Don't like how I get things done, don't give me the work. Don't like my attitude? Don't come over to my desk. Have a problem with that? Shove it! What happen to me? I use to be a control freak. I had to complete all of my work every day with nothing left on my desk. Now, I feel like I did something productive if I'm capable in finishing atleast one thing I planned on doing. I use to be a nice person at work, now, I'm a complete bitch. One thing for sure, I have tough skin now. I can take it and give it back in a heart beat. I never use to be like this. I can speak my mind whether they want to hear it or not...which most of the time they don't want to hear it, but they're going to have to. Ah-ha, the little prima donna act comes out of me every once in a while. ;)
My manager created this position for a administrative assistant to him as well as filling in for the Processing Department. This position was intended for me, this position is something I already do. There was no pay raise difference to what I'm working now. Why should I post for this position when I already know the outcome. They will have me keep my work and just add on more duties and keep the same pay. Go through exactly what I went through last year.... ssoooo.... why should I post?!?! My supervisor asked me if I was going to post for it, my reply: "Why!? I already do that job." He wanted a secretary and my supervisor wanted the work load taken off of the processors and myself (you know, that way I can actually do MY work and get MY stuff done during normal working hours). I just laughed and told my supervisor that will never happen. This person will be 99% his secretary and the rest is yours. I will still be filling in (which I still do), I will still be handling other duties that she was to do, I will end up helping her out because she can't handle the work load. This person has been in this new position less than a month and is already dealing with the stress, fustration, and serisously overworked, the same way I felt the moment I was in this department.
All I can say is, I've warned her. Her and I sat and talked about this position, I told her exactly what it's going to be like. I told her she'll be filling in for these people atleast 2 - 3 times a week. She just was so happy to not be doing it full time. I warned her that the manager will work her to the bones before her supervisor can get her to do stuff as well. I feel sorry for here, then again, she knew what was coming. I asked her today, Now do you see why I'm such a bitch now? A position like this can kill you. She laughed and agreed with me, it's stressfull. I told her the best way to make a profit out of this is overtime. If the manager wants it done and so does the supervisor, do it w/ overtime. Soak him dry.
The past year and half I have had a wonderful share of overtime and I'll still do it. Now I'm fixing all the bullshit my supervisor didn't feel like doing for 6 months before it got handed over to me. My manager had a reality check and realize she can't handle her workload so assign the duty to me. I mean, come on, my position's purpose was to be the "jack of all trades"; to do pretty much everything in the department, but let's not get out of hand. Let's just give everything friggin thing to me to handle. Oh wait... they already did that. Last year was so bad that I broke out in tears at work several times to the person I was working on a project with. I had to take a week off.
My work sucks ass. Which brings me to the next thing, I've been selected to be apart of this associate solution thing. Which means I bring forth ideas to make this department and company better. Ha! Bad idea. Bring up a topic that will spark my nerve and trust me, they will wish I NEVER set foot in this project and probably will fire me. I've told my manager this as well, I'll make him regret fucking me over on my job.
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