When your boss is acting like a spoiled two year-old whenever someone else touches her blankie...
... and you're the blankie?
I swear these people are going to drive me insane.
The latest round of remind-to-get-down-on-my-knees-and-thank-the-boyfriend-for-talking-me-out-of-taking-the-day-shift-job...
OK, this is THE busiest time of year. And this is a BAD year. Staff cuts everywhere, reorgs everywhere, everyone desperately trying to hang on to their sanity long enough to make it to Thanksgiving, at which point we will, you can believe it, give thanks. The coworker, who has constant health problems, has taken yet another turn for the worse. In July & August she tooke almost three weeks off. That was fine in July & August, I could deal. In October, she started taking days off again. So I called the comptroller and told her that I needed help.
The comptroller dragged us into a meeting. Less said about the meeting the better. The coworker cried. I said bland things about caring about the coworker's health, but at the same time needing help with all the work that needs to be done because, HELLO! BUSIEST TIME OF THE FRIKKEN YEAR!!!! The comptroller hadn't realized just how many days off the coworker had been taking, because the coworker was calling in sick to the FD, and the FD had been given strict orders to NOT INTERFERE WITH NIGHT AUDIT'S AFFAIRS because night audit is supervised by the comptroller.
(And I swear, I swear the next time she asks me a "Well, why would they do that?" question I'm going to bitch slap her. I am. She asks me "Well, why would they keep authorizing all these days off for her?" I said, "Well, I think they just didn't want to step on your toes." And she says "You don't know that. You can't know that." Right. Because it's all part of the FD staffs grand plan to... uh... let the coworker call in sick all the time. FD manager says he didn't want to step on the comptroller's toes. But I can't know that that's why the FD allowed the days off.)
OK, fine, OK good, comptroller is directly supervising our days off. Not like I can take any. But fine. So the other night I get into work and there's a "Please record all the days off you took this month" sheet waiting for me. End of the month, this is normal. But this month's is weird. First, it's just me and the coworker listed on the sheet, not the rest of the full-timers. OK, right, we're our own thing now, fine. But the sheet's not filled out. Which is fine for me, because I'm pretty sure I didn't get any days off. But I know the coworker had a BUNCH of them. Every other time I've seen this thing, the supervisors have gone through and marked off which days you've taken off. Then you check it, and sign that you agree you took those days off. So seeing it blank was really strange.
So, yesterday morning, when the FD manager came in, I asked him about it. He said he wasn't in charge of our time off anymore, it had to go through the comptroller. Right, right. OK, so what about the part where nothing's on it at all? Well, he didn't know. But since I was still running around trying to finish up, he wrote a note on the form and put it in the comptroller's box.
So last night, when I get into work, I made the mistake of checking my email. Message from the comptroller.
Quote:
Also if you have ? or concerns email me, call me or see me. Idea of this sheet is for you both to fill in the details and then accounting
verifying all. As I have informed that you both report directly to me
therefore, you do not go to front desk managers and ask ? and put them
in the middle. It is not fair to them or myself. |
OK, so fine, so now I'm supposed to keep track myself of the one or two days I take off. Not a problem. But the hell? Do not got to FD managers and ask them questions? HELLO! I WORK AT THE FRIKKEN FRONT DESK!!!
I talked to the FD manager this morning. The same one that I'd apparently "put in the middle" of this... whatever this is. He was also a little "OK, so is she going a little crazy now?" over this too.
What's driving me nuts is the fact that I had jokingly commented to the FD manager that "I better be the one to write the note, so the comptroller doesn't know I was talking to you."
Oh, and did I mention they've hired someone to replace the coworker? Yep. My new coworker is the daughter of one of the comptroller's old business associates/buddies.
All hail She what done it all, for She sure is doin' it all over me this month.
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