This one is a doozy…
I had an hour long meeting about my attitude and the temperature of the department at large today. I was told I had been very critical and “biting” lately. I was told to get over my repeated attempts to steer away from disaster re: the menu editor. I was pumped for gossip about my coworkers. How do I explain this? You are out of the loop because you are a terrible manger and everyone hates you. I was also given a lecture about manager/underling relations. I didn’t know having a conversation on the ride home was a problem, let alone any of her business. Oh and then I got a gentle email reminding me that mental health services are covered by our insurance. So many things were wrong with today I can’t even blog coherently about all the different ways this day was made out of fail
Here’s an excerpt from an email I sent another coworker, with some of the more personal details edited out:
Here are things that make me angry:
I want her salary for doing her job. She told me today I should just handle ALL the RDS stuff without her involvement. What does she do again?
Stop telling me I need to act on my own, and then invariably tell me I am wrong.
Stop asking me to gossip about my coworkers. If I think something is a problem, I def. bring it up of my own accord. Any conversation that occurs outside of 232 Madison, especially if I was drunk, is none of her business.
Either I help with staffing decisions or I don’t. Don’t demand I do what is very clearly your job (to me) and give you a half assed hours breakdown that plays with anyone’s employment, and then dismiss me when I tell you I have no use for a temp anymore. Her menus are steadily getting worse as her departure date nears.
She does not treat people equally. There are heroes and there are goats. I’ve been on both sides of the line multiple times, and her moods seem to change with the tides.
We don’t have a nap room
Sarah found the SeamlessWeb Gift Card page. Through google, she couldn’t find it on the real page either. They are VISA gift cards – fedex overnight shipping for one is 27 bucks. That takes balls.
The menu editor sucks and our IT department is ghetto and or largely incompetent. Want me to pretend otherwise? You’ll probably have to start buying me Prozac.
So many things are wrong. I need a vacation.