You can tell I was busy yesterday. All I wanted to do was sleep when I got home, and that I did, a little too much unfortunately. I ended up dozing off twice yesterday evening as I was relaxing, neither time for more than half an hour or so, but just enough that it screwed up my sleep last night when I needed sleep the most. But I woke up ok, though I really wanted to stay in bed. It was just so busy yesterday and I had to make a trip after work, so I ended up walking a little more to get home than usual, wearing me out even more.
Both yesterday and today I started out on Station 1, and as far as I can remember, that's where I ended yesterday. To be honest though, my memories of yesterday is shady at best, I was so tired when I got home. Shortly before lunch I was pulled away from my station today to take care of of one of the substations today, as it was in terrible shape and I hadn't had much time to take care of it between my main tasks. I could tell that the other shifts yesterday hadn't done much either as I keep running out of supplies and with as busy as I've been, I haven't had time to take care of it until people complain. But today that only happened a couple times, as I was smart enough to grab more than just one or two of whatever was out. I was able to almost completely get the area taken care of before lunch, with one item left to take care of. Shortly after lunch, the drama started. Just to keep it short and sweet, the even newer girl tried to blame me for something my manager had done and both my managers politely "put her in her spot" so to speak. She's so new she doesn't yet know that things change around lunchtime, and so she tried to throw a fit at me over company policy. One of the managers even quietly told me not to worry about it, so that made me feel better, as she's one of the managers that I'm not too sure about, personality-wise.
I ended up finishing the day back where I started, with a couple jaunts over to Station 2 and 3 as need be. I hopped over to the grocery store after work (unfortunately it was sprinkling by that point) to get more cat litter and food, along with a couple other things and the cake stuff I returned the last time I was there, and no sooner (literally within a minute) than I got back to the bus stop, the bus arrived, and unfortunately it was a small school bus instead one of the bigger public busses (same company, so sometimes they use one of their other ones if their main ones break down), which my backpack is NOT compatible with. But I managed as I didn't have far to go. But by the time I got home, the rain went from sprinkles to downpours, and my lower pants legs and shoes were soaked, right down to my socks. I'm still sitting in my semi-wet socks and pants right now as I'm not ready to tear down for the day.
So how are you approaching your day when things suddenly turn for the worse? Do you get defensive (like I usually do) or do you just continue on doing your job? I was so surprised today all I could do was keep doing what I was told to do, as I wasn't even quite sure what I was being blamed for, never mind she had no right to even complain to me, as she's definitely not my boss! So my advice to you today is to not be so quick to judge people and to not be so quick to get defensive. I know, easier said than done, especially for me. But the sooner you start, the sooner you master it!
2 comments:
I'd watch that even newer girl; sounds like trouble.
Good blog and good advice. I tend to agree with Kahless in watching her, but as you apparently heave the backing of the appropriate powers that Be, I would kleave any reactions to them, but again as Kayless says, just watch her to the point of avoidance where possible. She may settle down but then again she may get worse. Just leave it to managment to sort it out as they obviously already have her ion their sights. Don't unneccecarily make yourseld a target too.
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