Can't get you outta my head
I'm so aggravated right now, that I could spit. What's worse is that I'm stewing about an incident that happened at work tonight and I don't want to think about it any more. It angers me that this shit is ruining my night, and all I want to do is relax and FORGET about tonight. My over-excited mind won't let me forget, so I'm going to purge it here for all to see. No names necessary... I'm just trying to vent some anger.
I have one of those co-workers I'm sure you're all familiar with from some time or another. She doesn't like her job, doesn't want to be there, and makes everyone else's job harder by not pulling her weight. She doesn't care how her apathy or attitude affect anyone else, either, and seems to even enjoy conflict to an inappropriate degree.
We work in customer service, for heaven's sake, and this girl literally wants to contend with and feel superior to members at the club we work in. These are people who pay annually for memberships that keep this place running, and it's our job to keep it that way. We had some issues earlier in the day when she attempted to hijack an interaction I was having and basically called the member a liar. She attempted to fight the decision of a manager to please the member, and then proceeded to relate her opinion on the whole situation to other associates while the counter was busy with other members going about their business.
This was mildly annoying, but not nearly as bad as later that night when the claws and fangs came out. She called the breakroom while I was on break, and paged me over the intercom as I was walking back FROM my break, wondering where I was because she felt I'd been gone too long. I was gone for the time it took to store my cash drawer, do a money pull, and take a 30 minute lunch (which was ended by her phone call one minute short of the legally required 30). When I got back and found my 3 co-workers not looking especially busy, I commented -asking why I was paged. I got confused looks, so I asked the girl in question "are you the police now?"
The thing is, this girl leaves the counter every single day I work with her to wander around avoiding work. She ditches merchandise on the floor so someone else will have to put it away, she chats with everyone she meets, and goes on break whenever she wants. At the end of the day she leaves 45 minutes before her shift ends to "count her drawer" and then spends the time sitting in an office or breakroom texting on her phone until she punches out. Lately, she comes up to the counter and acts like she's got to keep tabs on everyone else and it's complete bullshit.
After I dropped my oh-so-subtle hint that she of all people has NO right to hassle me over time spent away from the desk, she looks around and says "Don't be a BITCH to me because you took a really long break!" with 2 other co-workers standing within 2 feet of us. One of the other girls had been saying "we were just wondering where you were for 45 minutes" but was cut off by the outburst. Well it was 4:10 pm when I punched out for my break and it was 4:45 when I punched back in (after having to walk down to the desk and get my badge) so the amount of time I was away form the desk was not misspent. As a result of two of them leaving in the next hour, I never did get my final break of the night.
In any case, everybody there is liberal with time and flexible on all the rules -but the girl who's attempting to call me out on breaks is the biggest hypocrite I've ever met. I've been kind of fighting off this tremble in my muscles ever since. I can't believe I'm this pissed off over something from a part time hourly job. Topping it all of, this girl is only like 19 or 20. She's got her head up her ass so far she can't think straight. I need to get zen. I need to ground.
I need to utilize the open door policy at work.
I have one of those co-workers I'm sure you're all familiar with from some time or another. She doesn't like her job, doesn't want to be there, and makes everyone else's job harder by not pulling her weight. She doesn't care how her apathy or attitude affect anyone else, either, and seems to even enjoy conflict to an inappropriate degree.
We work in customer service, for heaven's sake, and this girl literally wants to contend with and feel superior to members at the club we work in. These are people who pay annually for memberships that keep this place running, and it's our job to keep it that way. We had some issues earlier in the day when she attempted to hijack an interaction I was having and basically called the member a liar. She attempted to fight the decision of a manager to please the member, and then proceeded to relate her opinion on the whole situation to other associates while the counter was busy with other members going about their business.
This was mildly annoying, but not nearly as bad as later that night when the claws and fangs came out. She called the breakroom while I was on break, and paged me over the intercom as I was walking back FROM my break, wondering where I was because she felt I'd been gone too long. I was gone for the time it took to store my cash drawer, do a money pull, and take a 30 minute lunch (which was ended by her phone call one minute short of the legally required 30). When I got back and found my 3 co-workers not looking especially busy, I commented -asking why I was paged. I got confused looks, so I asked the girl in question "are you the police now?"
The thing is, this girl leaves the counter every single day I work with her to wander around avoiding work. She ditches merchandise on the floor so someone else will have to put it away, she chats with everyone she meets, and goes on break whenever she wants. At the end of the day she leaves 45 minutes before her shift ends to "count her drawer" and then spends the time sitting in an office or breakroom texting on her phone until she punches out. Lately, she comes up to the counter and acts like she's got to keep tabs on everyone else and it's complete bullshit.
After I dropped my oh-so-subtle hint that she of all people has NO right to hassle me over time spent away from the desk, she looks around and says "Don't be a BITCH to me because you took a really long break!" with 2 other co-workers standing within 2 feet of us. One of the other girls had been saying "we were just wondering where you were for 45 minutes" but was cut off by the outburst. Well it was 4:10 pm when I punched out for my break and it was 4:45 when I punched back in (after having to walk down to the desk and get my badge) so the amount of time I was away form the desk was not misspent. As a result of two of them leaving in the next hour, I never did get my final break of the night.
In any case, everybody there is liberal with time and flexible on all the rules -but the girl who's attempting to call me out on breaks is the biggest hypocrite I've ever met. I've been kind of fighting off this tremble in my muscles ever since. I can't believe I'm this pissed off over something from a part time hourly job. Topping it all of, this girl is only like 19 or 20. She's got her head up her ass so far she can't think straight. I need to get zen. I need to ground.
I need to utilize the open door policy at work.