Apparently, There is an "I" in Team...
This seems to be the sentiment of my new workplace. I've been here 3 months and everyone really seems to be out for themselves and in total cover your own ass mode. I think it was my first week here that someone overslept (which is pretty easy to do when you have to be at work at 3:30 a.m.). When I asked a fellow co-worker if we were going to give him a wake-up call, his reply was, "no, if he oversleeps, that's his problem." That kind of set the tone for me as far as teamwork and helping each other out.
It's been really weird for me. I definitely have my complaints about my last TV station, the managers, and the way things were run, but the one thing that was great was the actual people who I worked with. I worked the morning show there too and we were always short-handed, but we were a tight-knit group who looked out for each other. In some ways, it was us against "the man."
Perhaps I'm romanticizing it a bit, but I really do think that we were all interested in putting out the best product possible and would pitch in wherever we were needed. Maybe part of this was because I was the shift supervisor (here I'm just a peon) so in a way it was up to me to set the tone. The shift supervisor before me set that same tone and after he left I continued with it. The current shift supervisor is a friend of mine and I know she's continuing the trend as well.
I took this job because I desperately needed one. I was unemployed for 6 months before I got hired in Denver. I just wrote that whole "rah rah" thing about teamwork but I do get frustrated here because a lot of the time I feel like I'm not doing the job I was hired to do.
It sounds very snobby and elitist to say that lately, 4 out of 5 work days I've been doing a job that's beneath me, but it's kind of true. It's not that I'm too good to do the other jobs, I just feel that with the amount of experience that I have in the field, I've already worked my way up the ladder to the job I was actually hired for. Once again though, I was desperate for a job so beggars can't be choosers...
I get paid the same amount no matter what job I'm doing, but I've spent the morning coloring with my markers (Yes, I'm a little kid!) and writing this journal entry while doing my job. This kind of tells you how labor/brain intensive the job that I'm doing this morning is. Sigh...
It's been really weird for me. I definitely have my complaints about my last TV station, the managers, and the way things were run, but the one thing that was great was the actual people who I worked with. I worked the morning show there too and we were always short-handed, but we were a tight-knit group who looked out for each other. In some ways, it was us against "the man."
Perhaps I'm romanticizing it a bit, but I really do think that we were all interested in putting out the best product possible and would pitch in wherever we were needed. Maybe part of this was because I was the shift supervisor (here I'm just a peon) so in a way it was up to me to set the tone. The shift supervisor before me set that same tone and after he left I continued with it. The current shift supervisor is a friend of mine and I know she's continuing the trend as well.
I took this job because I desperately needed one. I was unemployed for 6 months before I got hired in Denver. I just wrote that whole "rah rah" thing about teamwork but I do get frustrated here because a lot of the time I feel like I'm not doing the job I was hired to do.
It sounds very snobby and elitist to say that lately, 4 out of 5 work days I've been doing a job that's beneath me, but it's kind of true. It's not that I'm too good to do the other jobs, I just feel that with the amount of experience that I have in the field, I've already worked my way up the ladder to the job I was actually hired for. Once again though, I was desperate for a job so beggars can't be choosers...
I get paid the same amount no matter what job I'm doing, but I've spent the morning coloring with my markers (Yes, I'm a little kid!) and writing this journal entry while doing my job. This kind of tells you how labor/brain intensive the job that I'm doing this morning is. Sigh...