Moar Scheduling Bullshit
I am more than slightly annoyed by my boss (and this job) right now.
Okay, so yesterday afternoon, the boss calls. Wants me to switch from one dock/ship to another, and a different time for my shift the next day. Not a big deal, it's a full day's notice. Then he tells me that the online ship schedule says one time (0130) and the vessel's agent told him on the phone that it'd be 0530. He tells me to watch the online schedule for changes, and then that he'd call me back sometime around 8-9PM after he had more information. I tell him that if I don't hear from him otherwise and the online schedule isn't updated before bed time for me, I'll be there at 0800 (we add 3 hours to the vessel schedule time to get the dock arrival time).
9PM rolls around. 10 after. Still nothing. I call the boss, it rings through to voicemail. I leave one, and then try another call half an hour later, and leave a text message. No answer to any of these. As of me going to sleep, the online schedule says 0130.
I get up at 6:45, go through my pre-work morning routine. Then, the boss calls while I'm in the shower around 7:15, asking where I am. Apparently the vessel showed up at 0630. I stopped short of asking him why he didn't answer his phone the previous night, but I do tell him that as of when I went to bed, the schedule online had the 0130 arrival time listed, and it arrived at neither of the times he'd given me. I do have to actually have some notice, after all. He acts all butthurt because he's got to go down there himself. I tell him that I'll be there at 0800, like I had told him I would be last night, if there was no further changes to the online schedule or notice from him.
Twenty minutes later, I'm on the freeway, and the boss calls again. I put the phone on my lap on speaker and return the call. He says to me "this ship is going to be here a long time, here's what I'm going to have you do: come in in 6-7 hours". I was not pleased with this, but bit my tongue. So I did an about-face and headed home. I'm glad there wasn't a lot of traffic.
So, I ended up driving 24 miles for absolutely no reason, in addition to not getting a lot of sleep and further jerking my chain with the schedule times. This boss of mine isn't very good at contingency planning. I wouldn't have minded so badly going in for the 0130 time (which means I'd have to be there at 0430), but if he wanted that, he should've said something to me when he had me on the phone. I can't sit and watch the online schedule for changes all fucking night, after all. I have to sleep sometime.
And now, I have to be in at 1600. So I'm going to try and get a nap in.
Okay, so yesterday afternoon, the boss calls. Wants me to switch from one dock/ship to another, and a different time for my shift the next day. Not a big deal, it's a full day's notice. Then he tells me that the online ship schedule says one time (0130) and the vessel's agent told him on the phone that it'd be 0530. He tells me to watch the online schedule for changes, and then that he'd call me back sometime around 8-9PM after he had more information. I tell him that if I don't hear from him otherwise and the online schedule isn't updated before bed time for me, I'll be there at 0800 (we add 3 hours to the vessel schedule time to get the dock arrival time).
9PM rolls around. 10 after. Still nothing. I call the boss, it rings through to voicemail. I leave one, and then try another call half an hour later, and leave a text message. No answer to any of these. As of me going to sleep, the online schedule says 0130.
I get up at 6:45, go through my pre-work morning routine. Then, the boss calls while I'm in the shower around 7:15, asking where I am. Apparently the vessel showed up at 0630. I stopped short of asking him why he didn't answer his phone the previous night, but I do tell him that as of when I went to bed, the schedule online had the 0130 arrival time listed, and it arrived at neither of the times he'd given me. I do have to actually have some notice, after all. He acts all butthurt because he's got to go down there himself. I tell him that I'll be there at 0800, like I had told him I would be last night, if there was no further changes to the online schedule or notice from him.
Twenty minutes later, I'm on the freeway, and the boss calls again. I put the phone on my lap on speaker and return the call. He says to me "this ship is going to be here a long time, here's what I'm going to have you do: come in in 6-7 hours". I was not pleased with this, but bit my tongue. So I did an about-face and headed home. I'm glad there wasn't a lot of traffic.
So, I ended up driving 24 miles for absolutely no reason, in addition to not getting a lot of sleep and further jerking my chain with the schedule times. This boss of mine isn't very good at contingency planning. I wouldn't have minded so badly going in for the 0130 time (which means I'd have to be there at 0430), but if he wanted that, he should've said something to me when he had me on the phone. I can't sit and watch the online schedule for changes all fucking night, after all. I have to sleep sometime.
And now, I have to be in at 1600. So I'm going to try and get a nap in.