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Wow, what a day the past few days have been. Let me rant about yesterday...
Background info:
We had gotten an email a few weeks ago saying that Thursday from noon to 1:30 we were having a baby shower for Stacy, the Studio's receptionist. Then a week ago, they say that Thursday we're having a party at the Studio and that Stacy's baby shower was being incorporated into the party. They said we're going bowling, and then coming back to the Studio and having a party with a keg or two and some other alcohol to drink and everyone can have a good time. This was all super hush hush, because of course they didnt want people to know about the party and most importantly the alcohol.
Monday night, my mom asked me about the baby shower because she's Stacy's manager and she was going to the baby shower too. So I told her that plans have changed, and she'd just have to come over a little later in the afternoon. She didn't seem really happy about it, but she said ok. I told her about the alcohol too, which she really wasn't happy about but I told her not to tell anyone because I was telling her as my mother and not as my supervisor, and that it's no fair to the rest of the guys if she says something and ruins it for everyone. She said ok, so that was the end of the conversation.
And the rant:
Tuesday, at about 11am, one of the employees at the Studio, Jennifer B., came up to me and started bitching me out, "I just wanted to personally thank you for opening your mouth and telling people at Tower about Thursday, because now the shower has been changed to Wednesday and because of you all the plans are all screwed up and now I can't make it to the baby shower that I arranged for the girl!" And I said, "what? I only told my mom.." "Yeah, well now Tower knows and everything is screwed up, so thanks!" as she walks out the door of the Merch department and slams it behind her. Tim was sitting about 15 feet away when she did that, so of course he heard everything, he was all "What was that shit about?" And I told him that I had no clue, I figured she was implying that I told my mom and I was thinking that my mom went and told Tasha (Vice President of the company) about the alcohol. So of course I was boiling because one, this girl had no right to come bitch at me and two, I figured my mom blabbed all that stuff I told her. I sat on my lunch break online, trying to get my mind off things.
Around 1pm I got an email from David, our new producer, asking me to come to his office when I had a chance. So I went to his office, he asked me to shut the door behind me, so I knew it wasn't good. So then he starts telling me about how people at the Studio are frustrated with me because I told people at Tower. I told him that yeah Jennifer just bitched me out and that she didn't even give me a chance to tell her what was going on, and so I told him too. He was like going on about how "Well, we thought you were a team player but apparently you're just observing and reporting back to Tower what's going on here.." and saying that they do stuff differently there than Tower does and they don't want Tower knowing about their festivities and stuff. Then he was saying that because I opened my mouth, they had to tone down the party on Thursday and not have any alcohol or anything of the sort. I asked why, and he just kept saying because of me telling people at Tower they can't now. So by that point, I really felt like shit and just wanted to go home and get out of there. It was no fun feeling like an outcast for the day, and it really ruined my day.
I went to Tower at 3pm to work the other job, and I immediately went into my mom's office and confronted her about what was going on. She sincerely didn't know what I was talking about and said that she hadn't talked to anyone about what I told her, and that Susan (one of the two managers at the Studio) called her in the afternoon to tell her the baby shower was moved to Wednesday at 1:30 because there was too much going on on Thursday for them to have it all together! They made the decision on their own, and it had nothing to do with me or my mom, but yet some how it got pinned on me. So, she was furious too when she found out how they were all treating me like the outcast for the day, so she emailed Jennifer and David and told them both that she was not involved in the decisions being made about the baby shower OR the party, and that she didn't appreciate them blaming her or me. She then forwarded it to Susan and Jack so they would know what was going on too. None of the four people replied at all, so she figured they were all mad or something.
So today, I come into work and the first thing I do is go to Susan and ask her what was going on yesterday that I was being blamed for stuff that had nothing to do with me. She said that she didn't want to get into the middle of it and that the Studio does things differently than Tower and that I need to just let it go. Yeah, easy for her to say. Let it go that I felt like shit all day for no reason, all because they turned me into a scape goat for them changing plans and they rather blame it on me (and have everyone mad at me) than own up to their own actions (and have everyone mad at them). So I was pretty pissed for the entire day until my mom called and said they finally got back to her about the emails after she threatened to not come to the shower because she said she was so disgusted with the Studio. They said they were really really sorry for all this and that they don't know how it got blamed on me or why or anything like that but that they've just been telling everyone to let it go.
So whatever, I guess it's all said and done as far as they're concerned, but y'know for how much I do shit for them the least they could've done is actually appologized to me. But did they? No, of course not.
Background info:
We had gotten an email a few weeks ago saying that Thursday from noon to 1:30 we were having a baby shower for Stacy, the Studio's receptionist. Then a week ago, they say that Thursday we're having a party at the Studio and that Stacy's baby shower was being incorporated into the party. They said we're going bowling, and then coming back to the Studio and having a party with a keg or two and some other alcohol to drink and everyone can have a good time. This was all super hush hush, because of course they didnt want people to know about the party and most importantly the alcohol.
Monday night, my mom asked me about the baby shower because she's Stacy's manager and she was going to the baby shower too. So I told her that plans have changed, and she'd just have to come over a little later in the afternoon. She didn't seem really happy about it, but she said ok. I told her about the alcohol too, which she really wasn't happy about but I told her not to tell anyone because I was telling her as my mother and not as my supervisor, and that it's no fair to the rest of the guys if she says something and ruins it for everyone. She said ok, so that was the end of the conversation.
And the rant:
Tuesday, at about 11am, one of the employees at the Studio, Jennifer B., came up to me and started bitching me out, "I just wanted to personally thank you for opening your mouth and telling people at Tower about Thursday, because now the shower has been changed to Wednesday and because of you all the plans are all screwed up and now I can't make it to the baby shower that I arranged for the girl!" And I said, "what? I only told my mom.." "Yeah, well now Tower knows and everything is screwed up, so thanks!" as she walks out the door of the Merch department and slams it behind her. Tim was sitting about 15 feet away when she did that, so of course he heard everything, he was all "What was that shit about?" And I told him that I had no clue, I figured she was implying that I told my mom and I was thinking that my mom went and told Tasha (Vice President of the company) about the alcohol. So of course I was boiling because one, this girl had no right to come bitch at me and two, I figured my mom blabbed all that stuff I told her. I sat on my lunch break online, trying to get my mind off things.
Around 1pm I got an email from David, our new producer, asking me to come to his office when I had a chance. So I went to his office, he asked me to shut the door behind me, so I knew it wasn't good. So then he starts telling me about how people at the Studio are frustrated with me because I told people at Tower. I told him that yeah Jennifer just bitched me out and that she didn't even give me a chance to tell her what was going on, and so I told him too. He was like going on about how "Well, we thought you were a team player but apparently you're just observing and reporting back to Tower what's going on here.." and saying that they do stuff differently there than Tower does and they don't want Tower knowing about their festivities and stuff. Then he was saying that because I opened my mouth, they had to tone down the party on Thursday and not have any alcohol or anything of the sort. I asked why, and he just kept saying because of me telling people at Tower they can't now. So by that point, I really felt like shit and just wanted to go home and get out of there. It was no fun feeling like an outcast for the day, and it really ruined my day.
I went to Tower at 3pm to work the other job, and I immediately went into my mom's office and confronted her about what was going on. She sincerely didn't know what I was talking about and said that she hadn't talked to anyone about what I told her, and that Susan (one of the two managers at the Studio) called her in the afternoon to tell her the baby shower was moved to Wednesday at 1:30 because there was too much going on on Thursday for them to have it all together! They made the decision on their own, and it had nothing to do with me or my mom, but yet some how it got pinned on me. So, she was furious too when she found out how they were all treating me like the outcast for the day, so she emailed Jennifer and David and told them both that she was not involved in the decisions being made about the baby shower OR the party, and that she didn't appreciate them blaming her or me. She then forwarded it to Susan and Jack so they would know what was going on too. None of the four people replied at all, so she figured they were all mad or something.
So today, I come into work and the first thing I do is go to Susan and ask her what was going on yesterday that I was being blamed for stuff that had nothing to do with me. She said that she didn't want to get into the middle of it and that the Studio does things differently than Tower and that I need to just let it go. Yeah, easy for her to say. Let it go that I felt like shit all day for no reason, all because they turned me into a scape goat for them changing plans and they rather blame it on me (and have everyone mad at me) than own up to their own actions (and have everyone mad at them). So I was pretty pissed for the entire day until my mom called and said they finally got back to her about the emails after she threatened to not come to the shower because she said she was so disgusted with the Studio. They said they were really really sorry for all this and that they don't know how it got blamed on me or why or anything like that but that they've just been telling everyone to let it go.
So whatever, I guess it's all said and done as far as they're concerned, but y'know for how much I do shit for them the least they could've done is actually appologized to me. But did they? No, of course not.