grumble grumble... just some rantings
So I was going to put this on facebook... but thought better of it! haah
There's not a lot I like less than being taken for granted and then made to feel bad about it.
I love my job, and the people I work with... BUT there are times where I just get to pissed off and frustrated that it makes me wonder. Yesterday, while discussing an upcoming event it was proved again just how much communication seems to be a problem here. I have been full time since April 2nd.. within the week of me starting Laura tells everyone in the office that for all the events in the summer i am the "money girl" (basically i am in charge of collecting and counting all the money that comes in for the event). No one really says boo. They will find others to cover the positions; Lynn was a little put off since I was often doing the dressing rooms last year, and most of the students this year are underage, but she figured she would work it out. Cool.
So three months pass, I'm loosly given the title of Assistant Box Office Manager, which basically means since there's only two of us that work in the office I would be above anyone new that came in, and any responcibility Jason doesn't want he can pawn off on me, but he's still in control. Fine. I don't mind that too much, it's a bit anoying on occasion, but for the most part I love what I'm doing, and I was hired to do more than just the Box Office, so I don't mind that I am where I am. What i do mind is that yesterday Jason is shocked to hear that for the big concert coming up next weekend, that we've known about for a while and has been selling well for about a month, that I'm working the money and not tickets!! oh shock! So now, the boss is freaking out, as she is sometimes want to do durring big events and wants me here at the Box Office! Fine. But you should have thought about this earlier, and oh I don't know... MENTION IT TO ME!!!! instead they just assume something without considering past events or talking to the persons involved. It was only because I asked what they were talking about and pressed the conversation that I reminded them that I was already booked to work elsewhere for the event.
Now the tricky part comes when one sits down and considers, we don't have a lot of staff typically, but find enough for events. There is also an indoor event happening that day, and I am basically the only one that deals with the ticketing software! When I was on vacation Jason bluffed his way through, and Alisha knows a bit, but she doesn't work here regularly and that's it. We've never brought in anyone for training, we've never shown the other people in the office. But somehow all of a sudden they want to do this big ticket thing and are surprised and stressed that we don't have the people to fill the jobs! HELLO! ga!
So now I'm in limbo as to where I'm going to work, both parties concered are convinced I'll be working their shift because I'm "invaluable"
If I'm so invaluable and amazing at everything I do, why do I feel underappreciated and ignored?
There's not a lot I like less than being taken for granted and then made to feel bad about it.
I love my job, and the people I work with... BUT there are times where I just get to pissed off and frustrated that it makes me wonder. Yesterday, while discussing an upcoming event it was proved again just how much communication seems to be a problem here. I have been full time since April 2nd.. within the week of me starting Laura tells everyone in the office that for all the events in the summer i am the "money girl" (basically i am in charge of collecting and counting all the money that comes in for the event). No one really says boo. They will find others to cover the positions; Lynn was a little put off since I was often doing the dressing rooms last year, and most of the students this year are underage, but she figured she would work it out. Cool.
So three months pass, I'm loosly given the title of Assistant Box Office Manager, which basically means since there's only two of us that work in the office I would be above anyone new that came in, and any responcibility Jason doesn't want he can pawn off on me, but he's still in control. Fine. I don't mind that too much, it's a bit anoying on occasion, but for the most part I love what I'm doing, and I was hired to do more than just the Box Office, so I don't mind that I am where I am. What i do mind is that yesterday Jason is shocked to hear that for the big concert coming up next weekend, that we've known about for a while and has been selling well for about a month, that I'm working the money and not tickets!! oh shock! So now, the boss is freaking out, as she is sometimes want to do durring big events and wants me here at the Box Office! Fine. But you should have thought about this earlier, and oh I don't know... MENTION IT TO ME!!!! instead they just assume something without considering past events or talking to the persons involved. It was only because I asked what they were talking about and pressed the conversation that I reminded them that I was already booked to work elsewhere for the event.
Now the tricky part comes when one sits down and considers, we don't have a lot of staff typically, but find enough for events. There is also an indoor event happening that day, and I am basically the only one that deals with the ticketing software! When I was on vacation Jason bluffed his way through, and Alisha knows a bit, but she doesn't work here regularly and that's it. We've never brought in anyone for training, we've never shown the other people in the office. But somehow all of a sudden they want to do this big ticket thing and are surprised and stressed that we don't have the people to fill the jobs! HELLO! ga!
So now I'm in limbo as to where I'm going to work, both parties concered are convinced I'll be working their shift because I'm "invaluable"
If I'm so invaluable and amazing at everything I do, why do I feel underappreciated and ignored?