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andrea843
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« on: March 19, 2001, 09:56:09 am » |
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Where is it written my Lion maned friend that you do not have the same rights to feelings simply because you are part time?
You are obviously unhappy, I understand your need to work, but is this part time job the only game in town? Working part time gives you the perfect opportunity to slowly start "dustin off that resume" and ciruclating it. Setting interviews for your offtime and being selective about taking a new postion until you are ready.
We live in fear, many of us. And it really bothers me. There ARE progressive workplaces, there ARE places that will value you for your contributions to the company, whether they are made in 20 hours a week or 70.
Now that being said, and hopefully with you knowing that I value YOU, and that my comments are not directed to you personally, Im going to say something that will upset some who post regularly.
This whole phone incident? Bogus. Someone has to answer the phones. It's unfortunate that it's fallen to you, but the employer is well within their rights to ask you to do it. Could it have been done more nicely? you bet.
Is it a commentary on your job,or on your value to the company? Nope. Not in my opinion. Putting the phones on nightring, from a management point of view is unacceptable. Period. It leaves customers hanging, allows possibly important messages to be put "on the back burner" while office personnel persue what is, in essence a bit of personal time. A little vacation in the office.
The whole shebang should have been set for after hours in order to include everyone. Now don't everyone post at once when they go to flame me okay?
Lioness, you've had your share of problems with this office, and I'd like to suggest that you take a hard look at how you handle some of these situations, so that you're sure you're coming from a place of personal power and not a place of resentment.
Do you often feel left out of the loop? That happens with part time employment. It's a matter of simple time. If you arent there, when something occurs you hear about it after the fact, and this, at least in my experience with part time work, can cause a feeling of resentment. That old, "I never hear anything til it's over syndrome", often manifests itself in being just a bit oversensative. At least it did with me. For me the key was acceptance. I traded full involvment in things for part time freedom at one point in my life. And once I had accepted that I would be just a tad out of the loop, I became much happier.
Part time employment often becomes a dumping ground, and where is it written that you can not have a job description ? It's NOT written that way. Your job should have a set of values associated with it like everyone elses and until you ask for that definative bit of info and determine if this is a place you want to stay, you will continue to have problems, at least I think so.
So Im going to duck now for the angry tirades that are sure to follow, and Lioness my comments were not personal, they were figurative, not directed to you personally, but to the workplace in general and workers in general... in short... I LOVES ya!
Andrea puttin on her flame retardant suit... in Charleston
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