I absolutely hate my manager
Jun. 8th, 2023 05:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
logans_girl2001Posting this here because I'm afraid that someone from work might find my other social media.
So, this week is month end, and last week we were told to use most of our eight hours of overtime on Thursday (today). I decided to work my usual nine hours on Monday and Tuesday, eleven hours on Wednesday and Thursday, leaving eight hours for Friday.
Around 3pm on Tuesday, we received an email from one of my sites stating they had a pump test on 5/31. My manager asked me to process it immediately since she was trying to close out the group this site belongs to.
I start doing so and discover that some of the receipts do not have the grade (unleaded, premium, midgrade (plus), or diesel). I asked how my manager wanted me to handle it, and she told me to call the TSC (district manager).
The first time I called, he didn't answer. I left a message but had no idea when (or if) he would get back to me. Asked what I should do at this point and was told to call the regional manager.
While on the phone, the TSC emailed, asking me to call again. I did, and he said that he'd get right on my issue. In the morning. Because he had somewhere to be in an hour. I insisted we needed it right away because we were trying to close out the month.
He sent me an email with the grades and prices listed by pump number.
After taking several minutes to figure out if any were duplicates (several were), I finally managed to get the test done (and then entered the wrong info into our accounting software *facepalm*).
This had me clocking out at 4:15, a full forty-five minutes after I had originally planned to clock out.
This means I now have forty-five minutes to get rid of. I asked my manager when she wanted me to cut the time and she 'threw a fit', saying that this has become too much of an issue and we'll have to 'discuss it further'.
At this point, I'm at a loss as to what she wants from me because I feel like I have been more than accommodating in changing my schedule to fit when she tells us she needs most of our overtime.
Yesterday, she told me that there were duplicate sales on one day for another of my sites. This is a site that has developed the nasty habit of not sending in requested paperwork until we've asked for it three or more times. And I can only key it from the provided paperwork because out internal reporting system doubles/triples/etc. if it's not entered before a certain time. In other words, on Mondays (or Tuesdays as usually happens), when I go to key their sales for Friday-Sunday, the amounts in our reporting system do not match the provided paperwork.
When they originally sent in the paperwork that was duplicated, it was three days late, and I did not catch that they sent the wrong reports.
At this point, I send an email to the site and then call their TSC. And then begins my afternoon of panicking that I won't get the report in a timely fashion. I know my manager, and I know she'll yell at me if I go over the allotted overtime, so I do my best not to go over.
I had asked when she wanted me to cut the forty-five minutes, and she never did answer me beyond stating she wanted me to stay yesterday.
At 4:15, I began asking the TSC every ten to fifteen minutes if the site had sent the paperwork. They finally sent it just before 5. I got it keyed, and we were able to carry on.
I decided that I would clock in fifteen minutes late today and thirty minutes late tomorrow to get rid of the forty-five minutes.
Then today, I get this message from my manager (I left all mistakes):
[redacted] 11:04 AM
Hi. Please check with me before you leave for the day. Thanks so much.
Me 11:05 AM
Okay. About an hour before?
[redacted] 11:05 AM
Just before you leave.
[redacted] 11:05 AM
i wouldn't do that far in advance
Me 11:05 AM
Okay
[redacted] 11:05 AM
i am trying to get commissions and all the tanks ready.. today is under the gun for me.
Me 11:06 AM
I get it. I was planning on checking before I leave anyway. I only do an hour to give me time to complete whatever you need me to do (don't know why I said it that way, I should have said that I do it that early to give her time to respond)
Me 11:06 AM
But if 5-10 minutes works better for you, that's fine
[redacted] 1:12 PM
well that is the thing... i may need you later... not today i don't think.. but starting Day 3 of next close I think you need to clock in at 8:30 instead of so early that way all of us can be working at the same time...
Me 1:21 PM (it took me this long to respond because I ranted to myself for a long time)
8:30 would have me getting off right at the time I go to bed. I am willing to start at 7 instead of 6:30 and/or take longer than 30 mins for lunch. I need at least two hours before I go to bed to unwind from working, it's why I try and not work past 7 in the evenings
[redacted] 1:22 PM
we have tried other things but i think 8:30 works better. It should balance out if you work later.. bc you are clocking in later. (actually, we haven't tried anything beyond her telling us which days to focus our overtime on)
Me 1:24 PM
It would mess with my schedule too much. Ever since I was sick in November, I have had trouble falling asleep and staying asleep. I've only been getting two to three hours of sleep each night. My doctor says I need to keep the same sleep schedule every day and she suggests the two hours of relaxing time before sleep.
Me 1:25 PM
Besides, I know that Beverly clocks in between 6 and 7 every day (I hate when I'm the only one that has certain rules)
[redacted] 1:25 PM
okay.. well what we have going now isn't working
[redacted] 1:25 PM
don't worry about Beverly (I'm gonna because it's not fair to make me change but no one else)
[redacted] 1:25 PM
if i need Beverly she is online..i have not needed her and looked up and her not be there. (find that hard to believe)
[redacted] 1:25 PM
then maybe you change your hours all the time to 8:30...
[redacted] 1:25 PM
that keeps you in the same schedule.
Me 1:26 PM
I work the schedule I do for a reason. I change it for month end/approved OT. I feel like I'm way behind when I clock in past 7. I will start taking longer lunched during month end but my doctor wants me to end my day at 7
[redacted] 1:27 PM
Okay well then we have a huge problem...
[redacted] 1:28 PM
I have been very kind and willing to work with you all but when i need you during close and you have not been available.. that won't work for what our team needs. (when? she bitches at me about this EVERY MONTH END. I feel like I'm the one doing all the giving and not getting anything in exchange)
[redacted] 1:29 PM
and then you argue it down. i will be talking to Melinda.
Me 1:29 PM
I always ask before I leave on the days you say we need to check with you. Since my body refuses to let me sleep past 1 or 2 am any more, I cannot afford to go to bed between 10 and 12 every night. (at this point, I called my mother and ranted at her. I was positive that I was going to get fired)
Me 1:48 PM
I will try what you're asking next month. But if I fall asleep at my desk, I will be asking to change it back because changing my bedtime routine to what it is currently has kept me from falling asleep at my desk (I plan on saying that I fell asleep on the second or third day of this even if I don't)
[redacted] 1:49 PM
I do understand not sleeping..It's been awhile for me too. thanks for trying. (yeah, I don't think she does, otherwise she wouldn't be forcing me to change my schedule)
So, this week is month end, and last week we were told to use most of our eight hours of overtime on Thursday (today). I decided to work my usual nine hours on Monday and Tuesday, eleven hours on Wednesday and Thursday, leaving eight hours for Friday.
Around 3pm on Tuesday, we received an email from one of my sites stating they had a pump test on 5/31. My manager asked me to process it immediately since she was trying to close out the group this site belongs to.
I start doing so and discover that some of the receipts do not have the grade (unleaded, premium, midgrade (plus), or diesel). I asked how my manager wanted me to handle it, and she told me to call the TSC (district manager).
The first time I called, he didn't answer. I left a message but had no idea when (or if) he would get back to me. Asked what I should do at this point and was told to call the regional manager.
While on the phone, the TSC emailed, asking me to call again. I did, and he said that he'd get right on my issue. In the morning. Because he had somewhere to be in an hour. I insisted we needed it right away because we were trying to close out the month.
He sent me an email with the grades and prices listed by pump number.
After taking several minutes to figure out if any were duplicates (several were), I finally managed to get the test done (and then entered the wrong info into our accounting software *facepalm*).
This had me clocking out at 4:15, a full forty-five minutes after I had originally planned to clock out.
This means I now have forty-five minutes to get rid of. I asked my manager when she wanted me to cut the time and she 'threw a fit', saying that this has become too much of an issue and we'll have to 'discuss it further'.
At this point, I'm at a loss as to what she wants from me because I feel like I have been more than accommodating in changing my schedule to fit when she tells us she needs most of our overtime.
Yesterday, she told me that there were duplicate sales on one day for another of my sites. This is a site that has developed the nasty habit of not sending in requested paperwork until we've asked for it three or more times. And I can only key it from the provided paperwork because out internal reporting system doubles/triples/etc. if it's not entered before a certain time. In other words, on Mondays (or Tuesdays as usually happens), when I go to key their sales for Friday-Sunday, the amounts in our reporting system do not match the provided paperwork.
When they originally sent in the paperwork that was duplicated, it was three days late, and I did not catch that they sent the wrong reports.
At this point, I send an email to the site and then call their TSC. And then begins my afternoon of panicking that I won't get the report in a timely fashion. I know my manager, and I know she'll yell at me if I go over the allotted overtime, so I do my best not to go over.
I had asked when she wanted me to cut the forty-five minutes, and she never did answer me beyond stating she wanted me to stay yesterday.
At 4:15, I began asking the TSC every ten to fifteen minutes if the site had sent the paperwork. They finally sent it just before 5. I got it keyed, and we were able to carry on.
I decided that I would clock in fifteen minutes late today and thirty minutes late tomorrow to get rid of the forty-five minutes.
Then today, I get this message from my manager (I left all mistakes):
[redacted] 11:04 AM
Hi. Please check with me before you leave for the day. Thanks so much.
Me 11:05 AM
Okay. About an hour before?
[redacted] 11:05 AM
Just before you leave.
[redacted] 11:05 AM
i wouldn't do that far in advance
Me 11:05 AM
Okay
[redacted] 11:05 AM
i am trying to get commissions and all the tanks ready.. today is under the gun for me.
Me 11:06 AM
I get it. I was planning on checking before I leave anyway. I only do an hour to give me time to complete whatever you need me to do (don't know why I said it that way, I should have said that I do it that early to give her time to respond)
Me 11:06 AM
But if 5-10 minutes works better for you, that's fine
[redacted] 1:12 PM
well that is the thing... i may need you later... not today i don't think.. but starting Day 3 of next close I think you need to clock in at 8:30 instead of so early that way all of us can be working at the same time...
Me 1:21 PM (it took me this long to respond because I ranted to myself for a long time)
8:30 would have me getting off right at the time I go to bed. I am willing to start at 7 instead of 6:30 and/or take longer than 30 mins for lunch. I need at least two hours before I go to bed to unwind from working, it's why I try and not work past 7 in the evenings
[redacted] 1:22 PM
we have tried other things but i think 8:30 works better. It should balance out if you work later.. bc you are clocking in later. (actually, we haven't tried anything beyond her telling us which days to focus our overtime on)
Me 1:24 PM
It would mess with my schedule too much. Ever since I was sick in November, I have had trouble falling asleep and staying asleep. I've only been getting two to three hours of sleep each night. My doctor says I need to keep the same sleep schedule every day and she suggests the two hours of relaxing time before sleep.
Me 1:25 PM
Besides, I know that Beverly clocks in between 6 and 7 every day (I hate when I'm the only one that has certain rules)
[redacted] 1:25 PM
okay.. well what we have going now isn't working
[redacted] 1:25 PM
don't worry about Beverly (I'm gonna because it's not fair to make me change but no one else)
[redacted] 1:25 PM
if i need Beverly she is online..i have not needed her and looked up and her not be there. (find that hard to believe)
[redacted] 1:25 PM
then maybe you change your hours all the time to 8:30...
[redacted] 1:25 PM
that keeps you in the same schedule.
Me 1:26 PM
I work the schedule I do for a reason. I change it for month end/approved OT. I feel like I'm way behind when I clock in past 7. I will start taking longer lunched during month end but my doctor wants me to end my day at 7
[redacted] 1:27 PM
Okay well then we have a huge problem...
[redacted] 1:28 PM
I have been very kind and willing to work with you all but when i need you during close and you have not been available.. that won't work for what our team needs. (when? she bitches at me about this EVERY MONTH END. I feel like I'm the one doing all the giving and not getting anything in exchange)
[redacted] 1:29 PM
and then you argue it down. i will be talking to Melinda.
Me 1:29 PM
I always ask before I leave on the days you say we need to check with you. Since my body refuses to let me sleep past 1 or 2 am any more, I cannot afford to go to bed between 10 and 12 every night. (at this point, I called my mother and ranted at her. I was positive that I was going to get fired)
Me 1:48 PM
I will try what you're asking next month. But if I fall asleep at my desk, I will be asking to change it back because changing my bedtime routine to what it is currently has kept me from falling asleep at my desk (I plan on saying that I fell asleep on the second or third day of this even if I don't)
[redacted] 1:49 PM
I do understand not sleeping..It's been awhile for me too. thanks for trying. (yeah, I don't think she does, otherwise she wouldn't be forcing me to change my schedule)
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