I absolutely hate my manager, still
Jun. 19th, 2023 12:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
logans_girl2001An update to this post.
So, I sent my manager the following email:
[redacted],
You probably won't believe me, and that's okay, but before our dust-up prior to my vacation, I had decided to change my schedule from 6:00am-3:30pm M-Th and 6:30am-3:00pm F to 7:00am-4:30pm M-Th and 7:00am-3:30pm F because I had gotten to where when I got off at 3:00pm or 3:30pm, I felt odd, kinda like I had gotten off too early.
I completely disagree with your insistence that we had tried everything when it comes to my schedule during month end because I had never changed my start time past 6:00am or 6:30am. When we first started working from home, I would start at 4:00am or 4:30am, and over time I have pushed it back to me starting at 6:00am.
Having me start at 8:30am will result in me struggling not to fall asleep at my desk, something that I have worked hard to eliminate. I also fear that I would have more instances of missed punch-ins. Plus, I feel weird sitting on the couch past 7:00am or 7:30am, even on my days off.
So, I am asking, once again, to try having me start at 7:00am during month end next month. If you need me to stay until 7:00pm on days when I do not have enough allotted hours (meaning that it is a day where I cannot work twelve hours or I'd go over the allowed number of hours) to work I can take a longer lunch. Unless going over the approved number of overtime hours isn't an issue, then I will stop worrying about it.
For the record, it has been a while since I have stacked most, or all, of my overtime onto one or two days at the beginning of the week. I do my best to work the majority of my overtime on the day(s) you say you need us the most.
For example, the week before my vacation, I had planned to work my normal nine hours Monday and Tuesday, then eleven hours Wednesday and Thursday, and then eight on Friday because we were only allowed eight hours total of overtime, and you said you needed us most on Thursday. Because we received the pump test from 25346 that needed to be completed Tuesday, and it took some time to get the correct grades with prices from their TSC due to them using the prepaid key, I went over by forty-five minutes. It seems to me that our issues didn't start until I asked when you wanted me to cut that forty-five minutes. I did not want to go over the allowed eight hours and wanted to make sure I was available when you needed me most.
If my asking when you want me to cut extra time (to make sure I don't cut it on a day you need me) is a problem, then I will stop. Also, if going over the allowed overtime hours is not an issue, I will stop worrying about it (as I stated above).
Also, when I ask if you need me an hour before I plan to leave, it is not just to give me time to do whatever you need (because, again, I do not want to go over our allowed overtime) but also to give you time to respond. There have been many times when I asked via teams about an hour before I planned to leave, and you did not respond for over twenty minutes. I understand that you are busy, and do not want to make you feel like I am rushing you to check if you need me, especially if you're in a meeting when I ask.
Her response was:
Me,
I appreciate your candor and coming to me with this.
The way it goes here or in any company is we work when our bosses tell us to work. It is that way with me and everyone else. The rest of the team knows this. We have to work together especially with being such a small team and with your schedule as it is, we have a hard time functioning as a unit.
I spoke with [redacted] and have her support on this.
I would like us to try the 8:00-8:30 schedule during quarter end close please. Or I’d even be willing to do 7:30 with a longer lunch. I feel as if we have to try in order to be able to meet our deadlines.
Several minutes later, she sent another email with the last paragraph again.
As I read this a second time while putting it here, I read the second paragraph as her saying that I told her I wasn't going to work the hours she wants me to when I asked to try starting at 7am. Sometimes, I feel like she doesn't even read my emails/messages.
But since she gave me a time frame, I will be starting at 8am and then on the second day of this, I will not touch my computer for about an hour and then send her a message through teams saying that I fell asleep and think it would be best if I started at 7:30 the next day.
Also, for some reason my manager did two days of one of my sites last week and entered the wrong inventory readings on both days. But only for one of their tanks. She managed to get all the others entered correctly.
And we have new sites that went live on 6/6 (as far as I can tell none have sent in the paperwork). They are supposed to come through on our internal reporting system but my two are not available. I sent an email saying that I am missing their reports and they are not in our reporting system. My manager told me to start putting them on my missing paperwork list. My internal reaction was, 'duh, no shit'. She had already sent an email last week telling us to do that.
So, I sent my manager the following email:
[redacted],
You probably won't believe me, and that's okay, but before our dust-up prior to my vacation, I had decided to change my schedule from 6:00am-3:30pm M-Th and 6:30am-3:00pm F to 7:00am-4:30pm M-Th and 7:00am-3:30pm F because I had gotten to where when I got off at 3:00pm or 3:30pm, I felt odd, kinda like I had gotten off too early.
I completely disagree with your insistence that we had tried everything when it comes to my schedule during month end because I had never changed my start time past 6:00am or 6:30am. When we first started working from home, I would start at 4:00am or 4:30am, and over time I have pushed it back to me starting at 6:00am.
Having me start at 8:30am will result in me struggling not to fall asleep at my desk, something that I have worked hard to eliminate. I also fear that I would have more instances of missed punch-ins. Plus, I feel weird sitting on the couch past 7:00am or 7:30am, even on my days off.
So, I am asking, once again, to try having me start at 7:00am during month end next month. If you need me to stay until 7:00pm on days when I do not have enough allotted hours (meaning that it is a day where I cannot work twelve hours or I'd go over the allowed number of hours) to work I can take a longer lunch. Unless going over the approved number of overtime hours isn't an issue, then I will stop worrying about it.
For the record, it has been a while since I have stacked most, or all, of my overtime onto one or two days at the beginning of the week. I do my best to work the majority of my overtime on the day(s) you say you need us the most.
For example, the week before my vacation, I had planned to work my normal nine hours Monday and Tuesday, then eleven hours Wednesday and Thursday, and then eight on Friday because we were only allowed eight hours total of overtime, and you said you needed us most on Thursday. Because we received the pump test from 25346 that needed to be completed Tuesday, and it took some time to get the correct grades with prices from their TSC due to them using the prepaid key, I went over by forty-five minutes. It seems to me that our issues didn't start until I asked when you wanted me to cut that forty-five minutes. I did not want to go over the allowed eight hours and wanted to make sure I was available when you needed me most.
If my asking when you want me to cut extra time (to make sure I don't cut it on a day you need me) is a problem, then I will stop. Also, if going over the allowed overtime hours is not an issue, I will stop worrying about it (as I stated above).
Also, when I ask if you need me an hour before I plan to leave, it is not just to give me time to do whatever you need (because, again, I do not want to go over our allowed overtime) but also to give you time to respond. There have been many times when I asked via teams about an hour before I planned to leave, and you did not respond for over twenty minutes. I understand that you are busy, and do not want to make you feel like I am rushing you to check if you need me, especially if you're in a meeting when I ask.
Her response was:
Me,
I appreciate your candor and coming to me with this.
The way it goes here or in any company is we work when our bosses tell us to work. It is that way with me and everyone else. The rest of the team knows this. We have to work together especially with being such a small team and with your schedule as it is, we have a hard time functioning as a unit.
I spoke with [redacted] and have her support on this.
I would like us to try the 8:00-8:30 schedule during quarter end close please. Or I’d even be willing to do 7:30 with a longer lunch. I feel as if we have to try in order to be able to meet our deadlines.
Several minutes later, she sent another email with the last paragraph again.
As I read this a second time while putting it here, I read the second paragraph as her saying that I told her I wasn't going to work the hours she wants me to when I asked to try starting at 7am. Sometimes, I feel like she doesn't even read my emails/messages.
But since she gave me a time frame, I will be starting at 8am and then on the second day of this, I will not touch my computer for about an hour and then send her a message through teams saying that I fell asleep and think it would be best if I started at 7:30 the next day.
Also, for some reason my manager did two days of one of my sites last week and entered the wrong inventory readings on both days. But only for one of their tanks. She managed to get all the others entered correctly.
And we have new sites that went live on 6/6 (as far as I can tell none have sent in the paperwork). They are supposed to come through on our internal reporting system but my two are not available. I sent an email saying that I am missing their reports and they are not in our reporting system. My manager told me to start putting them on my missing paperwork list. My internal reaction was, 'duh, no shit'. She had already sent an email last week telling us to do that.
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