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psyche29You know, of the few people I work directly with each and every day, I am the baby - but somehow, I am also the most mature. I know, crazy, right?
My biggest problem child is having a week-long "episode." He's pissed off because research that was taken away from us several years ago is now being reclassed as ours once again. Years ago, we were researching - and therefore posting - the payments and allowances incorrectly. Instead of giving us the training we needed to be able to get it right, like they should have done, our supervisor made a deal with another supervisor and got someone who understood how to read the remits to do the research, and we just posted the payments.
Now someone else is in that position, and there's a new supervisor too, and she says that the researching really does belong here with us. I agree with her, but said we'd need training.
Problem Child is having the cow of his bloody life because he's under the assumption that he "already has way more to do than anyone else, and if Joe Blow would just do his work instead of playing solitaire all day, we wouldn't have this problem, but nooo, it's being shoved off on ME. And if I'm going to be doing the work of a senior rep, then I want the job title and pay raise. I have a meeting with the union rep today."
1. I made a list a couple weeks ago of all the tasks for which my team and I are responsible. There are 22 items on it. Problem Child is responsible for 4, Mentally Ill Child is responsible for 1, Child In Between these two is responsible for 3, Completely-Competent-But-Not-Actually-One-Of-Mine-Anymore Child is responsible for 2. Completely Competent Child's two things make up 95% of all the payments received by the hospital, and I would say accounts for just under half of the work in our area. Child In Between has enough work within her three "items" to equal about double what Problem Child does, but Problem Child can't see this, or won't. Mentally Ill Child...well, there are issues there that we unfortunately have to work around. Who's responsible for the other 12 things on the list, which makes up just under half of the work in the area? Take a wild fucking guess.
2. Joe Blow DOES do his work, and Problem Child has seen him playing solitaire during what turn out to be his break times. He's not breaking rules, and he has enough to do.
3. It's not senior rep work. It's our work that was originally dumped on the person who was in Joe Blow's position at the time, and it's being returned to us finally, and we'll be getting properly trained on it.
4. 5 responsibilities from a list of 22 is not worth a raise or job title improvement, I don't care how damn long you've been here. The union is going to laugh in your face, Problem Child, because HR has all their ducks in a row and you are in the wrong.
Since I'm the lead worker, I can't tell Problem Child any of this in so many words. I did tell him that I can understand his frustrations, but also that I disagree with him, both about the work belonging to us and about it not being worth a job title change or pay raise.
And yesterday, in the bathroom, apparently Joe Blow said to Problem Child, "You don't have to be such a prick about it."
Because yes, Problem Child can be abrasive and rude and holier-than-thou, though he has not yet in my years here resorted to calling people names...to their faces, anyway.
Now Problem Child and I are supposed to have training with Joe Blow today, and Problem Child said to me this morning, "I refuse to be trained by someone who calls me a prick."
So now I'm waiting for our supervisor to get back to me, because Problem Child couldn't suck it up like the grown man he's supposed to be and just do the damn job, and Joe Blow descended into playground name-calling and Problem Child is throwing a tantrum.
And to cap off this lovely start to my morning, I just got an email from Problem Child requesting June 1st through the 7th off as vacation. I have to let him have it, because he has the time and no one else will be off, but-.
Completely Competent Child has that whole week off, too, and I'll already be doing all his work. (He deserves it, the man hasn't taken a damn vacation in all the time he's been here.) Now I'll be double-booked, because no one else can do Problem Child's work. All that in addition to my other 12 damn things. Fan. Fucking. Tastic.
And quite frankly? It burns my ass on a daily basis that I know more, understand more, am responsible for more and DO more than Problem Child, have to let him vent to me and try to calm him down, answer all his questions and keep training him on crap he should already know, yet he makes about three dollars more an hour because he's been here longer and had more cost-of-living increases. But at least I get it, for shit's sake, and don't harp on about it when it won't get me anywhere.
I can has winning lottery ticket now?
I don't have any desire to be wealthy - I only need enough to support my family while I quit and look for a better job. *sigh*
My biggest problem child is having a week-long "episode." He's pissed off because research that was taken away from us several years ago is now being reclassed as ours once again. Years ago, we were researching - and therefore posting - the payments and allowances incorrectly. Instead of giving us the training we needed to be able to get it right, like they should have done, our supervisor made a deal with another supervisor and got someone who understood how to read the remits to do the research, and we just posted the payments.
Now someone else is in that position, and there's a new supervisor too, and she says that the researching really does belong here with us. I agree with her, but said we'd need training.
Problem Child is having the cow of his bloody life because he's under the assumption that he "already has way more to do than anyone else, and if Joe Blow would just do his work instead of playing solitaire all day, we wouldn't have this problem, but nooo, it's being shoved off on ME. And if I'm going to be doing the work of a senior rep, then I want the job title and pay raise. I have a meeting with the union rep today."
1. I made a list a couple weeks ago of all the tasks for which my team and I are responsible. There are 22 items on it. Problem Child is responsible for 4, Mentally Ill Child is responsible for 1, Child In Between these two is responsible for 3, Completely-Competent-But-Not-Actually-One-Of-Mine-Anymore Child is responsible for 2. Completely Competent Child's two things make up 95% of all the payments received by the hospital, and I would say accounts for just under half of the work in our area. Child In Between has enough work within her three "items" to equal about double what Problem Child does, but Problem Child can't see this, or won't. Mentally Ill Child...well, there are issues there that we unfortunately have to work around. Who's responsible for the other 12 things on the list, which makes up just under half of the work in the area? Take a wild fucking guess.
2. Joe Blow DOES do his work, and Problem Child has seen him playing solitaire during what turn out to be his break times. He's not breaking rules, and he has enough to do.
3. It's not senior rep work. It's our work that was originally dumped on the person who was in Joe Blow's position at the time, and it's being returned to us finally, and we'll be getting properly trained on it.
4. 5 responsibilities from a list of 22 is not worth a raise or job title improvement, I don't care how damn long you've been here. The union is going to laugh in your face, Problem Child, because HR has all their ducks in a row and you are in the wrong.
Since I'm the lead worker, I can't tell Problem Child any of this in so many words. I did tell him that I can understand his frustrations, but also that I disagree with him, both about the work belonging to us and about it not being worth a job title change or pay raise.
And yesterday, in the bathroom, apparently Joe Blow said to Problem Child, "You don't have to be such a prick about it."
Because yes, Problem Child can be abrasive and rude and holier-than-thou, though he has not yet in my years here resorted to calling people names...to their faces, anyway.
Now Problem Child and I are supposed to have training with Joe Blow today, and Problem Child said to me this morning, "I refuse to be trained by someone who calls me a prick."
So now I'm waiting for our supervisor to get back to me, because Problem Child couldn't suck it up like the grown man he's supposed to be and just do the damn job, and Joe Blow descended into playground name-calling and Problem Child is throwing a tantrum.
And to cap off this lovely start to my morning, I just got an email from Problem Child requesting June 1st through the 7th off as vacation. I have to let him have it, because he has the time and no one else will be off, but-.
Completely Competent Child has that whole week off, too, and I'll already be doing all his work. (He deserves it, the man hasn't taken a damn vacation in all the time he's been here.) Now I'll be double-booked, because no one else can do Problem Child's work. All that in addition to my other 12 damn things. Fan. Fucking. Tastic.
I can has winning lottery ticket now?
I don't have any desire to be wealthy - I only need enough to support my family while I quit and look for a better job. *sigh*
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Date: 2010-05-25 06:07 pm (UTC)