Baph
09-10-08, 05:17 PM
Well, a little background is needed first I think...
Yesterday, I was having the day from hell in the office. Those that know me, won't be supprised to hear that in one discussion with management, I almost walked out on the spot (loosing a months wages in the process). That was a request for holiday that I was putting in, and initially it was declined, for pretty much no reason other than I'm (apparently) good at what I do.
So anyway, yesterday, a job came in that ever since my employment started, was outside of my remit. However, I've always said that if everyone else is busy, I'd help the team out by doing it anyway. No-one else was busy, so I logged the job & informed the team. I informed the duty manager, as it was a high priority job, and sat back down.
One of the others in the office commented "you have to do it, you can't pass it on to us." To which my opinion was that everyone else is having an easy time, I'm up to my eyeballs in stress, so they can take a running jump, it's not getting touched. I may of been a little bit verbal about that (in an open plan office), but it was kept reasonably professional.
That person then put in a formal complaint about me, because I refused to do the work, not because of my attitude. The result was a written instruction that I now have to do the work if I take the phone call, which whilst being a bummer, is acceptable. However, management disputed the fact that there was a complaint, stating that this change had been on the cards for a long time. I know for a fact that's a lie, the managers words were "no-one has complained directly to me" - which is true, they complained to a different manager.
Right, fast forward to today... the same person is being very off. To the point that the manager just asked them to cover one of the days when I'm on holiday.
When they found out that it was to cover me, they made it very obvious that under no circumstances would they cover the shift. I find this hillarious personally, and struggled to contain my laughter.
So now I'm faced with a conundrum. Do I inform the manager that I know they lied when I said I knew about the complaint, and effectively complain about this person's attitude, or do I let the issue just blow in the wind? If I was annoied by any of it, then I'd of let rip at the time, possibly following through on my threat to walk (well, I've done it before), but it's just funny that they'd act like that.
What do you think? Poll to follow...
Yesterday, I was having the day from hell in the office. Those that know me, won't be supprised to hear that in one discussion with management, I almost walked out on the spot (loosing a months wages in the process). That was a request for holiday that I was putting in, and initially it was declined, for pretty much no reason other than I'm (apparently) good at what I do.
So anyway, yesterday, a job came in that ever since my employment started, was outside of my remit. However, I've always said that if everyone else is busy, I'd help the team out by doing it anyway. No-one else was busy, so I logged the job & informed the team. I informed the duty manager, as it was a high priority job, and sat back down.
One of the others in the office commented "you have to do it, you can't pass it on to us." To which my opinion was that everyone else is having an easy time, I'm up to my eyeballs in stress, so they can take a running jump, it's not getting touched. I may of been a little bit verbal about that (in an open plan office), but it was kept reasonably professional.
That person then put in a formal complaint about me, because I refused to do the work, not because of my attitude. The result was a written instruction that I now have to do the work if I take the phone call, which whilst being a bummer, is acceptable. However, management disputed the fact that there was a complaint, stating that this change had been on the cards for a long time. I know for a fact that's a lie, the managers words were "no-one has complained directly to me" - which is true, they complained to a different manager.
Right, fast forward to today... the same person is being very off. To the point that the manager just asked them to cover one of the days when I'm on holiday.
When they found out that it was to cover me, they made it very obvious that under no circumstances would they cover the shift. I find this hillarious personally, and struggled to contain my laughter.
So now I'm faced with a conundrum. Do I inform the manager that I know they lied when I said I knew about the complaint, and effectively complain about this person's attitude, or do I let the issue just blow in the wind? If I was annoied by any of it, then I'd of let rip at the time, possibly following through on my threat to walk (well, I've done it before), but it's just funny that they'd act like that.
What do you think? Poll to follow...