What's wrong with your job?
For some reason I can talk about my relationships on this blog, but lately when it comes to my job, I can't seem to type about it. Even though my job has been a source of frustrations and stress lately. So, I'm going to commit this blog entry to my job. I guess now that I'm sitting here trying to get it out, its not easy to put it into words. To make this easier I'm going to do this in question/answer format.
Do you like your job? Why or why not?
No, because I used to take on a lot of responsibility on my job. I jumped at the opportunity to be in charge of a project. I used to coordinate our fall welcome events, spring awards banquet, workshops, cultural events, CAS, and meet the needs of my students. Out of all of my duties I enjoyed meeting with students the least. But, it comes with the territory, so I do it. However, since my new boss was hired in 2004 she has taken over the fall welcome, spring awards banquet and when it comes to cultural events she doesn't give me a budget to work with. I'm just told to come up with events. I have no direction as to how much I'm supposed to spend per student. I get lost. I've asked her several times about the budget for the events. I usually have to get that information from the secretary. Also there have been occassions where she will come to me with an idea for an event and she will tell the secretary to look up information and then she will also tell me to look up information. So there would be two people doing the same thing. So instead of me being the leader in the task i have to share the task which causes problems for me because I get confused as to what I'm supposed to be doing especially since the secretary would be doing the same thing that I would be doing. Most of the time I drop out and allow the secretary to do all the work. I guess I'm a hog. I don't like to share. Recently there has been a turn of events. I've come to the conclusion that since my boss has taken over my job, my main concern would be the students, but that hasn't been the case. My main concern now includes blogging, reading, surfing the net, and job hunting. Because of this my students have not gotten the attention that they deserve. It's not that I don't like meeting my students, it's that they weren't the highlight of my job. I enjoyed coordinating the projects and my students gave me a good break from my projects. Also, I like to stay busy. I heard a quote a long time ago, "If you want something done, give it to a busy person." I find that to be so true with myself. If I'm not busy my mentality is, "I'll get to it when I feel like it," thus leaving way too much room for me to forget that I have something to do. However, if i'm busy I have to prioritize my task to make sure that everything is done. Therefore, I make sure that my task are done and done well. My job doesn't afford me the luxary of being busy now. Recently my boss has figured out that I'm getting paid to surf the net and blog, so she's assigned me the fall welcome event. WHAT? I don't want to do this. I could care less about these projects now. It would be like I have a new job all over again. I've expressed this to a coworker and she's been helping. Thank God for her because without her I would be dead meat.
What are some other things that bother you about ur job?
Tattle tales. I think I've just become numb to this, but my coworker and friend, Mere, can't stand that our secretary and another coworker are always tattling. We can't do one thing without one of them going off to tell the boss. I think I expereineced this first in the summer of 2004 when I got lost going to a college visit that I was supposed to meet my coworkers at. I was late, but I didn't tell them that I was lost. I was too embarrassed to. But surely the next morning when I got to work I heard my coworker telling the boss that I was so late. She didn't say a word to me. I felt like she was back stabbing me. But every since then I've had it in the back of my mind that she was a back stabber. Mere on the other hand fumes when they are tattling. She can't stand it.
Confusion: No one communicates in our office so there is constant confusion. I just sit back and listen to the confused directions that are given to people. I add to the confusion sometimes, but if I didn't I wouldn't fit in. On yesterday I told our secretary that I was booking a room for another coworkers workshop. Our secretary, later in the day, ask the coworker is she was going to book the room. The coworker was going to respond, but I spoke up and said that I was doing it. "Oh, Oh, okay," was our secretaries response. She heard me earlier when I said that I was doing it . Why cause the confusion. Another incident occurred when my boss told me to book a speaker for our fall welcome. I happily agreed. Two days later she comes back to ask me about my progress in the fall welcome planning. I asked her what she was talking about and taht I was only getting the speaker. She then said, No, you are going to plan the event. GRRRRRRRRRR. That's not what she said before. She didn't tell me about planning the even at all. She said book the speaker. Now I'm supposed to plan the entire thing. I don't want to. I didn't volunteer to do it at all. Why am I being assigned this task? Because I get paid to surf the net. Had she not said anything to me I wouldn't have known. We would have just has a speaker and no events.
I'm exhausted talking bout my job. I'll continue later.
Do you like your job? Why or why not?
No, because I used to take on a lot of responsibility on my job. I jumped at the opportunity to be in charge of a project. I used to coordinate our fall welcome events, spring awards banquet, workshops, cultural events, CAS, and meet the needs of my students. Out of all of my duties I enjoyed meeting with students the least. But, it comes with the territory, so I do it. However, since my new boss was hired in 2004 she has taken over the fall welcome, spring awards banquet and when it comes to cultural events she doesn't give me a budget to work with. I'm just told to come up with events. I have no direction as to how much I'm supposed to spend per student. I get lost. I've asked her several times about the budget for the events. I usually have to get that information from the secretary. Also there have been occassions where she will come to me with an idea for an event and she will tell the secretary to look up information and then she will also tell me to look up information. So there would be two people doing the same thing. So instead of me being the leader in the task i have to share the task which causes problems for me because I get confused as to what I'm supposed to be doing especially since the secretary would be doing the same thing that I would be doing. Most of the time I drop out and allow the secretary to do all the work. I guess I'm a hog. I don't like to share. Recently there has been a turn of events. I've come to the conclusion that since my boss has taken over my job, my main concern would be the students, but that hasn't been the case. My main concern now includes blogging, reading, surfing the net, and job hunting. Because of this my students have not gotten the attention that they deserve. It's not that I don't like meeting my students, it's that they weren't the highlight of my job. I enjoyed coordinating the projects and my students gave me a good break from my projects. Also, I like to stay busy. I heard a quote a long time ago, "If you want something done, give it to a busy person." I find that to be so true with myself. If I'm not busy my mentality is, "I'll get to it when I feel like it," thus leaving way too much room for me to forget that I have something to do. However, if i'm busy I have to prioritize my task to make sure that everything is done. Therefore, I make sure that my task are done and done well. My job doesn't afford me the luxary of being busy now. Recently my boss has figured out that I'm getting paid to surf the net and blog, so she's assigned me the fall welcome event. WHAT? I don't want to do this. I could care less about these projects now. It would be like I have a new job all over again. I've expressed this to a coworker and she's been helping. Thank God for her because without her I would be dead meat.
What are some other things that bother you about ur job?
Tattle tales. I think I've just become numb to this, but my coworker and friend, Mere, can't stand that our secretary and another coworker are always tattling. We can't do one thing without one of them going off to tell the boss. I think I expereineced this first in the summer of 2004 when I got lost going to a college visit that I was supposed to meet my coworkers at. I was late, but I didn't tell them that I was lost. I was too embarrassed to. But surely the next morning when I got to work I heard my coworker telling the boss that I was so late. She didn't say a word to me. I felt like she was back stabbing me. But every since then I've had it in the back of my mind that she was a back stabber. Mere on the other hand fumes when they are tattling. She can't stand it.
Confusion: No one communicates in our office so there is constant confusion. I just sit back and listen to the confused directions that are given to people. I add to the confusion sometimes, but if I didn't I wouldn't fit in. On yesterday I told our secretary that I was booking a room for another coworkers workshop. Our secretary, later in the day, ask the coworker is she was going to book the room. The coworker was going to respond, but I spoke up and said that I was doing it. "Oh, Oh, okay," was our secretaries response. She heard me earlier when I said that I was doing it . Why cause the confusion. Another incident occurred when my boss told me to book a speaker for our fall welcome. I happily agreed. Two days later she comes back to ask me about my progress in the fall welcome planning. I asked her what she was talking about and taht I was only getting the speaker. She then said, No, you are going to plan the event. GRRRRRRRRRR. That's not what she said before. She didn't tell me about planning the even at all. She said book the speaker. Now I'm supposed to plan the entire thing. I don't want to. I didn't volunteer to do it at all. Why am I being assigned this task? Because I get paid to surf the net. Had she not said anything to me I wouldn't have known. We would have just has a speaker and no events.
I'm exhausted talking bout my job. I'll continue later.
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