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Originally Posted by cantstopcrying
What is the nature of your work/job? Is there anyone above your supervisor that would be able to institute an SOP on this?
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I work for an agency, and in my department we work with a pretty high profile government program. Specifically, my and my co-workers job is to assist recipients of this program--calling them to let them know about it, helping them apply for it, and so on. We also do a lot of promotion for this in the community, attend community events, etc. We have a head office that occasionally sends us events to do in our area--we are under contract with them, and when they call us to do an event, someone has to do it as a condition of that contract. (The 2-day event in question, the one that caused this bruhaha, was one of these.)
BTW, what is an SOP?
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Originally Posted by _sabby_
I think #2 sounds like the best idea out of all of them. Sharing the workload in this case, to me, is more appealing and you and your co-workers would have the opportunity to work around a few hours at a time instead of an all day affair. I also think that a rotation for weekends would be the best way to go also. That way every 4th weekend event would be yours.
I would say that if you cannot get your co-workers to agree to anything but the status quo, I would let the supervisor know that there is no co-operation happening and maybe she needs to make it crystal clear that what happened to you will NOT happen again to anyone and it's part of their job description (she should have it in your job description).
Boy, nothing irks me more than being a team player when the rest of the team cares zero about doing the same. It makes for a difficult situation every single time.
Wish you luck in moving forward with this issue!
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I agree that # 2 would get my vote. I'm a little gun shy, though, about communicating with the supervisor again by myself because of the whole blowup over me calling her the day all hell broke loose.
As I mentioned in my first post, the thing that makes this whole situation so difficult is that my co-workers are not evil people, and have proved that they will do non-regular-hours work, as they have in the past--events on a Saturday, at night, etc. We've even switched around our schedules to help each other; one time I switched with another person and worked her shift because she had something to do on a Saturday, and another person switched a shift with me because I had family in town. We've got along quite well, and have worked as a well-oiled team with plenty of give and take in the past.
Even now, we're getting along pretty good for the most part...the friction comes whenever THIS topic comes up, or the topic of scheduling events, period.I don't want people thinking of me as a bossy, betrayal-minded witch for trying to get things done and settled, but I don't want to be a doormat either.
Ugh. To say that I'm torn about all this is an understatement
