Not About Babies!
I'm a little irritated with one of my co-workers. Maybe I shouldn't be. I'll let you decide.
I work every other day. Which means that every other Friday I have off. There's another gal that works the days I'm not here because we're the receptionists so someone always has to be at the front desk to answer the phones and do all the other fun things we do. It's worked out pretty well this way for the last few years. I could go to school on my off days and she was completely happy to not work full-time. If one of us needed a day off we could usually swing it so the other one could work. Only working every other day anyways made it so that didn't really happen a whole lot. I mean, every other week you get a four day weekend.
Well, the last few weeks the other gal has needed a lot of time off. As much as I hate working my off days I didn't really have a problem working for her. Besides, I could use the money. That's not what's irritating me. The friday before Memorial weekend is my friday to work. I figured I had to work and we would just leave when we got off work at 4:30. It's about a 9 hour drive to the in-laws which would put us getting in around 1:30 in the morning - if we didn't run into too much rush hour traffic or any other complications. Since being pregnant I have a hard time staying up past 10. I really didn't want to be driving still at 1 am.
I figured since I had worked for the other gal several times in the last few weeks that she would be accomodating to my schedule. But no. She has plans to go to her cabin with her husband and all her kids on Friday so she can't work. It doesn't matter that it's only an hour drive for her as opposed to the 9 hour drive I have ahead of me and that she'll be up there with her whole family for the next 3 days or that she sees her kids a heck of a lot more often than we see Hubby's parents and this will probably be the last day off I take before the baby's born. And I hardly ever ask her to work for me and I work for her A LOT. I was even willing to switch her days and work Thursday if she would work Friday. See how nice I am? Am I justified in being a little irritated?
Fortunately my boss was as irritated as I was. He can't make her work her off day but he had her pretty close to caving in. But he talked to another co-worker who fills in every once in awhile (usually when I need time off and the other gal won't work - shocking, I know) and she'll be here all day and will fill in for me. So I still get the day off even if the other gal can't be bothered to work for me even though I've been so nice as to work for her a lot lately. And I'll try to stop being irritated.
I work every other day. Which means that every other Friday I have off. There's another gal that works the days I'm not here because we're the receptionists so someone always has to be at the front desk to answer the phones and do all the other fun things we do. It's worked out pretty well this way for the last few years. I could go to school on my off days and she was completely happy to not work full-time. If one of us needed a day off we could usually swing it so the other one could work. Only working every other day anyways made it so that didn't really happen a whole lot. I mean, every other week you get a four day weekend.
Well, the last few weeks the other gal has needed a lot of time off. As much as I hate working my off days I didn't really have a problem working for her. Besides, I could use the money. That's not what's irritating me. The friday before Memorial weekend is my friday to work. I figured I had to work and we would just leave when we got off work at 4:30. It's about a 9 hour drive to the in-laws which would put us getting in around 1:30 in the morning - if we didn't run into too much rush hour traffic or any other complications. Since being pregnant I have a hard time staying up past 10. I really didn't want to be driving still at 1 am.
I figured since I had worked for the other gal several times in the last few weeks that she would be accomodating to my schedule. But no. She has plans to go to her cabin with her husband and all her kids on Friday so she can't work. It doesn't matter that it's only an hour drive for her as opposed to the 9 hour drive I have ahead of me and that she'll be up there with her whole family for the next 3 days or that she sees her kids a heck of a lot more often than we see Hubby's parents and this will probably be the last day off I take before the baby's born. And I hardly ever ask her to work for me and I work for her A LOT. I was even willing to switch her days and work Thursday if she would work Friday. See how nice I am? Am I justified in being a little irritated?
Fortunately my boss was as irritated as I was. He can't make her work her off day but he had her pretty close to caving in. But he talked to another co-worker who fills in every once in awhile (usually when I need time off and the other gal won't work - shocking, I know) and she'll be here all day and will fill in for me. So I still get the day off even if the other gal can't be bothered to work for me even though I've been so nice as to work for her a lot lately. And I'll try to stop being irritated.
posted by Heidi @ 1:46 PM
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