I just gave one of my supervisors what amounts to serious attitude. It is company policy to find your own replacement if you want a day off. I'm good with that, I comply with it all 2/3 locations I work with. At the 3rd location, however, the housemanager has been there since before it was run by this company and she, rather than the supervisors, has handled the schedule. Lead has always coordinated finding coverage for sick days and vacation days. In fact, things have seemed to get discombobulated when I try to handle that myself. It just so happened that in the summer when I turned in a PTO request, Lead was on vacation. Somehow my request got lost in the shuffle (I believe Supervisor took it and forgot about it). One of my coworkers alerted Lead to my problem a few days before the days I'd requested off. Lead got right to it and worked a minor miracle to get me my time off. At the next staff meeting when both Lead and Supervisor were there, I asked what I could do to keep something like that from happening again. They made the suggestion that I turn in a copy of PTO requests to both of them. In September, I turned in some time off requests. At the beginning of October, the schedule for that house got completely revamped and as a result so did my schedule at all my houses. And in the revamping process, Supervisor took over handling the schedule. So a day I'd requested off got missed. And I've got some in November that I have heard nothing on, and they are not on the sign-up sheet for people to pick up extra shifts. So I asked Supervisor about that this morning. When she started in on how it is company policy to find your own replacement, I said "You know that's not how it works there." She replied with "but we're encouraging people to do that now. It is company policy. We talked about it at the staff meeting." Oh, would the be the staff meeting that got rescheduled without anyone notifying me so when I showed up, I was all alone? She kept going on about company policy, so I said "Yup" three times as she went on and on. After the third "Yup" (I confess I popped that p pretty obviously) I walked away from her.
She might have a point if she were to call me on the carpet for my attitude, but I believe my response will be, "I was agreeing with you about policy. If you don't like it when I agree with you, I can stop."
That or, "We all know there is sometimes a conflict between official policy and unwritten rules. When leadership strives to bring those unwritten rules into allignment with policy, it is very challenging. Here's a little leadership hint for you: Changing the rules without telling people erodes trust."
It really is too bad Supervisor has decided to not have me on her side. Because coworkers at that house are grumbling about that policy. I, as someone who sees it as normal, could be reassuring and soothing to my coworkers, if I weren't so pissed off.
COSMO IS BACK! I am so glad!
Yoinks! I take both these meds too! I haven't had the side effects listed yet, thank goodness for small favors.
I think if you were gonna get those side effects, you'd have got them already, Nora! They came on pretty quick, within a couple days of starting the meds. IANAD.
Andi, I would be pissed off, too. If TPTB are gonna change The Way Things Are Done, they need to be clear and make sure nothing slips through the cracks in the transition. Sounds like they're handling this badly.
I'm feeling much better today, partly because I overslept by two hours. Eh, I'm on vacation this week. (I took the week off specifically to try to get better adjusted to the new med that's making me sleepy and dopey.*) I've decided to be non-compliant. I'm not taking the omeprazole (Prilosec) anymore. It's a PPI antacid. I had been taking OTC rantidine (Zantac), which is an antacid but not a PPI, and I had no problems with it, so I'm switching back. I'm also cutting the hydrochlorothiazide (diuretic) in half, because I suspect it's increasing my stomach acid somehow. These two things may not go together. On va voir. If I keel over, these were bad decisions.
n = 1
*and a couple other dwarves too**
**there's no way I could
not
make that stupid joke
Yay Cosmo! No outside adventuring again, ok?
WS, we once had a guy - officially in charge of HR policies - who would go in and change the files that outlined policy ... but not ever tell anyone until they ran up against one of his revised policies. He'd say that the files were there for anyone to read ... thankfully, he's not here any more.
Sounds like they're handling this badly.
Thankfully it is just the one supervisor. The wacky thing is, if I went to
her
supervisor about the lack of communication, for all the regional director is a very empathetic woman whom I adore working for, I'd still get "Company policy is ... but company policy is... " rather than a resolution of the real problem. Of course, with the regional director I could say, "Did I not find my own replacements at the other two houses with no problems when I was out with my back injury? OK, so now we know I know both to do it and how to do it. Yet there is a problem with that house. Pretty sure it isn't me. I'm not the one who acts like my behavior is bizarre when I go asking people to pick up shifts which aren't listed on the sign-up sheet. And I can totally see that, from my coworkers' perspective - deviating from the accepted pattern of behavior looks shifty. Especially when out of one side of their mouths the bosses are preaching "no overtime, no overtime" and out of the other side of their mouths it's "overtime for everyone cuz we can't find anyone to hire." So the sign-up sheet for open shifts gets posted by the supervisor and approved. But if my requests don't go on the sign-up sheet, how can anyone know they're approved to work overtime for me? They think I'm doing something wrong.
In addition to the awesome Cosmo news, the kitty I picked up last night, thinking it was Cosmo turned out to indeed have a microchip and CosmoNot (who is really Bella) is happily reunited with HER owner, a nice lady who was very happy to see HER kitty.
I feel like I've been smoking the world's most excellent happy weed all day long. I'm so blissed out.
Kitties in the right places.
