Meeting
Mistakes all over the place. But I think a manager who sends work emails to an employee who's work does not require looking at one's email at the best of times, and is furthermore, on vacation, on an important meeting, is vastly mistaken. When she follows that up with a message on said employee's home voice mail, but does not get a reply. And furthermore does not say a word about the mandatory, important meeting, when she speaks to that employee on Monday, and asks about the vacation, but doesn't add "Did you get my message?" or "Don't forget the meeting tomorrow."
And when the supervisor leaves a note on the assignment board saying "In at 0900" next to my name, on what appears to be a very light day, implying that I not come in until 0900, but to come in and cover breaks and lunches, but never says a word to the employee.
So, I figure, instead of being called off, I'm covering lunches. I sleep in. I get a call at 0710, supervisor demanding to know "Why aren't you HERE!?" I reasonably ask, where? She left me an "extensive message on your voice mail on Thursday!!!" There was no such message, D checked - again. I feel a bit sorry for whomever got her long instructions. Well, at her insistence, I take a quick shower, dress, skip tea and breakfast, and meet with the very important people. Now, I have no issue with the meeting, it really was important. But I got no kind of apology from the manager who a year and a half ago so lectured me on "tone." Who woke me up with her angry assumptions. Nor from the supervisor who left her note on the board, without mentioning this meeting to me at any point during our many conversations all Monday. A kind of acceptance that mistakes were made, possibly by her.
I brought no anger with me this morning, a shrug, get on with it. But this evening I allow myself the indignation, the contempt.
Wrong footed all day, didn't bring lunch because I thought it would be unnecessary. Looked like I would have to be there all day, but at a certain point I got unexpected relief. My body cast a final vote to run while I could, so I did. By the next day I have to be there, I'll have let it go again.
I'll have adequate blood-tea levels to deal.
走开。 我每次将报告您。
And when the supervisor leaves a note on the assignment board saying "In at 0900" next to my name, on what appears to be a very light day, implying that I not come in until 0900, but to come in and cover breaks and lunches, but never says a word to the employee.
So, I figure, instead of being called off, I'm covering lunches. I sleep in. I get a call at 0710, supervisor demanding to know "Why aren't you HERE!?" I reasonably ask, where? She left me an "extensive message on your voice mail on Thursday!!!" There was no such message, D checked - again. I feel a bit sorry for whomever got her long instructions. Well, at her insistence, I take a quick shower, dress, skip tea and breakfast, and meet with the very important people. Now, I have no issue with the meeting, it really was important. But I got no kind of apology from the manager who a year and a half ago so lectured me on "tone." Who woke me up with her angry assumptions. Nor from the supervisor who left her note on the board, without mentioning this meeting to me at any point during our many conversations all Monday. A kind of acceptance that mistakes were made, possibly by her.
I brought no anger with me this morning, a shrug, get on with it. But this evening I allow myself the indignation, the contempt.
Wrong footed all day, didn't bring lunch because I thought it would be unnecessary. Looked like I would have to be there all day, but at a certain point I got unexpected relief. My body cast a final vote to run while I could, so I did. By the next day I have to be there, I'll have let it go again.
I'll have adequate blood-tea levels to deal.
走开。 我每次将报告您。
Labels: work
Posted by Zhoen on Tuesday, July 20, 2010
4 comments:
走开。 我每次将报告您。
Makes me wish I could read Chinese!
Hope today is far better for you.
It just says, Go Away, I will report you. It's aimed at the spammers who leave comments in Chinese here. I stomp on them and report them to Blooger Spam, which I have bookmarked. Thought I'd run the phrase through a translator and put it up once in a while.
Passive aggressive behavior--do you think it is as rampant in the general population as it is among healthcare workers?
mbick,
I think it is a typically female trait, exacerbated when a lot of women work together. Since healthcare is a largely female world, yes, I think it comes out there more often. I struggle with it every day, preferring a more balanced, or more male workplace, since I grew up around only brothers, and have always had a lot of male friends.
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