Work...'nuff said!

I love my job. For those of you who don't know: I work in group homes for the mentally disabled. I love the people I work with; they are all great! But sometimes the workers and managers get on my nerves.

First of all, none of the managers have ever worked in the homes so they really have no idea how things are actually done even though they like to tell us how to do our jobs but that's not a big problem. I don't talk to them, they don't talk to me, everyone does what they think is best and it works itself out in the end. What sucks is when managers forget that I do not possess the ability to bilocate. I am human and can only be in one place at a time. Let me tell you a few stories.

My orientation at House A was cancelled and the only time we both had free was a Sunday. So I show up at 8:30 begin orientating, go home at 12:30 and call it a day. The next Friday I go to House B and they tell me that I was supposed to work there on Sunday. I get home, all worried, triple check my emails and ask everyone if anyone phoned. It turns out that even though I was given no notification I was suppose to work that Sunday. So the manager screwed up once.

Yesterday morning, I'm sleeping in because I don't have to go to House B until 1:00. The phone rings at 8:30 and the managers on the other line asking me why I'm not at House A. I tell her I'm working at Aspen and say screw it, I don't want to deal with your screw ups. Check my emails, ask everyone in the house, and again no notification. So the manager screwed up twice.

That's not all though. I wake up and get to House A at 7:50 today, 10 minutes before my shifts starts. I got all the information from the night worker who also told me that the main worker would be in early. 5 minutes later, another worker walks in and I ask her if she's replacing the main worker and she says she's working the 8-3 shift, the same one I was scheduled to work. About an hour later we finally get it worked out that even though I took the shift in the middle of June, and the second worker took it on Thursday, she somehow got the shift ahead of me. But that's okay, they need extra help up at House B. So the manager screwed up three times within the span of a week. This is going to be a fun summer.

-c.s.