September has come and gone, it seems. Month end is this Friday, and I cannot wait! Waves to Wine is also this weekend, and I have missed volunteering by myself.
I've been overwhelmed with a lot of work, and honestly, I don't like to complain, but it seems I'm being overloaded. It is not that I cannot say "No" when I've had enough, but rather, I'm taking on the roles of more than one person, more like three individuals, and taking on new responsibilities from other members of my team. It's all a good learning experience, because I make the mistakes that are necessary for me to learn to grow.
It's difficult, because my manager is new, one month old actually, and she's already come in sweeping her broom. She's dictating how things should run, for the most part, sure a dictatorship has worked in other places, but somehow coming from a background different than my group, on top of not knowing any of my responsibilities and then running the show blindly does not entirely bode well with me. I have been really patient, trying to understand what her point is, or why it is that she wants to do things a certain way. Of course, I also believe that she is very wordy/ and lengthy when she doesn't have to be. She'll go around and around explaining one thing, when really she doesn't have to.
Simply put, there is a simple answer for a lot of things, and she makes it complicated, because in a sense she wants to believe there is complexity in everything we do. There are no shortcuts for her.
In any case, the most irritating part isn't the managing, but rather her constantly telling me that I should push my schedule back, and that I should leave. On top of telling me that one could work 24 hours a day if need be, she means almost literally that she has more work and could stay AT work for 24 hours because HER work never ceases.
I dislike hypocrites, she talks about time management and she's at work until 7-8PM every night. She talks about having a balanced lifestyle, and she comes into work looking like she could use another couple of days off. She says I should push going into work back, but she doesn't know what I do. She says if I need help I should ask, she doesn't even know what I do!
Anyway enough ranting, I miss human interaction with people less high-strung. I need community service! YESSSS to Waves to Wine, and the Multiple Sclerosis Society!
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