Yesterday before I started my shift, I stood in the doorway of my Circ manager to let him know that I needed to talk to him sometime about him messing up my schedule.... Again.
And then he stood up and told me that HE needed to talk to ME about MY scheduling. He told me to take a seat and I was completely taken aback by this because "fixing my schedule" just involved me standing next to him while he moved my hours around on the spreadsheet.
I seriously thought he was going to fire me by the way he was speaking. He then told me that a decision was made and that I would be transferred to another branch to help cover under-staffing.
I was relieved I still had a job, and it's only 6 weeks. The County is going to hire a handful of the 2000+ applicants who applied for the 14 positions open. This branch I am transferring to isn't all too far from where I live and I haven't worked there before so I'm open to the experience.
Some things I don't understand about this decision, is that my current branch is much more busier and we are already understaffed. So my departure will be rough on my coworkers. I also found out that someone from my first branch is also going to be transferred with me, so why me as well?
I think my P.I.C.A.W. (Partner In Crime At Work) is more affected by this decision than I am. She looked at the daily schedules to see if we were working the desk together and if we weren't, who either one of us could switch with. For some reason, management hasn't rarely been scheduling us to work the desk together. I don't know why, nothing bad has happened, we do our work, we don't mess around---ageism I tell ya.
One of my coworkers compared this situation to when she was in school and a student was being sent to a different class. The teacher would pick the brightest, smartest, best dressed student on their way, telling them to, "make a good impression." Well, hell yea I'm the brightest and smartest. But I think it's mostly because I am not taking any classes this semester and my availability is wide open, whatever, I'm still the best dressed. I know I will be sorely missed not just because of my greatness but because I actually work hard and pull my own weight.
Apparently the Assistant Circ Manager felt the need to email the WHOLE branch about it, so several Info staff have talked to me about it. Miss L first found out about it when Miss S told me that she'd miss me and Miss L turned to me and said, "You're leaving??" Miss S pointed out that there was an email from the Assistant Circ Manager, to which Miss L replied, "Oh, I saw it was from him SO I didn't read it." Her first question for me was if they asked me, no, they didn't ask they just did. This instantly sent her on a rant about the mismanagement of our branch. Too bad they didn't ask because one of my coworkers has been itching to transfer to that branch PERMANENTLY. And I am sure she would have jumped at the chance to work there even if its for 6 weeks. The branch manager came up to me TWICE during my shift to talk about it. She kept going on and on about how much I will enjoy it there and they are a bunch of great people, and that the branch manager there is her friend, and that I am a great worker and I am going to make a great impression on them. I felt like she was being facetious and in reality I am going to hate it and she knows it. She also kept thanking me and in my head I was thinking that I didn't really have a choice in the matter.
I will be missing Halloween and the bi-annual booksale which is always fun to work, but it'll be a good distraction. More importantly, I'll be back, they can't get rid of me that easily
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