Melkane
06-11-2007, 11:23 PM
One of the busiest times of the year for my job at college, book sale time at the start of the quarter. We are short staffed though our boss went back to teaching and we were already short a couple other workstudies that graduated.
It was going to be a hard couple weeks but us 3 remaining workstudies were going to have someone from another department help out.
I went in today on my day off (7:30am), my fellow workstudy Kyle supposed to be there by 8am. He doesn't show, so the morning rush of booksales are completely fallen on me, on top of that a lab was being redone and the construction crew only finished over the weekend, the lab had to be up and running today. So before and after the morning booksale rush I had to go setup that entire lab on my own. I then get word that we are recieving 150 new desktops for the IT department to install upstairs that I would be recieving and needing to deliver. So about 9:30 I call both other workstudies Kyle and Brent and leave a message on their voice mails pleading for one of them to show and help me as was planned.
10:30 am Kyle shows up and I try and tell him what all we have to do. He then proceeds to tell me "Oh yeah I transfered , to the IT department no longer working in the bookstore see you" and walks off. Leaving me completely hanging...it then gets worse. Our help from another department, that was supposed to come over and help with booksales shows up and tells me that he got fed up with his job and walked out so he couldn't help me "us" with booksales.
Shortly after this the truck pulls in with the desktops, I have him unload them into the bookstore, stressed out, pissed off and it's nearing 1pm so I decide to go to lunch. During lunch I decide that this set of events is very bad leaving only 2 employees in the bookstore and I had no contact with that other guy. I decide to go to the big boss of the school and tell her whats going on and see if she has a solution.
I get back from lunch and tell the Director all that had transpired. Kyle transfering the day of booksales without telling anyone (apparently not even her which he's supposed to) Ronnie quitting his job, brent not showing and all the work that I had done and needed to be done. She then sets up a meeting for all the workstudies, the supervisor of IT and a few others to get all this sorted, she also says that Kyle is not moving to IT this week.
A little later I'm back in the bookstore working and Kyle comes storming in grabs a cart of desktops and storms off, I try to tell him about the meeting and he flat out refuses to talk or listen to me. Pissed to the point you can just feel he wants to beat my ass down.
I ask through the grapevine what's up, and apparently someone told him that I went in and told the Director that he does no work and that i do it all (all the time) that he does nothing. (all I can think of at this point is WTF?!?!?) He is one of those little guys with a Napoleon complex that if they get pissed they want to beat the crap out of them. The day proceeded on from there and just seemed to spiral into just utter horribleness. It was lightened by the arrival of Brent to swoop in and take over booksales for me.
So not only am I absolutely dead tired and stressed out but I have some guy at work running around wanting to cause me bodily harm thinking that I said something to the big boss about him that I didn't yet he won't let me get a word in to sort this out. And I have another two weeks worth of booksales to go through.
I went and saw my connection today though so I'm restocked up again finally after a week drought and ready to spend the evening baked out of my mind with no worries in the world before having to go back in tomorrow and face the cluster fuck of a mess in there.
It was going to be a hard couple weeks but us 3 remaining workstudies were going to have someone from another department help out.
I went in today on my day off (7:30am), my fellow workstudy Kyle supposed to be there by 8am. He doesn't show, so the morning rush of booksales are completely fallen on me, on top of that a lab was being redone and the construction crew only finished over the weekend, the lab had to be up and running today. So before and after the morning booksale rush I had to go setup that entire lab on my own. I then get word that we are recieving 150 new desktops for the IT department to install upstairs that I would be recieving and needing to deliver. So about 9:30 I call both other workstudies Kyle and Brent and leave a message on their voice mails pleading for one of them to show and help me as was planned.
10:30 am Kyle shows up and I try and tell him what all we have to do. He then proceeds to tell me "Oh yeah I transfered , to the IT department no longer working in the bookstore see you" and walks off. Leaving me completely hanging...it then gets worse. Our help from another department, that was supposed to come over and help with booksales shows up and tells me that he got fed up with his job and walked out so he couldn't help me "us" with booksales.
Shortly after this the truck pulls in with the desktops, I have him unload them into the bookstore, stressed out, pissed off and it's nearing 1pm so I decide to go to lunch. During lunch I decide that this set of events is very bad leaving only 2 employees in the bookstore and I had no contact with that other guy. I decide to go to the big boss of the school and tell her whats going on and see if she has a solution.
I get back from lunch and tell the Director all that had transpired. Kyle transfering the day of booksales without telling anyone (apparently not even her which he's supposed to) Ronnie quitting his job, brent not showing and all the work that I had done and needed to be done. She then sets up a meeting for all the workstudies, the supervisor of IT and a few others to get all this sorted, she also says that Kyle is not moving to IT this week.
A little later I'm back in the bookstore working and Kyle comes storming in grabs a cart of desktops and storms off, I try to tell him about the meeting and he flat out refuses to talk or listen to me. Pissed to the point you can just feel he wants to beat my ass down.
I ask through the grapevine what's up, and apparently someone told him that I went in and told the Director that he does no work and that i do it all (all the time) that he does nothing. (all I can think of at this point is WTF?!?!?) He is one of those little guys with a Napoleon complex that if they get pissed they want to beat the crap out of them. The day proceeded on from there and just seemed to spiral into just utter horribleness. It was lightened by the arrival of Brent to swoop in and take over booksales for me.
So not only am I absolutely dead tired and stressed out but I have some guy at work running around wanting to cause me bodily harm thinking that I said something to the big boss about him that I didn't yet he won't let me get a word in to sort this out. And I have another two weeks worth of booksales to go through.
I went and saw my connection today though so I'm restocked up again finally after a week drought and ready to spend the evening baked out of my mind with no worries in the world before having to go back in tomorrow and face the cluster fuck of a mess in there.