Sorry all, I just need to vent. I was 8 minutes late this morning, as my first time ever being late at this job. My supervisor said someone was asking where I was. It may have been no one important and it may have just been someone genuinely asking because they needed me, but she made it seem like a big deal. I come in at 7:45 everyday. My hours are technically 8-5, but I’m here 7:45-5 almost everyday. 8:08 today and “people were asking questions”.
We work on a 9/80 schedule. Over the course of 9 work days, we do 80 hours and the 10th day we have off. So every other Friday, the building is closed. Pretty sweet schedule, in my opinion. I was always given the impression that as long as we make our hours each week add up to 40, they don’t care how we do it. They do NOT pay overtime.
I’ve made it clear to my supervisor that I will not be doing any extra time outside of the hours that are required. I get the impression she doesn’t like that I’ve set that boundary. She’s the type of person who takes work home on the weekends and puts in lots of overtime to get ahead of things. I get it I guess? She has said she loves this job. I can tell she’s the “live to work” type, but I work to live. Outside of 8-5 on work days, my time belongs to me. So you can imagine me biting my tongue when she suggested that I give an extra 30 mins or hour a few days a week to show those who are “asking questions” that I’m putting in the work. Um… No. I won’t be doing that. Seems just a tad extreme over being 8 minutes late one time when I already do put in the work.
It has soured my mood for the day and I feel a little paranoid of my coworkers. I now know I’m being watched at work if someone came to my supervisor to make a comment. Thankfully, my time here is temporary. In the beginning, I did feel bad that I might be screwing people over down the line. I accepted the job offer knowing I wouldn’t even be there a full year. Basically, I was hired to help with my supervisor’s workload. She had been doing it on her own for years before they finally promoted her and allowed her to hire someone to fill the position under her (her old position). Her workload is still heavy even with me taking over a lot, but I can only do the things she’s trained me to do so far. My workload doesn’t need overtime to be completed while hers still does. Maybe she feels some type of way about it? Maybe she’s using that person’s comment as a way to express that she wants me to work like she does? Based on her personality, this woman would take work home and work overtime even if she didn’t need to, so I had been taking her other comments about me working outside of normal hours with a grain of salt. She’s been working that way for so long I think she’s forgotten that that’s HER normal. Not how it should be. Regardless… After something like this, and if this kind of thing continues, I won’t feel any guilt when it’s time to submit my resignation.