I was recently voluntold to do 10/hours per week of site inspections for construction work during the month of September, since our intern who was doing them previously is going back to school. I have other responsibilities that fill my time with the company but I'm being told to absorb this work since the engineer/PM in charge of the project lives out of state and is remote 50% of the time, so there's no one else. The rest of the company besides field personnel are remote. I am support staff, a drafter, and the only one that actually comes in to the office 8-5 every single day. The owner of the (small) company has allowed everyone to stay remote, for the time being, since covid. Yet I still come in. (I prefer this, just for context. I live close and like my isolated office environment.)
We have an “Employee Contacts” printout taped above everyone's desk that has our personal cell phone numbers, company emails, and office line extensions listed on it. Personal numbers on this sheet aren't necessarily meant to be given out and are equally important for internal use amongst employees in case of emergencies. It's also handy since everyone is remote, however, I am not.
The PM recently provided my personal cell phone number to the contractor that we are doing inspections for. I replied back to him telling him this was highly inappropriate to do and to please let me be the one to decide who to give my personal cell number to for work related matters. He then mentioned my number being on the employee contacts sheet and said the title quote. “If it's not a number you wish to be used – I'd remove it.” For one, the owner of the company had reception make those for everyone, so it's out of my control. For two, it's very important for employees to reach each other, as mentioned, that doesn't mean our numbers are to be given out, especially when I'm at the office every day and can be reached on that line, unlike the majority of the company.
I replied back to the contractor saying to please use the office line instead. He pushed back, “You don't have a mobile?” To which I simply said “No. I can be reached on the office line. Thanks.”
I will spare the details of this PM unprofessionally using “FFS” in one of his emails when I said I didn't have the capacity to absorb this due to my drafting load. He also then put “drafting load” in quotes, to which I said: “That 'drafting load' is my job.” Extremely condescending.
Some people are just total twats.