Hi all, I made a post a couple of weeks back on r/curlyhair talking about my experience with my supervisor (I'll link it below). Today I have a new story for ya'll with the same supervisor, so here we go. Please be warned, it is lengthy.
If you've come across my last post then you'll know I work in the laundry department and as a custodian. My supervisor is someone I'd like to describe as power-hungry. If you are not at her beck and call at work 24/7 she will find anything to criticize and reprimand you for.
Last Saturday I was on custodian duty. Custodians at my workplace have a cleaning cart and a list of all the tasks that need to be done for the day attached to the said cart. Amongst the duties listed, there is a little note on the lobby clean-up that reads “Lobby by 10 am.” This includes mopping, sweeping, and cleaning the tables in the guest area. This specific time is listed because the hotel doesn't stop serving breakfast until 9:30, and it gives the guests some time to clear out before the custodians come and start cleaning. (This info will be important later, I promise).
Before I get into the actual meat of the story I would also like to mention that everything listed on the cart are “suggestions” and not an end-all-be-all rule either. Whenever I'm not working as a custodian I always see one of the other ladies that comes in and cleans already mopping the floors at least two hours before we're “supposed” to. The list is just there to remind the custodians of everything they need to have done at the end of their shift.
Onto the meat of the story.
When I arrived to work at 8 a.m. last week to clean, I had been there for about ~1 hr and 30-40 mins total. I noted when I came in and immediately noticed that the floors were extra dirty as it had rained yesterday, so I made a mental note to myself to make sure the floors didn't look like ass once I was done cleaning.Instead of cleaning the floors right away I made sure to clean up all the bathrooms before I got started on anything else. My supervisor has constantly reminded me that bathrooms were always prioritized when I was on cleaning duty. So about 9:30 ish I'm in the breakroom cleaning one of the bathrooms when I hear a knock on the door. I lock the bathrooms that have locks in them when I'm cleaning them so that people don't disturb me or accidentally come in when I'm cleaning. (I was never told I wasn't allowed to do this.)
I hear a knock at the door, open it right away and it's my supervisor. The first thing she asks me is “Are you okay?” to which I don't know if she's asking if I'm sick or something. This was the first time I'd seen her all morning. I say, “Yes, I'm in here cleaning the bathroom.” She goes, “With the door locked?” And I'm like, yes, I do this so that people don't disturb me as I explained above. She then proceeds to say that the Front Desk has been “looking for me” because they needed me to mop and clean the floors. One of them had even taken it upon themselves to sweep them for me because they just decided to be generous.
…Huh?
First of all, the front desk receptionists almost never interact with me. I have nothing against them and they're all sweet people, but our jobs don't require us to communicate with each other on a frequent basis. I clean, they attend to the guests. It's a simple relationship. If they “needed” me to clean the floors ASAP, I'd been at work at least an hour and a half at this point, and you're telling me as I went from bathroom to bathroom (We have 3 total in the guest area so it would not have been impossible to find me whatsoever), you're telling me they couldn't find me at all? Bullshit.
The receptionists never said anything to me as I came into work either. I came up to one of them, grabbed my key so I could access all of the facilities to clean and that was that.
So after this blatant lie, she then proceeds to tell me to go clean the floors, and after that “you can just go home.”
So, to bring this all together, I came into work for an hour and 30-40 something minutes just for you to find me doing my job, you get upset that someone else is doing my job even though I never asked them to, tell me to do the rest of my job even though I'm not “supposed” to be in the lobby until at 10 a.m, THEN proceed to send me home because in your eyes, I “wasn't” working when you found me. Fantastic.
Here's the post with the same supervisor when she went after me for my natural hair: https://www.reddit.com/r/curlyhair/comments/s5lgod/my_supervisor_called_my_hair_unprofessional_and/
Thanks for reading.
Edit: Typo.