Work's been challenging lately. Last week I lost my temper with an employee, who of course started in on me first, still no excuse. Now my boss is debating weather to switch me to another crew, or let me handle the situation myself.
Another thing that's been hard is there is a new operator who is still on probation and already has an attendance issue. HR wants me to terminate her on Monday after they give me some counseling on how to go about it. It really sucks seeing her at work all weekend and hearing her stories and plans for the future, when I know that come Monday I'm going to make her cry. "Not the funnest part of the job".
Sometimes I think about going back to the floor and just worrying about myself, but there's a lot about my position that I love, and for the first time in a long time I actually like what I do for a living. Even working the overtime (even though I'd rather spend my off time with my family) isn't to hard or stressful anymore. And when you do work it, it's not like your getting forced to anymore, instead your helping a buddy out that needs the time off, and most of the time we end up swapping shifts.
Sorry this post isn't very exciting, but that's what you get at 4:30 in the morning.
Saturday, September 6, 2008
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Posted by Jake at 3:10 AM
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3 comments:
Jake, I am sure most people are shocked that you even got to the point of losing your temper. She deserved it, she was very disrespectful. Anyways, think of it this way. If you do move to a new crew you get to work with all new people and it's something different and fun. Just try to look at the positive side.
You will work it out, you always do. I would hate to have to fire someone also, good luck on that one.
Things always work out...just need to keep breathing and eventually it does.
I'd kind of like to know what the person did that made you lose your temper.
Sorry about having to fire someone.
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