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February 2011 Moms
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NBR Opinions-work related
I work in contract security, in other words, I am hired out of a central office and work on a client site. The site I work on is quite large with upwards of 70 officers on it. AS you can probably imagine falling asleep on the job is a big no no, considering its a pharmaceutical campus, with animal testing drugs, and all.
So one of the ladies I work with has a bad habit of doing everything humanly possible wrong. Comes in late, takes 1-1/2 lunch(we get 30 min) falls asleep on post. You get the idea. I spoke with our direct line supervisor about this over a month ago, offline, in hopes that they could clear it up with no real problems for anyone. So instead the direct line supervisor turns it into a "personal issue" when all of my complaints are legitimate work related issues.
Well, fast forward to this past Friday, she fell asleep on post again, where we are on camera 24/7. I reported her. I'm done with some getting special treatment when the rest of us have to follow the rules. So fast forward to this morning, the girl come sin and threatens me in front of two other people.
Ends up in a metting and gets suspended for like 3 days. I hate this job anyway, and now I feel even worse about it.
What would you do?
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Re: NBR Opinions-work related
If it was a consistent problem with no medical condition to prompt it, I would have probably done what you did. She's the one that got suspended, so my guess is someone figured out she wasn't doing what she should. That's her problem, not yours.
If you hate the job anyway and plan on going back to work after you have the baby, then I would look into how long you need to stay there post-baby to have maternity leave covered. Then I would consider looking for a different job if you are still unhappy. Being pg may not be the best circumstance from job hunting unless you have to do it.
I was rather disgruntled here a few years ago and almost left. Leaving would have meant a career change from engineering (no place else to really get a good engineering job at in this area) to high school math/science teaching, so it would have required a commitment to school and loss of pay for a year. So no small cookies of a decision. About that time, a new manager came in who I'm happy with and who reigned in a particular coworker that had gotten out of hand. Now I'm much happier and it's noticed by others and I'm happy to stay here and come back post-baby.
70 miles?!? Yikes! I complain if mine takes closer to 20 instead of 15 minutes to get there.
I like my job now. The manager change at my work made me happy. Hopefully something like that will come your way.
Ya the economy doesn't help matters. But if you are home instead of working for the first year or so, you'll be saving gas money (in your case a lot), day care money and you might have more time to shop for deals on groceries by going to a couple stores rather than just going to one store.
Not having my own money is eaxctly the reason I want to go back to work. I feel like if I bought something for DH, it really isn't a gift, becuase he's working and brining home money. Taking care of the children is equivalent to a job too, but there's no quantitative number associated with it (some would say it's pricelss, but husbands/working spouse don't always treat it that way). My mom stayed home with us and my dad was really tight with money, so from a young age I always wanted "my" money. He gave her an allowance that barely paid for groceries and us to go to swiming lessons. We could only go to the dollar theater on rare occasions and didn't get popcorn or pop because it was too expensive. DH is nothing like my dad as far as the money views go, but my past still makes it difficult to think of giving up having my own income.