This happened today.
Ok for the past few months i've been unemployed (mainly due to me being busy with coursework and also finding it hard to get a job in a town mostly occupied by students).

Anyhoo, i've managed to wangle a new job that includes free accomadation on the basis that i don't mess about. Fine. The job is pretty mundane, mainly cleaning and basic maintenance - but it suits me fine.

I'm not due to start this job for another two weeks, but today i got a call from the people and was asked if i minded doing a 'couple of hours work'. I'd not had a full nights sleep and also had a fairly busy morning in town, but i asked if they needed me for long.

Fine i thought. So i went to reception and spoke to the 2nd manager, and asked what was needed of me, and was told that it would only take an hour or so and that all i needed to do was check and clean the doors on one side of the campus with a special type of chemical. This i did. I also cleaned ALL the doors on another side of the campus too (just to impress them) and happily returned three hours later back to reception and signed off, happy in the knowledge that i'd done more than they had asked of me.

Anyhoo, as per usual i start chatting to my friend who works opposite reception in the shop and all is good.

Until the 1st manager comes storming over and quite loudly asks what i'm doing wasting time chatting to the staff. I tell him that i'd finished the job and that i had been signed out by the 2nd manager.

Manger: 'Right, I don't want you to be standing around chatting all day, there's work to be done!'

Me: 'Okay, but i've done all that block like you asked'

Manager: 'Yeah but there's more doors to clean!'

Me: 'I've done them all, and removed every single staple from ALL the doors and brushed up and cleaned the windows and was told it was okay to sign out'

Manager: 'WHO told you to sign out? I never did! I don't want you acting like this when you start your proper shift!'

Me: 'Well the 2nd manager said it was fine, she said i only had to work a few hours, i've done all the blocks!'

Manager: 'Well you should have come and found me, it's ME who tells you when you can and cannot sign out!'

Me: 'But i did come and try and find you'

Manager: 'If i have any repeat of this again, you won't be getting your free accomadation and you'll have no job, if you keep this attitude up'

Me: '..............'

Manager: 'I want a FULL days work tomorrow'

Me: 'Am i working tomorrow? Nobody has said anything'

Manager: 'Yes and no skiving off , pic and mixing in the shop when there's work to be done!'

And off he toddled to his car and went home. Leaving me utterly confused. I thought i'd done him a big favour by coming in last minute and doing more than i'd been asked to do. And then i was left with the sinking feeling that the next 9 weeks are going to be hell, as this was the last hope of staying here without finding other accomadation (impossible without a job to pay a deposit).

I can only assume the manager thinks i'm telepathic.

And yes he said 'pic and mixing' , i have no idea what it means.

--

If i didn't value the idea of free rent, i could be an utter bastard and ask him why he's got untrained staff handling chemicals.
(mr-lizard Hell's teeth man!, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 19:22, 8 replies)

Nip it in the bud now, or they will take the piss
Ain't worth the hassle, and they assume that you won't know what your rights are
(Sir Tainley Barking Ezekiel 23:20, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 20:35, closed)

^
This
(Kip, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 20:43, closed)

2nd'ed
I'm stuck in a rut now where my boss constantly takes the piss and has me doing extra hours without pay.

If i complain, out comes the stern tone of voice and lectures about how we all need to 'pull together' while times are hard and there is not much work about (if there's no work about, why am i working so many hours?!?!)

Stand your ground from the word go!
(Frample Tromwibbler climbs an obstacle like old people fuck, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 20:58, closed)

3rd'd
This guy is going to make your life hell.
(robbersdog, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 12:15, closed)

Get out now!!!!
Nothing good will come of working for somebody with so little respect for you & you'll always regret taking so much shit from them instead of walking away.
(CuntyBumface was last caught masturbating by granny on, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 21:35, closed)

^
all the above.
(Good old boy just like yer grandma!, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 0:00, closed)

stick with it
Management isn't a one way street. You can press their buttons as much as they press yours. You can't run away every time you've got a dick for a supervisor. It's not as if this guy is some sort of unique specimen that you can easily avoid for the rest of your life.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Wed 16 Jun 2010, 5:56, closed)

Don't necessarily run away
But when I said nip it in the bud, I mean get them to set the ground rules good and early. If they don't want to sort out who reports to who, and give some airy fairy "Your my little puppet now" You're going to be the bottom in the relationship. No problem with that but its customary to buy you a drink and give you a snog first
(Sir Tainley Barking Ezekiel 23:20, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 10:53, closed)

Being honest my 2nd day wasn't so bad.
I arrived early and despite a minor lecture about 'not turning up early', i was more or less left on my own.

I also got told by Manager 1 - That he'd been told i'd done a good job. I took that opportunity to explain that yesterday may have been a 'crossed wires scenario' and he told me not to worry.

He also let me finish twenty minutes early, which was a nice suprise.

So for now, i'm gonna stick with it. Maybe he was just having a bad day?
(mr-lizard Hell's teeth man!, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 15:15, closed)

run away!
Go sleep on your friend's floor. It'd be a better option.
(xanthine, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 12:40, closed)