Blowing steam off
I really wonder where all the work ethics have gone some days. It seems no one wants to go out of their way to get simple tasks done any more, nor do they want to help others. At least it seems that way where I work lately.
We have gone on time share and instead of making a effort to work more diligently, it seems there is less work getting done and more chatter of I am not going out of my way to do this or that, it’s not my job.
It is not like we are unionized nor are we the government, we are in the private sector, and I am grateful that I still have a job, even tho I get one day off, with 60% of my pay being paid to me by the government. (not such a bad deal).
But I feel many times, that I am the only one who, when the phones are quiet and I don’t have any orders or invoicing to do, I will go and look for other work to be get done. The receptionist at one time use to help me with some of my filing and even take orders when it was busy, now she just ignores it and in silent protest returns any file I give her.
On days I am on my own taking orders, and all the other jobs I have to allow some calls to go to my voice mail, the receptionist get rather upset at this. She knows how to take a message or even write up an order and give it to me later. she doesn’t do this, instead she gets more upset. She did the same with my supervisor as well.
But my supervisor is not any better, when she is away, I cover her job and still do mine, but when I am away, my job doesn’t get done and I come back to the work still there. And there are whispers of the same within the other area’s of work and workers, so I know it is not just me.
Will things change, not likely, will I stop working the way I do, no way. But it felt good letting this out.
