Today, I noticed that both my managers completely ignored me when I told them that I'm fully booked, and can't take any more clients. Both of them scheduled additional clients. At the same. Three people from different companies will show up at my office at the same time. Yep. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my boss told me that people from work have been complaining about me. Apparently, I'm not doing part of their jobs for them, and the other manager sometimes does. FML
Today, I had a huge amount of work to get through. Two colleagues offered to help, because one had nothing else to do, and the other couldn't work until I was done. My boss got really pissed at me for "making" them do my job and wasting their time. FML
Today, I woke up to a voicemail from my manager saying I had the day off. Excited, I made plans with my friends. A few minutes ago I got a call from my other manager yelling at me for not showing up, and the original manager revealed he had me confused with another girl. FML
Today, whilst in the last week of my notice period, I was instructed by my boss to tell six new employees that their jobs had fallen through before they'd even started. Later that afternoon, I received a call from my line manager. Guess whose own job has fallen through too. FML
Today, my colleague came back from vacation so I no longer have to do her job on top of mine. My bosses saw this as the perfect occasion to barge into my office every five minutes to hand me tasks. When I asked for a ten-minute break to do a task that needed concentration, they barged in again after five minutes. FML
Today, I got roped into work on my day off because the two new guys weren't showing up. My boss promised that I would get tomorrow off if I did, so I said okay. However, as soon as I came in and got all ready to go, guess who came in? FML
Today, I watched a manager and a co-worker sit underneath a table in our store all day as I got yelled at for not working hard enough. I was the only one actually working. FML
Today, my boss continued to orchestrate behind the scenes with my colleagues to make me look bad for her lack of organization. Then she showed up 10 minutes late to a meeting, shared that she needed a vacation, and realized that she needed to micromanage less. I've been asking her to make that change for months. FML
Today, exactly 19 seconds after I logged on, my boss Zoom-called me to let me know 3 people are out sick, probably until Monday, so if I wouldn’t mind doing their work as well so we don’t fall behind, within working hours, no overtime available. He wasn’t happy when I told him no. FML
Today, I got up and left for work despite being really sick, because I had a big meeting. Halfway to work, in deadlocked traffic, my boss texts me to let me know he's rescheduling the meeting to tomorrow because of personal conflicts. FML
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CuriousSnail 16
Are you a library? Because you seem booked. Ahhahahahahahhaha But, seriously, that sucks.
nzhx 23
Is there any possibility of "referring" clients to your co-workers or maybe speaking to someone higher up and moving things around, push a few deadlines if they're flexible etc? I hope you manage to work things out OP!
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CuriousSnail 16
Are you a library? Because you seem booked. Ahhahahahahahhaha But, seriously, that sucks.
TheEpicKitten 20
Is there anyone higher up you could talk to?
caterinette 12
Life just wouldn't be the same without dumb management.
BDanzeisen 20
Speak to the higher ups in that situation. Hopefully they're not as incompetent as your bosses. Good luck :)
FFStepchild283 24
Well, just tell them the truth about your supervisors are the ones that overbooked you and you will get to them as soon as you can...or reschedule them yourself.
Brandi_Faith 34
Just reschedule the meetings yourself. If the managers ask why you rescheduled those meetings, just tell them that you already had a meeting at that time and didn't think that having 3 people show up at the same time to wait around forever only to get sent home without being seen, was a good reflection on the company. Can't see how they can argue that.
nzhx 23
Is there any possibility of "referring" clients to your co-workers or maybe speaking to someone higher up and moving things around, push a few deadlines if they're flexible etc? I hope you manage to work things out OP!
Roball 5
You should talk to your boss, this isn't fair.
ZirePhoenix 10
include both managers in there and have a six person meeting
WolfsScar 15
Just forward the clients to them.
PhoenixChick 26
What, you can't carry on three conversations at once? You need to learn to multi-task.