Just had a meeting cancel, so I will attempt a quick entry.
I worked from home Friday and got into a text scuffle with the person who is supposed to be supporting me and my area. She is the one who replaced my engineer, remember? But she’s super green and I don’t think she has any experience with the operational side - and I know she doesn’t have any textile experience (my area’s main substrate). She comes to me with questions about the things she’s supposed to be figuring out for me. In other words, she asks me to do her job for her.
On Friday, she basically told me to do something. And I was FURIOUS. First of all, she’s half my age, and secondly, she’s MY SUPPORT. I had to bite the hell out of my tongue in order to not bitch slap her over text, but I ended up telling her that I don’t have the information she’s looking for. That’s HER job. I’m not withholding information from her - I just don’t have it!
Then I offered her a solution and she was like, YEAH! That’s what I needed! And then she proceeded to ask me to bring her something first thing on Monday morning. I was all, you come get it yourself!!! Of course, I yelled that in my head.
And what did I do first thing this morning? I brought her the sample I’d told her about to help her do her job. Ugh. Annoyed with myself about that, but also, there’s no need to make things hard for her…I just don’t need to do her job, ya know?
Because I’m barely holding my own job down thanks to the mistakes she’s been making. Bottom line is, her mistakes fall on my shoulders. If she makes a typo or looks at a wrong column (which she does on the daily), I get the wrath of the mistake because I didn’t catch it. I’m not used to having to check, double check and triple check my support’s work for mistakes.
But this is where we are.
This afternoon my boss is having our Holiday event at a place where we will do some kind of abstract painting session of some sort. You know, one of those team-building arty events with alcohol? Boss invited the operations support team in addition to her direct reports. Guess who declined because she’s too busy? That’s right, my support person. I wonder if she was scared because I’m going to be there? I wonder if she thought we’d be slinging paint at each other?
Oh well. Just as well she’s not going to be there.
I’ve already spent too much energy on this - it’s almost time to go to the event!
Off-topic, but just a reminder: don’t be wishy-washy. As of today, I never heard anything back from the following dudes whose balls are in their court:
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The Unvaxxed Therapist - and that’s just fine because it was going nowhere with him anyway, but he said he’d communicate with me over the weekend. No follow-through
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Car Wash Dude - the one who texted for a couple of days and wanted to take me to a hockey game…poof
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The Italian Stallion (friend of Giorgio who doesn’t even speak English) who was/is supposed to be coming into town for NYE? Nothing. Now don’t get me wrong, the Omicron Variant could throw this one completely out, but still. Talk to me! I have Google translate!
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The guy who got my number from Maria’s daughter - they were so excited to give him my number, but he never did anything with it!
I know there are more and I’m just forgetting. But it’s time to go paint some shit…
Artistically yours,
GS
Disappointing Update #1: My Support Person showed up to the art event yesterday. I was very surprised to see her. She talked to literally NO ONE and never made eye contact with me. It was the weirdest thing. Today I had a Zoom call with her and had my boss on with us. She hadn’t understood the assignment. She wasted our time. My boss came over after the Zoom call and shook her head, but I didn’t know if it was because Support Person didn’t have her shit together or because I’m supposed to make sure she has her shit together. Ugh. She has gone back and tried to fix her mistake, but it’s only confusing the issue. The project is now a muddy mess and we both look like bumbling idiots. Thanks, Support Person.
Disappointing Update #2: I forgot to add to my list of people who haven’t followed through - I still haven’t heard from my Secret Santa. EVERYONE else who’s playing this game has gotten surprise after surprise on the daily. I’ve given my giftee 4 packages so far. Mine better show up BIG TIME on Friday! Honestly, it’s no biggie, but it just feels weird to be the only one with no goodies to show for it. Dumb.
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