I heard back from the place I'd interviewed at this past Monday. I didn't make it through to the next round of interviews. Bleh.
In other news I've managed to properly explain to my boss why I can't do the café job f/t from a physical health point of view. By the end of each café shift I am in so much pain that by the time I get home I can barely move. Even with better shoes that are meant for being on my feet for several hours, it just means that I go a little bit longer before I absolutely MUST sit down for an extended length of time.
Yes, if I kept on going with it my body would probably adjust, but at the same time it might not. Why take that chance? So, my boss is now fully aware of why I really am not willing to take over the café. Besides, as she pointed out today when she called to touch base with me, my co-AGM is not really performing at his best either and has been dropping the ball on a lot of things, things that our boss has been relying on him to accomplish.
She asked me today if I might have any insight into why my co-AGM hasn't been operating at his best recently, and after a bit of thought I pin-pointed that he has issues with time management. He tries to do too much at one time, not taking the time to prioritize things by important and available time, which then means he also doesn't think to delegate things that he simply cannot fit into his day. For example, there have been a couple of things he hasn't gotten done, things he could have passed onto me, and then promptly dropped the ball on.
A fine example of this is the lead-up to the wedding that we're doing tomorrow. Yesterday is when he finally put together a shopping list for the dinner portion of the event, instead of us ordering most of the items when we did our usual weekly shopping - a few of the items couldn't be bought quite so early, but most of them could be. And he knew over a week ago about the specific wine the bride and groom had requested...a wine that needs to be special ordered for any significant amount. Instead, one of our maintenance guys was forced to hit every liquor store in the city today in the hopes of finding us enough bottles of this particular wine. And that's just for the white wine. The red wine? Can't be found, but is a special order...that we weren't able to provide a large enough lead-in time to get. Yet if we'd put in the special order last week when we got the info we could have had it delivered today. And we still haven't figured out how we're handling the staffing side of things - we're already understaffed and overworked, and I will likely be putting in a 12-hour shift between what I need to do at the hotel in the morning and then over at the B&B where the wedding is being held.
I did elaborate on my need for two days off back to back when I was speaking to my boss, and that I absolutely need this on a regular basis. And that I would also really appreciate having a weekend off some time soon. It's really not fair that my co-AGM manages to schedule himself off every other weekend, but for whatever reason I don't get mine. Like, fuck that in the ear. I also expressed that I'm sincerely hoping that when I return to work after my week off that I will be refreshed and back to my usual self. I know that I'm not at all myself lately, and it's because I'm burnt out. The weeks where I work the closing shift only to have to be back for the opening shift...clopen shifts suck...are taking their toll on me and I simply don't bounce back like I used to anymore. And this is even with me making a point of taking time each day for myself by not answering every chat that comes in once I'm off shift and before the closing person is gone. Even though I'm essentially ignoring my phone on my days off as I sleep and try to mentally regroup. I've pretty much given up on physically regrouping until I get my week off.
And I will still be applying for other jobs during that time. I want something that is not physically demanding, something that will not tax my mental and physical health to the point where I'm burning out. And something where my superior actually knows how to manage people without jumping to conclusions, making assumptions, or screaming at us.
But for now, I'm going to go relax and hope that I don't get any phone calls tonight...although, now that I've put that out in the universe, I have a feeling that sleep will be fleeting. Ugh.
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