Bad night at work

[JESTER]

I dont care if anyone reads this or not, I just need to blow off some steam. It been a bad night at work. I was sick yesterday. And I was not in a good mood from the get go. I like my job most of the time, but some time it just gets on my nerves. As well do my co-workers. I try not to get upset with them, but i have two and a half co-workers that are annoying as hell.

I am the supervisor, but they will question what I tell them. I have been here longer and been doing this longer than all of them put together. They are beginning to get on my damn nerves. If I tell you to do it, then do it. Dont hem and haw about it, just do it. Most of the time I do half the stuff my self so I know it will get done and get done right, and right now.

If I am in a bad mood, dont try to get me ill. And once you have gotten me pissed off, dont keep acting stupid. I am ill, stop it! Just STOP ACTING STUPID!!!!!

Doesnt matter whether I'm right or wrong, I am still the boss.

[MinisterofDOOM]

Man, tonight's been psycho here. We've had probably 5 times the usual number of alarms tonight. I think there were 3 actual break-ins in the first 4 hours of my shift (normally we only see actuals every once in a while--not even once a night). The PD and local guard services are extremely busy. I feel sorry for jurisdictions who respond directly to burglary alarms (instead of requiring a guard service to confirm an actual incident before wasting their time). They've got to be completely tied up with false alarms.

It's like the night of the living idiots tonight...no idea what the deal is. I wish it would stop.

And I know what you mean...about just doing everything yourself because that's the only way you can be sure it will get done, and done right. The worst part is, if you don't do it, and it doesn't get done (which it won't) it falls on YOUR head. I've got a couple coworkers like that as well. It pisses me off.

[ceningolmo]

Hey guys...just an FYI, I have been managing people for nearly 15 years now and I can tell you that it is much more of an art than a science. I spent at least half of my career thus far as a manager "doing it all myself" because I couldn't trust or rely on others to help me.

Its an easy trap to fall in to...you do it yourself because you want to make sure it is done right. The people who work for you know this (conciously or unconsciously doesn't matter) and will act with the appropriate level of stupidity to; a. keep their jobs, and b. keep you thinking you are better off doing it yourself.

Anyway... I don't want to right you a huge, unsolicited, management instruction manual. I just wanted to let you know that there is help that can be found. Feel free to pick my brain any time you need some advice.

You will probably end up working even harder than you are now for a little while. But, in the long run, your job will get easier and your teams performance will improve dramatically.

[JESTER]

Ceningolmo,I am actually in first line supervisor school at this time. And I know I aint doing it like I should be. I have only been supervisor since October or November. It a pain in the butt. I never got that before. If you have done the DISC profile, I am a high D. Which tells you why I do stuff the way I do. But I have to learn to get out of that, or I want be a manager worth a darn.

MoD, I think I have a new signature right there. Night of the Living Idiots. And yeah it has been five times as bad tonight. Thank goodness the 4th is over. Just going back now calculating how many complaints the Administrator will be getting this morning. Drafting my "Be prepared" email to him and the day shift supervisor. It has been balls to the wall all night long.

I figured you guys would do more actually B&E's than that. We just must have a bunch of thieving SOB's around here.

The night is almost over. GOnna go home, drink the two hot Bud Lights I have, or by more. Then go to bed, in two hours that is.

[MinisterofDOOM]

Yeah, actual B&Es are pretty rare on my shift. Seems like they're a lot less common now than they were when I started this job, though.

The night of the 4th itself is actually one of the calmer nights of the year, for some reason. My least favorite thing is that there's a park nearby that does a huge fireworks show, and it ends just barely before I get into the office. Traffic is so horrible, it's nearly impossible to get to the driveway just so I can get into the parking lot. And half the time I find the parking lot full of idiots--despite the numerous signs that say not to park there. Last year, on the 24th (Utah's Pioneer Day--which is basically a second 4th of July) we had idiots firing off bottle rockets HORIZONTALLY only a few yards from my car. Then when I yelled at them, they drove away with two of them hanging out the windows, firing yet more bottle rockets as they went.

I swear...holidays make people stupider...and not just that, they turn people into f#$%ing ***holes.

Also, I genuinely lol'd at the "Be Prepared email" comment.

Finally, I should say that I'm NOT any sort of supervisor at my job--that's one of the reasons I like it; all of us in the office are "equals." It just so happens that I'm the only one who actually does a few of the things that need to get done on my shift.

[JESTER]

The last administrator kept a file with emails from all the employees, they told me he kept a file drawer for my emails. I use to draft the heads up emails all the time. If it was something that is messed up or is gonna get messed up, it was gonna happen while I was working and the senior perosn on shift.

I would probally have not been happy with the morons shooting bottle rockets near my car. Light a Roman candle and toss it in the window of their car. I play panitball, and when my friend and I left the field two week ends ago, I saw paint on his brand new rims. I was getting a liitle ill at that, but remembered someone lost a pod of paint in the drive. I remember swerving so as to not run over it.

EDIT: you are right about the holidays turning people into A-holes.

[DriftingJesus]

just shoot someone