Since I haven't actually really gotten pissy about work in a while...

[geminigirl]

I've got programs scheduled Friday nights and Saturday nights right now. It's unusual for me to work extended periods of Friday or Saturdays, but I'm running a couple of teen center programs and therefore working weekend evenings. Since April-we had our fundraiser and then I started working weekends.

Margaret Cho is in town this weekend. And we have tickets. And I have a group scheduled. It's also session #4 of my group...which means it's run not by me, but by a substance abuse counselor. Which, while it's not ideal, means that if I can't be there for some reason, it's okay. So I arranged the group, had it covered for me by the counselor and things were merry.

Until last week when I. my substance abuse counselor told me he couldn't do it, he had to go to Richmond that day...all day. Obviously I couldn't be there-I'm already supposed to be somewhere else. I. comes back to me later in the week and tells me the problem is solved; IB, another co-worker, will have a peer run the presentation (a lot of our presesntations are peer led anyway) and we're fine. I. comes back to me this mroning and tells me that's no good, and we're back to square one; no available staff to do the presentation, I lost my site contact at the site weeks ago-he moved on and it's not a permanent site, so it's not even like I can call and reschedule with any expectation that I'll reach a real person.

And you know if I don't reach an actual, live, real person, that I'll get fucked over.

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[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

At my part time job, if A agrees to sub for B's group, and A suddenly finds that s/he is unable to do it, then it's A's job to find the replacement (or suck it up and cover it), not B's.

Hugs...

[geminigirl]

One would expect...

but then one would also expect that twice in two weeks, I wouldn't be put in the position of having to scramble to cover committments that I made to me and to sites, like last week when I had to cover a substance abuse presentation, which although I'm capable of doing I'm not supposed to be doing because even though I. had scheduled it himself. And then this group on Saturday night...

I. is someone who I like as a person but who I don't trust sometimes as a co-worker...he has some great skills but scheduling isn't one of them. He's inclined to stretch the limits of what he can get away with to the maximum and then someimes cross them. He's not really comfortable doing presentations in English either-and I'm still covering his ass half the time during his substance abuse presentations which are 1/3 of my six week group. It's suddenly led to massive changes in my third session as well, and the loss of one of the best activities I had.

I like him. But not as a memeber of my team-and the movement from the team he was with to mine was largely political...it means they can try and keep him on staff here a little longer (he's a great asset to our staff-native Spanish speaking male) and hopefully transition him into the grant they've applied for targetting new immigrants.

Unfortunately, with my boss out on maternity leave, there's no one else who is qualified to cover Saturday night. I'm going to speak to my department head tomorrow about it because it's bothering me, but I'm going to just do the best I can...

[jaikob.livejournal.com]

:( Sorry about all the badness. But hey! I'm going to Margaret Cho this weekend too!

[onlyblossom.livejournal.com]

WOW i'm trying to get caught up and sounds like you've had a time of it. TG your not on predisone no more thats such a evil drug. *zens* hugs your way and will talk to you later:)

[geminigirl]

It's been....challenging.

I took the last dose of prednisone last night (I think)-if I start wheezing at 10 PM again, I may have to go back on it for a few more days...