Not the Welcome Back I'd Anticipated
Jul. 28th, 2003 01:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geminigirlSo, I thought I did a pretty good job of preparing my co-worker who was covering my groups for last week, when I was out. I thought I did a pretty good job at keeping in touch with work, staying on top of things, and making sure that things were okay.
Apparently, I was wrong.
Before I left, I provided a calendar to I. the co-worker who covered my groups for me. Normally he covers sessions four and five of my group, and last week was pretty much all sessions he'd normally run. (With one exception, but I felt okay with him covering that for me.) I provided directions and site contact information for the places he hadn't been before. (This is the same co-worker who tried to reach me by phone last week, who I complanied about, here.) I sent him an e-mail on Thursday of last week, to remind him that there was a group scheduled on Friday morning, and that there was a possibility that I wouldn't be there.
I come in this morning, to a voicemail that says, "Oh well I didn't know there was a group Friday so I missed it. I called the site and they said no problem, and I told her we'd call back to reschedule it."
I was furious. I am furious. This isn't the way to do things. I did everything possible to let him know that we had a group. He'd helped me choose that date because it had to be postponed from it's original date. This isn't the way to do things. I'm sure things will be fine with the site-it's an established site, not a new one, and they've given some nice complements before. That doesn't matter though...the point is, it reflects poorly on me, and on the organization. And I don't really have much tolerance for that. It's not the first time he's displayed a serious lack of concern about these things, nor is it the first time I've known him to do something as irresponsible as this. I'm just really angry and upset. And yes, there's nothing I can do about it, but I kind of fell like I want to stew in it for a little bit and then let it go.
But things like this really make me look forward to the possibility of getting out of here...
Apparently, I was wrong.
Before I left, I provided a calendar to I. the co-worker who covered my groups for me. Normally he covers sessions four and five of my group, and last week was pretty much all sessions he'd normally run. (With one exception, but I felt okay with him covering that for me.) I provided directions and site contact information for the places he hadn't been before. (This is the same co-worker who tried to reach me by phone last week, who I complanied about, here.) I sent him an e-mail on Thursday of last week, to remind him that there was a group scheduled on Friday morning, and that there was a possibility that I wouldn't be there.
I come in this morning, to a voicemail that says, "Oh well I didn't know there was a group Friday so I missed it. I called the site and they said no problem, and I told her we'd call back to reschedule it."
I was furious. I am furious. This isn't the way to do things. I did everything possible to let him know that we had a group. He'd helped me choose that date because it had to be postponed from it's original date. This isn't the way to do things. I'm sure things will be fine with the site-it's an established site, not a new one, and they've given some nice complements before. That doesn't matter though...the point is, it reflects poorly on me, and on the organization. And I don't really have much tolerance for that. It's not the first time he's displayed a serious lack of concern about these things, nor is it the first time I've known him to do something as irresponsible as this. I'm just really angry and upset. And yes, there's nothing I can do about it, but I kind of fell like I want to stew in it for a little bit and then let it go.
But things like this really make me look forward to the possibility of getting out of here...
