Stop Me if you've heard this one before.
Sep. 9th, 2003 03:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geminigirlSo I go on vacation. Before I go on vacation, I provide a list of groups that need to be covered, the locations, dates, times, directions and site contacts...my co-worker (who normally runs sessions 4 and 5 of my group, so it's not like this isn't part of his job already) had all this information. There were two groups on Tuesday (8/25 and 9/2) and one on Wednesday, 8/27.
I came back to work yesterday. In my whole returning to work process, I check in with co-worker to ask how my groups went, what the attendance was. He tells me he did only one of the Tuesday groups, that something had happened and he'd had to reschedule the second one. This kind of thing has happened before, and so, instead of asking if it's something that came up on his end, or on their end,(because the answer is most likely on his end, and I know if that's the case I'll just be annoyed,) I don't ask, and go on with business, finding out when it's been rescheduled for, how the group went and so on. So the group that was supposed to end today is now shifted and will end Friday. Not ideal, but not too awful either.
Until today. When, in a conversation about the directions to this place, and so on, I find out that the reason the group didn't happen last Tuesday is because co-worker forgot about it. Forgot about it. When it was on the schedule back in June. When I'd provided him with the information he needed to run the group. When he'd written it into his calendar. And so on and so on and so on.
The person in question is the "assistant program manager"-and it's a position that was created at least in part because my program manager is marginally competent. (Yes, <lj user="aquariumgirl, I think you probably know exactly who I'm talking about here.) And I'm pissed off. This has happened before, and no one seems to take it seriously. It reflects incredibly poorly on us, and on me. I'm having a harder and harder time letting these things go. They shouldn't just slide by because they do affect me, and my community relationships. I'd hate to think my success is being deliberately sabotaged, but I also could see that happening...and I'm not one who would want to think about that. (Basically, I've exceeded my deliverables for the last two years without too much difficulty at all, and come back with glowing reviews much of the time.) Arrrgh.
I came back to work yesterday. In my whole returning to work process, I check in with co-worker to ask how my groups went, what the attendance was. He tells me he did only one of the Tuesday groups, that something had happened and he'd had to reschedule the second one. This kind of thing has happened before, and so, instead of asking if it's something that came up on his end, or on their end,(because the answer is most likely on his end, and I know if that's the case I'll just be annoyed,) I don't ask, and go on with business, finding out when it's been rescheduled for, how the group went and so on. So the group that was supposed to end today is now shifted and will end Friday. Not ideal, but not too awful either.
Until today. When, in a conversation about the directions to this place, and so on, I find out that the reason the group didn't happen last Tuesday is because co-worker forgot about it. Forgot about it. When it was on the schedule back in June. When I'd provided him with the information he needed to run the group. When he'd written it into his calendar. And so on and so on and so on.
The person in question is the "assistant program manager"-and it's a position that was created at least in part because my program manager is marginally competent. (Yes, <lj user="aquariumgirl, I think you probably know exactly who I'm talking about here.) And I'm pissed off. This has happened before, and no one seems to take it seriously. It reflects incredibly poorly on us, and on me. I'm having a harder and harder time letting these things go. They shouldn't just slide by because they do affect me, and my community relationships. I'd hate to think my success is being deliberately sabotaged, but I also could see that happening...and I'm not one who would want to think about that. (Basically, I've exceeded my deliverables for the last two years without too much difficulty at all, and come back with glowing reviews much of the time.) Arrrgh.
