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Aug. 15th, 2002
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I'm irritated at the moment...about a conversation I just had with S.
Yesterday, as I was leaving (gee she's into catching me when I'm on my way out the door, no?) S. shows me the long distance phone bill and says that tomorrow I need to go through it and log all my calls. That the phone bill is too high, and so she needs to know which calls are mine. This in and of itself isn't an issue; I am in general, not on the phone at work to anyone that isn't local, and rarely on the phone for any extended period of time even locally, unless it's a work related call. So I'm thinking, "no biggie...I'll go through it in the AM, there are maybe half a dozen calls total that will be mine."
I get the bill from her, log the calls (a total of eight) add up the cost (the most expensive call was thirty-six cents) and give it back to her. She then gives the bill to IB when he comes in to pick up his check. I figure, other than letting me know who to make my check out to for the $1.28, that's the end of it, at least as it applies to me. Right? No. Of course not.
Later in the afternoon, she calls me into her office. And proceeds to lecture me about how the phone bill is too high, and how it looks bad for us as a team and so on and so on. And how I'm abusing trust by using the phone to make long distance calls. (My eight calls in two months for a total of $1.28) And how she's going to have to be over our shoulder about everything now and so on.
I have no problem taking responsibility for my calls. I did it back in February when I knew I made a lot of calls because I was in the middle of moving.
But she closes the conversation telling me how she's not going to write a warning letter for my personnel file about this, even though she did for IB. And I'm sitting there, internally fuming. Both of them made far more calls than I did. (As did a third person who would have been possibly calling New York, which is where they were concerned about the calls going to.) This is work. My work phone is not for personal calls other than when absolutely necessary.
So, when the boss takes part in a negative behavior to a greater extent than the employee, why is it that the employee should find a letter in his/her personnel file?
Yesterday, as I was leaving (gee she's into catching me when I'm on my way out the door, no?) S. shows me the long distance phone bill and says that tomorrow I need to go through it and log all my calls. That the phone bill is too high, and so she needs to know which calls are mine. This in and of itself isn't an issue; I am in general, not on the phone at work to anyone that isn't local, and rarely on the phone for any extended period of time even locally, unless it's a work related call. So I'm thinking, "no biggie...I'll go through it in the AM, there are maybe half a dozen calls total that will be mine."
I get the bill from her, log the calls (a total of eight) add up the cost (the most expensive call was thirty-six cents) and give it back to her. She then gives the bill to IB when he comes in to pick up his check. I figure, other than letting me know who to make my check out to for the $1.28, that's the end of it, at least as it applies to me. Right? No. Of course not.
Later in the afternoon, she calls me into her office. And proceeds to lecture me about how the phone bill is too high, and how it looks bad for us as a team and so on and so on. And how I'm abusing trust by using the phone to make long distance calls. (My eight calls in two months for a total of $1.28) And how she's going to have to be over our shoulder about everything now and so on.
I have no problem taking responsibility for my calls. I did it back in February when I knew I made a lot of calls because I was in the middle of moving.
But she closes the conversation telling me how she's not going to write a warning letter for my personnel file about this, even though she did for IB. And I'm sitting there, internally fuming. Both of them made far more calls than I did. (As did a third person who would have been possibly calling New York, which is where they were concerned about the calls going to.) This is work. My work phone is not for personal calls other than when absolutely necessary.
So, when the boss takes part in a negative behavior to a greater extent than the employee, why is it that the employee should find a letter in his/her personnel file?