Frustrated at work

[snugglegirl05]

There is something that is frustrating me at work...

I work as a porter for parking company. I am assigned to clean 2 garages and a parking lot managed by my employer. The garages that I have to clean are part of an area of garages managed by my employer. A property management company owns those garages.

Every morning our immediate supervisor has a meeting with us. He is over a staff of 5 porters, including me.

One thing that he stresses is that there are tenants who work in the building as well as customers who park in the garages who notice everything that the porters do and not do.

When I mean everything, I mean....

• if we go get coffee somewhere after reporting to work
• if we go get breakfast somewhere after reporting to work
• if we go to the bathroom too much in their opinion
• if we are seen talking to someone
• if there is some trash at the garage entrance gate, cobwebs on the ceiling, dust on the pipes, improperly parked cars in the garage
• and so on

We have been told by our immediate supervisor that these people either call the 1) property management company, 2) garage manager for the garage(s) that we work at, 3) the supervisor over the entire area of parking garages or 4) they take pictures with their cell phone and send the photos to one of the above.

This just frustrates me.

I wish that these people would just live and let live.

How do you deal with this at work?

[KellyHabersham]

The closest I've come to that was during the first few years I was at the library job - if someone had an issue with something I was/wasn't doing, they would complain to our then-branch manager instead of saying something to me. And it happened one day that I got written up because "Branch Manager" was getting bombarded with complaints about my job performance.

I'll admit that I wasn't always the best worker at the time, and some of the complaints were valid, but others.......I probably should have asked "Who brought that up, when/why did they say it?,....etc.

Anyhow, the way I dealt with it was to work on the issues I knew were valid, and was careful around those co-workers whom were the most likely to tattle about things. (and eventually those people left)

[KuariKaydrith]

How the hell are you supposed to fix improperly parked cars? Seriously, don't these people have something else to bitch about? I can understand them complaining if you leave the work site to get coffee or breakfast, but the dust on the pipes? It's a fucking garage - dust from car exhaust happens.

I couldn't do your job because I'd go postal on somebody...probably one of the assholes complaining all the time.

[snugglegirl05]

How the hell are you supposed to fix improperly parked cars? Seriously, don't these people have something else to bitch about? I can understand them complaining if you leave the work site to get coffee or breakfast, but the dust on the pipes? It's a fucking garage - dust from car exhaust happens.

I couldn't do your job because I'd go postal on somebody...probably one of the assholes complaining all the time.

I had to take the day off because of what is happening at work. Plus our direct supervisor talks down to us. The message we get almost day in and day out is that we not competent at our job. That we are not doing our job properly.

I had to get away from everything at work.

Time to job hunt.

[notalwaysright]

We have been told by our immediate supervisor that these people either call the 1) property management company, 2) garage manager for the garage(s) that we work at, 3) the supervisor over the entire area of parking garages or 3) they take pictures with their cell phone and send the photos to one of the above.

These people need to get a life. I mean, I'm all for following rules, but this is just stupid. It's not like they are reporting something that is actually wrong, like... I dunno... Sleeping on the job, drinking booze, smoking pot, etc. They're reporting too many bathroom breaks. Something which I believe can't legally be restricted. I swear, it's like they're all 70 year old retired busybodies staring out their windows.

[Racket_Man]

I hate to say this but my job is just as bad regarding customer calling in stupid stuff.

not too long ago I was accused of driving at "excessive speed" (customer estimated I was going 40 - 50 MPH) and attempted to purposely to run him down.

OK first of all the street in question is full of potholes and is like a roller coaster. driving at anything much over the posted speed limit of 25 MPH is inviting ripping out the undercarriage of any vehicle except a truck. ALSO with the roller coaster effect my shocks would NOT last very long and that would get expensive.

as to my trying to run him down --- he was standing at the rear of a vehicle parked on said street. THAT is all he was doing.

IT seems that having a delivery topper on your car
1. adds at least 15 MPH to your speed
2. said vehicle is being driven by a crazed monster bent on destruction


and let us NEVER discuss what happens on Halloween.

[EricKei]

IT seems that having a delivery topper on your car
1. adds at least 15 MPH to your speed
2. said vehicle is being driven by a crazed monster bent on destruction

The cops sure seem to think so, in my experience. When I delivered pizza, we were easy targets, probably thanks in part to a certain chain that *used to* penalize drivers for not getting food to customers in 30 minutes (yes, the price of those free pies came out of their salary)...though, of course, they were told not to violate any traffic/speed laws while doing so.

[snugglegirl05]

It has been a crappy week at work.

For both my husband and me.

Both of us want to look for a better job.

Received a notice for a rent increase effective June first.

That is our motivating factor to look for a better job... better pay and better work conditions.

[snugglegirl05]

Questions I have regarding looking for a better job...

What should I tell a prospective employer during job interviews the reason why I am looking for a new job?

What should I include in my two week notice to my current employer?

[tSubh Dearg]

I always say in interviews when asked why I'm looking for a new job, that I am seeking new challenges and to expand my skill set or that there was no room for advancement in my current place of employment. These tend to show that you are interested in learning new things and improving your situation, especially when you don't want to say "the management in my current job are crazy and I cannot continue to work there"

[BeeMused]

I suggest reading the http://www.askamanager.org/ blog. She has good advice for interviewing and more.