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not even there It probably seems like I cast my place of employment in a bad and or negative light whenever I mention it here and that I have some kind of grudge against it. Part of that may be true, but the event that I am going to relay today might prove otherwise. When I walked into work Monday night I could tell that something had upset a friend of mine on second shift and before he left for the night he told me why. Keeping the details to a minimum, a problem had arisen on Christmas Day and he had to make some phone calls to get it fixed. This may have been awkward, but is far from unusual in our department. Of course whenever something goes wrong blame has to be assigned to someone and here is where the story gets interesting. My friend on second shift had no foreknowledge of the problem. The first shift person had said nothing to him about the problem even though it had started earlier in the day. Naturally this information made made our boss question the first shift person about the issue and why nothing was done at that time. This questioning made the first shift person think harder and he suddenly remembered that I had verbally told him that morning about the problem and to ignore it because it was a known issue that happens on holidays due to a software error. Learning that this had happened my boss believed the first shift person and was going to speak to me about it. My boss was disappointed that I had not alerted the rest of the staff about this known problem. The funny part about this whole sequence of events is the fact that I wasn't at work on Christmas Day. There was no way that the first shift person could have talked with me that morning. I wasn't at work until Sunday night. All of these things happened when I wasn't even there yet I still get blamed for them. Who would want to work for a company where they pin the blame on people when they aren't around? I do and it sends fits through my system. My boss did apologize once I let him know that I wasn't working that night and that the first shift person needs to rethink his story. Sadly this doesn't erase the fact that two people were willing to believe that once again I had done something wrong. Sigh. |