Friday at work was one of those days when everything that could go wrong, did. First a meeting was canceled and no one told me. Then one of my admin team asked me for some supplies she'll need over at the other site when she moves this coming week. Excuse me, what on earth are you talking about? Her response - Oh, I thought you knew. Apparently, there was a decision made on Wednesday evening that didn't get communicated to me or one of the other execs. It was bad. I, of course, was a bit angry that I wasn't told about it. All I got from the decision makers is 'We didn't intend to leave you out of the loop.' I responded with about three or four process changes that have to be made right away. Their response, 'Great, you've already started planning. We need to sit down at our next process meeting to dialogue this all out.' Ummm, okay.
Next up, all four of the execs were supposed to add personal notes to the already late Christmas cards - only one of them showed up for that. So I took the cards from the table and put them away in my office to mail out on Monday. Two of the guys came into my office at 4:00. 'Is it too late to work on the cards?' I said (with a smile) 'it should be but no, the cards are still here. They finished up the cards close to 4:45. Great, that's done.
I checked on my email close to 5:00 to see that another one of the girls had done something outside her job duties (part of my job) without checking with me first. Obviously, somebody asked her to do it but still she shouldn't have done it herself since she hasn't been fully trained in it. I asked her why she had worked on that task (via email). I haven't received a response to that question yet.
I know this is one of those times I'm going to look back at as no big deal. but right now, its a huge deal to me. I feel like I'm being treated like I'm not an important part of their team. Its just really frustrating for me to be given responsibility, then disrespected. All I ask for is a little consideration for how their actions will affect others around them.
And for the kicker - Yesterday I was checking my work email at home which I rarely do on the weekends. I had a voicemail (which I don't usually open either but it was a number I didn't recognize), telling me that Footlocker had a question about the order I placed. I called the number to find out someone had ordered some shoes and a hat with my company credit card, but using my personal address. After talking to Footlocker to get the order canceled, I called my credit card company to report the fraud on my card and cancel it. What a mess!
