They're not really 'my' contractors but they've been drafted in to help with my specific area of work as there's such a huge workload and our manager is remote and works in a slightly different area so I'm unofficially heading up the team.
I have two separate issues that I need to sort out on Monday. The first one is laying general ground-rules about timekeeping, actually turning up to work, last minute working from home and the like; nothing drastic but making sure meetings are attended and I'm not ringing them at 10 o'clock to find out whether they're coming in that day. That's irritating but easily dealt with.
The second issue is the constant politics and power plays they seem to be making with each other, which is driving me slightly barmy. We all do exactly the same work but covering different areas and apparently some are more 'prestigious' than others, although what they see as prestigious are the bits that I see as a PITA. I set the assignments and there's a task list they then work from, but due to people coming and going the assignments change slightly every so often to make best use of the people we have. They've now taken to coming to me to say what another one has said about their assignment - "So-and-so wants this, so-and-so isn't happy with that" - and going behind one another's backs to get a 'better' task set. Some also seem to think that they are above doing their own admin, which leaves us behind schedule unless I prod them into doing it.
I've been an A/L this week but they've dragged out manager into it so I've had to set up 1:1 and group meetings all day on Monday to sort it out. I'm furious with the lot of them and want to tell them that they will be doing x, y and z without any more arguments, everyone will do their own admin and I want no more crap. Is there a good way of saying this?
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ThomasRichard · 08/01/2016 23:26
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