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or is my boss? Pretty sure it's her actually

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cupcakesandbunting · 24/09/2010 20:38

I am SO angry that I am on the verge of tears. Sorry if this gets a bit long/ranty Angry

I work 8 hours per week in a shop. The shop trades from 9-9pm during the week. My days tend to alternate between wednesday and friday and despite my persistent asking, I am usually only told of my shift patterns with a couple of weeks notice (but that is another thread...) My manager keeps a diary that we can all write dates that we can't work for whatever reasons, exams/holiday/whatever. The general culture there is if you give enough advance notice it is not a problem to change your working days. I checked with my manager in april if I could pop a date down for October that I would be away (next friday). She said that was fine and I popped the date down.

Fast forward to now and I went back to work last wednesday after a two weeks annual leave and she has put me down to work next friday, when I told her I would be away. She huffed and puffed and I pointed out that it had been in her diary since april and she went "the diary has gone missing" So she'slost her diary and obviously not remembered. I have paid £130 for train and accommodation to go to Manchester so I told her as much and that I couldn't do it. She said she'd put me in for wednesday instead (which is what she should have done anyway) and she'd get someone else to do friday. Turns out no-one else can do it so she's just sent me a really shitty Facebook message saying that now she'd got to do it and it had messed up her plans, I should have booked it off as holiday (even though I don't do every friday) and that she'd speak to me next week. What the fuck?!

I replied saying that I don't think it is fair that I should book holiday for a day I don't always work and even more so because it had been OK'd over six months ago! I said that if she had wanted me to book it as leave I would have done but when I brought it up initially it was said that it was enough notice for someone else to work instead of me.

I think that giving notice in april for a date in october is far enough in advance for her to sort her shit out. If she loses her diary, that isn't anyone else's fault. She is a scatty person and she has done this sort of thing before (cocked shifts up and got angry when the onus has fallen on her to sort it) but the onus isn't on me to sort this, is it?

I am so angry with her. She is trying to intimidate me into working it.I know what's coming next; threat of conversation with the area manager. After the shite week I've had (and she knows about it) I am insulted that she has invaded my personal time via fucking Facebook to try and intimidate me. -fume-

Sorry for rant, but I needed it! Grin

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claig · 24/09/2010 21:36

I think you are all being too tough on her. Managing is hard and shit happens like losing diaries. She was Ok about moving you to Wednesday instead of that Friday initially. It was only when she found out that no one could cover and that she, as the responsible manager, would have to cover, that she saw red. But that is quite normal initial human reaction. She will cover because she knows that as a manager she has to. Obviously she will try to use every trick in teh book to get out of it, but at the end of teh day I think she realises that you are in the right, so she wil end up doing it anayway.

cupcakesandbunting · 24/09/2010 21:38

Managing can be hard.I don't believe that her job is. She has a nice team of girls, doesn't do any of the "shitty" hours because as manager it's her prerogative not to and when the shit hits the fan she cannot cope in a preofessional manner. Not just in this instance but in a lot of instances.

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alicet · 24/09/2010 21:39

Actually claig I think this reaction DOES make her unreasonable.

You are totally right that it is fine to feel pssed of because you fcked up and rant away to your friends about how hacked off you are that you have to work a shift when you had plans because you lost a diary.

But it is totallyt unprofessional and unreasonable to moan and blackmail your staff who is totally in the right on this one, by facebook!

cupcakesandbunting · 24/09/2010 21:41

Hell, she can slag me off to her friends for sticking by my guns and refusing if she wants to! Don't care, normal reaction. But to have the brass neck to try and shift blame onto me sucks wang, big style.

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claig · 24/09/2010 21:43

Yes but I think that managers are human, not robots. I think she knows that she will end up doing the shift, but obviously would have preferred it if the OP could have somehow ended up doing it. Managers often put a little bit of pressure on to get their way, but they usually back off when they see that it won't work.

cupcakesandbunting · 24/09/2010 21:45

Do you know what the worst thing is? She can be a lovely, lovely person and I know I will feel horrible for slating her tomorrow when the anger has worn off... :(

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claig · 24/09/2010 21:48

She sounds alright. This is the normal argy bargy of business environments. The ship will continue sailing smoothly and she will have to captain it by taking over the shift, and she will kick herself for being disorganised and losing the diary.

MistyMooBags · 25/09/2010 17:26

CC&B... She's not called Pia, is she?!? Sounds very similar to the Jeckyll and Hyde shop manager boss I had a few years ago... 'Lovely' one minute and hideous the next... To keep shop staff on their toes she'd change and replace (a couple of us photocopied an original to prove it) rotas, then ring staff and give the merry hell for 'forgetting' to come in for their shift. And that was just the tip of the iceberg... Insidious bullying was her speciality. :o(

Two of us made an official complaint to head office but after a supposed investigation, it was completely disregarded and we ended up having to leave instead... :o(

Hope for your sake this is a one-off!

SugarMousePink · 25/09/2010 19:21

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cupcakesandbunting · 25/09/2010 19:22

Oh dear! I don't think she's quite at that level yet but she has to start somewhere I suppose!

It's not a one-off either. She's done it to other girls before now. Mental.

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