I work as part of a small team of four within a larger department. Our team is made up of two full-timers and two part-timers. I am one of the full-timers.
Our team keeps getting criticised for an expense we are responsible for being too high. I have worked really hard to ensure that I keep things as efficient as possible, as does the other full-timer.
The part timers just come in and do things in whatever way gets the work done fastest and easiest without worrying about the expenses. When we have our monthly 'team' meetings, the part-timers are rarely there, so when the manager rants on about the expenses getting out of control etc, they are not there to hear it.
Myself and the other full-timer have tried to get across that the problems are due to the part timers not taking the expenses into account, but the response of the manager, is that we are a no blame department, so he doesn't want to get into the business of assigning blame to individuals. He has also started to prefix the expenses telling off speeches with "I don't want to hear people getting defensive about how its not their fault..."
I feel that I am spending more and more of my working time correcting the work done by the part-timers on my days off, but its still not enough to rectify the impact made on the expenses.
AIBU to be feeling increasingly pissed off about all this? I have tried to suggest that it might be nice to move the meetings to a day of the week when the part timers are typically in so they can attend our meetings too, but the manager says he can't fit it in any other time.