AIBU to think it's their responsibility to provide me with all the info?

[Funkyslippers]

Our team has a meeting every morning, which I can never attend as I start work later. Usually it's just discussing plans for the day and any changes to normal plans. Usually around 5 mins. I've heard through the grapevine that in the meetings last week the team were asked to each make a Powerpoint presentation, to be presented in a few weeks' time. The first I heard of it was an email from one of the managers saying "as discussed in the meeting, here is the sign up sheet, please put your name next to a subject". The email also mentioned some training on Powerpoint that they'd all had in one of the meetings. Apparently this week they were told that not everyone had put their names next to a subject and they expected everyone's names to be there. All of this was told to me by a friend in the team. She was not told to pass the info onto me or anything.

So now I'm thinking I'm going to be chased up for something I have barely any official knowledge of, and if this is the case I think I'm well within my right to say that unless I'm given all the info I am not equipped to do it?

@Santatizer What are you suggesting? That TA's are not capable of asking questions, of finding out what happened in minutes? They are still fully capable adults, their job title is neither here nor there! And as ppl like to state on here whenever TA's are slated that many TA's are "better than the teachers" or are actually qualified teachers themselves.

@Santatizer

I would have agreed with others until I read you are a TA! Are they providing time during your paid hours for this presentation to be completed? If not, you absolutely shouldn't have to do it. I do think that finding out what happened at the meeting is your responsibility not the employer's BUT the meeting needs to be minuted or recorded so that you can easily access the minutes / recording (if virtual) and make sure you haven't missed anything. I would ask that,moving forward the meetings are minuted and minutes saved in an accessible location so that you can read them. Similarly any training delivered to other TAs that you miss out on due to your agreed working hours (which are presumably the only hours you are paid for!) should be made available to you for you to complete in any non-contact time. You should not be expected to catch up unpaid on meetings / training etc. Whilst the employer shouldn't need to seek you out to explain it all, there should be systems in place that enable you to access the same opportunities and information as your colleagues during your payable hours.

Sorry if I'm being thick but why does being a TA make a difference? People have to do personal development and work extra time in lots of jobs.

OP - if it’s a quick daily briefing and you’re already in the habit of asking for updates - why were you not told then? In this case the fault lies with whoever was supposed to update you. If this PPT training is really important then your manager should have checked in as well.
In any case miscommunication can happen...your attitude of ‘being chased for something that doesn’t concern me’ is a bit off -putting. Are you generally quite calculative work work, or just upset at not being told, feeling overwhelmed, overworked and underpaid?

YABU. You were told via email. It is your responsibility to ask for more information if the email didn't give you enough information to complete the task.

Presumably because TAs are paid hourly as against salaried.

@IndecentFeminist does hourly also mean less benefits than the salaried? If she has set working hours (i.e. 10-4) I don't see the difference between the salaried... in fact the salaried probably get a worse deal as we get the same amount of pay no matter how much we work

As PP have suggested, ask bc about the V presentations, and also make a point of asking whoever usually briefs you on what you have missed what you need to do differently to avoid missing anything in future.

Daily stand up meetings are not unusual in lots of areas, to check in with each other. No minutes, occasionally something serious enough would arise which would need it's own meeting or even project

If anyone ever asked permission to miss a meeting, I would ask them how they planned to catch up. Your catch up method seems to have failed, so ask 'em how to avoid any repetition in future.

Knowing what is expected of you, feeling comfortable that you can do your job to the best of your ability makes for a much more pleasant, much less stressful working environment.