Work and favourtism

[Slayerofmyth]

So, I have been moved to another pharmacy within the same chain. I've been here about 8 weeks and it's a completely different workload to what I was used . It's much faster paced and I'm having to learn alot of new stuff. I feel I've been quite good at picking up this new stuff and I work really hard. There is a lot of upheaval at the moment and management have implemented many changes, which no one is happy about, much talk about it and staff being generally stressed and fed up. But tonight I had to have a 'little talk' about my negative attitude, which I found quite funny since everyone else is equally negative and pissed off, with the pharmacist actually kicking baskets at one point. Anyway, they also said I need to be quicker, fair enough I said but I've been here 8 weeks.... I'm still learning, which they agreed with. I told them I try my best and I'm sure I'll get quicker in time but kept reiterating the facts....8 weeks..... I'm pretty pissed off to be honest. I often work more hours to help out, and to cover for staff absences, I've been doing this quite often, despite the fact I'm a single parent and carer for my mum who has dementia. I've done it to help out but feel like I've been locked in the teeth. The manager and a few other staff are quite nasty about one member of staff, which I don't like and tend to not get involved in. But they have the audacity to have a go at me?? There's alot of messing about between the pharmacist and a younger member of staff, which I think is quite funny actually but again, having a go at me?? What to do?? Buckle down, or stick up for myself?

no1 likes negativity even when they r the cause of it. I try to avoid talking to my management in case i complain about something which is natural when u r annoyed. If there is nothing that can b done about it, then no point raising it.

Thats if u want ur job, and a good reference by the end of it.

Do you get paid for the extra hours? Maybe they think you're doing it for the extra money rather than because you've a 'good corporate citizen'.

To be honest, I think 8 weeks is quite a long time. In my industry, they'd have pretty high expectations by this point. But I appreciate that some places are more laidback and less demanding. I'd try and speed up though as it sounds like they do have concerns over your performance.

It's entirely possible that they've spoken to all the staff individually about 'negative attitudes'. Just because no-one has said anything about it doesn't necessarily mean that you've been singled out.

If you want to keep your job, I'd strongly suggest that you get your head down, work hard and don't get sucked in to the negativity of others. If you want to lose your job, sure, go ahead and "stick up for yourself".

I do work hard, as I will continue to do. 8 weeks is nothing compared to other staff members who have been there years. They've already lost one member of staff, had another woman in years, who's worked there for 20:years. This is not how you treat staff, but seems to be the way of modern management techniques which do nothing to garner positive staff moral but seeks to remind us all his insignificant we are and easily replaceable. I'll continue to work hard but will not be getting involved in the politics, that's probably my best bet.