New home, New problems
Time and time again, I get stressed out simply because of outside sources. It has happened in life before, and I would have been a fool to not expect it to happen again. But this time, when it came, I was simply just expecting more.
If anyone’s been reading my blogs through, then they know that I used to work for Anchor Pointe, under Holiday Retirement and that I was transferring to a similar place here in Ottawa called CrystalView Lodge. I’ve been working there for only about two weeks, and my expectations have fallen so low that the only way for it to go is back up.
In these two weeks, management has neglected to tell me when I am working. Firstly, I thought that I would be working at dishwashing for a good long while, and so I didn’t go to check the schedule for serving. Since, nobody told me that I was starting that yet. But, apparently they HAD scheduled me(I had worked 4 dishwashing shifts in a row previous to that). That was strike number one.
Now, today was a different story, but could be told in a much similar manner. Today, originally, I wasn’t supposed to work. That’s what my schedule said. However, management thought that it would be a good idea to change the schedule and not tell me about it. So, they expected me to work this morning…and I didn’t know about it. I keep my phone off at night, and I decided to sleep in because “I wasn’t working”. So, they couldn’t reach me for that shift. They are lucky I came in to pick my schedule this afternoon, so this could get sorted out…ish.
The day before, because I didn’t know I was working, I agreed to take someone else’s shift that was working. That turned out to be a complete disaster! So, technically, I was working two people’s shifts! Any nobody else would come in when we called them up… That was strike two.
Funny thing is. When I came to pick up the schedule about 1:30 and realized that “oh shit” moment, I specifically said that, if they needed me for the 4:30 shift to get everything ready, they could simply just call me. Well. It turned to 4:30, and there was no call, so I assumed that everything was alright. At 4:45, I get a call from CrystalView, and they say “Whoops, we forgot to call you for the 4:30 shift. Can you come in now?” Guess what. Strike 3.
Holy crap! If there’s one thing in life that I absolutely hate, it is when someone doesn’t tell me things. I lost faith in people who withhold the truth from me. I can handle the truth no matter what it is…it’s when they neglect to tell me that I begin to lost my trust in them. Same goes for my workplace.
They are VERY lucky I’m a gracious person. Because, tomorrow I literally have an 8 hour shift to work. I almost felt like not doing it. And you know what? If they do give me any sort of crap like they gave me today, then I don’t want to work there any more. I know Holiday’s standards, and I know my own standards. Unfortunately, they don’t meet either.
