You come in to our office gung-ho and excited to help us grow the business. You are full of great ideas and enthusiasm—for everyone else’s job but mine, because you have no experience with it, and do not understand what I do.
So you decide my position is no longer needed, and basically turn me into a secretary.
Fast forward to a few months later, and I am taking 1-200 calls per day, running your entire office operations and covering asses since nobody actually pays attention to our clients since your new “customer service-focused” regime. (How ironic.)
Oh, and I also handle “side projects” that could be done by a horny rhesus monkey, and you FINALLY notice a bunch of stuff no longer gets done. Stuff that YOU didn’t feel was important to the company four months ago, that all of a sudden miraculously matters.
Now you expect me to do both—the full-time, several hours of overtime job I USED to do, AND the full-time job I have now.
Guess what? NO.
You wanted a receptionist? That’s exactly what you get. Although I will continue to try to serve our clients, because I think that’s actually IMPORTANT. —Learn How a Company Works Before You Change It
This article appears in Aug 30 – Sep 5, 2012.
There is an opening for a bookkeeper although you will have to work for another arsehole at minimum wage …. but the cunt is flexible and permits you to work evenings and weekends …. although you have a lot of backlog data entry to complete because the previous employee is getting $14.50 at their new job.
there are assholes, and then there are bigger ones. you have just found the biggest of the lot. well, when things start going all to hell, who do you think will take the heat worst? won’t be you, cause as you said, you are only a receptionist now. mr. big shit will have to get burnt bad.
I’LL TAKE IT!
now, what exactly does a bookkeeper do?
I only wanted to be one because it’s the only word in the English language that has three consecutive repeating letters in a row. On second thought, that sounds lame.
I QUIT!
OP, watch the 1999 movie ‘Office Space’ – you seriously need a laugh and a new fucking job.
OP, so at some point in the past, you stopped doing a portion of your job because your new boss made you really busy doing other tasks. I can understand that. I think it is common for this to happen.
However, I don’t understand why you didn’t say “Oh btw, I haven’t had time to do all of my job, what would you like to do about that,boss?”
If it was me, I would reprimand you – not for being too busy – but for not speaking up about the work that you unilaterally decided to stop doing.
Great V, I understood from the poster that the manager decided that the nature of her work changed — that he deemed certain tasks no longer necessary and directed her instead to perform different functions. She complied with his/her request and now management has come to realize the value of the functions she had been performing before he stepped on the scene and has decided he wants her to perform both her old duties and her new duties. She didn’t make the unilateral decision to stop performing her old duties. The manager made the unilateral decision to cut out functions of her role because he was sure he knew better. Now he’s fucked and he wants her to fix it. That’s how I read it, anyway. A valid bitch, IMO.
I love new managers, they’re so cute. They try to put their stamp on things without trying to fathom why things work the way they do in the company structure. They find their new ideas aren’t working that well but, rest assured, they keep coming up with more and more changes that eventually go full circle ending where we started, doing things the way we always have..but it was their ideas that got us there.
When I first saw the title of this bitch I thought it would be a good chance to use the line “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss” from “Won’t get Fooled Again” by The Who. However it really didn’t apply. Pity!
well folks, here it is midnite sept. 5 2012. god has not shown up,oh, wait a sec. holy fuck, i can’t believe it. he is here, i just had to look in a mirror to see him.
you may all kneel down and give me praise, and kiss my ass, like good little sheep.
HAIL TO ME IN THE HIGHEST, OR MAYBE I SHOULD BE GETTING HIGH IN A HAIL STORM. whatever works i guess. woggie, you were wrong baby.
Blow Me: You are nuts and need to see a shrink or maybe a clergy person. What has your stupid post got to do with the topic??? Manic……
woggie, it has nothing to do with the topic at all. it was an announcement that your supreme being failed to show, and therefore does not exist. except in the minds of the sheep, that are too blind to realize and see the truth. THERE IS NO SUPREME BEING. as to a shrink, the other day, you needed one badly. as for being nuts, probly, and i have two of them. which your phney god can suck on.
sorry if i burst your little bubble of an afterlife in this heaven place, but that is also a state of your feebleminded. have a very pleasant day woggie, knowing that you go nowhere when you kick off, except in the ground or burnt to a crispy critter, in a crematorium.
Blow: Where did you come up with that date? Pick it out of mid air? You sound like a rambling idiot who is manic. You need some sleep buddy. Please stick to the topic as I am sure none of us wants to hear your mindless drivel. At least I don’t. And yeah, you might want to check out that shrink by the sounds of your rambling….. wow… scary…..
I dunno. I find it all kind of entertaining: the diversity of opinions, the creative use of the language, the off-topic non-sequiturs. How boring would it be if we all spoke the same way and agreed with each other?
Oh yeah been there. Sounds like it’s time for you to meet with your boss to discuss a pay increase. Your angle: more responsibility = more pay. I was a sexetary for 10 years before I went back to school. They DO run a whole office and manage billing, receivables, all the paperflow – shit’s a tough gig. These cheap ass MO- FO’s wanna pay you dirt (12 buck an hour!). Then fire others and hand you their work. Most secretaries are introverted behind-the-scenes shy people. They choose this carreer because its low profile. They’re shy but friendly and agreeable and employers prey on that. My old boss fired the marketing dept and I was designing marketing stuff, while earning secretary wages. SPEAK UP!! The squeeky wheel gets the grease. He can’t fire you for asking for more money. The worst that could happen is he’d say sorry, it’s not in the budget. In which case you can start hunting for a better job.
start hunting?
she already HAS another job…
you really are half crunk.