There's always one, isn't there?
Nov. 16th, 2013 11:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
graculusMy job, barring the crazy-ass hours, is a piece of cake. My co-workers, on the whole, are sensible people who do what they need to but also are aware that we're there the whole night and therefore rushing around isn't any assistance to anyone - we've got plenty of time to get done what needs to be done and therefore requests from students for assistance with [the catalogue/where certain books are/how to make things print/how to do bullet points in Word] are absolutely fine and very much part of why we're there.
Of course, there's always an exception to the rule and while I get on perfectly well with 3 of my co-workers, the 4th is grinding on everyone's last nerve. Basically, every night during the week (weekends are a bit different in terms of the length and timing of shifts) we're there all night and our boss leaves about an hour after we start work. Which means that N spends that first hour banging about on the ground floor where his office is, looking busy, before later either disappearing off into the staff room and going to sleep for a couple of hours or just leaving the building completely and returning later in the night. This in itself would be bad enough if she wasn't also insisting on telling everyone (in this case, primarily the cleaners and even students, who I'm certain were wondering wtf she was talking to them about this for) how much harder she works than the rest of us.
Our job is to look after the students and the building, with the rest of us deciding that since we're still there long after most students have left, we'll prioritise the former's welfare/ability to get shit done over the latter's tidiness. Which means not interrupting folks who are hard at work (whether it's to collect coffee cups or discarded books) when most of the students are toiling away with their headphones on and oblivious to the world around them. No prizes for guessing what N is doing, as part of her I-am-busier-than-everyone campaign - as stress levels rise through the term and tempers start to fray, I have no doubt she's going to get a mouthful of abuse from someone sooner rather than later. We've come to the conclusion she just doesn't get why we're there and thinks she's part of the cleaning crew, who she has tried to 'help' at times, which impressed them not at all.
So the rest of us are in a dilemma, since we don't really want to tell on her behaviour but are aggravated since she's swinging the lead so vigorously and talking shit about us while she does it. One or the other would be fine, but both? Still, there's time for her to get herself caught - one of the reasons we're there is because the fire alarms apparently go off regularly (though it hasn't happened yet!) and after a botched evacuation last time around, the fire service made it clear that any further issues would lead to a prosecution for the university. All we can hope is that one of these alarms happens while she's asleep or elsewhere, so all we can do then is be honest when asked and let the chips fall as they may... ;)
E.T.A. I'm sure it'll come as no surprise to anyone that workshy N is also the person complaining about night shifts being at night from this post.
Of course, there's always an exception to the rule and while I get on perfectly well with 3 of my co-workers, the 4th is grinding on everyone's last nerve. Basically, every night during the week (weekends are a bit different in terms of the length and timing of shifts) we're there all night and our boss leaves about an hour after we start work. Which means that N spends that first hour banging about on the ground floor where his office is, looking busy, before later either disappearing off into the staff room and going to sleep for a couple of hours or just leaving the building completely and returning later in the night. This in itself would be bad enough if she wasn't also insisting on telling everyone (in this case, primarily the cleaners and even students, who I'm certain were wondering wtf she was talking to them about this for) how much harder she works than the rest of us.
Our job is to look after the students and the building, with the rest of us deciding that since we're still there long after most students have left, we'll prioritise the former's welfare/ability to get shit done over the latter's tidiness. Which means not interrupting folks who are hard at work (whether it's to collect coffee cups or discarded books) when most of the students are toiling away with their headphones on and oblivious to the world around them. No prizes for guessing what N is doing, as part of her I-am-busier-than-everyone campaign - as stress levels rise through the term and tempers start to fray, I have no doubt she's going to get a mouthful of abuse from someone sooner rather than later. We've come to the conclusion she just doesn't get why we're there and thinks she's part of the cleaning crew, who she has tried to 'help' at times, which impressed them not at all.
So the rest of us are in a dilemma, since we don't really want to tell on her behaviour but are aggravated since she's swinging the lead so vigorously and talking shit about us while she does it. One or the other would be fine, but both? Still, there's time for her to get herself caught - one of the reasons we're there is because the fire alarms apparently go off regularly (though it hasn't happened yet!) and after a botched evacuation last time around, the fire service made it clear that any further issues would lead to a prosecution for the university. All we can hope is that one of these alarms happens while she's asleep or elsewhere, so all we can do then is be honest when asked and let the chips fall as they may... ;)
E.T.A. I'm sure it'll come as no surprise to anyone that workshy N is also the person complaining about night shifts being at night from this post.
