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I'm so tired of having Days Like This.
I took a half day at work - the second half - so that I had some extra recovery time from the concert last night. (Solar Fake again! And one of the openers was sick, so a friend of ours got to open, which was pretty cool! The whole show was great!)
Got a text before I was in that one of the instructors for an off-site class had to go home early due to a family emergency. He'd gotten the rest of the class he was managing covered, but wanted me to give him a call later. I did call, and he said he's fine for work tomorrow, but may have to take a leave for a while in the next couple weeks, depending on how things go. (Which I get - he's got a Lot he's dealing with, but fucking hell, ANOTHER person with months of appointments to reschedule makes me want to fucking die.)
Got another text as we pulled into the parking lot at work, telling me that one of the new instructors completely no-showed his day. One of the other instructors gave him a call, and he said he told the manager he couldn't come in today. Manager checked, and this wasn't on his list of days he needed off, so someone had a miscommunication. So that was yet another full schedule I had to get rescheduled, including the kid who had shown up for a lesson before we realized he wasn't coming in.
I texted the instructor to make sure he's good to do his shift tomorrow and he said yes.
Ex-coworker, the one who wound up being let go because of her chronic attendance issues, stopped by to say hi. Her husband passed away last week. It happened in... one of the better ways it could have. He was aware at the end and of what was happening, and was able to make his own decisions, and do a bunch of things he wanted to on his last day. She came by to see me and one of the other instructors she's friends with just to be around people for a while. It was good to see her, but it was a rough day to have my attention split.
While there's supposed to be a second person taking care of the online support stuff on Saturdays, and I'd made everyone aware of my half day, no one had dealt with any of the calls that came in by the time I arrived, so I also had to answer all of those.
I managed to hopefully head off a crisis tomorrow - the first person in tomorrow is a different new instructor, and I texted the manager just to confirm that the new guy does have a key to the building. (I would have texted the instructor directly, except while he was added to our staff directory, he has no contact info listed.) Manager said no, oops, he doesn't, but he has the door code so we can just leave him a key. ...Except I had to give our last spare key to a DIFFERENT instructor today, because he's the last one out tonight, and he *also* hadn't been given a key. I was able to borrow a different instructor's key to loan him, and will get it back tomorrow.
I wound up stuck at work for an extra half hour at the end of the day just to get all this shit dealt with - after ALSO coming in a half hour before I was supposed to, considering my half day, just because I wanted to be there to touch base with the classroom instructor between classes. So basically I took four hours of PTO to only functionally get three, except PTO can only be taken in half- or full- day increments, so I can't even ask for the one hour back. :/
I'm... annoyed because it feels like there's just a lot of frustrating oversights and the like that all make my job harder than it needs to be. Bad days happen, and things get forgotten, and people get sick, and all of that... but it's getting really frustrating and exhausting feeling like *every* weekend is going to be like this.
Some of it is my manager's fault, but he's also feeling stressed and overextended (mostly with things he voluntarily took on, but is now overwhelmed by.) I don't want to blame him, and there's certainly plenty that ISN'T his fault by any stretch, but... it's wearing on me.
I took a half day at work - the second half - so that I had some extra recovery time from the concert last night. (Solar Fake again! And one of the openers was sick, so a friend of ours got to open, which was pretty cool! The whole show was great!)
Got a text before I was in that one of the instructors for an off-site class had to go home early due to a family emergency. He'd gotten the rest of the class he was managing covered, but wanted me to give him a call later. I did call, and he said he's fine for work tomorrow, but may have to take a leave for a while in the next couple weeks, depending on how things go. (Which I get - he's got a Lot he's dealing with, but fucking hell, ANOTHER person with months of appointments to reschedule makes me want to fucking die.)
Got another text as we pulled into the parking lot at work, telling me that one of the new instructors completely no-showed his day. One of the other instructors gave him a call, and he said he told the manager he couldn't come in today. Manager checked, and this wasn't on his list of days he needed off, so someone had a miscommunication. So that was yet another full schedule I had to get rescheduled, including the kid who had shown up for a lesson before we realized he wasn't coming in.
I texted the instructor to make sure he's good to do his shift tomorrow and he said yes.
Ex-coworker, the one who wound up being let go because of her chronic attendance issues, stopped by to say hi. Her husband passed away last week. It happened in... one of the better ways it could have. He was aware at the end and of what was happening, and was able to make his own decisions, and do a bunch of things he wanted to on his last day. She came by to see me and one of the other instructors she's friends with just to be around people for a while. It was good to see her, but it was a rough day to have my attention split.
While there's supposed to be a second person taking care of the online support stuff on Saturdays, and I'd made everyone aware of my half day, no one had dealt with any of the calls that came in by the time I arrived, so I also had to answer all of those.
I managed to hopefully head off a crisis tomorrow - the first person in tomorrow is a different new instructor, and I texted the manager just to confirm that the new guy does have a key to the building. (I would have texted the instructor directly, except while he was added to our staff directory, he has no contact info listed.) Manager said no, oops, he doesn't, but he has the door code so we can just leave him a key. ...Except I had to give our last spare key to a DIFFERENT instructor today, because he's the last one out tonight, and he *also* hadn't been given a key. I was able to borrow a different instructor's key to loan him, and will get it back tomorrow.
I wound up stuck at work for an extra half hour at the end of the day just to get all this shit dealt with - after ALSO coming in a half hour before I was supposed to, considering my half day, just because I wanted to be there to touch base with the classroom instructor between classes. So basically I took four hours of PTO to only functionally get three, except PTO can only be taken in half- or full- day increments, so I can't even ask for the one hour back. :/
I'm... annoyed because it feels like there's just a lot of frustrating oversights and the like that all make my job harder than it needs to be. Bad days happen, and things get forgotten, and people get sick, and all of that... but it's getting really frustrating and exhausting feeling like *every* weekend is going to be like this.
Some of it is my manager's fault, but he's also feeling stressed and overextended (mostly with things he voluntarily took on, but is now overwhelmed by.) I don't want to blame him, and there's certainly plenty that ISN'T his fault by any stretch, but... it's wearing on me.
