Work rant January 14, 2005 ~ 3:52 pm
Posted by Julie in : Daily Grind , comments closedI was going to put a nice picture of Rick and me up at the top of today’s post, but I don’t have anything great to write about and I don’t want to waste the picture on a crap post. So you have to wait till Monday - besides, it’s the only thing I can do to compete with those Kansas City trip bloggers!
Started off the morning with a two hour staff meeting about registration, which did not go well this semester. I worked part of it, and it was a madhouse. Someone overscheduled the number of freshmen coming in to be registered, and nobody really taught them how to make a schedule, so I ended up counseling them at the computer as I was enrolling them in courses. This is so not my job, and I didn’t feel comfortable doing it, but I did anyway. I didn’t really have a choice. The long and short of it is that we’re going to have to register a bunch of kids the first week of classes, and all supervisors had better be ready to drop everything we’re doing the last week of January and the first week of February to work overtime. Without pay, since we’re on salary. You’d better believe I’m getting comp time out of this, though.
I had to point out to the Big Boss that I wouldn’t be able to do anyone’s job but my own during the day the last week of January. I’m graduating the February grads, and all of their records need proofed between now and then. And that week is when the list of candidates is due for approval. Guess who does the list? It then has to be proofed and adjusted. By me, again. And this time out, we’re using a new program that we’ve experimented with on previous lists to generate the list. The program is a pain in the ass, truly horrendous to make corrections in, and is really fucking impossible for my aging auditors to read. But Big Boss doesn’t care because the professors like it. I reminded her of all this, and the fact that one of my staff (the one who proofs the audits I’ve done) is out for jury duty, making more work for us, and she said “Oh. Well, I guess you have to take care of that first.” If you want anyone to graduate, I do, woman. *sigh*
Even though I talked myself out of most of re-registration, I have a problem with the fact that we’re expected to cover it. We weren’t the ones that scheduled so many students that there was a five hour wait for all of them to see a computer operator and get registered. We weren’t the ones that couldn’t show these students how to make a schedule. We weren’t the ones who didn’t put down the computer codes for the exact courses that the students wanted so that the operators basically had to start from scratch with each student. We weren’t the ones who told the students who weren’t seen on Monday and Tuesday to come back the first day of classes rather than Wednesday, Thursday, or today, as was scheduled. And yet we have to pick up the mess that other people made. I have a real problem with this. I don’t work or play well with others who can’t take responsibility for their own actions. We’re all adults, why is this such a hard concept to grasp???
Maybe I just need to go home, drink a beer, watch some Food Network and knit for a while before getting a good night’s sleep. That sounds pretty damn good right about now. Happy weekend to all of you, especially the weekend warriors going to KC. I hope you all have a blast - next time I’ll be with you!!
