Life goes on
Thursday, 10 November 2016 22:23![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elusivekDon't really want to go into politics, but meh, WTF. First Brexit, now this.
All I can say is, bring in the popcorn.
2 days to my Germany trip. Work is still tense, of course, I have no "second in command" to take up my work. But, do I care? Nope. Not when I had a number 2, but the boss thought she wasn't pretty enough, and used the shoe analogy to get me to relocate the girl to a remote part of the office. The analogy itself? "It's like a shoe that fits, but something just isn't right."
He is a right bastard.
A new director came in, and I told my boss "out of kindness I'm going to help him set up his email and lend him a computer, but that's all, I'm not his admin."
"Yeah, I know that," replies him. "So what?"
"So when he bullies me to do his admin work, I hope you'd stand up for me," I say, which I thought was a fair enough request. I'd fend him off myself, but when he starts the bullying, I'd hope the boss will say something.
"well you should know how to defend for yourself and say no," is is succinct reply.
That bastard.
Well, of course, the new guy still doesn't have an admin and guess who's doing all his admin work? Me. Which, is totally not a problem. Because now when my boss asked me to do something, I just said "get in line and wait, I'm busy with the new guy's paperwork."
And he promptly goes "he needs an admin!" And of course I just laugh out a "ha!" and continue to do the new guy's paperwork.
Geezus, even the HR guy who has nothing to do with my department actually told the scheduling guy, "new guy is hired by [my boss], just ask Katherina to administer his attendance and schedule."
What. The. Buggering. Fuck. "Just ask," my ass. When half the world can get like a 30% pay rise to "inline" the pay scale, why don't I get a 50% pay rise to "inline" my pay scale with the other woman who has the same title as I do yet have a team of admin assistants to help her with her daily paperwork while I have do everything on my own with a lower-than entry level pay and working 5 people's jobs?
*breathe, Kat, breathe*
Don't get bothered. Keep calm. Just don't cause a scene and work on. That has been my motto all my life. Perhaps it's time to change that thought.
All I can say is, bring in the popcorn.
2 days to my Germany trip. Work is still tense, of course, I have no "second in command" to take up my work. But, do I care? Nope. Not when I had a number 2, but the boss thought she wasn't pretty enough, and used the shoe analogy to get me to relocate the girl to a remote part of the office. The analogy itself? "It's like a shoe that fits, but something just isn't right."
He is a right bastard.
A new director came in, and I told my boss "out of kindness I'm going to help him set up his email and lend him a computer, but that's all, I'm not his admin."
"Yeah, I know that," replies him. "So what?"
"So when he bullies me to do his admin work, I hope you'd stand up for me," I say, which I thought was a fair enough request. I'd fend him off myself, but when he starts the bullying, I'd hope the boss will say something.
"well you should know how to defend for yourself and say no," is is succinct reply.
That bastard.
Well, of course, the new guy still doesn't have an admin and guess who's doing all his admin work? Me. Which, is totally not a problem. Because now when my boss asked me to do something, I just said "get in line and wait, I'm busy with the new guy's paperwork."
And he promptly goes "he needs an admin!" And of course I just laugh out a "ha!" and continue to do the new guy's paperwork.
Geezus, even the HR guy who has nothing to do with my department actually told the scheduling guy, "new guy is hired by [my boss], just ask Katherina to administer his attendance and schedule."
What. The. Buggering. Fuck. "Just ask," my ass. When half the world can get like a 30% pay rise to "inline" the pay scale, why don't I get a 50% pay rise to "inline" my pay scale with the other woman who has the same title as I do yet have a team of admin assistants to help her with her daily paperwork while I have do everything on my own with a lower-than entry level pay and working 5 people's jobs?
*breathe, Kat, breathe*
Don't get bothered. Keep calm. Just don't cause a scene and work on. That has been my motto all my life. Perhaps it's time to change that thought.
