As opposed to work, bitch!
(Ha ha. I kill me)
So the new girl @ work…I think I will call her…Lacey. I…just don’t know about this girl. She’s in her late 20s but has the maturity of a 19 year old. Seriously. It’ll be (gloriously) dead quiet in our work area and all of a sudden she’ll bust into a few bars of “Loving You” or, weirder yet, commercial jingles. Who the hell does that?
And a big part of her job is handling shipping…the first half of the week is the busiest time of the week so I tended to start that part of the job around 3 PM at the latest. Yesterday she got in there after 4. The UPS driver comes @ 5:30 and whatever he doesn’t pick up has to be driven to the drop box down the street. In our business, shipping stuff out is not optional.
And for some ungodly reason, Boss Belinda has her answering phone calls. Sometimes it works out…OK…but other times not so much. If she has a question, she’ll ask me but if I’m on the phone she’ll ask anyway which is a ton of fun because my phone calls are generally tough, too.
Here are some other things she’s done: Drafted (but not sent! phew!) an angry email to a high maintenance client. Googled “How do an employee get their tax money back?” Asked me questions like “She wants to know why her bank was charged” without telling me who the hell “She” is. Today was her day to work the “late” shift. I stayed a little late to show her how to clear a client’s calendar and afterwards, I sat down to clock out and go home (only 30 minutes late, wahoo!) and she said “I’m going to the bathroom, I’ll be right back”. Twenty minutes later, she finally returns…during those 20 minutes I had to take 3 more phone calls. The first rule of the late shift is you don’t leave your desk during the late shift!!! (The second rule is that we usually don’t get any phone calls, let alone 3!).
And we have two other new people, right now as well. One of them is just with us for a few more weeks before going to his cushy job elsewhere in the company. Meanwhile, he’s acting like he’s already in his cushy job, spending plenty of time checking his personal email, IMing with his buddies, web surfing for totally non work related things (unless we are now processing payroll for Theknot.com, I mean). And yes, I know it’s petty but I CAN SEE IT. This just proves to me that our team works our asses off and the rest of the company fucks around all day.
And the other new girl will hopefully work out but I don’t know why she’s not taking calls now. She is seemingly more together than Lacey. She’ll end up mostly working with new clients (which was Broomhilda’s job) so that may be the reasoning.
Seriously. How the hell are these the best people we can hire? HR made a huge deal out of hiring the “right” people…were the “wrong” people toothless hobos?
And now, the backtrack…Boss Belinda has had to talk to Lacey about a few of these things and I honestly feel bad for Lacey. Our job is super tough and Lacey hasn’t worked in the industry before. I once described my job as “out of the frying pan and into the fire, and then someone turned the gas up to high” but at least I have an understanding of how payroll works. I think it’s the equivalent of me getting hired as a rocket scientist at NASA. The poor girl has barely had any training. Maybe with some training she’ll be fixable.