Asking for help is perfectly okay. When someone points out what you’re doing wrong, they’re often just trying to help, not being mean or condescending. They want to see you succeed.
However, always being negative at work helps no one. Unfortunately, this particular manager didn’t understand that. She was recently promoted due to her predecessor’s emergency and didn’t have the skills to manage daily issues. She also hated asking for help, which made things worse. Her mistakes caused delays and missed shifts, and the employees had to fix her errors.
Most of the time, they managed. But one serious mistake cost her the job. OP tried to help her avoid this mistake, but she insisted she had everything under control.
1. A good employee’s advice should never be ignored.
2. OP started his job as a part-time worker, taking shifts where needed.
3. When OP’s supervisor went on leave, his assistant, Brenda, took his place and was also responsible for scheduling workers—a task that easily overwhelmed her.
4. While she would schedule, OP would tell her in advance regarding his availability for empty shifts that needed to be covered.
5. One time OP noticed a long weekend shift that no one had filled in, so he emailed Brenda about it, offering his availability.
6. However, Brenda responded with a long email, calling OP a beggar for extra shifts and explicitly saying there was nothing available for him for that week.
Brenda is being over for no reason and it will cost her. There is a shift that needs to be filled, and she has explicitly informed OP that there is no work for him coming up for the week. This could potentially get Brenda in a lot of trouble if the shift remained unfilled.
Let’s see what happens next. Scroll down below to continue reading!
7. OP wished everyone a nice weekend before leaving. Being on-call, he had to be informed in advance if he was being assigned a shift, but Brenda didn’t make any such arrangements.
8. On Saturday, OP started being bombarded with calls. Brenda had scheduled him for that shift after he had left. OP ignored.
9. On Monday morning, OP got given a written warning for not covering a shift he was scheduled for.
10. On the spot, he showed the senior manager the email thread of his conversation with Brenda on the topic.
11. The senior manager apologized to OP, and he went back to work.
12. Brenda ended up being demoted and eventually retired. Shortly after, OP became a full-time employee and soon got promoted to Brenda’s position
