Is it that we have outgrown the level of authority we are given due to previous positions or is it genuinely that the organization is disorganized so little respect is commanded? How is it at to different places the organization and abilities of the manager are beyond frustrating? How is it that a place can drive you to insanity? Is this how the adult world truly is, working 65 hours and having little to show for it?
I am not asking for much. In fact I feel I am a pretty easy going employee. What I do ask is consistency, organization, and slight respect. Maybe I have simply had "easy" jobs until this point in life; however, I have never seen places with such chaos as the past 2 fitness centers I have chosen to work for. Leaving one for another feeling that it had a better hierarchy system and therefore, would create better organization. Here is the most recent instant of several in the past 2 months of employment at my most recent job. On Monday my boss sent me 3 separate emails asking me to extend hours this week due to a last minute need. I agreed. Yesterday she called me asking all sorts of questions giving me different times and scenarios for the month and this weekend. She promised she would email me the schedule yesterday so I would know my shifts for the month and this weekend. I never received an email therefore I called and asked to let me know at least what time I am working tomorrow. Her response "I will send it to you tomorrow today is my day off and I don't have access to it."
Now yes I know I am working tomorrow; however, I do not know what time. The only way I can balance my life is being able articulate a schedule and plan to fit all my daily needs. If I do not know what time I am working because she has told me 4 different times it makes it difficult to plan for the day. Furthermore, unable to plan for the weekend not knowing if I am working doubles on Saturday and Sunday and what times because she was changing them. Is it ridiculous to be annoyed by this? Even though I am new is it unfair to bothered by being expected to drop everything and never to be able to make plans because it is unclear what hours I am available? The funny thing is I enjoy the job, I enjoy the fitness center, I enjoy working; I do not enjoy disorganization, the disrespect for the hierarchy, the disrespect for the required pool rules.
The question that this all brings me to is it that this bothers me because I have experience in that position and no longer have the respect to be the low man on the totem pole; or is there a legitimate problem? How is that in Missouri I loved working at a fitness center and both fitness centers here have driven me crazy. What is the connection? Have I outgrown the job and more? Am I willing to give up the money because of frustration?
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