Do any of you ever wonder that? My job gets more and more frustrating everyday. This morning is just one more unfathomable (to me) issue to deal with.
I was told to update a spreadsheet with contact information as received for work to be done next week. Ok, no big deal and I did work on it as the info came in. Now I've been asked to distribute the contact list to everyone on it. Ok, again no big deal. So in checking my emails marked for follow up, I saw two more with contact info I was missing last week. I open the spreadsheet to make sure the info was there and lo and behold there is twice as much info as I was originally to maintain (all contact info complete) and in a completely different format.
Now please tell me why I was asked to keep and update this sheet if the manager asking me to do this was just going to go in and do the work himself? I hate that. Either let me do the task or do it yourself. I know that doesn't sound like I'm flexible or a team player but I'm the kind of person who, if I'm going to be responsible for keeping something like this up to date, like to have complete control over it so I know what has been done and when. Its like someone asking me to research something and then going and doing it themselves without telling me they've got it covered.
I hate to waste time but I feel like I do that more and more at work. Give me tasks, let me own them and then let me do them. Stop all this time wasting, finding me work to keep me busy nonsense.
And they wonder why I keep my door mostly closed all the time - its because I can't stand to hear everyone else being productive while all they can find for me is mindless, low level work or dumping messes in my lap to straighten out after they didn't listen or adress my concerns about changes (points I raised to prevent the mess we have now but I'm expected to figure out a solution to).
I will be so glad when I can another job - regardless of how large a pay cut I have to take to leave here.
Michelle
