I'm sitting up front at the Receptionist's desk today because our receptionist is one of the laziest people working here @ this company. Now I'm stuck doing TONS of my OWN work and on top of that, I now have to ANSWER +300 calls/day, AND do ALL of the invoicing for the company (which includes cross-checking for price discrepancies, and many other things that I simply don't have the time for).
Yesterday she says she has a doctor's appointment at 3:20 for today, then at 5:30 I get a phone call at home saying she's not coming in AT ALL today becuase of her "Appointment". Many time she claims "I'm taking a 5 minutes smoke break" and then comes back 25 minutes later stating it wasn't even a real break because she was talking about work with another worker. TONS of people use their addiction as an excuse to take 5+ breaks per day. This is annoying. Whenever I give her shit for smoking all the time & making me cover her a$$, she always retorts "You don't know what it's like to be addicted to something..." She thinks that my 2 years of anti-depressants isn't the same, writing it off as a "Dependency".
Well. Hmmm? Isn't smoking addiction a dependency? "I need a cigarette!" She claims to quit from time to time, but what she really means is that for a short while she quits BUYING them, and just bums them from other people. Finally I got fed up with it & said, "I'm going on a 5 minute smoke break, I'll see you in 25 minutes." She said, "Not funny!" then I didn't come back for 25 minutes & she was PISSED!
So here I sit, gathering job security, and trashing her work habits on the internet. [b]Please tell us all what's bugging you at work today. Even if we don't understand proceedures, etc., it's good to get it off your chest.[/b]