Friday, May 23, 2014

Day one-hundred-forty-three

Quickly, I have not yet decided about whether to scale back posting regularly. I will say that suggesting I would has driven up my numbers slightly.



It has been a tension-filled day at work, to say the least. Two of my co-workers, Ana and Christina, have had some trouble getting along. They've had issues between each other as lot as Christina has been working in the digital room. I think Ana resents her presence in a crowded working environment, coupled with the fact that Christina is still fairly new and thus still makes the mistakes common to working in a new place.

Things have reached the point where Christina tried to move back out to the warehouse, but our manager, John, won't allow her. I can't say I blame her for wanting to leave or him for having her stay put, because honestly, the problem is primarily Ana.

I know this is the case, because when I moved into the digital room, I had problems with her. When John asked me to start doing more shipping, I told Ana and she resisted. I went back to John and he spoke to her about it. Eventually, she relented, and now, she has me handling the shipping when we return from our final break at 8:40 pm.

I don't know what sort of resolution there will be to all this. Today Chrsitina interviewed to take over operating one of the digital room machines, and eventually, all of us packers will be back out on the warehouse floor. Things are extremely tense right now, and I get the sense that things have been building for a while.

Meanwhile, Christina and I are walking around on eggshells, and unless she absolutely has to speak to us, Ana has pretty much frozen us out. This is easily the worst thing I've had to face in the time I've been working here. Christina has already gone to Human Resources about it. I don't really know what's going to happen.

Pray for God's guiding hand in all this.

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