monku monku monku

here it is, years later and i'm still dealing with ppl who don't seem to understand that i just want to do my work. don't want to get pulled into their head games, don't care what their issues are with other workers, so long as they're doing their job. just let me do my work. leave me alone. wow. that sounds bitter. but here's what it's like on a normal shift: U doesn't even say hello, just says "well schitt, here we are. i wonder if R is going to show up. L will probably have all kinds of excuses about why that section isn't getting done. personaly, i think it's all bullshit and i think you should say something." from my perspective, i'm thinking if U has such a huge issue, U should say something. don't try to get me involved. J comes in and starts bitching about the ppl wandering around. L just sits there, screwing with a cellphone and reading all the crude jokes that we're supposed to find funny. R comes in, grabs stuff and heads off to work. doesn't talk. my kind of person. so i grab stuff, and head off to work. 15 minutes into the shift, i'm mentally reworking my schedule because i've run into issues that are going to slow things down -- 5 minutes mentally bitching about idiots who can't put things back, while i hunt for stuff. L comes in and follows me around bitching about how much work there is to do. i say, then L should get back to it. L leaves to find U to complain that i am not being a team player. U follows L and they spend time walking around looking at all the work that needs to be done. 50 minutes later and i've managed to get back on schedule and this is a good thing because i hit another delay (gotta love meetings) but i can work around that. U comes over to follow me around telling me that L is not working fast enough, and that R is not doing things the way the boss said, and that K really shouldn't be working because K can't handle the pace, and that S is an idiot and shouldn't be here, and i should do things the way U does because it's more efficient. what ever. after U finally leaves, S comes over to tell me that something was done. which is fine but why tell me since it's not my work -- it's U's work. S also tells me that A helped to do U's work. L comes over to tell me it's break time and asks where U is. i keep on working until i'm at a good stopping point (10 minutes later) then head out to take a quick 15 minute break. i go back to work after taking 10, because there's stuff i really want to get to and i won't miss the 5 minutes. 35 minutes later as i'm hitting the halfway mark in my tasks, i hear U and L coming back from break ... which means they took a 45 minute break on top of spending most of the work time walking around ??? what ever. i know that i'm the only one who sticks to the 15, but as long as their work is getting done, it isn't my concern. i get most of my work done (only three things left), and take a mental moment as i work, to smile over the compliments and thank you's miscellaneous ppl have said today. even if my coworkers have nothing good to say about me or to me, it's still nice to know someone noticed what i do :) lunch time. i know everyone else went to lunch 10 minutes ago, but i had to finish a tricky task. only 2 things left on my to do list. yay! i leave for lunch (it's only 30 minutes, but i leave so i won't have to listen to bitching lol) back at work, i finish up the two remaining tasks. i hear U and L come back from lunch (they sit around for 10 until time, punch out for lunch, punch back in on time, then sit for another 15 or so). i have been told to NOT finish their tasks for them -- that they need to get their own work done. which is fine with me. i start on the "group" work only to find that U did the "easy" stuff while K, S and A did U's work. hmm. this leaves the "grunt" work ... the stuff U avoids with U's idea of ingenious excuses like "R needs help" (R says this means U walks around checking R's work) or "L needs help" (which means the two of them walk around bitching about what needs to be done) or "I'll be right back" (it takes U about 65 minutes to do a 20 minute security check). whatever. suddenly it's break time and U and L don't understand why i don't want to go on break with them. (i cherish my quiet down time!!!) 10 minutes later (i don't generally take the whole break ever) i'm finishing up the grunt work and mentally bitching about ppl who don't seem to grasp the concept of putting stuff where it belongs. at 10 minutes to end of shift i'm supposed to sit down and write a summary report -- what's done, not done, what needs attention. this is a problem because everybody else had something that didn't get done, but they don't want it written down because i got my stuff done and they think it will make them look bad. what ever.