Office Quandries
Peter Rachleff
|
|
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|
|
|||
|
|
||||||
|
|
PUNCHING OUT page 1 of 3 | |||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
Weekly Answers to Office Quandries |
|
Professor Peter Rachleff |
|||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Working for a large, internationally known hospital should be all that but it's not. The employees in my department pay dearly for being good at what we do. The pettiness and constant nit-picking is unbelievable. Nothing, and I mean nothing, can be done without permission. The supervisor "over-manages" the department no matter how professionally a situation is handled. We feel we are being treated like preschoolers, and yet the level of animosity in the office is a puzzle to management. Just one example; one employee took the day off and another employee took it upon herself to help the first employee with her work. Nothing major mind you, she just organized her mail so it wasn't a mess on her desk when she returned. This took about thirty minutes max. The supervisor came upon the helping co-worker and said she hadn't been consulted about any arrangement and what made this employee think she could do what she was doing? HELLO!! Most employers have pounded the word TEAMWORK into their employees' heads since the '80s. How do we, as a department, handle this without seeming to gang up on the supervisor?
Louisiana
|
|||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||
 |
||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
| |||||||||||||
I'm going to have to take a little license in my reply to your question. I don't think you can handle your situation without "ganging up" on your supervisor. Some form of collective action is often the only way to get the attention of your supervisors and employers, and your situation lends itself to one of the oldest tried and true practices.