Gonna be rambling on why I think I’m so burnt out at work under the cut so I have a better idea of what to say when I talk to my manager about my schedule~
As it stands, I work 4 days outta the week. I like the money I make working 4 days, but I’m getting to a point where I want more time for this project I’ve been co-developing for ages and am thinking to dropping down to 3 days... but picking which day to drop is surprisingly difficult.
I’ve had a pretty consistent schedule the past several months of working Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
I keep thinking about dropping Wednesday, but I’m already not thrilled working all weekend every weekend. But a fair number of my coworkers are college students and like the weekend for homework, which is fair. Other people just don’t like working Saturdays. One specifically requested it off so she can hang out with her sister, which is why I’d like one day of the weekend off too.
My youngest sister is still in high school, so the weekend is honestly the best time to do anything with her.
But I don’t feel comfortable asking for all Sundays off because another coworker actually requested that I do work Sundays.
She views me as competent and likes to have me around to work on sets around the store since Sundays are the day we change everything. Not every week tho, probably just once a month for the front table.
But this same coworker is kinda blunt. And if she’s in a good mood, she’s okay to work with, but otherwise you gotta kinda watch yourself. And I think this is where my “meh” has been coming from cuz I really like working there, but boy can she make me feel like I don’t know what I’m doing despite being the one she specifically wants there.
Today she had me putting together signs and brought out the drawer of hinged rings to loop through the holes. We have two different sizes in that drawer, so I was using the bigger ones since I figured they’d be easier to put through the holes until I couldn’t easily locate any other pairs and switched to the smaller ones. Later coworker comes out, checks out the signs, and is asking me if I used the big rings cuz I ran out of smaller ones...
But she never told me what size to use????? And I honestly don’t think we use them for much else and don’t see what it matters.
So it feels like there’s a lot of stuff I’m supposed to inherently know, but am simply unable to comprehend.
And there’s been enough of those sorts of instances that it’s just starting to wear on me and I don’t like it.
So I’m thinking maybe just an occasional Sunday off where we don’t have a whole lot going on so it won’t really matter who’s around to do the odd jobs she comes up with.
I don’t need to go out every weekend, but every once in awhile would be appreciated.
And I’m not gonna say all that to my manager, I’ve just been mulling it over for a couple months now and finally got it worked out on the chain of events that’s got me down and needed to ramble