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Hey Guys...update on the job situation.
I turned in my two weeks notice yesterday. Talked to the boss, she said she understood.
Came into the office this morning, minding my own business. Jan asked me to make some copies of letters for someone. She never mentioned that she wanted the letters mailed out. So I gave her the original copies back. She then follows me to my desk and tells me she gave me a job to do and that I need to finish it. I told her she did not specify to mail the letters out but that I would do it...here is where it goes downhill.
She then starts to explain to me how to mail a letter. When I say mail a letter, I mean literally how to mail a letter. She started going through the steps of putting the address in the right place etc. I then said to her, Jan I know how to mail a letter, Thank you. She considered that backtalk and said that my generation doesn't know how to do things like that and that she though I didn't know. I told her, no I do know how to mail a letter, thanks.
She pulls me aside into a room and tells me she knows about my letter of resignation and that I need to stop back talking her or she will talk to Kathy (our boss, Kathy is the only one who cares about what Jan has to say.) I was fed up with her at this point and proceeded to tell her that I will respect her when she treats me like an adult and that it's insulting to me to be treated so poorly. After she threatened to talk to Kathy I replied "Alright, be my guest" and left the room to continue my work.
About 15 minutes later Lindsay (a supervisor over me and the other student workers) pulls me aside and asked me about what happened.
I told her what happened and she asked me if I'd be happier being done today instead of after two more weeks. I told her if that would make the office a better place then yes. I also made a point to tell her how I had felt about Jan and her treatment of the student workers.
Basically, I explained to her my major problems while working there and suggested things they could do to improve the workplace for the next students who work there.
My suggestions:
- Talk to Jan about her treatment of the student works
- Treat the student workers with respect and always say Thank you when they help you with a project.
- Students are only making $6.00/hour, they are already frustrated with their wage, giving them the bitch jobs with no thank you makes them feel unappreciated and keeps the morale low.
- Talk to Jan about her attitude with the students, make it known to her to treat them like adults, not children and that they are smart enough to know how to mail letters.
- Be flexible on our schedules and understanding when things come up
- The last thing I said to her was that working in the office had been a good experience with everyone except with Jan. I thanked her for the time and left at 9. At least Jan gets stuck doing everything today
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