poeticgem

My sometimes coherent thoughts
2004-02-04 18:36:43 (UTC)

Strike 2

one with Shuki and now one with Ofer ... great now I'm on
the bad side of both of the owners - at least for today
anyway.

Shuki's angry with me because he called and asked me to
remind about something yesterday and I wrote in down in a
message for him so it would be a tangible reminder - I put
all his messages including the reminder he asked for in his
message box yesterday which he picked up when he came in.
He was in a really bad mood yesterday when I left so I
didn't even talk to him until this morning - and when he
came in he was clearly upset with me. He said to me, with
a very serious look on his face, 'Didn't I tell you to
remind me about giving a raise to Ancle yesterday?' ... and
I said, 'Yes, and I did, I wrote it down in a message and
gave it to you when you came in.' To which he replied, 'I
didn't ask you to write it down, I asked you to remind
me!', then he walked off.

Now, Ofer's perturbed with me because he had a phone call
and I didn't know if he wanted to take it or not so I paged
him since he wasn't in his office. I didn't tell the
caller that he was here, so Ofer wasn't obligated to take
the call and the only reason I paged him for this
particular caller was because I thought they were working
on a project for him since he just came in the office and
talked to Ofer the other day. Anyway, Ofer storms in from
outside and says, 'Why can't you just take a message? I
was in the middle of something!' ... I tried to tell him
that I would be happy to take a message, that I hadn't told
the caller he was here and I just wasn't sure if he wanted
to take the call or not. Ofer just unlocked the door to
his office and took the call without another word.

I hate this feeling of tension and discomfort. I try to do
my best, but I can't read people's minds. And I don't need
to be getting on the bad sides of the bosses because I
can't afford to be out of a job!

Anyway ... around here ... well, it's hard to tell what's
going on sometimes because 1)I don't understand their
language and 2) they almost always are talking either very
intensely or yelling (in the language that I don't
understand!) ... except of course when they are talking to
me and customers who don't speak their language. Yesterday
it seemed as if EVERYONE was in a bad mood ... and this is
a family operation so it's different to say the least ...

not that I haven't worked for family owned operations
before, but this is definitely not the same as those other
ones ...

ok, I'd better get to looking like I'm doing something work
related ...

ciao for now




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