So I work as a lifeguard and swim instructor for my local pool. I’m 16 and this is my second, real job. The pool typically employs local people anywhere from 15-25, so young people in the beginning of their lives. The people who work there are typically pretty popular as well, considering we only have 1 high school in town.
This morning at swim lessons, I was standing by an outside locker checking my phone. I’m pretty socially anxious (but definitely improving!) so I don’t normally join in on large groups of my coworkers when they talk. I sort of listened in to their conversation, as they weren’t far away and were pretty loud. I heard one change the subject and say, “Did you hear that [the boss] got an email from somebody’s parent complaining their kid worked too much?” To which someone else replied, “Why would they even complain? They’re making so much money off of it.”
What these girls didn’t know was that that person was me. My mom had emailed my boss asking for a solution to my work hours being too long for someone my age (at that point I was working about 12 hour days, 5 days in a row. It had taken a great physical and mental toll on me, including mental breakdowns, crying at work, and frequent visits to doctors and chiropractors).
The day before all this happened, I had taken a few minutes from the morning to consult with my boss over my schedule, making sure everything was clarified and my schedule was fair to both my needs and the understaffed establishment. It was happy with the new schedule and was appreciative of my boss’s understanding and care.
The thing that really got me upset wasn’t the fact that my coworkers were gossiping, we’re all teenagers and I sort of expect that. The thing that had me livid was the fact that this other lifeguard, no higher up in management than me, had somehow known about it. There is no possible way for her to know about any of that unless:
- She was pressing her ear to the door to the office, hiding in the break room to hear. Even this way she would have no idea about the email unless she was listening ever since I stepped in to the office with my boss, alone. OR-
- My boss had relayed this information to a manager, which then this manager had told this lifeguard.
Regardless of how she knew, it’s absolutely none of her business and she has no right to gossip about it. Plus, conversations about this sort of thing should stay between management and the employee who had the issue.
Even more, when I clocked in later for lifeguarding regular hours, all the other people I normally talk to payed no attention to me. Loud and clear, multiple times I said hello or greeted them, and every time without fail they looked at me, and ignored me, turning to someone else or waking away entirely.
I was so upset I clocked out and left, unable to regain my composure, not being clocked in more than 10 minutes.
What should I do in this situation? I have no clue what to do, my parents are more outraged than I am, and I’m still a little unsure how to handle this myself without help. Any advice?
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