Well, I Think I Understand Why They Hired Me

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

This place is in such dire need of immediate turnaround that they needed someone who already knew the system in this office. Here's a quick run down of the problems facing this office:

1. The two interim managers haven't really done anything but make a schedule and signed some paper work in the 4 months or so that they've been working as managers. There's been practically no enforcement of any of the old policies that made this office run. The weekly cleaning responsibilities have been neglected as has basic record keeping. Their reasoning for doing next to nothing? They were only being paid a dollar extra an hour, so they weren't going to take on all of our old bosses responsibilities. Now they may think they got a raw deal, but for s sake you agreed to do the damn job! To top it off it seems that what few efforts they made have been ineffective. For starters they didn't get any real power, but the real problem is that one is so passive that he let everything slide and all the workers just plain dislike the other one and would just as soon quit as obey his orders.

2. I have at least one employee who is working here illegally. I don't mean that she doesn't have a green card. This office is staffed by student workers; the operative word there being student. She's not signed up for any classes so I don't know that she should be working here. This was brought to my attention by one of the interim supervisors, who advised that I shouldn't tell anyone about it because he was pretty sure it shouldn't be going on. You're damn right I'm going to tell someone!!! The only problem is that the people I need to tell haven't gotten to work yet. It's Spring Break at UH, and when you work in an office entirely devoted to dealing with students the workload drops a great deal, so people don't come in at 8 am.

3. I have another employee who's qualifications for this job are shady at best. And really the only job qualification is that you speak English and aren't a complete idiot. She doesn't strike me as an idiot but there's clearly a language barrier she's working through. Her hiring came directly from the guy who hired me, so I'm not really in a position to question it either.

4. I can't really start working until I get a full debrief from the two managers. For as many problems as I've listed that's just scratching the surface. There may be other things they have and haven't been doing that will need repair. One's out for the week, and the other won't be in til noon.

These first few weeks are going to get interesting, and probably not in a good way.

[ObiwanGinobili]

WOW

sounds like you;ve got a real project on your hands !! Good luck , I thin kyour up to the challenge!

[easjer]

I think you can check MAPP for the student worker policy, if you can access MAPP on line through the UH system. (Manual of Administrative Policies and Procedures). The Career Center website may also have info, since the actual college workstudy is done through them (the problem is that your staff is non-college workstudy for the most part - meaning, they do not receive state or federal aid covering their employment as part of a financial aid package, so the career center doesn't oversee them).

Cheer up. You were worried about sitting on your hands for the rest of the semester. Now you don't have to.

[ShoogarBear]

Man, with all these problems I can understand how you neglected to buy some new nondefective condoms.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

Man, with all these problems I can understand how you neglected to buy some new nondefective condoms.