One of the reasons that I so enjoyed moving into freelance journalism was because I put up with so much disrespect when I worked in the casinos in Las Vegas. When my husband and I moved to Illinois, my freelance work slowly declined and I've begun working outside of the home again. I try to keep my hand in by self-publishing ebooks on Amazon and Kobo, but most of my part of the income comes from working outside of the home at two different jobs.
The first job that I've had for over a year is working as a church secretary, which I highly enjoy. I get to put my desktop publishing skills to use as well as my journalism degree. I get and give respect to the people that employ me there. I love this job and wouldn't willingly give it up.
My second job is working at a local RV Park run by a casino. I give and get respect from everyone I work with there with the exception of one person. This person (L) bragged to me when she was training me that she pretty much does nothing at home to take care of her children or husband. At work, she gives respect only to one person, our director, and it's self-serving. I don't like L because I know she is a liar, is lazy, and will do or say
almost anything to get ahead because she thinks it's her due. I've also noticed that she's not above making herself or her life look pitiful/difficult to gain sympathy so people will overlook her obnoxious behavior. I've
worked with her kind before, she thinks because she wants something, she
can take whatever steps are necessary to achieve it, even if it means
accusing others of doing things they haven't done or lying about
co-workers to get ahead. She also thinks that because she had a cushy
job in the past, then she's entitled to one now.
But I digress, the
reason I know L is a liar is because the second week I was there
training with her, she said that she and the director had noticed that
the trash hadn't been taken out in one of the 5 trash cans in the store
since the store opened two weeks before, and that there were a couple of
things they'd noticed hadn't been picked up and they were waiting to
see how long it would take someone to do it. Now, I know the first
comment about the emptying the trash cans was an outright lie because
when I was training with another female co-worker a couple nights
before, we both had emptied every trash can in the store and took it all
out to the dumpster. The second ticked me off because our director isn't the kind to not tell someone to clean something up that needed to be cleaned, and also because if our director knew L knew about it, the director would have asked her to pick it up. A few days later the other girl tells me that she
got written up for not taking out the trash, which I know she does.
The other thing I know is that L didn't have me do any cleaning the
nights I trained with her, though the second night I trained with her I
made sure I did it including taking out the trash.
Move forward about 2 weeks and I'm trying very hard to forgive and forget but I'm still very angry about what happened the other day when I worked. Most days I work 5 hours per evening (and only on days that I don't work at my job at the church), I come in and mostly do cleaning with a few check-ins here and there as well as a few sales at the convenience store that houses the RV Park check-in center. And that Thursday, like most days since I've finished training and work by myself, I was ready to close about a half hour before the store closed. I had my register counted down, I had all of my paperwork sorted to drop off, and I'd finished all of my cleaning duties. About fifteen minutes before I was due to close the store, my supervisor (M) and L came by to take care of an issue that I admittedly caused the first week I was working on my own, which is enough to make me nervous because I feel like I'm being checked up on. I understand they have to fix this issue and L said that I had to be there to do it. While they were waiting for the store to close, I pointed out that the co-worker that I'd relieved that afternoon had worked hard and did a really good job rearranging our candy/food shelf. L goes over there and looks at it then says, "She was here when
the director said we were going to move all of this over to that rolling rack by this window. She just wasted her time doing this." While my co-worker may have wasted her time doing what she did, the least someone could say was, "Yes, she did do a good job and it looks great."
I ignored the comment because what can you say to someone who really doesn't want to give anyone their due. Well, M & L were not prepared to do the job they supposedly came to do because they didn't bring and couldn't recall the register check numbers they needed to fix it and spent a good 40-45 minutes searching on my register for it. Then, when I pointed out that I needed to close out my register drawer, L asks for my sign on card for the register so she can work on the other register. I hesitantly hand it over because my first rule on this kind of job is not to allow anyone to do anything that could possibly affect the count on my drawer.
She swipes my card and says, "You didn't reset this register last time you worked on it. You wouldn't have been able to just swipe your card and not have to login if you had." At this point, I realize two things: one, I know that I logged out of that register the last time I used it more than a week prior to that date and if I hadn't, our main auditor would have force logged me off, and two, she doesn't really have a clue what she's talking about because when she printed the register report to prove it to me, the total would have been much higher if I hadn't logged off and reset that register. I politely disagree with her saying, "I did log off that register the last time I used it, that's why I created this check list for myself so I don't forget. And if I hadn't logged off the total would have been much higher." She just looks at me with this disgusted smirk because I dared disagree with her and said, "We'll see if you balance when you count out your drawer." I was proven right by my count and by IT later that evening.
By that time (about 45 minutes after the store closed and about 30-35 minutes later than I would normally have been out of there), I had finished counting out my drawer and doing my drop bags (I have 2 separate ones to pay for the initial bank, and another with the money earned through store sales). Let's not get into the fact that I'm so on edge at this point by the blatant disrespect from L, and total lack of comment by my supervisor (M), that I can't concentrate and had to redo one of my bags 3 times. I wasn't about to start an argument or bring it up to M with L there because I don't want anyone to think that I'm not a team player even with someone so difficult to get along with (and I've heard nearly everyone who has worked with L complain about her). So, I figured up my totals based on another register report that I printed from the register I was logged on to, and I was proven right. I hadn't forgotten to log off the other register, what happened was because I was signed on to the other register, and the registers are technically computers, the computer recognized that I was logged on to a register, so when my card was scanned to log on to the second register, it pulled up everything that I had done on the register I had originally been using.
I told L, a bit triumphantly, "My bank balanced according to the register report, so I wasn't logged on to that register, too. I wouldn't have been able to balance if I was." She looks at me, shakes her head like I'm an idiot and says, "When I scanned your card, it wouldn't have let me log on to the register if you weren't already logged on." I wasn't going to sit there and argue with her about it but I was getting steamed mostly because I knew I was right and she was obviously wrong but managing to make me look like an idiot despite the fact.
Then, because we weren't already there going on an hour after the store closed (can you hear the sarcasm?), L decided that since she couldn't find the receipt numbers, she was going to show me and M how to void out the transactions and cancel out the check. She rang up a bag of ice, hit the button as if it was paid for in cash, then refunded and voided the ticket. L then told me I could go ahead and reset the register, but she printed yet another register report, from which I still balanced, and it clearly showed the voided transaction. I went to reset the register and it wouldn't let me close it out because it kept saying that I had an open check that needed to be closed. That check was L's bag of ice.
She kept trying to void it out and having me try to reset the register again, but it wasn't working. I tried to point out something and she throws up her hands and says, "Well, apparently you know what to do, so go ahead and do it." In the end we spent almost 20 minutes on the phone with IT, who had to connect to the registers remotely to fix the problem. The problem, which she caused not once but twice. She initially caused it by ringing up the bag of ice and processing it as a sale. Then, she complicated it because before she did the "test" sale, when she swiped my card on the second register, she logged me off when she gave up searching for the receipt number, and didn't realize when she did that, she logged me off both registers, so according to the register's computer I didn't have a bank to process the sale or the void. In the end, IT had to log me back on to the register, void out the sale, then put it in that $0 had been paid in cash for the voided sale to close out the check. I had suggested that previously, but L ignored the suggestion because I'm too new as to know what I'm talking about.
So finally, an hour and a half after I was supposed to close (and almost 2 hours over the amount of time I was supposed to be there), we got a ride back to the casino from security. Then L expected security to drop her and M off at the hotel before he took me to the employee entrance to do my drops at the cage cashier. The security officer who knows me better than her said, "Nope, we drop the person with the bank off first." So, I got dropped at the employee entrance and was about 5 minutes from clocking out. I was beyond angry at that point. I had to take the public transportation train for a half hour then was going to have to walk home in the dark because know-it-all L had to cause issues, but thankfully my mom came and picked me up instead. If I would have been able to walk home in daylight if I hadn't been that late getting home.
The bottom line is, even though I'm stubborn about being right about something, if I'm proven wrong, I will admit it. To me a lie is a lie, no matter what purpose it has been told. No, I'm not saying I haven't lied in the past and won't lie in the future, but I would never do it to harm someone else just so I could get ahead. I also believe that being disrespectful to someone because you want them to appear as inferior to you is wrong. I believe you earn respect but I give it to everyone until they've proven they don't deserve it. I believe it's disrespectful to bring that kind of behavior to work with you. I would never speak to one of my co-workers that way, no matter what they did to me, and I expect the same courtesy.
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