June 13, 2013

  • Mine!

    I am just so incredibly frustrated right now! 

    Yesterday I mentioned I nearly lost eight more hours of work due to the scheduling of both myself and the Gallery Admin for two of the same afternoons, but the studio owner asked me to finish working on a project for him this week. It was a project he gave me so I would have more hours, as he hated laying me off. I was so happy when I was hired back on by his daughter for the company she was buying from him and he wanted me to basically start a new company for his side of things. It was mostly because he wanted a way to make money, but also so I could still work for him too. That project became my "baby" as I'd been putting every minute I could towards it for weeks now. 

    Today I was told not to come in to work for the next two days because my new boss, the studio owner's daughter, said it was a waste of money for both me and the GA to be there. I don't know what she's worried about as it isn't her company's money that would be paying either of us. GA told me that boss-lady is going ahead and making decisions because she feels her dad is taking too long to get around to it. She is having GA, and a couple others working on what she's decided. It would be one thing if she came to me to discuss everything I'd done and what she felt we should go forward with, but she's not. She is making decisions without even looking at all I have worked on. I have pages upon pages; I have check lists, and scenarios, and comparisons with other companies, and general notes, and floor plans, and advertising ideas, and social media plans,  and just everything! 

    Last week the studio owner told the GA that she was to focus on the gallery projects he gave her, and not to touch mine. I felt GA and I should each know what the other was doing as the assignments were relatable, but we each were in control of our own projects. This week boss-lady says I'm not to come into work to finish my project and has the GA doing it. It is really hard to know who to listen to when the two people who are your bosses tell you opposing things. Before when it was just the studio owner who was my boss I knew he had the final say, but now she's my boss and he just has me doing work on a "freelance" basis right now. There is also the fact that the studio owner isn't in the office at present because he is in the midst of moving --the reason why he wasn't fast enough to suit everyone else. He knew I was truckin' away on it, so he wasn't worried; I'm sure he knew I'd have everything ready to be finalized when he wanted it done for. 

    I don't think it is right for boss-lady to undermine her dad within his own company. She was so angry with him for laying me off without talking to her first, so that I could be informed I was being hired back on by her. Yet now here she is not communicating with him, and once again it is screwing my life over. I love the work I do for both of them, but having to deal with two bosses who don't discuss things with each other is stressful. GA thinks that she won't be kept on at the company much longer, the end of the month at best, and therefore I'll be getting my shifts back and maybe even more hours... but if she gets her gallery project off the ground she will be needed and thus not laid off after all. If the bosses see they can do things without me, then who is to say that I won't be the one who gets laid off instead? 

    SUMR