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I'm mainly wanting to vent frustrations about work here and also, I guess, looking for opinions on whether or not I should feel the way I do.I work for a small architect firm. There are nine of us all total, two licensed architects, six drafters (for lack of knowledge of a better word), one guy who does field work and me, the secretary. I have become friends with one of the girls here and sometimes I think she takes advantage of our friendship, insofar as work is concerned. Whenever she's late or not coming in, she texts rather than calls the office. Two other people here have my cell number, but they both call the office when they are running late or not coming in. That this "friend" texts my phone rather than calling the office drives me nuts. Ninety-nine percent of the time I am here before her and lately I've taken to turning my ringer off as soon as I get here. That's even when she remembers that she should communicate with us somehow in the event she's late or not coming in. Most of the time I have to call her and find out.
The biggest thing that ticks me off (and what I'm not sure about) is how often she sloughs work off on me. Everyone here has access to the one main email account we have. Some of us, myself included, have our own separate email address, but we all have access to the main one. With the exception of one of the architects (who is a Luddite), everyone sends their own emails. When she has to send one, she suddenly gets amnesia can't remember how to do this or that. When the Luddite asks her to do something that's even remotely clerical, she immediately asks if he wants her to ask me to do it. Other times she will just take it upon herself to ask me to do it so she doesn't have to do it. If it's outside the realm of architecture, she doesn't want to do it, even though she's perfectly capable of doing so. I did feel a little avenged yesterday when she asked the other architect if he wanted her to pass something onto me and he said, "No."
I have no problem answering the phones or doing anything that either of my bosses ask me to do, but I hate it when she asks me to do something. I feel more often than not, she is asking purely out of laziness. I know I'm the secretary for the whole office, but I feel like a lot of the time she takes way more advantage than the others, excluding my bosses. On the odd occasion that someone else on the production staff asks me for help, it's out of genuine need. They are either swamped with work or don't know how to do something.
Yesterday I thought she was going to gripe at me because she forgot about a meeting that she had set up. She told me about it last week and I wrote it down on my calendar, mostly to avoid creating a conflict with the schedule of either of my bosses. I feel if you set up a meeting, you should remember it on your own. We have calendars that we get at the beginning of every year, but she never uses one. At any rate, she said nothing about the meeting she forgot, thankfully.
RAW Berris... Dare you enter?
