Showing posts with label Unwritten job description. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Unwritten job description. Show all posts

Wednesday, 6 October 2010

Unwritten Job Description

I thought this might make you laugh.

One of the duties of my job are to complete tasks asked of me which are in no way in ANYONES job description.

This morning I had the humiliating task (again) of walking across the street to the skytrain maintenance yard, and asking a nice gentleman to move his vehicle from our Private property.

Now here is the catcher.

EVERYONE in that maintenance yard knows not to park on our property, (see above...again) regardless the reason and/or few moments it will be there.

Today this guy had to move his truck to allow another truck to pull up (and off the road) to empty their porta potties. Of course I'm told to tell him to move otherwise we ("we" meaning me by instruction) will have him towed.

In the time it took me to walk over there, tell him, and for us to walk back (2 mins) the porta potty truck was done and gone. Seriously!!!!! 2 mins! The guy was nice to me, they always are, cos they know I'm being instructed etc.

But come on!!!  I even told the owner, he's had to move cos another truck is pulling up and they know not to park here, so they wouldn't if they didn't absolutely have too..... doesn't matter. :(

We have a HUGE parking lot and less than a 1/4 is used.
 But this is just about power and because they don't ask.
Why would they, we'll still say no.

Just a task of my unwritten job description.......any people wonder WHY I blog.

What kind of tasks are you asked to complete that are not in any written job descriptions?

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