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My husband and I work as porters cleaning parking garages. We both work for the same employer at the same location of parking garages. We both work the morning shift.
He is assigned to one garage. I am assigned to 2 garages plus a parking lot that is located above one of the garages. The garages I am assigned to are underground parking.
The location we work at has been short-staffed for a while. Currently there are no new employees working at our location.
My husband was asked by one of the managers who works at our location to learn how to use the intercom system in one of the offices to answer calls from customers needing help at the pay machine(s). This was a while ago. He agreed to do this. There were 2 employees working in that office until one was let go. One worked the first shift. The other worked the second shift. This was a while ago. He was asked to work the intercom in the mornings Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. until a replacement was found. At 9 a.m. the first shift employee arrives at work. He is also expected to complete all of his duties regarding cleaning the garage.
The garage he cleans needs 2 people in the morning since there are over 1000 parking spaces in that garages, but no-one has been hired to help clean. There is a checklist of duties that must be completed. Some are daily, some are every other day and some are once a week. My employer as well as the manager over that garage expect everything to be done in addition to his working the intercom for 2 hours Monday through Friday without any over-time.
When that does not happen, the manager over the garage has a meeting with the immediate supervisor my husband, I and 2 other co-workers report to. That manager has been upset to the point that he "rides our supervisors ass".
Our immediate supervisor had a meeting in the break-room with his staff last Wednesday. The purpose of the meeting was for him to dump what the manager(s) tell him when they are pissed at him as well as his staff onto us. Since those manager(s) rode his ass, he told us that it is only fair for him to ride our ass. The impression I got from him was that we were his trashcan for him to dump his trash in. He told me that he was at one of my garages yesterday, but he did not see me. His response was that I was not at my assigned post. I told him that I was at the other garage when he arrived, but he told me that he had his doubts regarding what I told him even though I told him what I was doing, which is one of the duties on the checklist.
I really did not want to be in the meeting when he told all of us that it is only fair that he rides our ass.
I could use some good advice regarding how to deal with this mess at work.
He is assigned to one garage. I am assigned to 2 garages plus a parking lot that is located above one of the garages. The garages I am assigned to are underground parking.
The location we work at has been short-staffed for a while. Currently there are no new employees working at our location.
My husband was asked by one of the managers who works at our location to learn how to use the intercom system in one of the offices to answer calls from customers needing help at the pay machine(s). This was a while ago. He agreed to do this. There were 2 employees working in that office until one was let go. One worked the first shift. The other worked the second shift. This was a while ago. He was asked to work the intercom in the mornings Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. until a replacement was found. At 9 a.m. the first shift employee arrives at work. He is also expected to complete all of his duties regarding cleaning the garage.
The garage he cleans needs 2 people in the morning since there are over 1000 parking spaces in that garages, but no-one has been hired to help clean. There is a checklist of duties that must be completed. Some are daily, some are every other day and some are once a week. My employer as well as the manager over that garage expect everything to be done in addition to his working the intercom for 2 hours Monday through Friday without any over-time.
When that does not happen, the manager over the garage has a meeting with the immediate supervisor my husband, I and 2 other co-workers report to. That manager has been upset to the point that he "rides our supervisors ass".
Our immediate supervisor had a meeting in the break-room with his staff last Wednesday. The purpose of the meeting was for him to dump what the manager(s) tell him when they are pissed at him as well as his staff onto us. Since those manager(s) rode his ass, he told us that it is only fair for him to ride our ass. The impression I got from him was that we were his trashcan for him to dump his trash in. He told me that he was at one of my garages yesterday, but he did not see me. His response was that I was not at my assigned post. I told him that I was at the other garage when he arrived, but he told me that he had his doubts regarding what I told him even though I told him what I was doing, which is one of the duties on the checklist.
I really did not want to be in the meeting when he told all of us that it is only fair that he rides our ass.
I could use some good advice regarding how to deal with this mess at work.
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