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Since I work in respite/assisted living we have funding from the state which provides us with our wages. We have a projected number of hours that we must hit each month. We like to be right on with the hours. It's okay if we go a little over but when that happens the company has to start paying the OT instead of the state.
But we can NEVER be under. If we do the state will lower the amount of hours they're willing to cover.
The mentality is that if we're under we "didn't really need to staff those hours", which is total bullshit. They don't take into account that people quit, get fired, sick or just don't show up for work. Just because we can't staff the hours for one reason or another doesn't mean we don't need them, but that's a rant for another time.
In the last month or so we've lost a manager and a FT worker to another position within the company. This has cut our hours back and we're sitting at the end of the month needing to come up with 14 hours or so.
Since one of our workers left we started doubling up on the graveyard to make up for the 40 hours lost. However, last night one of the graveyard workers didn't come in.
I'm the supervisor and stand in manager for the time being and I had just finished entering payroll and doing the matrix for the month. I found that we were down those hours, had only a day to make them up and our second graveyard worker didn't show up.
"Ah shit . . . what are we gonna do?" I think to myself.
I can't call the person because I don't have her number so I sent an email to the coordinator explaining the situation.
This was at 11pm last night.
I got a call from the coordinator about an hour ago this morning. She informed me that the second graveyard worker wasn't aware that she was working that night. She works out of another house but is a float and goes to other homes as needed. The manager at her base home didn't tell her she was working at mine, but if I had called the coordinator right away instead of just emailing, she could've called her and she would've come in.
Well . . . fuck. That was stupid of me. I really don't know why I thought it'd be a better idea to email her instead of call her. I chalk it up to a combination of exhaustion and stupidity. Really, I should've known better. what the hell was I thinking?
Clearly I wasn't, and though I'm not soley to blame for this, we're kinda screwed unless we can make up the hours by midnight tonight. Gah, I'm a idiot.
But we can NEVER be under. If we do the state will lower the amount of hours they're willing to cover.
The mentality is that if we're under we "didn't really need to staff those hours", which is total bullshit. They don't take into account that people quit, get fired, sick or just don't show up for work. Just because we can't staff the hours for one reason or another doesn't mean we don't need them, but that's a rant for another time.
In the last month or so we've lost a manager and a FT worker to another position within the company. This has cut our hours back and we're sitting at the end of the month needing to come up with 14 hours or so.
Since one of our workers left we started doubling up on the graveyard to make up for the 40 hours lost. However, last night one of the graveyard workers didn't come in.
I'm the supervisor and stand in manager for the time being and I had just finished entering payroll and doing the matrix for the month. I found that we were down those hours, had only a day to make them up and our second graveyard worker didn't show up.
"Ah shit . . . what are we gonna do?" I think to myself.
I can't call the person because I don't have her number so I sent an email to the coordinator explaining the situation.
This was at 11pm last night.
I got a call from the coordinator about an hour ago this morning. She informed me that the second graveyard worker wasn't aware that she was working that night. She works out of another house but is a float and goes to other homes as needed. The manager at her base home didn't tell her she was working at mine, but if I had called the coordinator right away instead of just emailing, she could've called her and she would've come in.
Well . . . fuck. That was stupid of me. I really don't know why I thought it'd be a better idea to email her instead of call her. I chalk it up to a combination of exhaustion and stupidity. Really, I should've known better. what the hell was I thinking?
Clearly I wasn't, and though I'm not soley to blame for this, we're kinda screwed unless we can make up the hours by midnight tonight. Gah, I'm a idiot.