This is coming up a lot lately in different areas. I work really hard at mental organization so I know it is a challenge, however I think sometimes I don't know what is supportive of me and what is supportive of others. Here are the areas it is coming up,
* my oldest is excellent at her job, just earned a trip to the grand canyon! She is one of the top in her job. Meanwhile she has not had a functioning kitchen sink in almost a year, sounds like let her license expire, and couldn't come over for dinner because she was so behind on essential housework (she does laundry at her boyfriend's mother's place but still only lives a half mile from me). Some of this does not affect me at all, and we just roll with the things that do affect the rest of us. Still as a mom you always want to help them
* my staff, one after 6 years still tends to lose track if I don't schedule everything for her. I see over the years she goes from really on top of things to checking out, she also has a learning disability she has shared with me and has been sick on and off.
* my other staff is being checked by the DR, I told her that she is having issues she did not have a year ago with forgetting and confusion as a support to see her DR.
* my awesome staff has not been checking for clean up before he leaves, so I am coming into balls left in the gym or the cafeteria still having trash. There are 3 people in that room at closing! This is the 3rd week I am bringing it up in our staff meeting.
* my boss, enough said, I am copying his supervisor in on most emails at this point because he is not consistently remembering things or telling me the same information.
So how supportive to be? I can at least not take it personally, but I have a hard time with my expectations that I don't have to remind people about things. Every payroll is a challenge with people not clocking in or writing it down. I gave them a list 3 days before the due date and if they can't tell me their hours then I can't pay them for it. We can catch it up the next time. I want to just switch to accountability, however I also want to work with being supportive. Seriously all these people have a learning disability, ADD or are seeing a DR,