Zoe Girl
12-19-14, 11:48am
my new goal, back the heck off, okay this is going to work and reduce my stress. except it is not working as planned. i honestly have tried this many times in life, it can happen but it is rarely as simple or quick as you would hope. i get feedback at work to let other people do more, okay, then i get into the process of it and it gets to be truly hard work to manage people doing what they need to.
the 2 big areas are our families and camp over winter break. my families are idiots! okay that is rude, 3 of them are not sending their kids because of bills and i found out they are waiting for other people to call them. they have bills, they have billing/payment information, argh. i am in a grant funded mindset where i work with these families but it is too much right now, and my department that does billing does not often understand this. we are working on it
and winter break camp. i am supervising with another person and she is great, has never done camp before but it is okay. i could have delegated so much more earlier if i knew her better. So the staff misunderstood and i did not get enough plans. i have pulled together a LOT of stuff but have had minimal help from staff. Most of this is due to not knowing these people at all. i email everything, including their schedule a month ago. my partner called and checked in with all of them. then i find out they can't read the schedule and said nothing. we had a meeting yesterday to go over plans and i realized that some of the staff are just not that capable, they can do the job but i didn't know how much support they may need. so my grand plan of giving them responsibility only works if i know them well enough to give them something reasonable (i am on the committee to put together a position to fix this but not in time for this camp)
okay i just needed to vent, i am tired, exhausted, don't have all my holiday prep done, have 17 emails i have not even looked at, and if one more cheerful bird sees i am stressed and just says 'delegate' i think i will scream
the 2 big areas are our families and camp over winter break. my families are idiots! okay that is rude, 3 of them are not sending their kids because of bills and i found out they are waiting for other people to call them. they have bills, they have billing/payment information, argh. i am in a grant funded mindset where i work with these families but it is too much right now, and my department that does billing does not often understand this. we are working on it
and winter break camp. i am supervising with another person and she is great, has never done camp before but it is okay. i could have delegated so much more earlier if i knew her better. So the staff misunderstood and i did not get enough plans. i have pulled together a LOT of stuff but have had minimal help from staff. Most of this is due to not knowing these people at all. i email everything, including their schedule a month ago. my partner called and checked in with all of them. then i find out they can't read the schedule and said nothing. we had a meeting yesterday to go over plans and i realized that some of the staff are just not that capable, they can do the job but i didn't know how much support they may need. so my grand plan of giving them responsibility only works if i know them well enough to give them something reasonable (i am on the committee to put together a position to fix this but not in time for this camp)
okay i just needed to vent, i am tired, exhausted, don't have all my holiday prep done, have 17 emails i have not even looked at, and if one more cheerful bird sees i am stressed and just says 'delegate' i think i will scream