I thought a 2:00 - 11:00 p.m. schedule would be fine. I compared it to going to work extremely late and doing overtime. I forgot to take into consideration that overtime work is exhausting, even if I would report to work so late.
I have been with my current job for almost two months already. For the first month, I had my training, which meant for me reporting to work with the regular 8-5 schedule. Then suddenly I was transferred to my site as its new supervisor. I had to take responsibility for my site.
Judging work from my training station, I found it generally easy compared to my previous job. Transferring to my own site, I was shocked to find tons of work that needed to be done. It felt like I lost time to focus on operations. Admin work ate up most of my nine hours in the station. Then, not every employee is easy to work with.
It seemed I had high expectations when I got to my own site. I thought I would get to work with my staff easily. Yet, it was not easy to influence each of them to aim for excellence. Some just appeared to work so good, yet behind my back (and my manager's), they perform in a quite sub-standard manner.
I am nice with my people. I smile so often that they seem to interpret it such that they can get away with inferior work. Now, I'm pissed with their work attitude. Maybe I was wrong not to display anger when my bracelet almost got stolen (conscience sunk in). Yes, I was wrong. I shouldn't have been so kind and forgiving that time. They think I'm that very patient, forgiving, understanding and mellow boss.
It is really a challenge to handle people. I didn't want to regularly scold them of the kind of work they do. Regularly -- that's how often they do the kind of work I disapprove of.
Good luck to me. The schedule and the underperforming people -- the two things that get me stressed (almost stressed anyway, I still have my sanity intact) these days. Smile. =)
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