A couple of months ago I got a job at a tutoring center. One of the things that kind of irked me was since then, my boss would come down on me for a lot of little things that I did, while coworkers did things I considered far more serious. An example would be my boss asking me to stick around after my shift so she could sign me out/make sure I finished this and that, meanwhile a coworker is leaving 15 minutes early without saying anything to the boss. They’ll ask if I can cover their part of the center, then before I realize it, they took off. It started to make me upset, but I comforted myself in the fact that ultimately none of it really matters- I do it because I want to. The pay is lousy but the benefits of being able to work/interact with children are good, and being a role model is fun.
So I didn’t let it get to me but I was convinced the boss was picking on me (maybe because I was new but of course none of the other new people were picked on as much as I was). Well, it took a few months for me to realize the truth at work- every thing I see other coworkers doing wrong (leaving early, not showing up for meetings, etc) the boss is aware of, and is probably bugging them 10x more than me. I am still pretty new there, and usually when the boss reminds/corrects me about something, it never comes up again. We have feedback meetings in which we talk with our boss about our performance, and at first I found it peculiar that many coworkers were dreading it. Then I realized it was probably because the boss was going to adress all their issues at work. I am looking foward to my feedback meeting this month because I want to know what I’m doing wrong- if I do then I will greatly improve at what I do. Because the job is very part time, and its minimum wage, I don’t think I need to stress myself out about how unfair such-and-such is. Too bad it took me two months to figure that one out…:smack: