So I work at a spa type of place and my shift is over at 3:30pm and one of my duties is to clean the men’s locker room/stock it. But I was assigned extra work since a female coworker went over her break time so I had to pick up her slack. But I still managed to clean the men’s locker room as my shift was ending. I did everything, but wash the sandles in there which takes 15-30mins. I already cleaned them before, but as people come into the locker room they drop off more sandles. It was already 3:28pm. My older coworker j walked in the locker room and he isn’t my supervisor or anything..we have the same position. He just been there longer.
He tells me to wash the sandles before I leave out, but the coworker who comes in to relieve me came in right when J told me to do that. So I just asked J to let the guy who walked in do it since he was looking for things to do in the locker room. Plus my shift was ending and going overtime is considered a major violation. J stared at me and just picked up the sandle bag aggressively and stormed off to the room where we washed sandles. I followed him and he was doing the sandles which he never does. I told him I’ll just do it since he was clearly upset (especially since he snitches to the boss and gets mad whenever he have to do work) he told me "It’s ok.. it’s a easy job" and I told him ok I’ll see him tomorrow and he didn’t say anything back.
So for the sandles there’s always some leftover for the next shift. The place is busy so there will always be some in the basket, it’s not considered a big deal at all. But J tend to be on my case a lot and give orders even though he’s not a supervisor. One time I was using a swifter and sprayed the mist on the floor about 3 times and he said that’s way too much as he walked pass…On 3 different occasions while I was taking a number 2 he asked me why I was in there for so long and even asked if I was pooping. One time I received a important text so I just went into the stall and took maybe 6 mins to sort it out.. as I came out he was right there. He asked did I flush.. I just told him yeah as I was trying to walk away from him and he said "I didn’t hear you flush" and shrugged his shoulders as if he’s literally monitoring me in the stalls. He tells me to do tasks and walks away as if he couldn’t do it himself. Anytime he have a issue he go straight to my supervisor’s boss who pressures my supervisor to punish us in some way.
One of my coworkers told me he left without doing something one time and J threw a fit and my supervisor’s boss made him apologize to J and he had to take pictures of every single thing he do from that point on. One time we had a town hall meeting after our shift was over and J expected us to clean the locker room afterwards off the clock and threw a fit after we left so they punished me by doubling my work and telling me to take pictures of everything. So yeah that’s J.. So what do you all make of this and AITA?
NTA. Okay sorry to be an asshole myself but it’s spelled sandals. I’m the worst I know. That’s pretty normal for coworkers, you don’t can’t go overtime and you got bogged down with other tasks so someone has to pick up where you left off. It’s weird that everyone’s making a big stink about it.
NTA for the issue, huge TA for the repetitive spelling error. Your phone has spell check, please use it! It won’t get everything but it’ll get the word you misspelled more than five times. 😑
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NTA
As you said, there are always sandals coming in and you can’t work overtime. That is just going to happen sometimes.
You might ask your supervisor how they suggest handing a situation like this in the future to avoid conflict.
NTA – you leave when the shift is over. The next shift has to pick up the slack. That’s just life.
YTA. You say you “got assigned” another person’s work…leading you to think you could leave 30 minutes of your own work for someone else. That’s not how it works. Get a manager involved next time. if you don’t have time for your own tasks they should be delegated by someone in charge