No. 2408236[Reply]
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After nearly 3 years of unemployment I've finally landed a front desk position in healthcare! All of my coworkers are women my age!And all of the clients are elderly people or women and children. The pay is a bit low for my state but I live with my parents so it cancels out honestly. Are there any nonnas who do something similar with advice? I'm kinda starting from ground zero without any actual admin experience.
No. 2460560
So I was telling my mom on the phone this afternoon about my day at work I had today. It was extremely busy at my office (I work in a tax office) and we had a person out sick today. Anyways, I mentioned that my boss asked me to call a client at the end of the day (like half an hour before closing) and I asked my boss if she could ask someone else to call this client because every single day at the end of the day I count the cash drawer down (I always do this, we accept cash from people at our office) and I noticed we were missing $170 from the cash drawer, and I was way more worried about the missing cash than a phone call with a whole list of things to talk about. Anyways, my boss at work just said sure and went to ask this lady who wasn't busy (and this lady never does the closing cash stuff, it's always me).
Anyways, at my office I didn't sense anything was wrong and my coworker and boss didn't give me any shit. But I mentioned this story to my mom (because I'm a chatter box and I was mentioning the missing cash) and my mom said that I actually made a HUGE mistake at work. She said, "You're going to get fired if you keep doing stuff like that." And I asked her what she meant, and my mom said I would get fired eventually if I kept asking my boss to give other people my work. Well, first of all, I never do this, I was just worried about the cash and looking for it. But my mom said I should never tell my boss no regardless, and that I should never say no, and that I'm likely to get fired in the future. I didn't get the feeling I had done anything wrong, but I like to keep an open mind- maybe my mom is right and I made a huge mistake. What do you guys think.
(Also, I found the $170 cash, it was in my bosses office because the client paid boss in there and she didn't bring the cash out to the drawer, so I found it.)
No. 2460922
>>2460560Unless your boss is an insane control freak I doubt you have anything to worry about. It sounds like the cash register is considered your responsibility if nobody else ever does it and you had a good reason to prioritise it on this occasion.
It might be a good idea to check in with your boss about the cash register task and whether it’s officially considered ‘your thing’, though. I once had this issue where I ended up always doing a particular task which was supposed to be a communal responsibility because I was the one who hated it the least and everyone else was happy to fob it off on me. Then one day I had other priorities and couldn’t get around to it, and because it was still considered a communal responsibility and listed as such on the roster I left it for someone else to do. Nobody did because they just took it for granted that I’d do it (even though they knew I was in a different building across campus all day) and they got upset with me over it. IMO it’s always good to have clarity on which tasks you’re expected to perform and where your priorities are supposed to lie, both for you and your boss. If the cash register is solely your responsibility then maybe your boss should’ve known better than to assign you a task that conflicts with it.