Arrrrggghhh!!! I work on Reception for a very big company, and usually there is two of us here so one can answer the phones and see to visitors and the other can do all the typing etc.... well, this week and next week the lady I work with is on holiday, so they had to get a temp in (why they can't just train somebody within the company I don't know!) soooo.... has she turned up?!?!? NOPE!!!!! Is she GOING to turn up?? NOPE!! Not today anyway!! So, I can't have a tea break (can't leave reception unmanned becasue of the phones and visitors) can't have my lunch break - in fact I can't even EAT anything becaus I didn't bring any lunch with me today, thinking I'd buy some... well now I can't becasue I can't leave the desk!! (and I can't even go to the toilet!!!!!) Anyway, they have now found me ANOTHER temp who is going to come in at about 1:30....... great, it'll take me about 2 hours to train her, and then I am supposed to leave at 4;30 (as I'm supposed to be on the early shift today) but how can I just leave her when shes only been here for 3 hours?!?!?! This ALWAYS happens to me!! Last time the lady I work with went on holiday I ended up having to train FOUR different temps in the space of a week!!!
I just think it is SO rude and SO unprofessional to leave people in the lurch like this... I don't know how they can do it, the agency who are meant to be supplying this temp has tried to ring her, but she only gave them a mobile number and she has switched her phone off
So, at the moment, I'm sat here, dying for the toilet, thirsty as heck and hungry..... trying to answer 50+ telephone lines alone and see to a que of visitors.... oh, and I have some spreadsheet work to do.....
I just think it is SO rude and SO unprofessional to leave people in the lurch like this... I don't know how they can do it, the agency who are meant to be supplying this temp has tried to ring her, but she only gave them a mobile number and she has switched her phone off