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Sounds like a crappy situation, I wouldn't blame you for looking for work elsewhere. BUT You do appear to be asking for help. So I'd suggest reviewing some of
by CodeWriter23 4y ago
Sounds like a crappy situation, I wouldn't blame you for looking for work elsewhere.
BUT
You do appear to be asking for help. So I'd suggest reviewing some of the things you have control over:
Do you have any conversations with your co-workers?
Maybe at lunch?
Do you express an interest in their work?
Do you offer to help them with things in their areas?
Do you express an interest in them as people?
Healthy boundaries of course should be practiced.
Let me tell you a story about when I was consulting for a religious High School. They had a 3 man maintenance crew. These guys did _everything_. Keeping the grounds, parking control, all handyman activity, repairs, plumbing, digging, heavy lifting, decorating and undecorating. Anything that required muscle.
They were overwhelmed. They had a board where request notes were posted and they would triage them and try to focus on tasks in a given area for a day at a time. If anyone needed something "now", they were told to fill out a request and wait their turn. But it was not that way for me. Why? Every time I saw them unloading a truck or moving a mass of stuff from one place to the other, I'd chip in and help. Not a whole lot. But my acts of kindness earned me a lot of good grace with them. I really enjoyed working with them, it was a lot of laughs. I'd also buy them each a case of Heineken at Christmas time, as a way to say thank you for all the times they would drop what they were doing and come help me.
IOW, I treated them like human beings, not the hired help.