The Workplace: A Personal Experience At Work

The topic I would like to analyze is one that I have been dealing with at work. I decided to do a favor for my supervisor that did not work out well for me, therefore, my analysis will help me figure out how to not find myself in that situations again.
A few months ago, my direct supervisor had to take a leave of absence due to an injury. He was going to be out for a few weeks to recover, but his leave took longer than he originally expected, consequently, our regional manager decided to hire a temporary replacement for him until he returned. During my scheduled interview, she informed me that our partnering company did not want to hire a replacement and they wanted to divide the responsibilities up between two employees. I agreed because I …show more content…
After we started completing the tasks, turned out that my responsibilities were a lot for time consuming and come with other tasks attached to it, such as meeting delivery drivers and driving to an off-site storage unit. Our company locations are inside airports so everything is far away from each other and going to the off-site storage takes hours. I really enjoy the tasks I was doing, all the walking was great and the variety of different tasks makes the day go by fast. All of my co-workers started coming to me as if I was there supervisor. I am hoping to have a permeant job like that one in the future.
A few months after I started taking over responsibilities, my supervisor returned from his leave of absence. Our partnering company did not think he was an effective supervisor and no longer wanted him to be a part of the project, therefore, he was reassigned. I assumed they would want to replace him, but a few weeks after his return, my regional manager informed me they were not planning on it and wanted to keep things as they are. By that point, I was basically doing the job by myself, my co-worker’s responsibilities only took a few minutes every week and I was doing management responsibilities for hours each …show more content…
I feel that I have proved that I can handle the job, as I have received nothing but good feedback. Hopefully, in the future when my company is hiring for another management role, I will be promoted. From this exercise, I have learned that I no longer want to do favors such as this, I not really feel as if I received anything out of it and I started to feel taken advantage of. This situation is what gave me the real push to go back to school, I know what type of career I want and I believe this is the best way to get