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Am i the a**hole for telling my coworkers no? (xalla.day)

submitted 11 months ago by SmokingFurry@xalla.day to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Let me start by saying I'm a "floor guy" at a small town hardware store. I am in training to be a manager but not one yet. I do a bunch of stuff around the store. Which leaves me busy a lot of the time.

We have a paint department that LOVES calling me and the other floor guys to do dumb things that is their job. Now, I don't mind helping here or there. However when I get called away from doing something to come pick up your empty boxes to bring them to the box crusher when you're supposed to, or to bring a box up to the register for a customer that weighs 10lbs.

I just get furious since they've been told not to do this. However they don't stop. I recently told them I'm not moving a box for them since they weren't busy. They were just playing on their phone while waiting on me.

They complained and the manager told them it's their job. Now I have multiple people mad at me because I tell them NO. When it's not my job unless they are too busy.

Am I the asshole?

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[-] dandroid@dandroid.app 0 points 11 months ago

Definitely not the asshole. I also like helping out my coworkers, and occasionally someone will take advantage of that. When I feel like I'm being taken advantage of, or I'm not enjoying helping someone anymore, I will tell them that I just don't have the time, and if they need me to do it, they will need to get approval from my boss so my boss will know why I didn't hit my deadlines on my other work. That almost always gets those people to fuck off. And if it doesn't, the extra work gets properly assigned to me, I get credit for for it, and my other deadlines get pushed back appropriately.

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