I just need to get this off of my chest real quick.
I work overnights at a pet emergency hospital. They are 12-14 hours shifts and often involve critical cases. I do relief work at a daytime clinic (non emergency) in another town about 20 minutes away. I blew a radiator and a hose last Friday heading out to help them out.
I fixed what I could this weekend, replaced the lower hose (which involved taking parts of the body apart to get to) and was unable to get to the radiator replaced this weekend and unfortunately I had to call in today to finish repairing my radiator and get the car into working order to get to my regular job at the pet ER tonight.
I almost never say no when shifts need covered or my own shift needs to be swapped at the ER. In fact, I told the day clinic I could not fill in while doing overnight shifts at the ER, but recently they asked me to cover 4 days and I said I would make it work.
"See a need, fill a need" is kind of how I operate.
But after having to call in and having the clinic I fill in for when they are short people, tell me they are slammed and need me to come in... has left me feeling guilty for saying "No".
Should I feel guilty for this? Why or why not?
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No guilt whatsoever. If your employment contract does not involve being on-call, then any additional time you give them is of your own free will. I've done the same thing, working several weekends in a row when it was discovered at the last minute that we were going to be understaffed at the end of the day Friday. I didn't catch any flak for saying the following Monday that I would not be available.
I operate by looking after #1. There is no nobility in sacrificing your time, effort, or happiness.
No guilt needed. You don't become a less helpful or hard working person and you don't let them down when you cannot put in extra work some time.
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no need to feel guilty, it is not ur duty to fill in. the way you wrote the story it seems like there is a capacity problem and when u allways fill in they might kind of go "it works" instead of fixing the real issue here. a fill in can only work in a short term, for example when someone left. but if it goes longterm you HR or boss is doing something wrong
I work overnights at a pet emergency hospital. They are 12-14 hours shifts and often involve critical cases. I do relief work at a daytime clinic (non emergency) in another town about 20 minutes away. I blew a radiator and a hose last Friday heading out to help them out.
I fixed what I could this weekend, replaced the lower hose (which involved taking parts of the body apart to get to) and was unable to get to the radiator replaced this weekend and unfortunately I had to call in today to finish repairing my radiator and get the car into working order to get to my regular job at the pet ER tonight.
I almost never say no when shifts need covered or my own shift needs to be swapped at the ER. In fact, I told the day clinic I could not fill in while doing overnight shifts at the ER, but recently they asked me to cover 4 days and I said I would make it work.
"See a need, fill a need" is kind of how I operate.
But after having to call in and having the clinic I fill in for when they are short people, tell me they are slammed and need me to come in... has left me feeling guilty for saying "No".
Should I feel guilty for this? Why or why not?
THE JUICE[BOX]³ CUBE
I operate by looking after #1. There is no nobility in sacrificing your time, effort, or happiness.
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