Hate my part time job !?

I have been promoted to team leader earlier this year and my job is security mainly based on sport events I mainly wokr weekends. Since the promotion there were one or two things I did not know and a few things I was bound to get wrong, and when I would ask questions no one would tell me.

If I do something, such as making my own decision like telling staff underneath me to speak to a fan, one of the team leaders throws a fit, saying how I shouldnt have done that and makes it out that its wrong. However there is nothing wrong with me doing that. My other team leader said just ignore him.

Before I had an incident, where out of the blue someone had a problem with me, I never said anything to him and he began to threaten me and said how he would knock me out outside. Others were aggrivating me to fight back in order to make me look bad. I left it and walked away.

Now since im at uni and have deadlines, I'll miss one or two shifts and the staff there will make such a big deal out of it, its only one or two shifts and there are other staff to cover it.

The staff there are the ones who dropped out of school and live in council estates. There are envious of me that im at uni and im a team leader. Sometimes they dont even listen to me to make me look bad. When I go in I try to talk to some but they dont make any effort back.

I used to really enjoy the job before, but since the promotion it has been a downward spiral and so many challenges mainly with staff and less related to the job.

What can I do ?

I have been promoted to team leader earlier this year and my job is security mainly based on sport events I mainly wokr weekends. Since the promotion there were one or two things I did not know and a few things I was bound to get wrong, and when I would ask questions no one would tell me.

If I do something, such as making my own decision like telling staff underneath me to speak to a fan, one of the team leaders throws a fit, saying how I shouldnt have done that and makes it out that its wrong. However there is nothing wrong with me doing that. My other team leader said just ignore him.

Before I had an incident, where out of the blue someone had a problem with me, I never said anything to him and he began to threaten me and said how he would knock me out outside. Others were aggrivating me to fight back in order to make me look bad. I left it and walked away.

Now since im at uni and have deadlines, I'll miss one or two shifts and the staff there will make such a big deal out of it, its only one or two shifts and there are other staff to cover it.

The staff there are the ones who dropped out of school and live in council estates. There are envious of me that im at uni and im a team leader. Sometimes they dont even listen to me to make me look bad. When I go in I try to talk to some but they dont make any effort back.

I used to really enjoy the job before, but since the promotion it has been a downward spiral and so many challenges mainly with staff and less related to the job.

What can I do ?

Now since im at uni and have deadlines, I'll miss one or two shifts and the staff there will make such a big deal out of it, its only one or two shifts and there are other staff to cover it.

This is rather a poor attitude. It may only be one or two shifts to you, but you have basically let down the people who are employing you and those in your charge. Why should they treat you with any respect if you don't even bother to turn up to work? If you feel your coursework it more important, then why did you take the job in the first place? As a more senior member of the team it is for you to set an example and lead from the front. Not turning up and expecting others to do your job for you is not going to put you in good stead.

You need to sort out that attitude before you come to get a proper job because if one of my grads had that kind of attitude, they would be shown the door pretty sharpish.

I have been promoted to team leader earlier this year and my job is security mainly based on sport events I mainly wokr weekends. Since the promotion there were one or two things I did not know and a few things I was bound to get wrong, and when I would ask questions no one would tell me.

If I do something, such as making my own decision like telling staff underneath me to speak to a fan, one of the team leaders throws a fit, saying how I shouldnt have done that and makes it out that its wrong. However there is nothing wrong with me doing that. My other team leader said just ignore him.

Before I had an incident, where out of the blue someone had a problem with me, I never said anything to him and he began to threaten me and said how he would knock me out outside. Others were aggrivating me to fight back in order to make me look bad. I left it and walked away.

Now since im at uni and have deadlines, I'll miss one or two shifts and the staff there will make such a big deal out of it, its only one or two shifts and there are other staff to cover it.

The staff there are the ones who dropped out of school and live in council estates. There are envious of me that im at uni and im a team leader. Sometimes they dont even listen to me to make me look bad. When I go in I try to talk to some but they dont make any effort back.

I used to really enjoy the job before, but since the promotion it has been a downward spiral and so many challenges mainly with staff and less related to the job.

What can I do ?

This is rather a poor attitude. It may only be one or two shifts to you, but you have basically let down the people who are employing you and those in your charge. Why should they treat you with any respect if you don't even bother to turn up to work? If you feel your coursework it more important, then why did you take the job in the first place? As a more senior member of the team it is for you to set an example and lead from the front. Not turning up and expecting others to do your job for you is not going to put you in good stead.

You need to sort out that attitude before you come to get a proper job because if one of my grads had that kind of attitude, they would be shown the door pretty sharpish.

I agree with the above poster - one or two shifts to you may be fine to you but to an employer it's incredibly irritating to cover. This is possibly a reason for the resentment. Also, I get the impression you maybe act like a judgemental petulant little child
'The staff there are the ones who dropped out of school and live in council estates. There are envious of me that im at uni and im a team leader'
There is nothing wrong living on a council estate, and you don't know their reasons for not attending university themselves.
At the end of the day, you get no respect if you deserve no respect. As a team-leader, you need to find effective ways to communicate with your staff. Judging them isn't the way.

I agree with the above poster - one or two shifts to you may be fine to you but to an employer it's incredibly irritating to cover. This is possibly a reason for the resentment. Also, I get the impression you maybe act like a judgemental petulant little child
'The staff there are the ones who dropped out of school and live in council estates. There are envious of me that im at uni and im a team leader'
There is nothing wrong living on a council estate, and you don't know their reasons for not attending university themselves.
At the end of the day, you get no respect if you deserve no respect. As a team-leader, you need to find effective ways to communicate with your staff. Judging them isn't the way.

It's not hard to cover the shift as I do it myself ! Like I said there is someone available to do it. The manager in charge of everything we hardly see him. Oh yeah I asked them why they left school and they said 'couldn't be asked'. That's not a poor attitude is it ?

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You seem to have a knack of shifting blame and responsibility around. 'Oh they can cover my shift' 'The manager is hardly ever around' 'They complain to me' etc etc etc.
Take some responsibility. In two messages I have had with you (and the thread) I can tell I wouldn't want to work with you, because I think you probably boast the fact that you're the boss and at university.

I'm second in charge. How is it letting everyone down ? When someone capable is there to cover it ? That's not an issue even before the manager said if you have uni or anything else it's ok. These types of security jobs are part time for everyone.

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when u say u missed shifts, did u tell them in advance so they could arrange cover or just not turn up?
at the end of the day your co-workers will most likely be reliant on their job and some possibly should have been promoted instead of you - since when u graduate u will not be working there so you have potentially taken one of their jobs away from them (which is how they may see it)
being someone's boss can go one of two ways, you can either be strict and not treat them as a friend or be friendly towards them. so next time you are telling them to do something and they don't do it (check with your boss first) issue them a warning - u wont make friends but its obvious they don't respect u so either become their friend or their boss/enemy
and yes u sound a little snooty about their education - yes they may say they 'couldn't be a*sed' but maybe deep down its something else and that's an easier answer? maybe they weren't intelligent enough or didn't have the same opportunity as u? not everyone can afford to go to uni and I know plenty of people who dropped out of school living in council estates who earn lots more than me (and I have a masters and i'm in a degree related job)

In a nutshell, what you have just said there is "I don't give a sh1t!" You may not think that is the message you are sending, but it is. And that is a perfectly acceptable position to take. But if you don't give a sh1t about the job or your peers, why should anyone give a sh1t about you?

In life, you only get out of something what you put in. You are putting nothing into this job and then whining about the fact that you are getting nothing out of it. What do you expect? For people to kiss your ass?

In a nutshell, what you have just said there is "I don't give a sh1t!" You may not think that is the message you are sending, but it is. And that is a perfectly acceptable position to take. But if you don't give a sh1t about the job or your peers, why should anyone give a sh1t about you?

In life, you only get out of something what you put in. You are putting nothing into this job and then whining about the fact that you are getting nothing out of it. What do you expect? For people to kiss your ass?

You seem to have a knack of shifting blame and responsibility around. 'Oh they can cover my shift' 'The manager is hardly ever around' 'They complain to me' etc etc etc.
Take some responsibility. In two messages I have had with you (and the thread) I can tell I wouldn't want to work with you, because I think you probably boast the fact that you're the boss and at university.

It seems the big mouths have gone quiet now......