(So Alex is totally over her drowning scare today. She's fine and was finally giggling and back to her usually sunny self.)
Also, that woman did fire me - the one who was upset I didn't get her daughter ready to skip a grade - so I am out one job now. Each time I go to tutor someone this week I am going to tell them I have an open slot and ask them to give my info to anyone they know whose kids need homework help.
Today I had an hour and a half between school and my first tutoring person and a girl in my last class asked if I wanted to go get coffee. She is a little older than me like 21 or 22 and bartends. She was telling me all about how she isn't getting good shifts and doesn't know why and is nervous about getting fired.
When I explained my two jobs she asked how I can stand having so many bosses and don't I worry about getting fired. Maybe I should, but I don't really worry about it. But the more we talked about it, the more paranoid I got that maybe there's more I should be doing to keep my jobs and let the people I work with how much I value working.
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As an employer, I can tell you that from what you have said about your work previously, you are already doing all that you need to do to keep your jobs. You are concentrating on doing the best job you can.
For me, the most annoying employees are the ones who spend their time trying to keep their job (sucking up to me, others, networking, playing politics, etc.). I prefer the hard working employees who simply do their job and do it well. And being low maintenance at the job doesn't hurt either.
I am not saying be a mouse, I am saying stand out because you are good at what you are paid to do.
Michael
You are in fact the boss for tutoring, the parents are your customers.
For your fancy job, the previous commenter's advice sounds pretty good. You work very hard and you do your job well and you act responsibly and you don't complain about having to work, so that you value working and are a valuable employee should come across to anyone paying attention.
Still, you have a good relationship with Arnie, you can let him know how you feel. Like, don't go out of your way to buy Arnie a World's Greatest Boss mug, but if it comes up naturally in one of your conversations, you can maybe somehow tell him how much you value working.
It's probably for the best that that one tutoring job did not work out, but how to keep your customers happy even when they are being nutty might be worth exploring. Could you have sat down with that woman to reassess what the goals were? Would progress reports have helped? You probably don't need to do more in general to keep your tutoring jobs if mostly everyone else has been pleased with the results.
Informing people of the open slot you have is a good approach. Great phrasing. Be sure to give them extra business cards.
Glad Alex is okay.
How does a hardworking employee do well what he is paid to do without engaging in the annoying behavior described yet avoid becoming seen as complacent?
Misery loves company.
She was looking for yours.
(You don't need it. If she's getting lousy shifts and worried about being fired, there is most likely a reason.)
Glad Alex is ok.
Oh yeah.
P.S.
I'm thinking you already knew the skip a grade mom was going to let you go. You were an impediment to her "grand" plan of bragging rights for her child.
(I feel incredibly sad for her child.)
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