Workplace complications
I really don’t understand why but it seems every job I have at around the 2 year mark I suddenly am getting complaints about my work. I’ve never been fired but they start saying things I’m doing wrong or that I’m not being as efficient as I could be.. but I really don’t see it? I never sit around on my phone or stand around and talk to people as much as my coworkers do. I’m always looking for things to do because if I don’t have a task I get bored.
They said some of my coworkers said I wasn’t being helpful but the manager couldn’t give me an example of that when I asked.. I always ask if they need help with something or I clean up after them when I see they are busy. I even will put things into the computer for them without them asking. Even at every end of my shift I check in with them asking if they need anything else before I go.. I wish I could know what they mean by this because I truly want to be helpful and don’t want to be that one coworker that doesn’t help. I am not sure if they were expecting for me to help with something I didn’t know about or what happened.. but the manager telling me about it secondhand without any explanation is really frustrating.
I didn’t even know I was doing anything wrong until the meeting today with my manager.. why can’t people just be more upfront and honest when they need me to do something instead of going to the manager? Now knowing this but still not understanding what I’m doing wrong is really stressful to me and I’ve been crying all day from the stress.. and I am really dreading going to work tomorrow.
Does anyone have any advice for me? Should I just ask if they need help more often? I don’t want to seem annoying about it though…