3afakom sm3oli wakha tawelt.. kan3ani mn ddoull f Europa and I can't handle more
I'm a Moroccan living and studying/working in a European country w kant3erred lel 7egra bzaf mn local people w ddell, walakin this one is enough! I want to take my heart out because I feel like I'm gonna explode, so here is my venting.
There is something at work (a machine) that 4 people are responsible for (one student, 2 technicians, and one professor). So, the professor told us that anyone who found a problem with that machine has to comment it to one of the responsibles.
This machine can have many problems, including something that's like a big bottle that needs to be changed if it's about to finish, and the rules are: if a person used it and was about to finish it they should change it, or if a person comes to work in the machine and found the bottle almost empty they need to change it. And the one that is responsible for checking it everyday is the student with us.. and anything we notice WHEN WE ARE WORKING we have to notify any of the four responsibles, and it can be her.
So I was not going to work, I just passed and I saw the bottle almost empty when the machine wasn't even used.. out of the sense of responsibility, I had to say it of course, and I said it to the student because she was the one near and responsible.
Normally, whenever we comment something to her that needs technical assistance, she thanks us and she contacts the other responsibles and they see what to do and they fix it all together. I thought yesterday it can be the same. I told her "the bottle is almost finishing when no one used it which proves there is a leak somewhere and you may want to see this problem with the responsible for technical problems" she was like "we all know how to change the bottle so you have to do it" I told her "I'm not the last one that left it like this, and I'm not going to work in it, I just want to let you know the problem that's the leak and not just the changing of the bottle" .. she told me to be the one to take this responsibility and contact other technicians .. and THIS is what I did wrong!!! I said okay, thinking she has a lot of work or she is not in a good mood or anything .. and I told a technician all the problems JUST TO LET HIM KNOW. He told me "the bottle has to be changed" but didn't comment on the whole problem which is the leak then the bottle (and I'm not the responsible in this case to change the bottle), even if I wanted to change it I couldn't because I was working in another building.
All of that was yesterday so I didn't answer anything because my job was to just let them know. Not to do anything. They need to see what to fix, and if they want my help they should ask nicely and I will see if I have time. But it's not compulsory that I change anything that is their job.
Today she texted me, telling me "since the technician told you that it has to be changed then you should be the one changing it" and she insisted on changing and forgot the whole problem that needs to be fixed. I explained her why I'm not responsible to change it even if I could and wanted to do it, but she shouldn't tell me as if it's my responsibility. I was not the one finishing the bottle, and I was not the one going to work, I just noticed and I talked, they have to do the rest.
And she started to complain nonstop and I was like "what I did from the start is your responsobility, not mine. While I can still be checking from time to time to help, you should be the one checking everyday as the responsible to do it. And also, the fact that I accepted to talk to another responsible when it was YOU who had to do it is my mistake, I should have said no to you and let you talk to him as you guys discuss these things betweem you. Because it's your responsibility to talk to him, not mine. And I never told you to change a thing but this is what you're trying to tell me when I'm not responsible for it in this case. "
She didn't like any of these things. She called me rude. And she was like "I never asked you to do my job. If you didn't like it, don't do it. Don't act like you did me a favor, and stop attacking me and disrespecting me.."
I didn't reply. She went to the professor that's the main responsible and she told her something for hours but I didn't hear a thing. She went for lunch with all my group and she told him her version about me. And I'm here scared.
Scared to be fired. Scared to be humiliated by the main responsible. My supervisor asked me because he heard things about me and he defended her altho he knows I'm not responsible for nothing and he agrees, but he tries to find a way to defend her.
She is local. I'm from another country.
She is 26 y.o. I am a 30 y.o female.
We have been always nice (but not close) to each other, but I decided to take my space and not tell her anything as a responsible ever again.
What do you guys think? I had two panic attacks. I'm angry and can't sleep. I'm already tired about local people in this work being together and excluding us foreigners.. I feel humliated and when I talked directly I got called rude.