Comfort zone in workplace
By wongchoiyee
@wongchoiyee (7413)
Malaysia
March 4, 2012 3:07pm CST
I always thought I have found a comfort zone in my workplace right now. This office has been established for 20 years and I only work there if I am free. It gives me flexibility with no basic, but lately this elderly woman in her 50s always monitor me calling me to come to work. Each time she calls me I will answer the call and when I put down the phone, I feel terrible and out of my comfort zone. I feel being raped because I don't have privacy, because I am thinking when to come to work. Its my privacy to come to work as when I like since I am not being paid on basic only commission. I know its her duty to call interviewer to work, and I hope she not only calling me, or I will be very mad because the call always disturb my mood my comfort zone in the house. What should I do to relieve the stress or should I tolerate her since she is elderly than me?
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12 responses
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
4 Mar 12
wongchoiyee is it her job to call you, I am confused if you are already at wo k. why should she have to call you,does she know
you are in this office, why cannot she just walk to your door,knocks on it and say you are wanted? or are you forgetting to sign in to work? i feel yuo have left something vital out here. as if she knows you are already here and she is just paging you how can that disrupt anything? I mean if you job iks to interview in a different place should you not let the woman know you are a viable, what is wrong with her calling you if you are not where you really belong?I could not hide out in my work or I would have been fired.
Also for the benefit of other fifty age people fifty is not elderly I am elderly at 85 fifty is middle aged. for goodness sakes how young are you to say elderly if fifty?
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
4 Mar 12
typos available not viable and you not yuo. is not iks
@yanzalong (18987)
• Indonesia
5 Mar 12
Why not find another job where you can be paid regularly not based on commission. With regular payment, you can enjoy your off time without being disturbed. The only solution is that you have to get out of the place and find another. Of if you want to stay there, you have to get rid of the feeling that you are not comfortable or feel as if you were sort of raped.
@secretbear (19448)
• Philippines
29 Mar 12
I think you have to talk to this woman and explain your terms of work. Maybe she does not know that you only get paid by commission and so you don't have to go to work everyday. I think you just have to make her understand. Good luck! 
@shylade (3132)
• Philippines
5 Mar 12
you should talk to her or to your superior of what the work time you have agreed upon before. maybe the woman is just doing her job or maybe she don't know what really your schedule. so better talk to them and tell them that you have agreed with this and that to settle whatever problems my arise from this. good luck!
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@erricgunawan (611)
• Indonesia
6 Mar 12
Have you tried to ask her for a discussion. And tell her that you mind if she kept calling you, because the deal you've made before said that you can go to work at any time of your interest?
Above all that, maybe you should try to go work more frequently.
Beside you'll earn more, you can also escape your leader calls 
@francesca5 (1344)
•
5 Mar 12
i had an experience a bit like that the other day, some work men came round to do something in my flat, and when they left i had this feeling that my personal space had been violated, and it felt horrible.
but it wasn't them, there was nothing they did that should make me feel like that.
i did have a very critical mother, and criticism is a form of invasion of space, and its intrusive.
have you had anyone in your life that has been too critical, or too intrusive in another way? as when we have a nasty experience we tend to not remember them very well, but our body does, and so when something happens that reminds us of that experience we get the same feelings that we had when we had a similar experience as a child.
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@savypat (20216)
• United States
5 Mar 12
Whenever I worked on commission I was more than happy to hear from my employer. A call from them meant I had the chance to earn. I guess you need to decied what is the most important to you, chance to earn or regular hours.
@prinzcy (32305)
• Malaysia
5 Mar 12
If your work description requires you to be called to work, then she's doing the right thing. Even when you're in your comfort zone but you answer the call, then you need to attend. If you don't want to be disturb, just set your phone to silent mode. Not answering meant not going right? Though your payment will be less by doing this.
@xiaojie786 (38)
• China
5 Mar 12
I think you need to have talk with her on your exact work way since you are paid only by commission not on a basic, everybody wont fell comfort when treated like that not the working way she wants
