Work Conflicts

There is a conflict in my office that is an ongoing problem. At the drug and alcohol rehab center I work at, I am in charge of running and controlling the UA program. Here in the last few months our bill has risen and is causing a problem financially. So in order to help with this problem, I have started enforcing some rules that I have not been doing in the past. Well I am only a part time worker at the center, so when I am not there to enforce the rules, it seems as the counselors and other full time employees don’t care about the rules that have been put into effect. So for the last few mandatory weekly meetings I have brought to everyone attention the issues we are having. I have then asked to help me sole the problems, by coming up with ideas they think will help or even different compromises we can make in order to help bring down the cost of UAs.  So of course some of the main “complaints” my colleagues have had is that it’s not their job to worry about the rules and that they have their own job descriptions to worry about. So I have brought to their attention that because of the lack of “extra” money coming in we are not currently receiving bonuses, luncheons and things of that nature. Once I brought that to their attention, the idea of helping and compromise became the main topic at hand.

So the strategies that I used were providing evidence that with a high UA bill meant less money for the office to enjoy more things and then I was able to get them to the point to where they were more willing to compromise.