Feeling Paranoid!

I was feeling a bit paranoid today as it began to feel like the other supervisors were conspiring against me. I don't know if you recall, but back in March I covered the former security manager when he was suspended? Well back then one of the other supervisors would normally have covered the manager's shifts, but had been off at the time and so I was asked to do it. The next shift this other supervisor was due to work he didn't turn up. I thought at the time that it was a bit petty. Also that week the maintenance bloke called in sick and I wasn't feeling paranoid then.
Today I found out that the same supervisor has called in sick for his 4 shifts which were to begin on tomorrow morning! Coincidence? He claims to have swine 'flu! Also today another supervisor went sick a couple of hours after I was forced to advise him that he could not park his car in the car park tonight. So he isn't in for his last shift of this set tonight and has also said that he won't be in for his next set of shifts starting in 5 days! How does he know that he will still be off sick then? The only other supervisor, discounting myself, has refused to cover any shifts for his 4 off-days, which I would normally accept as fair enough, except that he normally grabs every overtime shift that he can and has moaned recently when overtime was taken off him by our employers to accommodate a second set of guards.
So, we had 8 shifts to cover, plus 2 shifts that the unhelpful (as opposed to sickly) supervisor had failed to cover when asked to do it on Tuesday and Wednesday!
None of the other guards that we can contact were available or willing to cover these shifts and I was getting really paranoid that everyone was resentful at me for getting to cover the managerial position that I am. After a while I got over it. The manning issues are not my fault. It is not down to me at the end of the day to cover the positions, that is why we have a scheduling department. And if the guys are unhappy with me doing this extra work for nothing, then if they can't have the balls to tell me to my face, then fuck 'em! I stopped stressing about it a few hours ago and left work at my allotted time without a second thought, other than to record my experience here with you all.
I may get calls over the weekend to help out the inexperienced guys covering the supervisor positions, but that is okay. I can then explain to them that it is not me that has put them in this unfortunate situation, it is their colleagues.

I am disappointed though, as during these two weeks, when the old manager had gone and the new one had not arrived, I wanted to get together in person with the other supervisors, and the guards too, to get a consensus of what everyone thinks should be happening on site and, by the time the new guy arrived, I wanted to have all the best-practice solutions that we came up with in place so that we could impress him with what a good team we have!
That will not now happen and anything new that I do implement, which will stem from my own idea of how things should be, I will rightfully claim full credit for as it is work that I will have done, mostly unaided during these two weeks.