The question: How do I bring this up to my boss without sounding like a b*tch?
The backstory: Simply put, my coworkers are users. They expect me to run all over town when they need something, to use my truck to haul stuff around and do their work. Now, I pay extra for a premium parking pass so I have access to more lots. Yesterday one coworker asked if "we" could use my truck to go get some stuff he found in surplus (bookcase, a chair or two, etc.). I told him no, they have trucks over there to do that; I get here at 7am to get a good spot, if I move my truck I'm SOL, and my back is so effed up from working on the deck I don't want to walk any farther than I have to. He got kinda ticked about it.
Later in the day another coworker asked if I'd go to Best Buy to get her a hard drive. I had already emailed her the info and told her she needed to go look at them herself (because she's so picky). It was her turn to get mad when I told her that was on the other side of town, I'd just made my truck payment, my fuel gauge was hovering on empty and payday wasn't till next Friday; I'm not veering off my home-to-work path unless someone is dying. This is the person that told me I needed to put a bedcover on my truck so I could haul more stuff to meetings and to go buy her a heater (in June) because she was cold and didn't want to go get one
I'm a nice person, I really am, and I don't mind helping out some, but they expect me to do all of this and don't take anything else into consideration.
The backstory: Simply put, my coworkers are users. They expect me to run all over town when they need something, to use my truck to haul stuff around and do their work. Now, I pay extra for a premium parking pass so I have access to more lots. Yesterday one coworker asked if "we" could use my truck to go get some stuff he found in surplus (bookcase, a chair or two, etc.). I told him no, they have trucks over there to do that; I get here at 7am to get a good spot, if I move my truck I'm SOL, and my back is so effed up from working on the deck I don't want to walk any farther than I have to. He got kinda ticked about it.
Later in the day another coworker asked if I'd go to Best Buy to get her a hard drive. I had already emailed her the info and told her she needed to go look at them herself (because she's so picky). It was her turn to get mad when I told her that was on the other side of town, I'd just made my truck payment, my fuel gauge was hovering on empty and payday wasn't till next Friday; I'm not veering off my home-to-work path unless someone is dying. This is the person that told me I needed to put a bedcover on my truck so I could haul more stuff to meetings and to go buy her a heater (in June) because she was cold and didn't want to go get one
I'm a nice person, I really am, and I don't mind helping out some, but they expect me to do all of this and don't take anything else into consideration.
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