Well, that tears it. My new friend at work had enough and left. What a huge, stupid waste. She was worth at least two of my incompetent sales manager. There is very little justice in a world where I'm stuck with the stupid sales manager and have to lose a great co-worker because our management is . . . Yeah, you've heard it before. Sorry.
But I can't resist this great example of my sales manager's greatness. Because of this sudden situation, I was asked to come in and work on my day off, and, because I desperately need the hours/money, I came in early in the morning after a late night leading a small group for church. Then, that morning, I picked up another sick co-worker's shift for that night, but I could only work from 6-10 (so I could get some rest before coming in early the next morning for my next shift). As I was leaving at 10:15, my sales manager got extremely snippy with me for having to leave before 10:30 . Yes, she got mad at me after I came in and saved her bacon twice in the same day on my day off outside of my regular availability. She is a real winner.
I'm looking for a new hopefully less crappy retail job along with my regular job hunting.
Morale is just so shot right now at our store, and sales, which were up, are dropping. It's sad because it doesn't have to be and shouldn't be this way. I wish there were something I could do to make it better, but I really have tried everything I can.
I was thinking about good companies and how they value their employees. Maybe I'm still kind of an idealist, but I thought companies wanted to hire good employees and use their strengths as individuals and team members to help the company prosper. My RetailEstablishment never read these books, I guess. They would rather try to force everyone into the same (bent) mold and break them.
We're all breaking.
It's rough to watch. I have so much to give, and they don't want it. It's . . . frustrating not to be able to use any of your skills, talents, personality, etc. in a way that helps people. It's worse when you can't just quit, when you're too damaged already to be sure you'll ever be able to find another job. Being so invested in one place used to make me sort of stubbornly determined to do my best to help things change for the better, but when you have resistance and an endless landslide of dumb policies coming from your district manager to your store and thus know that the "open-door" policy is a quick way to get fired, it just grinds you down.
At least I'm proud I've hung on for over 6 years. :) Find your sunshine where you can, I guess.
Do you have any suggestions for retail jobs that would be good for a cripple?
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Paul worked at one of the Sunglass Hut booths at a mall for a summer- that or cellphone sales would probably be the least physically taxing jobs I can think of. Plus, he got away with reading books on his palm pilot most of the time.
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