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My store manager- and let me just point out I have been on company's payroll LONGER than him- has been telling me for over a month that he's bee trying to fast track me into being the store's support manager. Cool, I thought. I was kind of apathetic towards it, but I always told him, if you offer it to me, I'll take it, but if there's someone here who is going to be here longer, obviously hire them over me because I can only guarantee you a year. Which is fair of me to say, right? I'm at least being honest, and I DO deserve it, having worked for the company for 5 years.
Well, guess what. Apparently he has been telling this to EVERYONE. Or at least promising them things like this, but then he denies them. I found out the other day that he has already interviewed other associates for the job and given the position to someone else. First off, let me say that I am not upset I didn't get the job. Well, maybe a little, since I have given so much to this company and I do deserve it, but there are definitely perks to not having it. I love working in the PetCare department, and since I'm not a manager, I can always just pawn off annoying customers to managers. That's a definite perk. I'm irritated because this is completely unfair. I HATE people who are unfair. I know the world isn't always fair, but that doesn't mean a person can't try and be fair. And there's absolutely no reason why he should have just brushed me to the side. He should have at least interviewed me. Or taken me aside and told me, "hey, we're interviewing people for this job, we're only interested in people that will be here for the long run, I just wanted to let you know that so I'm not interviewing you. Or I can interview you, but we most likely will go with someone else." I would have understood that. I really would have, I mean, I said that to him. Maybe he figured I would turn it down, but he still should have interviewed me. At least the job went to one of our associates who is really nice and works hard.
Another thing. I don't know what it is, but I am also being screwed in hours. I'm the PetCare employee who has the least amount of hours. And I'm THE LEAD. That means I should be getting about 35 or so hours a week. But hey, next week, our associate who works THE LEAST and spends most of his time flirting with one of our other associates, is getting 6 more hours than me. Granted, I did discover this is mostly cashier hours, but still. I should be getting more hours then someone who does no work at all. And what's worse is that all the other managers know this. They have told me this and are just as frustrated working with him as I am, yet he gets more hours than me. I don't get it.
I really try hard not to complain about the people I work with (customers I will complain all I want about them, they come and go, but you're stuck with your associates), but this is getting on my nerves. Apparently he's rubbing everyone else- including his managers- the wrong way. It's clear he hates it hear, but that's no reason to take it out on everyone else. And if you're not going to follow through with what you say, KEEP IT TO YOURSELF. He's a nice guy, but a horrible manager. The littlest things that don't matter all that much he makes a huge deal out of them, and then stuff that actually is a big deal he doesn't care about. Argh.
Oh well. Hopefully we move from here sooner or later, or he decides to quit and we get a new manager. I'm not going to quit, I like my job too much and it gets me out of the house and talking with people.
Oh, life.
I hear you Sara, I do. I don't understand what it is about people being unfair. When I first started my job at the hospital I told them I was pretty much free every day but I would like to only work 2-3 days a week, since we just moved to VA. I wanted to ease in. My boss said no problem tops I would 15 hours a week. So I took the job. I ended up working 35-45 hours a week with no benefits for about 5 months. I wanted to quit but the money was good and I honestly enjoyed my job. I don't understand why people have to lie. I would have found another job if they only told me the truth. Grrr. If only life was perfect and people were logical and used common sense. I hope things work out for you and stuff gets better. Have you talked to the manager about more hours?
ReplyDeleteI understand being upset about not being given the hours. That makes complete sense.
ReplyDeleteI also understand your telling him you can only guarantee a year, but in telling him that it came across as "I don't want it." If you had wanted that job badly enough you should have kept that information to yourself until you were in the interview. That way you at least had the interview and could be compared with the other contenders for the job.
I actually don't think that's it at all, because he offered me a manager position when he FIRST called me. I called him back and told him I would take it, but no one had told him that they had hired someone else. So he clearly wanted me for the job, and I had already said yes to a manager position. I think it's a good thing I told him, it's being honest. He actually interviewed our only other Air Force wife and he didn't give her the job because she would be leaving. It's complete and utter crap what he's doing. He should have interviewed me anyway because he told me he would. I'm being honest. He's not. Besides as a manager he shouldn't be running around telling everyone he's going to interview them for a job and then not do that. That's unethical and dishonest.
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