Wednesday, February 22, 2012

It Just Keeps Getting Better...Or Not

Current song stuck in my head: Only by Nine Inch Nails (Warning: NSFW)

So a few more details came out about the current management situation at my local place of employment. It's--ah--interesting, to say the least.

It seems the manager who was fired was let go because manager Jessie was gunning for his position and now she's taking it over. She's also running roughshod over pretty much the entire store and alienating everyone within sight. They can't stand her new attitude and a lot of people have lost a boatload of respect for her. The co-worker who gave me the heads up about this insane melodrama is now working what she refers to as the "shit shift" which is 3PM to midnight. Oh, and she has no real help in her area, either. But she's expected to do all of her tasks and clean up after everyone else. Oh and the overnight grocery position that just opened up? She's not allowed to go for it. And if she does, she won't get the extra money that the position promises and she'll be stuck in the canned food aisle, zoning that area.

But it gets better. Another of my co-workers is being shoved into an unwanted grocery position: she was working the cosmetics department but her hours have been slashed and she's now a part-timer. So if she wants full time hours and pay, she's going to be working in the freezer all day, whether she likes it or not.

The drama is spilling out all over; seems one of my other co-workers got a text from someone who works in a different store. The text read, "What's up with your management?" Sweetening the deal is the fact that rumor has it that human resources will be paying our store a visit.

It doesn't rain, it pours. I just wasn't expecting this much of a deluge, though.

It's always darkest before the dawn, or so they say. Well, right now it's looking pitch black and I'm not seeing any light in sight. Primus, get me through this slag with my sanity intact, I beg of you.

2 comments:

Kraneia said...

It sounds like they want to "clean house". The easiest way to do that is make your underlings miserable--then they quit and you don't have to pay unemployment... ;)

Have they started on the "you should be grateful you have a job" line yet? That's what we heard. Right before corporate came in from NY and started pulling people off the line.... ;)

Prime said...

This is the sort of scrap you avoided, Scratch. Junk like this at Walmart is a matter of when, not if. It travels, it infects, it multiplies, and it's never really cured.