Sorry but I need to vent about my job =/ I only worked 4.5 hours today (4 hours is about the average for a part-timer's shift at K-Fart) but it was a hell of a day. I came into work at 9 AM and I was the only cashier till 11 AM. At one point I had a line about 7 people deep. This is typical for K-Fart and sometimes they don't even have any cashiers scheduled until 10:30 AM. It just seemed like everything was going wrong today at once - things missing UPC's, people not answering pages for price checks, snippy customers.. you name it. I got snapped at by one of my co-workers today to top everything off.. and it really pissed me off.. I was already stressed out from busting my ass trying to get customers checked out, and I paged her for a merchandise check in electronics. Well, I wait about 50 seconds, and I page her again. She calls up and nastily SNAPS "YOU don't even give me time to get to the phone!!!!!!" If there wouldn't of been a customer standing there within earshot I would have told her to fuck off right there. I could feel tears starting to come on (because I'm a rather sensitive person and especially when I'm already stressed out) but I held it in because I didn't want to cry in front of the customers. I understand that everyone's under pressure because we're so understaffed but it's not my fault so don't bitch me out!
I have really had it up to here with this job. All of my co-worker's are sick of it as well. Morale is really low, stress is really high. I've actually started smoking recently to help relieve my nerves (don't get onto me! :P) because MAN is a cigarette good after a stressful shift!
People who have been working at my store for 35 years are talking about bailing and finding a new job. I don't blame them and I think they should jump ship before it all sinks. On top of all of the problems with lack of hours and understaffing, everyone hates our store manager.
My one co-worker, C, is ready to quit because he is convinced that our store manager, D, has it out for him. C recently lost his father, so he's been taking a lot of time off work lately. His brother is also leaving for Iraq so he is really depressed and stressed out. Because he's missed so much work, he thinks D hates him. C works the service desk and he says whenever he calls D up to resolve a problem, he gets treated and talked to like he's stupid, in front of other employees and customers as well. D does sometimes have a way of making you feel dumb.. I've never really had any problems with him, but I know he rides my other co-workers' asses pretty badly at times. I guess it's because he's under a lot of pressure.
One day, C needed D to go back and get change for the service desk drawer, and D flat-out refused, saying that he was going to lunch and that it would have to wait. 3 hours later, still no D and no change. Our HR manager, P, talked to D and told him that he should go get change for C, and I guess P got screamed at by him. C told one of our assistant managers that he was going to call K's integrity hotline and report D, and she advised him not to - they would get onto him and he would become even worse - turn into a monster. C told me today that he was going to go ahead and call corporate and report our manager, and I don't blame him for it. C isn't the only person who has been having issues with him, but I'll save the rest for another post, this one has gotten entirely too long!
I can't wait to see what happens with all this.. drama-rama at the K!
Sorry that was so long, just feels better to get it out! I have the next 2 days off work so I get to hide and recover.. unfortunately I don't get paid for not working
I have really had it up to here with this job. All of my co-worker's are sick of it as well. Morale is really low, stress is really high. I've actually started smoking recently to help relieve my nerves (don't get onto me! :P) because MAN is a cigarette good after a stressful shift!
People who have been working at my store for 35 years are talking about bailing and finding a new job. I don't blame them and I think they should jump ship before it all sinks. On top of all of the problems with lack of hours and understaffing, everyone hates our store manager.
My one co-worker, C, is ready to quit because he is convinced that our store manager, D, has it out for him. C recently lost his father, so he's been taking a lot of time off work lately. His brother is also leaving for Iraq so he is really depressed and stressed out. Because he's missed so much work, he thinks D hates him. C works the service desk and he says whenever he calls D up to resolve a problem, he gets treated and talked to like he's stupid, in front of other employees and customers as well. D does sometimes have a way of making you feel dumb.. I've never really had any problems with him, but I know he rides my other co-workers' asses pretty badly at times. I guess it's because he's under a lot of pressure.
One day, C needed D to go back and get change for the service desk drawer, and D flat-out refused, saying that he was going to lunch and that it would have to wait. 3 hours later, still no D and no change. Our HR manager, P, talked to D and told him that he should go get change for C, and I guess P got screamed at by him. C told one of our assistant managers that he was going to call K's integrity hotline and report D, and she advised him not to - they would get onto him and he would become even worse - turn into a monster. C told me today that he was going to go ahead and call corporate and report our manager, and I don't blame him for it. C isn't the only person who has been having issues with him, but I'll save the rest for another post, this one has gotten entirely too long!
I can't wait to see what happens with all this.. drama-rama at the K!
Sorry that was so long, just feels better to get it out! I have the next 2 days off work so I get to hide and recover.. unfortunately I don't get paid for not working
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