I'm such an 80's metal child. I got the new Motley Crue "Red, White & Crue" double CD. Damn good shit there.....
God, wtf is wrong today? The three managers where I work seem to have an urge to make everyone's lives a miserable time for those who chose to work there. A manager who just came on in November is already wanting to quit. She called my general manager an asshole, and he replied with an "I try to be." I thought managers were supposed to build confidence in their employees and treat them with respect. There is a huge double-standard, and the crap that is going on is nothing short of abusive.
It's kinda funny. I was talking to this other girl who I'd consider a friend, and we were talking about how this place (work) sucks and giving each other tips on job sites. We walk out of the back room and go our seperate ways. I'm standing at the register with this girl (who I would fuck in an instant if she gave me the chance) and she was saying how she hated working here. I'm like "yeah, funny you should say that. Me and ***** were talking about that in the back of the store." And then the "GOOD" manager comes in and she complains about the sucky job. Everyone wants to quit. Morale is the worst I have ever seen it in 6 years in retail, even worse than when I worked at a factory that was talking about laying off 75% of it's workers.
I have no urge to perform any work beyond what I have to do. I'm even starting to provide gradually worse customer service because I have stopped caring, and I've seen it in the same people I was talking to earlier today. We don't care.
There's a meeting on the 20th of this month. I have a feeling it's going to probably stop short of a fistf fight betwen 18 employees and 3 managers.
A lot of it is the fault of the managers, but some of it also falls on the corporate shoulders too. They have drastically changed their incentive program to almost nothing. And once a regular associate makes a certain amount, they are stuck getting 2% raises until they move up.
That's fine, but in my case, I'm literally screwed. I was told at my last review that I had hit the pay ceiling, and I would be getting a 2% raise. That's the type of raise they give for mediocre performance. Up until then I gave 110% every day. I went out of my way to find work to do, I took initiative, I did more than what was required of my job duties. I don't care anyomre. Mediocre raise gets shitty performance out of me.
Oh, and I was told that if I wanted a promotion I had to be less stressed out. Fine. I've been working on that. I was told when my old department lead went out on maternal leave, I would be running the show, but not receiving any extra incentive, just if I did a good job, I'd then have proven to them that I deserve a promotion. I had to bite my tongue so I didn't lash out atthis ass during my review. Fine, i need to prove myself, even thou I had been with the store for 3 years and gotten employee of the month at least 7 times in that time.
So before my old lead went out, we lost a couple of associates off of our already thinned out department. When she went out, it was me and one other associate in the department. I persuaded him that we could get through it, and we did. We were caught up, even ahead, on work that needed to be done, and getting pretty good sales numbers (I hate sales, and I am not a numbers guy, so I wasn't really driving this). Then my old lead made it known before she came back that she didn't feel like she wanted to stay in the department and she felt more comfortable in her old department. So, instead of promoting me, they moved my now current asshole---err---lead. This guy got a bogus promotion by a bogus manager a couple of years ago and his head is about 5 miles big. And he's an absolute idiot. Everything is business and numbers to him, and when you joke around, he gets pissed.
So, I asked my general manager a couple of weeks ago what was going on and if there were any promotions that might be happening anytime soon. He said that I did an excellent job covering for my old lead, and he was impressed, but I needed to work on not getting stressed out, even tho I was improving. He said he didn't feel like it was time for me to be promoted.
Ok, so let me get this straight. I managed a department for 6 weeks with only one other associate when we should have had at least 4 more, but yet still never fell behind in work. I managed to persuade this guy to NOT quit and encouraged him that we would be ok. I see how it is.
And this asshole for a lead is two steps from getting my fist to his face. This girl who I was talking to earlier (the one I'd like to fuck) was saying "If I was a guy, I'd run up that ass and punch his lights out!" And I told her I was on the verge of doing it, and she was like "DO IT! DO IT!"
Ahhhhh....I feel better for ranting....thanks for listening.
So about this girl, what should I do? They don't allow associates who work at the same store to have romantic relationshis, and ther's also a risk of sexual harrassment if she really doesn't like me. But I'll be talking to her and be reading an email from corporate or something and she'll lean on me and rub against my side and move her head closer to read. Or she'll ever so slightly rub up against me when walking by. She flirts with me a lot. And there are times when our eyes will catch eachother and for a split second it seems like there's a spark between us. It's hard to explain.
But I have tried several times inviting her out when me and my buddy go out, or go to a super bowl party, or something like that. She doesn't outright deny, but she kinda sidesteps.
Do I just blatantly ask her out for a cup of coffee or continue with the small talk. it seems like our small talk gets more and more lengthy, and the more and more she'll rub up against me.
She doesn't have a boyfriend, but she did just get over a relationship a month ago, and she does have a kid (while not bad, I wasn't really looking forward to dating a girl with a kid). And then there's the work policies. I'm tempted to say fuck it and just outright ask her out. I somehow have a feeling that she might also be thinking the same thing about policies, and I know she plans on leaving in June. Maybe she's waiting until then to say yss or not to even going out on a Saturday night meeting up with me or doing anything.
I dunno. I'm confused. The way she was talking, it seems like she broke up with her boyfriend because of me. She's asked me a couple of times what I would do in certain situations and then tells me that her then-boyfriend did this or that in said situation. She made him out to be a dumbass. LOL.
Should I wait?
God, wtf is wrong today? The three managers where I work seem to have an urge to make everyone's lives a miserable time for those who chose to work there. A manager who just came on in November is already wanting to quit. She called my general manager an asshole, and he replied with an "I try to be." I thought managers were supposed to build confidence in their employees and treat them with respect. There is a huge double-standard, and the crap that is going on is nothing short of abusive.
It's kinda funny. I was talking to this other girl who I'd consider a friend, and we were talking about how this place (work) sucks and giving each other tips on job sites. We walk out of the back room and go our seperate ways. I'm standing at the register with this girl (who I would fuck in an instant if she gave me the chance) and she was saying how she hated working here. I'm like "yeah, funny you should say that. Me and ***** were talking about that in the back of the store." And then the "GOOD" manager comes in and she complains about the sucky job. Everyone wants to quit. Morale is the worst I have ever seen it in 6 years in retail, even worse than when I worked at a factory that was talking about laying off 75% of it's workers.
I have no urge to perform any work beyond what I have to do. I'm even starting to provide gradually worse customer service because I have stopped caring, and I've seen it in the same people I was talking to earlier today. We don't care.
There's a meeting on the 20th of this month. I have a feeling it's going to probably stop short of a fistf fight betwen 18 employees and 3 managers.
A lot of it is the fault of the managers, but some of it also falls on the corporate shoulders too. They have drastically changed their incentive program to almost nothing. And once a regular associate makes a certain amount, they are stuck getting 2% raises until they move up.
That's fine, but in my case, I'm literally screwed. I was told at my last review that I had hit the pay ceiling, and I would be getting a 2% raise. That's the type of raise they give for mediocre performance. Up until then I gave 110% every day. I went out of my way to find work to do, I took initiative, I did more than what was required of my job duties. I don't care anyomre. Mediocre raise gets shitty performance out of me.
Oh, and I was told that if I wanted a promotion I had to be less stressed out. Fine. I've been working on that. I was told when my old department lead went out on maternal leave, I would be running the show, but not receiving any extra incentive, just if I did a good job, I'd then have proven to them that I deserve a promotion. I had to bite my tongue so I didn't lash out atthis ass during my review. Fine, i need to prove myself, even thou I had been with the store for 3 years and gotten employee of the month at least 7 times in that time.
So before my old lead went out, we lost a couple of associates off of our already thinned out department. When she went out, it was me and one other associate in the department. I persuaded him that we could get through it, and we did. We were caught up, even ahead, on work that needed to be done, and getting pretty good sales numbers (I hate sales, and I am not a numbers guy, so I wasn't really driving this). Then my old lead made it known before she came back that she didn't feel like she wanted to stay in the department and she felt more comfortable in her old department. So, instead of promoting me, they moved my now current asshole---err---lead. This guy got a bogus promotion by a bogus manager a couple of years ago and his head is about 5 miles big. And he's an absolute idiot. Everything is business and numbers to him, and when you joke around, he gets pissed.
So, I asked my general manager a couple of weeks ago what was going on and if there were any promotions that might be happening anytime soon. He said that I did an excellent job covering for my old lead, and he was impressed, but I needed to work on not getting stressed out, even tho I was improving. He said he didn't feel like it was time for me to be promoted.
Ok, so let me get this straight. I managed a department for 6 weeks with only one other associate when we should have had at least 4 more, but yet still never fell behind in work. I managed to persuade this guy to NOT quit and encouraged him that we would be ok. I see how it is.
And this asshole for a lead is two steps from getting my fist to his face. This girl who I was talking to earlier (the one I'd like to fuck) was saying "If I was a guy, I'd run up that ass and punch his lights out!" And I told her I was on the verge of doing it, and she was like "DO IT! DO IT!"
Ahhhhh....I feel better for ranting....thanks for listening.
So about this girl, what should I do? They don't allow associates who work at the same store to have romantic relationshis, and ther's also a risk of sexual harrassment if she really doesn't like me. But I'll be talking to her and be reading an email from corporate or something and she'll lean on me and rub against my side and move her head closer to read. Or she'll ever so slightly rub up against me when walking by. She flirts with me a lot. And there are times when our eyes will catch eachother and for a split second it seems like there's a spark between us. It's hard to explain.
But I have tried several times inviting her out when me and my buddy go out, or go to a super bowl party, or something like that. She doesn't outright deny, but she kinda sidesteps.
Do I just blatantly ask her out for a cup of coffee or continue with the small talk. it seems like our small talk gets more and more lengthy, and the more and more she'll rub up against me.
She doesn't have a boyfriend, but she did just get over a relationship a month ago, and she does have a kid (while not bad, I wasn't really looking forward to dating a girl with a kid). And then there's the work policies. I'm tempted to say fuck it and just outright ask her out. I somehow have a feeling that she might also be thinking the same thing about policies, and I know she plans on leaving in June. Maybe she's waiting until then to say yss or not to even going out on a Saturday night meeting up with me or doing anything.
I dunno. I'm confused. The way she was talking, it seems like she broke up with her boyfriend because of me. She's asked me a couple of times what I would do in certain situations and then tells me that her then-boyfriend did this or that in said situation. She made him out to be a dumbass. LOL.
Should I wait?
saida:
careful with the ones that just get out of relationships... but I say ask her out to coffee.. ya never know and whats the worste that could happen?? 
sillyzebra:
