ARGHHHHHHH!
All is not well in Tarnish Land...when is it ever lately??
I'll try to keep this as short as possible.
I've been sick for over a week. Despite being sick I've continued to work hard, while watching my store manager shirk off his duties, sit on his ass, and pressure everyone else to do a better job.(he's been doing this since I started, and I've been tempted to take it over his head many, many times, but being that he and my husband are friends...I always let it go.
My boss recently knocked up his girlfriend. He told me last week that he was going to get married this weekend. I was the only one in the store he told until yesterday. In a store with a staff as small as ours, that is vital information for everyone because it basically means that no one else can have friday-monday off.
I woke up today, and threw up twice, as well as other things I won't put you through the trauma of reading. I called to see if my boss could find someone to cover for me, and he told me he would need a doctors note, or that he'd have to write me up. Ok, fine, I dont have a car right now, can't get to the doctor, write me up.
He didn't call me back to say he wasnt able to find coverage. If he had of, I would have gone in despite being sick. Something I told both he and my ASM last time I was sick. If they are ever unable to find coverage, call me back, I'll come in anyway. But he chose not to do that, instead I get a message on my cell from his girlfriend telling me that it's really fucking rude of me to call in sick the day before their wedding because my boss had to work all day. Her message was about a minute and a half long. Telling me how selfish I am for calling out, and that she knows it's unprofessional of her to be calling but that she just wanted to tell me how fucked up it was for me to do that, and that she doesn't care if I'm pissed off, because she's pissed off.
needless to say, that message came as a bit of a shock to me, seeing as how she doesn't work for gamestop, and is not my boss. and it is in no way her place to call me to tell me off. If anyone should have called me it should have been him. And seeing as she not only works in the same shopping center, but comes in to my store, every single day to see my boss, this is all going to cause nothing but drama in my work place. I don't feel comfortable working with him knowing that his girlfriend will show up and there will be all this hostility and animosity between us. It will effect my work performance. I just don't understand why he didnt call me to tell me he couldn't find anyone. It didnt even have to get to this.
I'm torn now because I know they will be leaving fairly soon to move up north. So i'm hoping to just ride it out. but on the other hand, I'm so offended that she chose to take it upon herself to call me and chew me out, that i want to inform my district manager of the situation and see if I can get transfered sooner. I'm so torn, and I'm so stressed out, that I will probably still be sick a week from now because despite having the day off to try and get better, I've had to deal with all of this fucking bullshit. so yeah, arghhh.
Update:
I received a call from my district manager today. Apparently my boss called him, and I have no idea what he told him, but my DM asked me to recount our conversation yesterday when i called in. I told him what was said, and he told me to go ahead and take the weekend off(I was scheduled to close both today and tomorrow, as well as monday) and that I would be payed for it, but that he wants to make sure I get better and that he will be there when I come in on tuesday to help rectify the situation. I then told him that I had planned on emailing him last night to explain the situation and also to inform him of the voicemail I got from my bosses girlfriend. He asked if I'd saved the message, which I did, and he asked that i play it for him on tuesday when I come in. On top of that my boss called in another store manager to open today, and my ASM will be closing, which was my shift. So I'm not sure what exactly is going on but it all seems very fishy to me. I've never been written up for anything, and I really don't think I should be fired over this, and actually i think that if they were going to fire me, they would have simply suspended me until our next pay day and then handed me my last check. But I'm getting payed for the weekend...so I'm utterly confused. I came right out and asked if I was going to be fired over it, and my DM said no. I don't know if I can use that as any sort of garantee, but I'd love to think I could.
Whats fucked is that until a week and a half ago, my boss has basically done nothing in our store, me and the ASM have been running the show pretty much since I got promoted. My ASM, myself, and our fourth key, as well as all of our game advisors got together and wrote out a list of all the things my boss does/did that went against company policy or that caused our staff to struggle with our workload(ie. Watching baseball/football games on the stores TV, sitting down for nearly a whole shift, not finishing shipment, leaving early...) We all agreed on everything written, and we each signed it. We made plans to have a manager meeting to bring the issues to light with him, but for one reason or another, it just didnt happen. Again, his friendship with my husband has a lot to do with why I've not said anything thus far. But now that he's going to have a kid, and wants to move closer to his mom, he's hoping to get transfered. And in order to make that happen. He has to actually try. But now he's pressuring everyone else, and threatening write-ups for all sorts of shit. Now that he's looking for somehting to benefit himself, he's making us work even harder than we already were. I'm just hoping that our regional manager will notice the sudden increase in nates performance, and that he will also take a look at his performance history and see that he's basically been a lazy fucker for the past year and a half, if not longer. I'm hoping they will see through the fire he has under his ass right now, and realise that once he feels he is in the clear he'll go right back to getting paid for doing nothing.
I was also under the impression that the reason store managers get paid as much as they do is because when someone can't come in, regardless of them having already completed their shift, they are supposed to stay. In fact, I'm almost positive that's part of the risk in being a store manager. My husband has done it, as well as just about every other store manager in the company, so instead of just dealing with it and doing his job, he's chosen to turn it into something personal. Not to mention that he has been putting off hiring anyone new despite the fact that two of our best employees had to leave because of school. We were already understaffed as it was. It really seems that all of this could have been avoided if he'd just do a better job as a store manager. I'm just really hoping our DM will be able to see through all the bullshit.
All is not well in Tarnish Land...when is it ever lately??
I'll try to keep this as short as possible.
I've been sick for over a week. Despite being sick I've continued to work hard, while watching my store manager shirk off his duties, sit on his ass, and pressure everyone else to do a better job.(he's been doing this since I started, and I've been tempted to take it over his head many, many times, but being that he and my husband are friends...I always let it go.
My boss recently knocked up his girlfriend. He told me last week that he was going to get married this weekend. I was the only one in the store he told until yesterday. In a store with a staff as small as ours, that is vital information for everyone because it basically means that no one else can have friday-monday off.
I woke up today, and threw up twice, as well as other things I won't put you through the trauma of reading. I called to see if my boss could find someone to cover for me, and he told me he would need a doctors note, or that he'd have to write me up. Ok, fine, I dont have a car right now, can't get to the doctor, write me up.
He didn't call me back to say he wasnt able to find coverage. If he had of, I would have gone in despite being sick. Something I told both he and my ASM last time I was sick. If they are ever unable to find coverage, call me back, I'll come in anyway. But he chose not to do that, instead I get a message on my cell from his girlfriend telling me that it's really fucking rude of me to call in sick the day before their wedding because my boss had to work all day. Her message was about a minute and a half long. Telling me how selfish I am for calling out, and that she knows it's unprofessional of her to be calling but that she just wanted to tell me how fucked up it was for me to do that, and that she doesn't care if I'm pissed off, because she's pissed off.
needless to say, that message came as a bit of a shock to me, seeing as how she doesn't work for gamestop, and is not my boss. and it is in no way her place to call me to tell me off. If anyone should have called me it should have been him. And seeing as she not only works in the same shopping center, but comes in to my store, every single day to see my boss, this is all going to cause nothing but drama in my work place. I don't feel comfortable working with him knowing that his girlfriend will show up and there will be all this hostility and animosity between us. It will effect my work performance. I just don't understand why he didnt call me to tell me he couldn't find anyone. It didnt even have to get to this.
I'm torn now because I know they will be leaving fairly soon to move up north. So i'm hoping to just ride it out. but on the other hand, I'm so offended that she chose to take it upon herself to call me and chew me out, that i want to inform my district manager of the situation and see if I can get transfered sooner. I'm so torn, and I'm so stressed out, that I will probably still be sick a week from now because despite having the day off to try and get better, I've had to deal with all of this fucking bullshit. so yeah, arghhh.
Update:
I received a call from my district manager today. Apparently my boss called him, and I have no idea what he told him, but my DM asked me to recount our conversation yesterday when i called in. I told him what was said, and he told me to go ahead and take the weekend off(I was scheduled to close both today and tomorrow, as well as monday) and that I would be payed for it, but that he wants to make sure I get better and that he will be there when I come in on tuesday to help rectify the situation. I then told him that I had planned on emailing him last night to explain the situation and also to inform him of the voicemail I got from my bosses girlfriend. He asked if I'd saved the message, which I did, and he asked that i play it for him on tuesday when I come in. On top of that my boss called in another store manager to open today, and my ASM will be closing, which was my shift. So I'm not sure what exactly is going on but it all seems very fishy to me. I've never been written up for anything, and I really don't think I should be fired over this, and actually i think that if they were going to fire me, they would have simply suspended me until our next pay day and then handed me my last check. But I'm getting payed for the weekend...so I'm utterly confused. I came right out and asked if I was going to be fired over it, and my DM said no. I don't know if I can use that as any sort of garantee, but I'd love to think I could.
Whats fucked is that until a week and a half ago, my boss has basically done nothing in our store, me and the ASM have been running the show pretty much since I got promoted. My ASM, myself, and our fourth key, as well as all of our game advisors got together and wrote out a list of all the things my boss does/did that went against company policy or that caused our staff to struggle with our workload(ie. Watching baseball/football games on the stores TV, sitting down for nearly a whole shift, not finishing shipment, leaving early...) We all agreed on everything written, and we each signed it. We made plans to have a manager meeting to bring the issues to light with him, but for one reason or another, it just didnt happen. Again, his friendship with my husband has a lot to do with why I've not said anything thus far. But now that he's going to have a kid, and wants to move closer to his mom, he's hoping to get transfered. And in order to make that happen. He has to actually try. But now he's pressuring everyone else, and threatening write-ups for all sorts of shit. Now that he's looking for somehting to benefit himself, he's making us work even harder than we already were. I'm just hoping that our regional manager will notice the sudden increase in nates performance, and that he will also take a look at his performance history and see that he's basically been a lazy fucker for the past year and a half, if not longer. I'm hoping they will see through the fire he has under his ass right now, and realise that once he feels he is in the clear he'll go right back to getting paid for doing nothing.
I was also under the impression that the reason store managers get paid as much as they do is because when someone can't come in, regardless of them having already completed their shift, they are supposed to stay. In fact, I'm almost positive that's part of the risk in being a store manager. My husband has done it, as well as just about every other store manager in the company, so instead of just dealing with it and doing his job, he's chosen to turn it into something personal. Not to mention that he has been putting off hiring anyone new despite the fact that two of our best employees had to leave because of school. We were already understaffed as it was. It really seems that all of this could have been avoided if he'd just do a better job as a store manager. I'm just really hoping our DM will be able to see through all the bullshit.
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whatever happened with the above situation?