Laiwing
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The longing heart does not choose.
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Post by Laiwing on Aug 13, 2006 16:55:30 GMT -5
Bucket load here, folks:
Last year, my manager up and quit. Just like that. Gone.
First reaction: THANK ALL MY VARIOUS GODS! Second reaction: Oh, Gods, who's doing the schedual? Third reaction: When's he bringing back Napoliaon Dynamite? Fourth reaction:.... We don't have a manager?
That started a three month run where my store had, in effect, no manager. It was me and two other people who all but ran that store. During the Christmas season, at that. Most of us half-trained, and doing everything but making the schedual and doing new hires.
Now we've got a new, kind, good manager. I like her muches.
Then we got two new employies. By this point, I'm the only one left from the previous management. The first one didn't do most of his work, and what he did do had to be redone.
The second one robed us blind and said that Dara didn't know how to run a busines. She was eighteen.
Then, I go to Gatlinburg and Pidgon Forge for three days. I come back to find the whole store a shambles. Movies recived wrong and had to be completly redone (ON A FRIKIN' SATURDAY!), the Gallery (Movies a year or more old) was back to the point where I was afraid to go into it without a macheete, and the Wall nearly torn to bits.
I've been there a year and several months. I CAN'T LEAVE THIS DARN PLACE WITHOUT IT GOING TO he** IN A HANDBASKET!
Thank you. Responses welcome.
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Post by Laurasia on Aug 14, 2006 12:30:23 GMT -5
~hugs Laiwing~
I think that you & I may have a similar "disorder"...The bulk of the work/orgainizing etc of the job is expected from you, yet you have no real "position" or recognition for all of that work. I often have the same problem & yes it is extremely irritating, if not maddening. The best job I've ever had was when I was actually the manager of the business, things ran smoothly, everything got done, etc. Alas the owner retired & closed the business when she did so. That was the end of that. So now I'm back to being an unappreciated, unrecognized "go-to-girl".
Sincerely, Laurasia
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Post by Brandybuck on Aug 15, 2006 13:57:02 GMT -5
Being that Laurasia and I work at the same place, I can totally agree with her. If it isn't her, guess who the go-to lackey is? Only problem is that when it comes down to REAL decision-making..I know nothing. All of a sudden I am wrong, and should see everything their way. Well, I am not sorry that I am more than one-sided. Couple that with the paranoia that everyone shares at the place, and the total disregard for our planet that they seem not to care about..I am waiting for the moment where my teeth are going to go through my bottom lip.
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Laiwing
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The longing heart does not choose.
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Post by Laiwing on Aug 17, 2006 11:32:25 GMT -5
If we can make 1000 more dollars a week or month, we can move up a level and I can be the Assistant Store Manager.
Gaurentied thirty-eight hours a week, higher pay....
So much better than the lousy seventeen hours I got this week.
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Laiwing
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The longing heart does not choose.
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Post by Laiwing on Aug 21, 2006 8:54:35 GMT -5
Back to the parents.
Mom and I got into a fight. Again. This time she finished it with "Stop being a witch!"
While I am still unsure if she meant "Stop being a b****", and just didn't want to say it, or if she was using witch in a deragtaory manner, the easily offended part of me took it as a slur and finally just told her to stop saying it. She asked if I would rather her say b**** and I told her yes, as at least then she would be accurate.
Are all mothers like this, or am I just really unlucky?
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Post by Shadow on Aug 22, 2006 12:53:24 GMT -5
If there's one thing I can't stand, it's ignorance. After yet another lengthy discussion with Julie, Kim, and Sean... I found out that Sean is not only a self praised jerk, he dubs anything he doesn't know about to be either magical/mystical or fake altogether. Somehow we wondered off to talking about witches, people who practice magic, the unexplained world (e.i. werewolves, vampires), levitation, and other things like that. He tells us he doesn't believe in any of it, it's all fake, and there's no way the human body could fight a force as great as gravity. Yet he believes that someone, with the right training, can absorb vibrations from the ground and successfully preform the one inch punch. I asked did they believe in actual vampires. He goes on with his, there's no way this, no way that, it's just a fetish-like mental disorder... yada yada yada. I tell him it's not a mental disorder, but something missing from the persons body/system, per say an iron deficiency, and here he goes again, no it's not... blah blah blah. By this time, I'm completely pissed, not eating, not talking, just staring off at nothing. Threw my food away, gave Julie and Kim a hug and told them I was going to leave. Without saying anything else to him, I left It's not so much that he doesn't believe, it's just most people who think they know everything, really know almost nothing. And to bad mouth something you don't know about just... I don't like it and I won't sit around and deal with it. How can someone believe that one can "absorb" vibrations from the ground, yet completely reject the fact that people can actually get something from blood? (other than self satisfaction which is a blood fetish) I wasn't really in the mood to argue with him, so I just left before I popped off the wrong way and got expelled before college even started. People like him really rub me the wrong way.... grr...
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Post by Laurasia on Aug 28, 2006 14:47:36 GMT -5
Yeah, I think that most parents can be like that Laiwing. LOL! I think that it comes down to the point that some people can be nastiest to the people that they are are closest with. It's as though they think that their closeness leaves the other person open to behavior that they would never dream of showing to strangers. As if all will always be forgiven because of their closeness. OMG Stitch, I know the exact type of person that you're speaking of! My father is that type of person. And he, my mother, & my niece have just arrived today for a week-long visit! It started almost immediately. I simply can't stand the nastiness that so easily comes from his lips! He just makes nasty statements non-chalantly, as though he thinks that he is amusing or something. I tell you he absolutely is not! For example, I was showing them some genealogy items that I have received since I saw them last. They happen to be from his side of the family, since I've never had much luck in finding anything out about my mother's side. When I told them that he looks at my mom & says "Yeah, that's because you're family hadn't left the trees yet." Which he laughs loudly about afterwards. GRRR!!! I walked away mumbling under my breath about his apparent need to be a jerk every waking moment of his life. And he is vicious bigot! I won't post here the things that he says (mostly without provocation) about different "types" of people, as I'm sure that you are all familiar with the derogative terms. (Not to mention that I don't allow any of them or there counterparts on any of my sites & would have to ban myself for using them. LOL!) And he's just as bad about anyone's beliefs! (He is a staunch Athiest.) He basically puts off that air that people who are either non-caucasian &/or have any spiritual beliefs are "backwards & useless". But get this....I let him read a letter that was written by his grandmother to one of his aunts back in 1927. My aunt had given it to me &, being another genealogist, wrote down my great-grandmother's maiden name & other vital stats on the back - including her maiden name. My father saw this & says, in his nasty, sarcastic tone "If this is my grandmotehr why is her name different from mine?" I explained that the name was her maiden name. He scowled & says "Well she married my grandfather & took his name so that doesn't matter." I just looked at him for a moment in disbelief & told him that I needed her maiden name in order to look up her family. I mean come on! He is always like this. He only cares about the patriarchal side of his family, never about the women's families - as though they have nothing to do with any of us being here! Yet he claims that patriarchal socieities are "backwards"!
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Post by Shadow on Aug 28, 2006 15:35:25 GMT -5
I haven't seen him since then, gladly. He saw me down the hall way this morning and gave me a hug telling me how much he missed me being there at the meals and all that crap. Yeah it's just that... crap. Julie tolerates him, Kim can't stand him. But I was nice, for once, and to get away quick I told him I had to finish reading a section before class.... jerk.
Aww... you're response turned into a rant. ;D lol
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Post by Laurasia on Aug 29, 2006 12:01:05 GMT -5
Yeah it did. LOL! You guys can probably expect more of them by the end of the week too.
~sigh~
Sincerely, Laurasia
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Post by Brandybuck on Sept 2, 2006 12:20:16 GMT -5
Aww, Laurasia *hugs*
I will make my rant quick and simple. You niece is a spolied BLEEP!! LOL.
Seriously, I would never let a kid act that way.
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Post by Shadow on Sept 18, 2006 22:28:45 GMT -5
There's so much I want to tell her... yet I can't say a word....
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Post by Laurasia on Sept 19, 2006 12:26:06 GMT -5
~hugs~
Just tell her sweety. You can't let things fester like this. I wouldn't be surprised if this whole thing has a lot to do with your recent insomnia.
Sincerely, Laurasia
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Post by Shadow on Sept 20, 2006 8:54:00 GMT -5
I tried telling her last night... and got the last result I wanted. Still couldn't sleep either. I won't go into too much detail here, don't want to dump my personal issues out for everyone to rag on, you know? I want to try to explain it better but I just can't find the right way or the right words. I know this doesn't seem like much of a rant by the wording, but everything going on in my mind is....
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Post by Laurasia on Sept 20, 2006 10:40:45 GMT -5
It's okay sweety. Working out such issues is never comfortable, easy, or fun - not even in the near future. But it will be for the best in the end, no matter what happens. Just remember that we don't always see what is truly the best for us until some time later. ~hugs~
Sincerely, Laurasia
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Post by Shadow on Sept 24, 2006 3:29:19 GMT -5
Well Laurasia, I think that situation is taken care of for the most part.
Some of the people I work with are a******s to say the least. I've learned real quick how they are/act. Hey, let's get some tips for working. 1) Ok if you get off at 10, guess what I was supposed to too. When you know about 50 people come in at the same time and there's only like 6 people left working... you don't bail out. 2) Don't try to be cute and flirt with some guys then try to say they're your cousins when I not only saw you, but I heard what you were saying. 3) When someone hands you a broom, yes it's called a broom!, just do what they ask... especially if it's a manager. 4) When asked to straighten up the restrooms... just do it man come on, it's not like you have to scrub the toilets or anything. 5) If you make a mistake, just tell them. Be honest about it, especially to the customers.
Follow these little tips and you might not get fired... like two people did tonight!
hehe... ok I feel better now. ;D
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