Retail Hell - The Management Game
Sep. 7th, 2006 12:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darkhavensI don't mention RL stuff here that often, but I feel a need to vent, so brace yourselves.
For those who don't know, I live in a tiny ancient town (first settled 500BC) on the edge of Dartmoor in England - Hound of the Baskervilles country. I work in one of the two small grocery stores in town. I have worked there for 7.5 years, mainly because it's 2 minutes walk from my home and I don't drive so employment opportunities are limited.
In those 7.5 years I have had 6 'permanent' managers and have lost count of the temporary trolls who have passed through. I was hoping that the latest one, Simon, would be here for a while. He has a family, a mortgage, is stable, cheerful, honest, a good worker, etc etc.
He also had a hernia, which was operated on during the last week of July, and has been recovering ever since. He was due back next week.
Today I get in to work to find a sign on the notice board - Simon is no longer the manager. The position will be advertised in the press and until then, we are to struggle on as we have been doing for the past weeks. That is to say badly. Note the complete lack of explanation as to why Simon is no longer manager.
I hate breaking in new managers. They screw up the ordering, try to mess with my shifts, and always come up with 'new' ideas that I've already seen fail over and over again.
So, here's waiting for manager #7 to show up. This one has to be a keeper, right?
For those who don't know, I live in a tiny ancient town (first settled 500BC) on the edge of Dartmoor in England - Hound of the Baskervilles country. I work in one of the two small grocery stores in town. I have worked there for 7.5 years, mainly because it's 2 minutes walk from my home and I don't drive so employment opportunities are limited.
In those 7.5 years I have had 6 'permanent' managers and have lost count of the temporary trolls who have passed through. I was hoping that the latest one, Simon, would be here for a while. He has a family, a mortgage, is stable, cheerful, honest, a good worker, etc etc.
He also had a hernia, which was operated on during the last week of July, and has been recovering ever since. He was due back next week.
Today I get in to work to find a sign on the notice board - Simon is no longer the manager. The position will be advertised in the press and until then, we are to struggle on as we have been doing for the past weeks. That is to say badly. Note the complete lack of explanation as to why Simon is no longer manager.
I hate breaking in new managers. They screw up the ordering, try to mess with my shifts, and always come up with 'new' ideas that I've already seen fail over and over again.
So, here's waiting for manager #7 to show up. This one has to be a keeper, right?
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on 2006-09-06 11:41 pm (UTC)So, you don't get the courtesy of being told that Simon isn't coming back, never mind why? No telling what's happened to the poor bastard. If the company is as useless as it sounds, it could be that he's found something else during his time off recuperating from the op.
New managers always want to reinvent the wheel. Worse, they want to imprint their own personality. Assuming they have one.
Bitter? What makes you think that?
I feel for you, hon, I really do. The next one will hopefully be a keeper. It's about time you had a break and the odds are in your favour. Prediction courtesy of William Hill.
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on 2006-09-07 12:03 am (UTC)I wouldn't blame him if he had found something better, and the timing makes me think that that might be the case, otherwise WTF? he's been off for five weeks, he's due back next week and they suddenly decide to get rid? Very odd.
Still sucky though. Thanks! *smooch*