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Okay, I'm going to hit on a subject that I know some of you can relate to. So you should understand where I'm coming from with this. Now this is not about me, this is about my girlfriend. I just got off the phone with her and she was in tears, I know what it was about and I knew it was coming, but I still had the outside chance of hard work actually paying off for someone.
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*start rant*
So my girlfriend works at a retail store and not to directly call this store but its name, I'll just say that it's a place that would make you not want to grow up. She's been there for two years now and works front end. She busts her ass out day in and day out, she shows up to work on time, never calls in, and always bails people out of trouble.
The previous front end supervisor was a total flake, she never did her job and always passed of her duties to my girlfriend even though it was against the rules. But, my girlfriend never batted an eyelash and did these things. While the department supervisor slacked, my girlfriend took responsibility and did all of the supervisor's work for her.
She even corrected mistakes that the supervisor made that would have cause the store to fail the LP audits. Just to sum up how much my gf worked her ass off, EVERYONE would always tell her that the store falls apart when she's not there and she helps make the store in general a more calmer place.
Well not only does she handle the front end, around this time last year she moved into the cash office. Which basically is what is, she handles the money each morning, makes the deposits, and sets up the registers before the store opens. And she totally took charge of the job and has been doing it every since, she was at least the main cash office person.
Let's go back to earlier this year, one morning she noticed something going through paperwork. Thousands of dollars were not accounted for. So she brought it up the manager and after further investigating found out that one of the CSR's stole over $20,000...but here's the thing he could not have acted alone and needed someone on the "inside" to pull off the scam. That person needed to be in the cash office and the only person besides by girlfriend who worked cash office was the front end supervisor.
Well the store manager couldn't accuse her of having a hand in it, so she didn't get busted. And the funny thing is that she would break SP left and right but would only get slaps on the wrist. Not to mention how she conveniently got hurt right before the Christmas season and conveniently came back to work right after the holiday season. And you know who took charge of the front end during the holiday season?
Yup, my girlfriend.
So finally early April, the front end supervisor got another job offer and took it. So that position opened up and everyone was pulling for my girlfriend to take over since she basically knew the job front and back. All of the department supervisors and the current and former assistant managers all gave her the vote of confidence.
Well about two weeks ago the District Manager and the Store Manager were interviewing the candidates, all three of them. Let me run down the candidates for you.
1. 40 year old woman who has had management experience at Wal*Mart and K-Mart. However she came off as a total flake, not to mention they weren't really wanting to outsource for this job.
2. An 18 year old stoner/borderline alcoholic. She hasn't even been there a year and she has is the pricing coordinator for the store despite not having any prior retail experience. She's currently making $12 an hour.
3. My girlfriend who is older and has more leadership experience than you can shake a stick at. And like I've stated before, she already knows the job and has excelled at said job. Not to mention she's done all of this working barely above min. wage
Once the interview was over, she was upset because she didn't think it went well because they only gave her 15 minutes while the other two had 90 minutes each. I tried to reinforce positive thoughts by telling her that they may not have needed that much time with you because they already knew how good she was.
As time went on, this whole thing stressed out her and me. I knew how much she deserved the job, pretty much everyone who works there knew she deserved it. Yet, they were stalling on making the decision. Well the last few weeks they had my girlfriend train girl #2 in the cash room. This is understandable as they need another body in there since my gf was the only person left that is trained in there. And they needed someone since she is going to Lexington for the week starting tomorrow.
And let me say that from what I've been told, the girl has done nothing but FAIL since being trained in there. My girlfriend would have to go in each morning she works and literally make corrections to all of the paperwork that the other girl smurfed up on.
They told her that she would find out if she got the job on Monday, Monday come and she wasn't told anything. Well then they told her that she would find out on Thursday like everyone else, but she had Thursday off. Well she was told "Oh well then you'll just have to wait until Friday."
So forward to about an hour ago, she called me bawling her eyes out because they gave girl #2 the job over her. And the manager had the audacity to tell her that she didn't get the job because "she wasn't responsible enough to handle the job."
Nevermind the fact that she has basically done the job for a year now, how she has NEVER scored below a 90 on her evaluations whereas the last eval came back and the girl who got the position scored a 14! That's 14 out of 100, mind you. Ontop of that they've started a star system where you get little pins on your name badge to show off how well you do. Well the girlfriend is getting 4 stars whereas the other girl is only getting 1. Chew on that for a minute.
And if we go into character flaws let's get into the fact that this girl is a known pot head and heavy drinker who has called off work repeatedly because she's either A) Drunk B) Getting high C) A and B or D) Hung over. Not to mention she's come to work drunk before, I don't think that's something you should be doing let alone at a kids store.
I think the most mind boggling thing of is that MY GIRLFRIEND TRAINED THE GIRL TO BE A SUPERVISOR. Okay say that with me, my girlfriend basically trained the girl on how to run the front end and cash office so she can become my girlfriends SUPERVISOR.
*ahem*
And I think what frustrates me the most is that I gave up my job there so she would be able to take the supervisor job once it became available.
See, I worked at a store with a big red bullseye for while and literally two weeks before Christmas they fired me without any explanation. Well my girlfriend talked to the assistant manger and then to the HR person and they gave me an interview. They hired me on the spot and I worked there for literally two weeks.
Well I had figured they would offer me a job past Christmas, which I was going to turn down for the reasons I stated before. However, the store manager found out and decided just to let me go the day after Christmas. And the funny thing was that my girlfriend was the one who told me the news. Although all of the supervisors and Asst. Manager had a vote on who to keep and they all voted to keep me because they knew I was a hard worker and I knew my crap.
About two months ago, the new HR guy specifically asked my girlfriend if I would be interested in coming back because he knew I was a good employee. I balked at that chance because I didn't want to ruin any chances my girlfriend had.
Now everything went down the crapter, I know have an upset girlfriend and rage that I can not begin to describe right now. I'm usually cool, calm, and collected but this angers me to no end. It seems like no matter how hard we work, we never get the recognition we deserve.
*end rant*
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Hopefully all of you actually read that, I know I spewed off a lot, but this is the only way I can release steam without causing damage to something.
Good thing the gf's best friend picked her up from work today or I would've caused a scene at the store and rip the crotchety old geez a new one.
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*start rant*
So my girlfriend works at a retail store and not to directly call this store but its name, I'll just say that it's a place that would make you not want to grow up. She's been there for two years now and works front end. She busts her ass out day in and day out, she shows up to work on time, never calls in, and always bails people out of trouble.
The previous front end supervisor was a total flake, she never did her job and always passed of her duties to my girlfriend even though it was against the rules. But, my girlfriend never batted an eyelash and did these things. While the department supervisor slacked, my girlfriend took responsibility and did all of the supervisor's work for her.
She even corrected mistakes that the supervisor made that would have cause the store to fail the LP audits. Just to sum up how much my gf worked her ass off, EVERYONE would always tell her that the store falls apart when she's not there and she helps make the store in general a more calmer place.
Well not only does she handle the front end, around this time last year she moved into the cash office. Which basically is what is, she handles the money each morning, makes the deposits, and sets up the registers before the store opens. And she totally took charge of the job and has been doing it every since, she was at least the main cash office person.
Let's go back to earlier this year, one morning she noticed something going through paperwork. Thousands of dollars were not accounted for. So she brought it up the manager and after further investigating found out that one of the CSR's stole over $20,000...but here's the thing he could not have acted alone and needed someone on the "inside" to pull off the scam. That person needed to be in the cash office and the only person besides by girlfriend who worked cash office was the front end supervisor.
Well the store manager couldn't accuse her of having a hand in it, so she didn't get busted. And the funny thing is that she would break SP left and right but would only get slaps on the wrist. Not to mention how she conveniently got hurt right before the Christmas season and conveniently came back to work right after the holiday season. And you know who took charge of the front end during the holiday season?
Yup, my girlfriend.
So finally early April, the front end supervisor got another job offer and took it. So that position opened up and everyone was pulling for my girlfriend to take over since she basically knew the job front and back. All of the department supervisors and the current and former assistant managers all gave her the vote of confidence.
Well about two weeks ago the District Manager and the Store Manager were interviewing the candidates, all three of them. Let me run down the candidates for you.
1. 40 year old woman who has had management experience at Wal*Mart and K-Mart. However she came off as a total flake, not to mention they weren't really wanting to outsource for this job.
2. An 18 year old stoner/borderline alcoholic. She hasn't even been there a year and she has is the pricing coordinator for the store despite not having any prior retail experience. She's currently making $12 an hour.
3. My girlfriend who is older and has more leadership experience than you can shake a stick at. And like I've stated before, she already knows the job and has excelled at said job. Not to mention she's done all of this working barely above min. wage
Once the interview was over, she was upset because she didn't think it went well because they only gave her 15 minutes while the other two had 90 minutes each. I tried to reinforce positive thoughts by telling her that they may not have needed that much time with you because they already knew how good she was.
As time went on, this whole thing stressed out her and me. I knew how much she deserved the job, pretty much everyone who works there knew she deserved it. Yet, they were stalling on making the decision. Well the last few weeks they had my girlfriend train girl #2 in the cash room. This is understandable as they need another body in there since my gf was the only person left that is trained in there. And they needed someone since she is going to Lexington for the week starting tomorrow.
And let me say that from what I've been told, the girl has done nothing but FAIL since being trained in there. My girlfriend would have to go in each morning she works and literally make corrections to all of the paperwork that the other girl smurfed up on.
They told her that she would find out if she got the job on Monday, Monday come and she wasn't told anything. Well then they told her that she would find out on Thursday like everyone else, but she had Thursday off. Well she was told "Oh well then you'll just have to wait until Friday."
So forward to about an hour ago, she called me bawling her eyes out because they gave girl #2 the job over her. And the manager had the audacity to tell her that she didn't get the job because "she wasn't responsible enough to handle the job."
Nevermind the fact that she has basically done the job for a year now, how she has NEVER scored below a 90 on her evaluations whereas the last eval came back and the girl who got the position scored a 14! That's 14 out of 100, mind you. Ontop of that they've started a star system where you get little pins on your name badge to show off how well you do. Well the girlfriend is getting 4 stars whereas the other girl is only getting 1. Chew on that for a minute.
And if we go into character flaws let's get into the fact that this girl is a known pot head and heavy drinker who has called off work repeatedly because she's either A) Drunk B) Getting high C) A and B or D) Hung over. Not to mention she's come to work drunk before, I don't think that's something you should be doing let alone at a kids store.
I think the most mind boggling thing of is that MY GIRLFRIEND TRAINED THE GIRL TO BE A SUPERVISOR. Okay say that with me, my girlfriend basically trained the girl on how to run the front end and cash office so she can become my girlfriends SUPERVISOR.
*ahem*
And I think what frustrates me the most is that I gave up my job there so she would be able to take the supervisor job once it became available.
See, I worked at a store with a big red bullseye for while and literally two weeks before Christmas they fired me without any explanation. Well my girlfriend talked to the assistant manger and then to the HR person and they gave me an interview. They hired me on the spot and I worked there for literally two weeks.
Well I had figured they would offer me a job past Christmas, which I was going to turn down for the reasons I stated before. However, the store manager found out and decided just to let me go the day after Christmas. And the funny thing was that my girlfriend was the one who told me the news. Although all of the supervisors and Asst. Manager had a vote on who to keep and they all voted to keep me because they knew I was a hard worker and I knew my crap.
About two months ago, the new HR guy specifically asked my girlfriend if I would be interested in coming back because he knew I was a good employee. I balked at that chance because I didn't want to ruin any chances my girlfriend had.
Now everything went down the crapter, I know have an upset girlfriend and rage that I can not begin to describe right now. I'm usually cool, calm, and collected but this angers me to no end. It seems like no matter how hard we work, we never get the recognition we deserve.
*end rant*
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Hopefully all of you actually read that, I know I spewed off a lot, but this is the only way I can release steam without causing damage to something.
Good thing the gf's best friend picked her up from work today or I would've caused a scene at the store and rip the crotchety old geez a new one.