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Hmmmm...
A lot has changed.
Ok, so I didn't leave the company...I tried. Apparently they weren't as willing to let me go the day after I put in my two weeks notice. *shrug*
First off, why I put in my two weeks notice:
1) I'm tired of working 50-60 hours a week & getting paid for 40 hours. If you average it out, I'm getting paid about $7.00 an hour.
2) I'm tired of working 50-60 hours a week & being told I should work more.
3) I am given 87 payroll hours and get in trouble for my store looking bad and that I have someone coming in at 3 instead of 1 (the template says 2).
4) I am tired of cleaning up after my employees and fixing their mistakes.
5) I got in trouble for not having an immediate replacement the day after Dan put in his two week's notice.
6) I got in trouble for asking other local stores if they had an good employees or applications that might work for ASM.
7) I got put into a job w/o ANY training or help and get in trouble when I don't know how to do something.
8) Diane told me I acted like a two-year-old during her last store visit.
9) I am supposed to sit quietly and say "Yes, ma'am" and not question or defend a situation or problem.
10) I get in trouble for not calling Diane about a problem, but when I did I was told, "You're a manager. You need to be making those decisions. Not asking me."
11) I was told by Diane that she didn't think I was ready for the Christmas season as a manager, but hey! if you want to, go right ahead.
12) I want to go to college.
13) I hate the hour drive there and the hour drive back.
14) I'm 19 and have no life because my job consumes everything.
So I explained most of that more or less and it was agreed that it was my choice.
The next day rolls around and Diane calls me and tells me she doesn't want me to leave the company. She says I've put in three years and it would be a waste to throw that away. She told me during her whole career as a DM, she has NEVER promoted a third key to a store manager...before me. Let alone have a 19-year-old SM. She asked what she can do to make me stay. I tell her that I want to go to school, I don't want to drive two hours a day, and I'm 19 and I want the life of a 19-year-old. I like being store manager but it's not right for me at this time. She says that's fine and offers me the oppurtunity to go back to Bradenton (either the mall or Cortez Plaza) as an ASM. She said she will work around my school schedule and she commends me for going to school.
This is not quite what I expected, but I was glad to see I wasn't as disposable as I was made out to be. Diane says she wants me to be a store manager eventually. I want to be also, but not if it comes before school and not if it's in Sarasota. Oh well. I think I like this setup.
So anyways, now I'm going to school. Yay! I'm taking Philosophy, Topics Math, Film Appreciation, and Career Research.
Oh and I visited Chris at Gamestop when picking up a Dead Rising guide. We talked and I even gave him a hug. Do you know what I felt when I hugged him? Nothing! I walked out of the store smiling.
Things are starting to look up.
A lot has changed.
Ok, so I didn't leave the company...I tried. Apparently they weren't as willing to let me go the day after I put in my two weeks notice. *shrug*
First off, why I put in my two weeks notice:
1) I'm tired of working 50-60 hours a week & getting paid for 40 hours. If you average it out, I'm getting paid about $7.00 an hour.
2) I'm tired of working 50-60 hours a week & being told I should work more.
3) I am given 87 payroll hours and get in trouble for my store looking bad and that I have someone coming in at 3 instead of 1 (the template says 2).
4) I am tired of cleaning up after my employees and fixing their mistakes.
5) I got in trouble for not having an immediate replacement the day after Dan put in his two week's notice.
6) I got in trouble for asking other local stores if they had an good employees or applications that might work for ASM.
7) I got put into a job w/o ANY training or help and get in trouble when I don't know how to do something.
8) Diane told me I acted like a two-year-old during her last store visit.
9) I am supposed to sit quietly and say "Yes, ma'am" and not question or defend a situation or problem.
10) I get in trouble for not calling Diane about a problem, but when I did I was told, "You're a manager. You need to be making those decisions. Not asking me."
11) I was told by Diane that she didn't think I was ready for the Christmas season as a manager, but hey! if you want to, go right ahead.
12) I want to go to college.
13) I hate the hour drive there and the hour drive back.
14) I'm 19 and have no life because my job consumes everything.
So I explained most of that more or less and it was agreed that it was my choice.
The next day rolls around and Diane calls me and tells me she doesn't want me to leave the company. She says I've put in three years and it would be a waste to throw that away. She told me during her whole career as a DM, she has NEVER promoted a third key to a store manager...before me. Let alone have a 19-year-old SM. She asked what she can do to make me stay. I tell her that I want to go to school, I don't want to drive two hours a day, and I'm 19 and I want the life of a 19-year-old. I like being store manager but it's not right for me at this time. She says that's fine and offers me the oppurtunity to go back to Bradenton (either the mall or Cortez Plaza) as an ASM. She said she will work around my school schedule and she commends me for going to school.
This is not quite what I expected, but I was glad to see I wasn't as disposable as I was made out to be. Diane says she wants me to be a store manager eventually. I want to be also, but not if it comes before school and not if it's in Sarasota. Oh well. I think I like this setup.
So anyways, now I'm going to school. Yay! I'm taking Philosophy, Topics Math, Film Appreciation, and Career Research.
Oh and I visited Chris at Gamestop when picking up a Dead Rising guide. We talked and I even gave him a hug. Do you know what I felt when I hugged him? Nothing! I walked out of the store smiling.
Things are starting to look up.