Where to begin...
So work...yah...kinda sucking right now. I am so backed up it isn't even funny. One of my warehouse guys quit last week (I have one left and she just started 2 weeks ago). My Operations Manager (I am the Assistant Ops Manager) was out ALL last week with the flu. He's not the most useful employee when he is there (hell I actually know more about the job than he does) but it helps having someone else at the store to answer questions, run reports, and just be a warm body on the Ops team whilst I am handling all of the actual difficult and important parts of our side of the business.
But wait...there's more. Apparently my manager wasn't all that sick last week...he was looking for a new job. In an unprecedented, all-time BITCH move my Ops Mgr shows up to work 2 1/2 hours late for work yesterday, mills about for an hour, then he walks up to our store manager and says to him, "There's a report on your desk to sign." This "report" turned out to be his seperation paperwork. Motherfucker quit on the spot with NO notice whatsoever. So I'll give you one guess as to who is now shouldering pretty much ALL of the operations duties for THE LARGEST FUCKING STORE IN DENVER!!!
So yah, stress is at an all time high. I am spending too much time at work. Not to mention the fact that our store manager is off until Friday on a mandatory meeting which makes me the ranking manager in the store. I am the boss right now. It's not that I'm a bad boss...it's just that I am woefully unprepared for this. My biggest fear right now is that they will decide to make me an Ops Manager before I am ready (at least, I don't feel I'm ready....I have a lot more to learn before I feel comfortable taking that position) and an even bigger fear is that they will give me that position at my current store. My store is NOT one that a brand new Ops Manager should be running...no way in hell.
On the same token, however, I am afraid that if they offer the store to me and I decline I may be blacklisted for some time from getting my own store in the future. Generally if they offer, and you refuse, you are put on the bottom of the list for potential managers.
I could certainly use the extra pay of the new position as I am probably the most woefully underpayed employee in the company right now (I make as much as the girl that sits at the door and says "hi" to people as they come in...not even fucking joking about this one).
I am thinking it would be best in the long run to wait it out until I am ready so that I may do the job properly (which I am personally WAY more comfortable with) but the impending darkness caused by my electricity being shut off because I can't afford to pay that bill just yet keeps creeping it's way into my head. >;\
But wait...there's more. Apparently my manager wasn't all that sick last week...he was looking for a new job. In an unprecedented, all-time BITCH move my Ops Mgr shows up to work 2 1/2 hours late for work yesterday, mills about for an hour, then he walks up to our store manager and says to him, "There's a report on your desk to sign." This "report" turned out to be his seperation paperwork. Motherfucker quit on the spot with NO notice whatsoever. So I'll give you one guess as to who is now shouldering pretty much ALL of the operations duties for THE LARGEST FUCKING STORE IN DENVER!!!
So yah, stress is at an all time high. I am spending too much time at work. Not to mention the fact that our store manager is off until Friday on a mandatory meeting which makes me the ranking manager in the store. I am the boss right now. It's not that I'm a bad boss...it's just that I am woefully unprepared for this. My biggest fear right now is that they will decide to make me an Ops Manager before I am ready (at least, I don't feel I'm ready....I have a lot more to learn before I feel comfortable taking that position) and an even bigger fear is that they will give me that position at my current store. My store is NOT one that a brand new Ops Manager should be running...no way in hell.
On the same token, however, I am afraid that if they offer the store to me and I decline I may be blacklisted for some time from getting my own store in the future. Generally if they offer, and you refuse, you are put on the bottom of the list for potential managers.
I could certainly use the extra pay of the new position as I am probably the most woefully underpayed employee in the company right now (I make as much as the girl that sits at the door and says "hi" to people as they come in...not even fucking joking about this one).
I am thinking it would be best in the long run to wait it out until I am ready so that I may do the job properly (which I am personally WAY more comfortable with) but the impending darkness caused by my electricity being shut off because I can't afford to pay that bill just yet keeps creeping it's way into my head. >;\