Sunday
Work was work. I spent most of my day putting out the fires that B. started yesterday. He was only on his own for an hour! How could such a mess come out of such a short time?
My leadership team at work consists of:
C. General Manager. Lazy. Takes short-cuts. Is an expert at making sure she spends as little time as possible at the store and gets paid anyhow.
H. C's ex-best friend. Works her tail off with freight and because of her background in stores that sell things for around a dollar, she can merchandise incredibly fast. She doesn't read so that's a bit of a problem when it comes to customer service but the rest of her qualities are stellar so I don't care. Unfortunately, lately she has decided that having overstock in the backroom is a moral failure so she's stuffing books onto the shelves so tightly that they get damaged and customers can't get them out. We've told her a zillion times not to do it but she continues. Still my favourite person to work with.
S. 55+ woman who has worked many places in our small mall (and it's a SMALL mall - it would be impressive if it wasn't so darn sad) and ended up with us. Blaugh. Back in early spring she attended a leadership meeting with B back in my old stomping grounds and decided to throw us all under the bus. She said that working for C was psychologically unsafe but no one would do anything about it so she was speaking for the entire team. At first there was huge blowback with meetings and HR and then it sort of fizzled out... except S keeps doing things to wind everyone back up again. She is so negative and talks behind everyone's back and is exhausting. Thankfully I don't work often with her because I'd probably murder her.
B. Aw, B. He will talk your ear off. He hasn't followed me into the bathroom yet but I'm sure that's coming. If you have big tasking assignment to do before the end of the shift, you do not want B. scheduled with you. You will not get it done. You want H. He's great with customers though... especially customers who read graphic novels.
Those are my peeps. We have more leaders than followers at the moment but I was hired back as a leader because C. thought S. would be fired by now. I like the raise... I don't care how many non-leader shifts I get. As long as I'm not working with S.
My leadership team at work consists of:
C. General Manager. Lazy. Takes short-cuts. Is an expert at making sure she spends as little time as possible at the store and gets paid anyhow.
H. C's ex-best friend. Works her tail off with freight and because of her background in stores that sell things for around a dollar, she can merchandise incredibly fast. She doesn't read so that's a bit of a problem when it comes to customer service but the rest of her qualities are stellar so I don't care. Unfortunately, lately she has decided that having overstock in the backroom is a moral failure so she's stuffing books onto the shelves so tightly that they get damaged and customers can't get them out. We've told her a zillion times not to do it but she continues. Still my favourite person to work with.
S. 55+ woman who has worked many places in our small mall (and it's a SMALL mall - it would be impressive if it wasn't so darn sad) and ended up with us. Blaugh. Back in early spring she attended a leadership meeting with B back in my old stomping grounds and decided to throw us all under the bus. She said that working for C was psychologically unsafe but no one would do anything about it so she was speaking for the entire team. At first there was huge blowback with meetings and HR and then it sort of fizzled out... except S keeps doing things to wind everyone back up again. She is so negative and talks behind everyone's back and is exhausting. Thankfully I don't work often with her because I'd probably murder her.
B. Aw, B. He will talk your ear off. He hasn't followed me into the bathroom yet but I'm sure that's coming. If you have big tasking assignment to do before the end of the shift, you do not want B. scheduled with you. You will not get it done. You want H. He's great with customers though... especially customers who read graphic novels.
Those are my peeps. We have more leaders than followers at the moment but I was hired back as a leader because C. thought S. would be fired by now. I like the raise... I don't care how many non-leader shifts I get. As long as I'm not working with S.