Work Drama
Work has been incredibly tense lately. I work at a privately owned store, and our sales were down nearly a quarter for December, which is where we make 1/4 of our sales. (1/2 being in October and the other 1/4 being the rest of the year) So the company decided to make some budget cuts. This includes letting go of people, cutting back on hours, and cutting pay. The store hours were cut back from 8:30-8:30 to 9:30-8:00, salary'd employees have already taken a pay-cut, and possibly starting in February hourly employees will have hours cut back about 10%. (Which means most of us full-time employees will be working about a day less.)
Two of my fellow cashiers have been let go already. One which I was glad to see go, personally. She had a bad habit of telling everyone about her personal life whether co-worker or customer.. And Michaela counted once, she talked about her kids 13 different times in one day to customers. No one cared about her two kids and third on the way(at 24). Then a couple days later Michaela was let go, and she's worked there for almost three years now.
Then of course everyone is upset about all these changes and bitching about it non-stop. I'm not happy about them myself, but it'd probably be more difficult to find a new job at this point. But things are pretty bad when managers are telling employees that it's okay if you don't come in today, we'll save your pay for another employee. And the poor boss has to deal with the brunt of everyone's anger. I was talking to a manager last night and he was telling me about how everyone's on edge, and there's this whole tension throughout the store. And the managers had been asked to "keep an eye on" certain employees(he didn't tell me who, sadly.). Employees he things are valuable and useful. People are nitpicking on the small things, so basically everyone has to try and behave perfectly until this starts to blow over a little.
At this point I'm the lead cashier and I've only been there for nearly a year and half. Half our floor staff are newer employees from this last years Halloween season. It's kind of crazy.
Two of my fellow cashiers have been let go already. One which I was glad to see go, personally. She had a bad habit of telling everyone about her personal life whether co-worker or customer.. And Michaela counted once, she talked about her kids 13 different times in one day to customers. No one cared about her two kids and third on the way(at 24). Then a couple days later Michaela was let go, and she's worked there for almost three years now.
Then of course everyone is upset about all these changes and bitching about it non-stop. I'm not happy about them myself, but it'd probably be more difficult to find a new job at this point. But things are pretty bad when managers are telling employees that it's okay if you don't come in today, we'll save your pay for another employee. And the poor boss has to deal with the brunt of everyone's anger. I was talking to a manager last night and he was telling me about how everyone's on edge, and there's this whole tension throughout the store. And the managers had been asked to "keep an eye on" certain employees(he didn't tell me who, sadly.). Employees he things are valuable and useful. People are nitpicking on the small things, so basically everyone has to try and behave perfectly until this starts to blow over a little.
At this point I'm the lead cashier and I've only been there for nearly a year and half. Half our floor staff are newer employees from this last years Halloween season. It's kind of crazy.