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I'm taking a quick break from using this for Slenderman sightings to rant a bit about work. Last year I applied at and got a seasonal job working at Best Buy, and I have given 110% to this company; I've never complained about hours, I've thrown myself into doing the elearnings/training, I've even trained others in how to run the registers and have basically been the one "in charge", almost like the head cashier. How do they repay me? First off, one of the store managers tells me that my numbers for selling stuff like Geek Squad protection and Best Buy credit cards are low, so they want to pull me off the registers and have me be the permanent greeter. I agree to try it out and actually like it pretty well, but I've only gotten to work in that position for one day because they're interviewing people for the daytime cashier position so they still need me to work during the day up front. All's well and good until I go online to check my hours for next week and find nothing, which causes a mild panic because that was the main reason why I left Barnes & Noble, they had cut my hours down to two four hours shifts per week for the exact same reason(not being able to get people to sign up for member cards). I call the other store manager, the one who's supposed to do the schedules, and let him know, and he tells me that I was supposed to get hours for being the greeter but he would take care of it.
I go off and do my normal Saturday stuff, including going out skating with some friends, and when I get home I decide to check the schedule and see if anything's been fixed, only to find that I have one shift for this coming Monday, from 2-8. ONE SHIFT! Are these managers idiots, I can't support myself with only one eight hour shift?! Right now I feel betrayed and really angry, angry enough that I'm going to reactivate my unemployment that I started once I left Barnes & Noble and start looking for a new job! What's funny is that the people who know me and have come through my line at work told me that my customer service skills are excellent, yet I still have to deal with rude, mean people who treat me like shit because I'm trying to do my job, and of course the managers take the customers' side. I am friendly, cheerful and have been hitting it out of the park lately with getting people to sign up for Geek Squad protection and credit card applications, and I only get one lousy shift? That is not right and I'm tired of being treated like this! What does a woman have to do to get appreciated for her hard work?
I have also decided to focus on my writing, especially with getting my stuff published, but I need a job so I can pay my bills and student loans while I write. I am bound and determined to succeed, and no idiotic retail manager is gonna crush my spirits! I am going to start looking for another job, it'll probably have to be retail again, but there's got to be a company out there that treats their employees right, and I'm going to find that company!
I go off and do my normal Saturday stuff, including going out skating with some friends, and when I get home I decide to check the schedule and see if anything's been fixed, only to find that I have one shift for this coming Monday, from 2-8. ONE SHIFT! Are these managers idiots, I can't support myself with only one eight hour shift?! Right now I feel betrayed and really angry, angry enough that I'm going to reactivate my unemployment that I started once I left Barnes & Noble and start looking for a new job! What's funny is that the people who know me and have come through my line at work told me that my customer service skills are excellent, yet I still have to deal with rude, mean people who treat me like shit because I'm trying to do my job, and of course the managers take the customers' side. I am friendly, cheerful and have been hitting it out of the park lately with getting people to sign up for Geek Squad protection and credit card applications, and I only get one lousy shift? That is not right and I'm tired of being treated like this! What does a woman have to do to get appreciated for her hard work?
I have also decided to focus on my writing, especially with getting my stuff published, but I need a job so I can pay my bills and student loans while I write. I am bound and determined to succeed, and no idiotic retail manager is gonna crush my spirits! I am going to start looking for another job, it'll probably have to be retail again, but there's got to be a company out there that treats their employees right, and I'm going to find that company!