Let’s see what has changed since
the last time that I have posted (since it’s been more than a year!).
I Got a New Job after some Drama from the last one. I am now
a Store Manager of a store. I get to do a lot more things and I have more responsibility’s
that I get to handle. I have days where I miss what I did but they pass because
I am way happier doing what I am doing now.
Currently I
am having issues with trying to get people to do what I would like for them to
do. Some of it is employees under me and some of it is people above me. For the
last 2 weeks I have had to change the store manual because it was written very
fast and things were running together and not making much sense. So, I changed
it all and make it more user friendly. Before I changed the manual, I asked
every employee if they had an issue with it and if there were changes that they
would like to see changed. I had 2 employees say yes and give me examples of
things that I could work on so that I could make it better. I had 1 employee
not really give me any input on it and that she didn’t really see any issue
with it.
During the last
week or so we have had some changes happen. There was 1 employee from my store
quit & one employee from Kommandant’s store get fired (I really don’t know
the details of that one). With this thing are changing schedule wise and how
much Kommandant, the General Manager & I have to work till we find someone
to hire for the hours that we are hiring for. The General Manager has asked for
me to change my schedule, as of the 18th I am going to be pulling 3
open to closes and then 1 day where I am working maybe 5 to 6 hours. This is because
they felt that having staff come in for an hour and a half was unreasonable and
that they couldn’t get anyone who wanted to work these shifts because it was such
a waste of time before I changed my schedule I made sure that everyone was okay
with it. all the staff that agreed to it has either quit or gotten fired. Now we
have new staff and it is just easier for me the change my schedule and have the
new staff be happy. Another thing that is going to be changing on the 18th
is that my favorite employee that I have shown how to do things and that has
been working hard is going to Kommandant’s store and I get to keep one employee
(everyone loves but me) that I wasn’t too impressed with. I have asked the General
Manager if we could get more training hours because they are going to be needed
for when I am not here, the employee is going to be on their own and they are
going to need to receive freight and or do things that they really don’t know how
to do or not really wanting to learn at the time.
I just have
to except that I get to keep someone that I am not impressed with and I am definitely
not happy that I am losing my best employee, but the best employee is going to
be used for different things. I just need to except this fate and try to get this
employee to the steps of where I want her to be.
Today I am
a little upset that I have to receive a bunch of things that one store has had
for 5 to 6 years and they couldn’t sell and now I get to try to sell things
that are really old, and they look like it. (I’m going to see if I could get
them discounted so that customer want to get them. I also asked for a change
request and I didn’t get it because the General Manager is just too busy doing
her stuff that she doesn’t have time to take care of her other stores. About 3:45
I was told that she would try to do it, but it is 7:00 and it hasn’t happened, I
wasn’t told that ‘oops I didn’t have time’ or ‘Hey I ended up not having time
to do the change request and I will get to it tomorrow.’ Things need to change
for this or it’s just going to get old and I am going to stop requesting help
for the store and doing things my way (but then I am going to have to answer to
the ‘well why were things done this way and not this other way?’ and I am going
to say is ‘ I can’t get anyone out here to help out and I needed to put X in
place and since no one is willing to answer me I did it that way’.)
I’m going
to leave it at this and have a good day away from work.
