My Job

[BreakfastSurreal]

I know I promised no more rants this week, but this has been weighing VERY heavily on my mind lately, and I think it's the main reason I've been so snappy and bitchy for the last few weeks. I need to get it out.

So I have been working at a local Prom/Wedding dress store since about mid January. I really love what I do...it's a really fun job. Anyways, our company hasn't been doing too well for the past year. When I started everything in the store was marked half off and it lasted like that for about a month. Texas is a right to work state, so legally they can just close down the store and tell us the day of, which I think is really fucked up. Well basically when I moved from racking to sales, I was working a lot because 2 girls got fired. They said all this stuff about how our manager and asst. manager were really 2 faced and rude and stuff...at the time I thought they were just being whiney brats, and I didn't see it...but now I am. I understand they both have been under a LOT of stress lately, as we have been going through new employees like crazy and they seem to never get a day off...but as the saying goes, shit rolls downhill.

The other night there was a security incident and the closing manager forgot to call in the figures for the day because she was so shaken up, and the next morning she realized and called, and the owner bitched her out hardcore. It's like whenever they mess up, he will BITE their heads off and shove them down their throats, but there is no praise or thanks for working 7 days a week, or when they do a GOOD job. Basically, right now, I am feeling the same thing, only coming from them.

I am a DAMN good worker, and I feel like I am being treated very unfairly. I feel like they are nitpicking and TRYING to find things to bitch at me about. Yesterday it was several things.

1)I OFFERED to go and reorganize the plus size dresses, and that took a few hours. After I was done one of my customers came in and ASKED for me and I sold her a dress she had been wanting. Then the assistant manager told me I needed to go reorganize all the dresses AGAIN because I needed to give the new girl a chance to get sales. She said that like I was hogging the sales or something. that was the ONLY sale I made that day..because she had me doing BS work the rest of the day. I make commission, so that is sort of an issue. Basically it has been shit like this for the past two weeks.

2)Also on Sunday, the breakroom door wouldnt open. Sometimes it just gets stuck, so I didn't think anything of it, the other girl opened it no problem. Then the next day the door was totally brokena nd wouldnt open at all. Yesterday I got chewed out because apparently I knew it was broken before and didn't tell the manager. They are twisting shit around now. I didn't know it was BROKEN, I just thought it was stuck, and we did get it open. I don't deserve a 10 minute lecture for somehting liek that.

3)I won't even go into detail about the number of times I've been told I need to NOT help my customers so much. WTF?! That's my JOB. And I'm being told to not do it?? Or I can't forget about how on sundays they made a new rule where the manager stands up front and rings everyone up, and I have to help ALL the customers...and we spilt the sales..yet somehow EVERY time her sales are at least $500 more than mine...I'm just sick of all this unfair shit going on.

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I love my job...but I hate where I work, and the people I work with are so snotty and rude (especially to customers!!!). I thought I could deal with it for a while because I am very patient and forgiving, but yesterday the manager told me she was quitting VERY soon. And I do NOT want to be stuck being forced to work EVERY day because I will be the oldest employee there. I don't want to manage the store.

SO anyways, after all that...I think today I am going to go apply at David's Bridal and some other chain bridal places. Working for small companies isn't as great as I thought it would be.

 

[AUDRAA]

sounds like new job time to me Clare, you dont deserve to be treated that way, you do put in more than you should there, Ive heard you talk before go somewhere where they treat you like you deserve to be treated hun

 

[BreakfastSurreal]

yeah. The only thing is I HAVE to get hired someplace else before I quit. So that's gonna be really tough to try and go and have time for interviews and all that while I am still working. I might skip school today to go look. I REALLY hope David's is hiring. I know with my experience if I can find a place that's hiring I will most likely get the job. I just wonder what my bosses will say about me...if they find out I am applying at other places they will flip out and fire me probably. And I wouldn't put it past them to just give me a bad refrence out of spite. : / So shoudl i tell that to the palces i apply at?

 

[AUDRAA]

they legally cant give you a bad referance I dont think, but I would make it known to the places that you apply at know that it might not be good for you at your current job if they call them right now

 

[Jersey]

legally-- they cant give you a bad reference... they can answer whatever questions they ask regarding tardiness/work ethic etc... but they cant put your character down

 

[Mrs Behavin]

Well I was gonna say maybe you could pull your boss aside and talk to her about things but I dont think there's any hope for that Im sorry.
Sounds like if they keep up the little act that their playing, they wont have much of a business left after the long run. It will all catch up with them sooner or later.
If it was me in your position, I would definately be looking elsewhere. Noone deserves to be walked all over like that.

 

[BreakfastSurreal]

im just saying...legally...they dont care. As in, they'd do it anyways. I've caught them doing a LOT of illegal stuff before, the girl that worked thre with me and quit before i moved up was a really good worker, but as soon as she left they thought of her as the spawn of satan himself, and I heard them say all this untrue crap about her on the phone when someone had called to ask about a reference. So I KNOW theyd do it to me. They don't care...corporate doesn't care...I work for a company that is in debt because of the owner being a shiesty mofo who doesn't pay for the merchandise he sells...he rips people off..

 

[BreakfastSurreal]

like as in...they will say i was late all the time, they will say i had a poor work ethic, etc. they will lie, i know it. maybe i could put down a coworker instead....shed tell the truth. but shes only been there for 2 weeks so thats not much of a reference.

 

[Jersey]

can you give the employee's personal # instead of the business #?
and maybe give her a heads up as to whats going on?

or perhaps just tell the new place your concerns and explain to them, this is why you are looking elsewhere...

 

[BreakfastSurreal]

yeah im thinking of jsut telling them. i kind of know the manager at davids because i bought my dress there and she gave me a huge discount. really sweet lady. i think shell understand. im pretty sure IF they are hiring that I will get the job. I have the right personality for this type of job and i love what i do.

 

[Homer]

i'd quit i'd never put up with that , but get the other job first .

 

[OUZBnd]

It sounds like to me that they need to take a management 101 course in how to treat employees.

 

[BreakfastSurreal]

yeah. I'm just tired of insults. Like when i count the money at night...sometimes its off the first time because i dont add it in their calculator right..they have a WEIRD calculator and its easy to mess up, and the manager will get frustrated and snatch the money from me and tell me to move so she can do it herself. then shell recount the money, get the exact same numbers as me, and tell me "you've been working here HOW long now?" Mistakes are not accepted. I am not slow counting the money, I can count it all in less than 2 minutes...so she really has no fucking right to be so rude. They treat me like I'm 5, and maybe its because their 60...but i dont give 2 shits anymore. Wish me luck guys im off to apply!

 

[OUZBnd]

Personally, there's no way I could handle the shit that dish out to you. I would find a new job, and as soon as I did, I would make sure to give your old boss a piece of your mind. There's no reason for them to be so disrespectfull. I'll sell you my management book to give to them as a presetn .

 

[Jersey]

good luck clarebear!

 

[Anniston]

I wish the best for you with David's. It sounds like you have a fondness for the way they do business versus the way things are being poorly run at your current shop.

One thing I have done when applying while still employed is bring up that fact that only if I am seriously being considered for the position do I consent to them contacting my current employer. In my state (or at least on all the applications I have filled out) they ask if it is o.k. to contact your current employer.

Good luck to you...the place you are at now does not appreciate you.

 

[Peter Parka]

Sorry to hear that and I hope you can get out of this situation.

 

[alleycat]

all the aps I have seen ask if its ok to contact the employer. good luck! let us know

 

[Haus]

Damn clare that is horrible. you dont need to take that shit. i hope you get the job at Davids bridal.

 

[BreakfastSurreal]

Well good news sort of! both David's and Alfred Angelo Bridal are hiring currently, and I am a step ahead of the game because most people who go in there have sales experience but not wedding sales experience, and I do. Honestly I got a weird vibe at David's...they are one of those places that make you wait an hour before they take up your app and you think you are going to get an interview but then they just say thanks and that theyll call you. They said they will let me know Tuesday. I hate when places do that...but ehh. Then Alfred Angelo's was REALLY nice, it is a brand new location and it's right across the street from Matt's work, so that is kind of nice and could be convenient considering I'm about to need to have my car in the shop for 4 or 5 diff things and he could give me rides to work and stuff during that time. The store was a lot nicer and so was the manager. They are hiring also and need to contact their district manager first, they were impressed that I had wedding dress experience lol. So I really hope that one comes through. Hell I hope either of them do!