baby's first workplace warfare
You guys know I'm new to working, I aint really know what people meant when they said things like “your coworkers are not your friends”, “Don’t trust your managers” etc etc. But I learned yesterday LMAO!!
To be honest I thought I was gonna get fired (the store manager told me to come to the backroom so we could have a chat. In a very weird way.) But apparently the other managers (I call them the gay manager and the freaky manager) are complaining about me behind my back….FREQUENTLY.
(also i want to mention it's not necessarily all complaining, if i say something or did something they will run and tell everyone in the store.) For example i could say out loud “ah it's so cold i wish we could wear sweaters” they will run and tell the store manager, and the store manager will randomly pull me aside and say “so…… you're being a problem? I hear you have issues with the dress code? It's not my policy it's the company” <- they like to make up problems and blow stuff out of proportion. Cuz i never said any of that.
Anyways, on Tuesday the store manager pulled me to the back room. Convo flowed like this:
“So….What’s going on? What's happening, you tell me?”
“I've been on vacation and i just want to know what's going on in the store, straight from the source”
“Besides stuff i alr told you? like someone messing up the clearance labeling? I can't think of anything? why?”
(The store manager explains a situation I talked about with her previously when it happened. Like 2-4 months ago)
I’ll give a summary, but I'm pretty sure I've already said it already. These two customers were picking out charms we sold and went behind the register to do it. I was standing like 2 steps away from them and was watching the whole time.
The freaky manager got really mad and started yelling "HEY!! YOU GUYS CAN'T BE BEHIND THE COUNTER!!!!" And then pushes the cart holding the charms even FURTHER away from me so I couldn't see them. I didn't think they were suspicious and I was watching their hands the whole time. The two girls put all of their charms on the counter and then started looking at the other accessories.
Another customer walked up ready to check out so I started taking the tags off their items. (keep in mind the store has customers walking around, BOTH managers are standing together. Nowhere near the rest of the customers.) Then the gay manager randomly comes over, starts talking over me "Hey! no no I got it. Don't worry I got it. I have this I can do it!!" he is repeating this over and over and over, he starts pushing me out the way. Getting too close trying get in front of me.
I was so confused but I said "ok" and I walked away to help the other customers that are throughout the store.
By now both managers are standing by the register for this one customer (the girls walked away leaving the charms on the counter to see the rest of the store), I'm the only one watching the floor. It’s a rule that there can only be one person at the register at all times. (my store manager told me i need to walk away when there are too many people at the register bcuz i can't control what other people do)
I was also ticked off bcuz it seemed like that nigga was being a dick tryna steal my sale. (They told me they had to step in bcuz i didn't know any better, and i wasn't paying attention and those girls were trying to steal, but in a very patronizing way)
Time passes and another customer is ready to buy something, my freaky manager who is standing on her phone blasting tik toks, is about a foot away from the register says "go ring them out" and I (i'm all the way in the back trying to clean up a mess) said "no you can ring them out. You guys got this" <- in the same tone the gay manager used with me and I walked away.
petty asf but I was gonna crash out bcuz mentally unstable so I had to remove myself. You know being professional.
My freaky manager snuck in the corner of the store and called the store manager to snitch.
(i later found out BOTH of my managers called the store manager MULTIPLE times over that one thing i said all in the span of 1 hour)
I didn't yell or shout or anything. I said it in the same tone and words the gay manager used with me so idk.
(both of those managers are white and they spent the rest of the shift reacting to me like i was scary/violent/crazy whatever….they are both older then me too) literally a “omg you need to calm down!! You don't have to behave like that!!!” and i didnt even know what they were talking about bcuz i was alr over what happened and trying do my job.
The store manager talked about that and said I needed to “stop doing stuff like that. We cant have unruly employees”
“Um doing what? That happened only one time?”
Then she was silent and switched to another topic, about how I said I wouldn't take a manager position here bcuz, i'm too young, our location is too far away, and we get paid less than the other stores. I DIDN'T EVEN BRING THAT UP THE GAY MANAGER BROUGHT IT UP THAT THEY GET PAID MORE.
He was the one that told me that information, I never knew that. HE was mad and said that the other store has employees that are lazy, do the same job we do, don't follow the rules, but they get paid more bcuz they are in the city.
AND my cool manager (not mad at him) also said THAT IF HE WANTED TO STAY WITH THE COMPANY N GO FULLTIME HE’D TRANSFER TO ANOTHER STORE TO GET THE BETTER PAY!!! My cool manager was being serious bcuz he’s currently looking for a new job (he has 2) So I wasn't the only one who said it, but I got in trouble for saying it….. (btw i would NEVER say that to or around the store manager. And i also was being silly n made a joke out of it, saying i can't do that until im 30+ bcuz when your 30 is when you evolve into manager on some pokemon shit)
The store manager went on and on about how I should be grateful to be at this job and how our company is a good place to work. (ok cult?)
Then she was bringing up tiny, insignificant and OLD things. That for some reason the store manager still thought was relevant? Did someone lie to her most likely?
ANDDDD The store manager wouldn't really tell me WHAT else they were complaining about either. It was very very broad and non-specific. So i was confused the whole time.
I ain't scared to confront a mf but I understand not everything needs to be said aloud like a lot A LOT of shit my managers do piss me off but I don't say it to them. Cuz I know it's just how jobs are how managers are….
But the way the managers are talking they are making it seem like I'm constantly telling them "no I don't wanna do that" and then sit on my ass all day and not do anything.
And tbh I DO THINGS THAT ARE BAD!! Mostly when I'm silly and instead of speaking I'll just meow the whole day. Or one time I played cupcakke moans over the walkies. Sometimes I draw at the counter and read a book. I also still wear my head scarf. And i be carrying around food in my pockets and eating it while im workinnn (everyone does that at the job tho).
When I'm with my cool manager he be doing his homework at the counter n i be watching rescue bots. Sometimes I pull up little games on the computer and I have him play y3, y8, coolmathgames with me n stuff. (only when no one is in the store). i think those things are tame but the things i SHOULD get in trouble for (that i understand i shouldn't do) it doesn't happen. It's only the things are really random, weird, half lies and i didnt even do anything bad.
I'm so confused and their behavior makes me wanna snitch on them as well. I dont wanna hear about how when you sneeze you piss yourself, how my freaky manager will blast tiktoks about weird stuff. She just watches ppl eat ice videos all day or she plays these videos that say “you are fertile you have divine feminine energy your womb will be filled” like???? Y'all she has 7 kids…………………………………Everyone is always on the phone calling someone, and they leave me by myself in the store so they can chat with they lil friends.
The gay manager be saying shit like "those annoying transgenders" or literally "i fucking hate [insert ethnic group]" "THOSE types of people.....[insert ethnic group] always the same…” “Yuck!! I can't believe they allow that in that backwards ass country. This is why i'll never leave the great USA"
I guess I have to learn how to not say ANYTHING??? For example, using the walkies are mandatory. But they make us share earpieces, I’m like “ok sure that's pretty unsanitary” but I never said I refuse to wear them…(and i never said it to the store manager. One of the other managers asked me if it hurt my ears. And i said no i'm used to wearing earpieces i'm just not used to sharing them cuz that's unsanitary)
I gotta ask all 3 managers to put it on cuz they dont do it n I be talking n the walkie tryna get help and they not even paying attention. And they go on and on about how it hurts their ear, they dont like to wear it etc.
Maybe they get mad that a lot of the time I say "this is how the store manager showed me" or “i'm not used to doing it this way” but that dont mean I aint gon do it at all. I STILL DO MY JOB!! Just letting you know what I know.
Like I be keeping my mouth shut cuz if u doing something wrong ion wanna be like "oh that's not how u do it lemme show u how its done. Move aside" (for example our store does doordash and the manager didn't know how to complete the order. But i did. So she was struggling and i was watching her, and then i walked over and i asked “can i try?”)
Another thing my store manager brought up was a time where i was reading the store email from the district manager and he said "the only person who can ever deny a return is him. And if u wanna deny a return you gotta call n ask to"
I literally showed them n was like "lol look at what this guy is saying shits crazy"
Freaky manager is gonna go run and tell the store manager I'm giving them orders telling em how to do they job.....
ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY ALWAYS CALL ME OVER FOR MY OPINION AND ASK FOR MY HELP TOO (they know associates dont do returns or know how to and they still call me over for my help)
so so so annoying Idk why ppl behave this way, why I gotta work with opps?
Sometimes I'm making lil jokes or just stating a fact. But if they gon treat it like it's serious n then go behind my back and tell the store manager???? For what it's not a big deal.....
I think my cool manager ain't a snitch but ima literally just become distant with the other ones if they gon act this way. Ima stop accepting rides from freaky manager to
I ain't always in the right mf know im fucked in da head but it would help to know what I'm being accused of so I can correct da behavior or try to. Also tell me in the moment and not 4 months later??
The store manager gon schedule everyone on the same day so we can have a team meeting.
so I guess I'll see how that goes. But if them mf saying bullshit ima lowkey just say "ok that fine don't talk to me about your personal life anymore"
Like ion wanna hear about ur kids n yo 5 baby daddies n how tight yo pussy is and how you got in trouble for fraud and how u white n saying nigga n how u an anti vaxxer n how yo sister killed herself and how you aint report a pedo to the police cuz he was your friend and I'll leave everyone alone and won't help anyone at all when i see them struggling 🤷🤷
(i never initiate those conversations i'll be doing something like cleaning or trying to find an item and they'll come up to me and start venting or complaining about their life, being overly personal. I never really respond. I just stand there, blink at them, i don't laugh or nod or talk back either.)
Anyways to wrap this up my store manager ended her 2hr confusing unhelpful yap session with
"I don't care what managers say or do here that makes you feel bad. I hire them and pay them for that position, they are the manager and you are the employee. Deal with it or I'll fire you"
