Boy, I think that last post deserves an update! There's been some spicy new developments, all for the positive, and I'll have to start a new journal page if I wait any longer.
Came into work on Thursday to as close to an apology you'll get from a two-faced ratfuck manager (and I'm not the only one there who thinks of him like that). "I was driving home that night, and I realized that you were really just doing what you were told." Yuh-huh, boyo. "Neither of us were necessarily wrong." Correct in the sense that he's right about it being a dumb rule, and I'm right for literally doing my job. Not so much in how he handled it. Anyway, I'll take it.
Especially now that I've been hearing rumblings of other folks above him getting involved in how he manages. Here's where it gets juicy, lurkers.
There's another guy who works the store, older dude, 40s, worked his life doing medical insurance until he destroyed his back, and he got hired here because it was an easy way to ease back into being employed. He used to work beer with me a lot of nights, so we'd chat. Funny guy, smart guy! His advice about "you should always move up at least every two years" has been my yardstick for measuring my own progress in jobs so far.
Anyway, he's not been able to get the hours he needs for months now, and there's been a ton of excuses, but he really does have a point that every new hire after him is getting a much fuller schedule than his 16 hours a week.
So, he contacted HR. And HR stepped in to demand to know why this guy was getting stiffed on hours. So that might've played a role.
I've also been hearing some of the lower managers threatening to also go to HR on the manager's insistence that we buy our water from the store instead of having it provided to us in the break room. (I do buy my water, but mostly because I feel like the stuff for the customers is less likely to be diseased than break room stuff. Even if that's superstition, people are dirty. And anyway, it shouldn't required, especially when there's break room sodas and sodas are 50c anyway.) Literally got free cases of water as a donation from a manufacturer and the store manager insisted we sell them instead.
The front end manager threatened to get her entire staff of cashiers to call HR about it. I think he's feeling a little bit of pressure right now about how he treats his workers, so that might've also played a role.
God, I love it when bad people get smacked in the cock by folks with much bigger sticks than them, but enough about MiloHax.
Anyway, beer lead position's going to someone else, which I'm fine with. Inverting my entire schedule and having to do a bunch more work with vendor contact, orders, schedules, and tags for an extra $2 an hour is just not my bag. If I'm gonna be doing more work, I want to also have less contact with customers, so get me doing inventory in the back or something. Otherwise, I'm happy where I am.
Hearing rumbles that the new beer lead person is normally the daytime receiving person, and she has zero experience with the department. Hope she does well. My future at this job (which may or may not last the year, I still have my doubts, but obviously I'd like to if it works out) depends on it.
