Every day I hate my job more and more

by **HematiteBones** Fri 26 Sep 2008, 12:12 pm

But let me clarify; I love the work I do. It is very satisfying and I have the chance to make a lot of people very happy. (I sell paint, btw. Not a streetwalker.) I get to integrate science with art and I really dig finding solutions to all the bizarre problems people bring me.

But, of course, the management sucks. The company I work for is going into death spasms as we speak, and as they say "Shit rolls downhill." To me. Lowly associate.

Problems started before I even got my foot in the door; the scheduler repeatedly scheduled me to work DURING MY CLASSES, continuing after I had told her at least three times and brought in my class schedule.
My department manager practices intimidation; she is constantly threatening to write people up for imagined crimes (she has a lovely habit of abandoning the desk to go talk to the cashiers and play on her cellphone in the back, and delegates her managerial duties onto the new people.) She sows dissent within the department. She is a passive aggressive liar.

The assistant store managers are even worse, but that's to be expected I suppose.

My biggest problem, and the one that is going to push me into a new job, fired up last week.

As some of you might know, I've been having some pretty serious problems with my hand. I have an appointment with my orthopedist on Monday to find out it if there is any permanent nerve damage. I talked with my assistant manager about this problem on Friday, because it was hindering me from doing my job. We briefly discussed the implications of filing a worker's comp claim but I decided not to because I couldn't definitively say the injury was due to work (and because between his rude dismissive attitude and the pain I was in, I was in tears and ended up leaving.)

I came back to work yesterday to find that my hours had been cut this week, and that someone had removed documents from my locker (a copy of a glowing evaluation form from the assistant manager and my dept head, a copy of my latest availability sheet, and an award I had received for outstanding customer service.)

So I am really concerned. I am afraid they are going to try to fire me, and I would quit first but I can't afford to right now because I don't have another job lined up.

I hate this company and I hope it gets bought out by Ikea.

by Guest Fri 03 Oct 2008, 9:37 am

Yeah, humans in managerial positions for any kind of retail tend suck more than a hooker at a cuban frat party.

by **Darth_Kitsune** Fri 03 Oct 2008, 3:37 pm

bullshit its the people that want to get promoted that do the sucking

by **scaramunga** Fri 03 Oct 2008, 4:41 pm

Yeah that really blows for you.

Side Note.

3 words caught my eye from the 3 previous posts: Cuban, Suck, and Paint.

I Google Imaged the trio. Image #21 (NSFW) of search. lol?

by **Aceofspades** Sat 04 Oct 2008, 11:38 am

epix!

by **Darth_Kitsune** Sat 04 Oct 2008, 7:45 pm

no bad toast that is not epic

by **Aceofspades** Mon 06 Oct 2008, 2:41 pm

no no no! the pix isnt but the fact that he found all 3 in one pix is pretty damn impressive to me

by **J1NX** Mon 06 Oct 2008, 2:49 pm

You are way too far up Castro's ass to pull out now man.

by **Darth_Kitsune** Mon 06 Oct 2008, 5:57 pm

yeah go ahead and finish up and we will not talk about this again

by Guest Sat 18 Oct 2008, 2:22 pm

Sorry to hear that. Things like this are exactly why I want to run a business for myself and not work under anyone, =P

by **Alcatraz** Sat 18 Oct 2008, 2:37 pm

Gotta say, entrepreneur's have it sexy many of the times, only downside is taking care of your own medical, insurance, and tax deductibles.

by **J1NX** Sat 18 Oct 2008, 2:54 pm

This is precisely why I am always so happy to be a pirate! xD

No 401k can touch bombarding the ship of the spanish armada!

I'm going to do it Francis Drake style and get knighted for it too lol

by **Alcatraz** Sat 18 Oct 2008, 3:06 pm

Yea, but then you'll be destroyed by the Brits in the reinactment of 1588... gg

by **J1NX** Sat 18 Oct 2008, 3:38 pm

Alcatraz wrote:Yea, but then you'll be destroyed by the Brits in the reinactment of 1588... gg

.....when we programmed you we never should have let you become so smart Wink

by **Alcatraz** Sat 18 Oct 2008, 5:11 pm

I can't help it... when I was a child, my parents dunked me in a barrel full of.......... um........... sec........ almost got it here........ um..... RIGHT!....... Light brite... there we go.

by **Darth_Kitsune** Sat 18 Oct 2008, 6:38 pm

proof that ai can teach itself

by **0pp0siti0n** Sat 18 Oct 2008, 8:53 pm

Alcatraz wrote:I can't help it... when I was a child, my parents dunked me in a barrel full of.......... um........... sec........ almost got it here........ um..... RIGHT!....... Light brite... there we go.

You sir, have impressed me again.

by **J1NX** Tue 02 Dec 2008, 11:48 am

0pp0siti0n wrote:
Alcatraz wrote:I can't help it... when I was a child, my parents dunked me in a barrel full of.......... um........... sec........ almost got it here........ um..... RIGHT!....... Light brite... there we go.
You sir, have impressed me again.

If you up to where he says "..RIGHT!" then it sounds like he was trying to eat his cookie

by Guest Tue 02 Dec 2008, 12:04 pm

Yes, retail sucks big hairy balls. I feel for you Bones.

by **J1NX** Tue 02 Dec 2008, 12:13 pm

Khan Temujin wrote:Yes, retail sucks big hairy balls. I feel for you Bones.

I will never go back to retail as long as I can help it.

I got out from under that beast and now I actually enjoy work.

by **0pp0siti0n** Tue 02 Dec 2008, 5:09 pm

J1NX wrote:
Khan Temujin wrote:Yes, retail sucks big hairy balls. I feel for you Bones.

I will never go back to retail as long as I can help it.

I got out from under that beast and now I actually enjoy work.

Abuse your position, here are some suggestions.

by **HematiteBones** Tue 02 Dec 2008, 5:23 pm

0pp0siti0n wrote:
J1NX wrote:
Khan Temujin wrote:Yes, retail sucks big hairy balls. I feel for you Bones.

I will never go back to retail as long as I can help it.

I got out from under that beast and now I actually enjoy work.
Abuse your position, here are some suggestions.

?? Suggestions? I can haz them?

by **Darth_Kitsune** Tue 02 Dec 2008, 6:06 pm

0pp0siti0n wrote:
J1NX wrote:
Khan Temujin wrote:Yes, retail sucks big hairy balls. I feel for you Bones.

I will never go back to retail as long as I can help it.

I got out from under that beast and now I actually enjoy work.
Abuse your position, here are some suggestions.

goddamn that is epic

by **HematiteBones** Wed 03 Dec 2008, 6:58 am

HematiteBones wrote:
0pp0siti0n wrote:
J1NX wrote:
Khan Temujin wrote:Yes, retail sucks big hairy balls. I feel for you Bones.

I will never go back to retail as long as I can help it.

I got out from under that beast and now I actually enjoy work.
Abuse your position, here are some suggestions.

?? Suggestions? I can haz them?

Ah. It was a link. ::poke self::

But in the meantime, as an update.... I was recently hired by the City of Tyler as a part-time librarian.

Mwa ha ha.

It's taking a really long time to get everything under way, of course, because it's city of tyler.
I'll probably stick with home depot until the end of the holidays, at which point I am trying to get on with TISD as a paid tutor. Sometime around the end of the spring semester (or before, if I'm lucky) I'll be working at one of the music shops in town repairing instruments and what not.

So all is well and my escape from retail is imminent.

by **J1NX** Wed 03 Dec 2008, 8:16 am

HematiteBones wrote:
HematiteBones wrote:
0pp0siti0n wrote:
J1NX wrote:
Khan Temujin wrote:Yes, retail sucks big hairy balls. I feel for you Bones.

I will never go back to retail as long as I can help it.

I got out from under that beast and now I actually enjoy work.
Abuse your position, here are some suggestions.

?? Suggestions? I can haz them?

Ah. It was a link. ::poke self::

But in the meantime, as an update.... I was recently hired by the City of Tyler as a part-time librarian.

Mwa ha ha.

It's taking a really long time to get everything under way, of course, because it's city of tyler.
I'll probably stick with home depot until the end of the holidays, at which point I am trying to get on with TISD as a paid tutor. Sometime around the end of the spring semester (or before, if I'm lucky) I'll be working at one of the music shops in town repairing instruments and what not.

So all is well and my escape from retail is imminent.

Ok...as if it wasn't requested before, I NEED to see pics of our smexy librarian =^_^=

As memory serves this is request number 3 in print on these boards alone, so get on it ~.O

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