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grrgoylI lied. This is the second important thing that happened this weekend.
I'm done with RGIS. DONE. I've actually been done for awhile now, but wasn't sure what to do about it until this opportunity came along.
Tery manages a vet hospital, I don't know if I've mentioned or not. She hired a guy for the weekend overnight shift who just isn't working out. He's supposed to clean the cages, feed the animals, give them meds, etc. and every day after his shift Tery receives a barrage of complaints that he didn't do a damn thing all night. She's given him several chances and several write-ups, and now he's out. And I might be in. It's just two 8-hour shifts, 9 pm to 5 am, which are the hours I'm awake on the weekend anyway. Might as well be getting paid for it.
It pays much less and some of the work is less than savory, BUT I'd be working for someone who had their shit together (no pun intended), working a set schedule, working alone, and it might just be all I need to supplement my regular transcription job. With my car paid off I'm not living paycheck to paycheck anymore. Plus the thought of working alone all night with only animals to talk to has made me realize that even working the inventory job just a few nights a week is too much togetherness for me. I simply will never be a people person. This strikes me as an efficient, simple solution to both our problems.
People will probably think me crazy leaving a $14-an-hour job for a $9-an-hour job. Frankly, when I put it that way, I think I sound a little crazy too. But when I consider all the stress and the headaches and the bullshit that comes with the $14, I think of it as a great deal. One of my mottos in life is that it's too short to keep working a job you hate, and although I don't bitch about it to LJ much, I HATE the inventory job. More specifically, I hate my bosses and the direction the company is taking.
It's just....the incompetence. The complete inability to grasp basic communication skills. The pigheaded enforcing of rules that are impractical and irritate everyone (and I'm not just talking about the anti-iPod clause). The panties getting bunched over stupid issues like tagging properly when we're counting stores with half the crew we need. The disorganization and the feeling that everyone's heads are stuck firmly up their own asses. I can't take it anymore. The company is going completely to hell and I'm not going with them.
Part B of my gripe centers on just one person, D. D has been a manager trainee for a couple of years, so it's hard to understand why she is so completely clueless now that she's been elevated to area manager. The majority of her stores begin with her making this statement: "I've never run this store before so you guys just do what you normally do." And she'll spend the rest of the time hiding, posting printouts and hoping that everything goes for the best. This is bullshit. Just because you haven't personally run the store once already does not excuse you from having a game plan and acting like a manager. She's taken to doing this so often that it just makes me wish my head would explode and spare me the misery of another half-assed run inventory.
But this weekend is the perfect example of what this company has become, a microcosm of a typical week with RGIS. I was scheduled for a 3-person store tonight, a 3-store run of Walmart meat departments. Very simple, reasonably quick. I was taken out because it was reduced to 2 stores (which would leave the two weaker grocery counters to fend for themselves. Not very logical to me, but I was getting a night off so didn't say anything). Last night I went into work and one of the other counters asked if I'd heard anything, because she was out too. No, no one had said a word to me, which I've learned doesn't necessarily mean that everything has been taken care of. I fully expected to get a phone call at noon today asking if I wanted to work tonight after all. So towards the end of the night I asked the other guy about it, and he hadn't heard anything either but would I be willing to do it? I agreed for his sake but gave him my number in case, through some unprecedented miracle, it HAD been taken care of through the proper channels.
Things didn't used to be this way. Auditors didn't used to have to worry about staffing their own stores. But our current district manager has some real problems keeping things together. Her managing method when things go wrong is just to sigh, shrug her shoulders and say, "Oh well, what can we do?" Her most recent excuse is her father was terminally ill and she was worrying about that. I've lost my father and my heart goes out to her, but meanwhile there's a whole district full of people counting on her. But she's been at it for 7 months and I've seen a slow but steady deterioration since day one. Just this weekend her father finally passed away so hopefully she can get on with her life again. The bad news is I can't wait another 6 months to see if things will improve. I'm ready to strangle people TODAY.
Why today? Because at 11:49 (close enough to noon for my purposes) I got an email asking me to work tonight because they suddenly noticed the staffing problem. If I hadn't spoken to my co-worker already I just might have refused on principle, but as it is I'm going in.
Today isn't the last straw so much as the final nail in the coffin of my loyalty to this company. Hopefully this time I'll never have to go back.
I'm done with RGIS. DONE. I've actually been done for awhile now, but wasn't sure what to do about it until this opportunity came along.
Tery manages a vet hospital, I don't know if I've mentioned or not. She hired a guy for the weekend overnight shift who just isn't working out. He's supposed to clean the cages, feed the animals, give them meds, etc. and every day after his shift Tery receives a barrage of complaints that he didn't do a damn thing all night. She's given him several chances and several write-ups, and now he's out. And I might be in. It's just two 8-hour shifts, 9 pm to 5 am, which are the hours I'm awake on the weekend anyway. Might as well be getting paid for it.
It pays much less and some of the work is less than savory, BUT I'd be working for someone who had their shit together (no pun intended), working a set schedule, working alone, and it might just be all I need to supplement my regular transcription job. With my car paid off I'm not living paycheck to paycheck anymore. Plus the thought of working alone all night with only animals to talk to has made me realize that even working the inventory job just a few nights a week is too much togetherness for me. I simply will never be a people person. This strikes me as an efficient, simple solution to both our problems.
People will probably think me crazy leaving a $14-an-hour job for a $9-an-hour job. Frankly, when I put it that way, I think I sound a little crazy too. But when I consider all the stress and the headaches and the bullshit that comes with the $14, I think of it as a great deal. One of my mottos in life is that it's too short to keep working a job you hate, and although I don't bitch about it to LJ much, I HATE the inventory job. More specifically, I hate my bosses and the direction the company is taking.
It's just....the incompetence. The complete inability to grasp basic communication skills. The pigheaded enforcing of rules that are impractical and irritate everyone (and I'm not just talking about the anti-iPod clause). The panties getting bunched over stupid issues like tagging properly when we're counting stores with half the crew we need. The disorganization and the feeling that everyone's heads are stuck firmly up their own asses. I can't take it anymore. The company is going completely to hell and I'm not going with them.
Part B of my gripe centers on just one person, D. D has been a manager trainee for a couple of years, so it's hard to understand why she is so completely clueless now that she's been elevated to area manager. The majority of her stores begin with her making this statement: "I've never run this store before so you guys just do what you normally do." And she'll spend the rest of the time hiding, posting printouts and hoping that everything goes for the best. This is bullshit. Just because you haven't personally run the store once already does not excuse you from having a game plan and acting like a manager. She's taken to doing this so often that it just makes me wish my head would explode and spare me the misery of another half-assed run inventory.
But this weekend is the perfect example of what this company has become, a microcosm of a typical week with RGIS. I was scheduled for a 3-person store tonight, a 3-store run of Walmart meat departments. Very simple, reasonably quick. I was taken out because it was reduced to 2 stores (which would leave the two weaker grocery counters to fend for themselves. Not very logical to me, but I was getting a night off so didn't say anything). Last night I went into work and one of the other counters asked if I'd heard anything, because she was out too. No, no one had said a word to me, which I've learned doesn't necessarily mean that everything has been taken care of. I fully expected to get a phone call at noon today asking if I wanted to work tonight after all. So towards the end of the night I asked the other guy about it, and he hadn't heard anything either but would I be willing to do it? I agreed for his sake but gave him my number in case, through some unprecedented miracle, it HAD been taken care of through the proper channels.
Things didn't used to be this way. Auditors didn't used to have to worry about staffing their own stores. But our current district manager has some real problems keeping things together. Her managing method when things go wrong is just to sigh, shrug her shoulders and say, "Oh well, what can we do?" Her most recent excuse is her father was terminally ill and she was worrying about that. I've lost my father and my heart goes out to her, but meanwhile there's a whole district full of people counting on her. But she's been at it for 7 months and I've seen a slow but steady deterioration since day one. Just this weekend her father finally passed away so hopefully she can get on with her life again. The bad news is I can't wait another 6 months to see if things will improve. I'm ready to strangle people TODAY.
Why today? Because at 11:49 (close enough to noon for my purposes) I got an email asking me to work tonight because they suddenly noticed the staffing problem. If I hadn't spoken to my co-worker already I just might have refused on principle, but as it is I'm going in.
Today isn't the last straw so much as the final nail in the coffin of my loyalty to this company. Hopefully this time I'll never have to go back.
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Date: 2006-07-31 08:56 pm (UTC)As you said, alone.. Animals. Cool.
Also as soon as I read it I got the most vivid image of you with your iPod-as you'd be able to bring that and books or whatever if you're alone-dancin' like a crazy person under strip-lights through animal cages.
... Yeah. I'm special.
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