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Just need to rant.
I'm just a little angry right now. And although the anger is slowly vanishing, I need to rant here. rolleyes
I finish work each night at about 6pm, Aussie time. And right on the dot of 6pm, I get called to help a customer, who wanted to buy some face paints or his kids. I tried to help him as much as I can. But not having the items he wanted made it difficult to get rid of him. I kept telling him we didn't have them in stock, and he kept saying what he wanted.
While this is all happening, and I'm trying to leave, I hear a voice from one of my co-workers for privacy sake, lets call her missy. So Missy yells out from a distance, 'can you bring over your cash trays? I yell back, but we're open late tonight, what if you get a customer? She says, 'well just bring one tray over then'...
I say to myself, 'fine, I'll get it. So I excuse myself from my customer, who kept asking over and over again that same question..
So as I'm carrying my cash tray over to the front of the store to Missy. I'm behind her, and she's complaining to the boss about me, not bringing the trays. She didn't realize that I was behind her. By that time, I was being so frustrated, and I explained that if a customer goes to that counter, you won't have a cash tray. She replied, just bring it over. ..
By this time, my blood is boiling, because not only was that guy annoying me knowing I can't help him if we don't have the item he wanted, but also that Missy was dobbing me in. Yet she considered herself a friend to me. But I'm also complaining that she had all day to notify me about those trays and yet did it well after my work time. ..With anger, I had my bottle of water which I chucked aiming at the bin. Not realizing that it looked very much like I was trying to throw it at her. Angered I left and went to get the other cash tray. While walking I was mumbling to myself, blah blah blah.
When I came back with the cash tray, The boss said to me, that if I ever scream and carry on at missy again, or throw things at her, I'll be in his office for a formal counseling. It's kind of like getting into trouble but with strikes. In the retail world if people get more than 3 strikes of counseling against there names, then they can get the sack. He also said that I shouldn't be complaining to the staff , to which I have no idea what he meant, until I questioned him.
He said, that I was complaining to Tony. I replied no I wasn't. I was mumbling to myself, to which I always talk to myself.
But he wouldn't see it my way, and refused to come to some kind of understanding. He was yelling and very rude to me. Yet he was making it look like I was the one doing it. sweatdrop
I tried to explain to him, that the chucking of the bottle wasn't at her, its basically aiming for the bin, that was next to her. And as far as not obeying her, she was in the wrong, where she had all day to phone me up and ask me before I leave to go home, to bring over the trays. Why didn't she do it? If she done it, they wouldn't end up paying me over time, to which they won't anyways. Why did she wait until well after 6pm to notify me, that she wanted me to carry those trays over there?
By the way, Missy is known to be a lazy person. Where each time I do her breaks, such as lunch and tea times, all her work is done by me. Anyways going back to the story. ... By this time it was after 10 past 6pm, which means they have to pay me 10 minutes over time. He basically didn't want to hear my side of the story or anything I had to say. As far as he was concerned, Missy was in the right and what she said, I had to do. [She isn't a boss, she was just a person running things at the front, because the reals supervisor had gone home at the time]
I know this sounds stupid but if you think about it, who's in the wrong here? Plus these past few weeks, we've had the toy sale, and school holidays. So the shop is busier than other times. We've been stressing out, because where we once had about 2-3 people per department, has been cut back to one person in soft goods/clothes and one person in hard/goods. Imagine a department store being looked after by just two staff members during busy periods is enough to blow your mind away. So you can imagine the stress and pressure, right?
And for the whole day, I was looking after half the side of the store, while michelle was watching the other half of store. We shouldn't have to work under stress or pressure this way, especially during busier times. So if anyone needs to complain, it's me for having to work under stress. But no, I'm in the wrong, for complaining to Missy for not informing me earlier about those darn trays.
Our boss is lucky that I haven't rung up the union yet, to complain about how there's only two of us, running around helping people, when they've cut back on staff. they should feel embarrassed and a shame of themselves for a multi billion dollar company such as Target not bringing in more staff. This is what our boss should be trying to fix, and not worrying about how Missy made me stay back and get those stupid cash trays. sweatdrop
How can I not be angry and frustrated at the stupidity of all this? rolleyes
 Princess-Orphelia · Fri Jul 05, 2013 @ 10:58am · 1 Comments |
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