Wolf Kanno
01-19-2010, 08:12 PM
This is mostly a rant cause I'm so frustrated with my job and work. I work at a place that most people would think would be a cushy job and technically it really is but corporate and my boss take it so serious that they have transformed it into a working nightmare.
My corporate office has us fill out tons of paperwork which all basically list the same information but then they will chastise us for not filling it out with the correct information cause out computers actually record everything and send them all the information before our written reports even get there... Anyone else see the problem here? Our computers break down constantly and are filled with bugs. Fixing them is a terrible hassle and if a component breaks down, we can't replace them cause our computers are at least 10 years old if not more. It would be easily remedied by purchasing new computers with accessible components but apparently that isn't a good way to spend the companies resources so instead they open new stores in cities I've never heard of in god forsaken places that have probably never even heard of our products.
My boss is exasperated with their silly dogmatic policies and is annoyed that they create horribly unreasonable goals for us to achieve. The problem is they have made her powerless and so in order to feel like she has control she imposes more silly useless rules upon her employees. My boss is crazy... She will literally ask you to do something, then make you stop what she asked you to do, so you can work on something that is "priority" and before you are even done with this "priority" work she yells at you for not finishing the first thing she asked. When you try to explain that she's crazy and you didn't finish it because she made you start on another project she either sheepishly apologizes but then reprimands you for not working fast enough to finish both tasks or she flat out refuses to let you get an explanation in saying "she doesn't want to hear excuses".
Six months into my job I was tasked with doing a new pointless task from corporate. My boss never even did this assignment but it was tasked to happen on a day she had off (though she still had to do a conference call). I was working that morning and had to do it, I wrote down exactly what she told me to do verbatim and completed the task the way she showed me the night before. Turns out she didn't show me how to do it right and so the higher ups reprimanded her for my mistake, she told them it was entirely my fault cause I didn't listen and wrote me up and treated me like an incompetent employee so I couldn't even talk to her bosses to explain what really happened. I took the fall for her and she still treats the incident as my fault (she even later showed me how to do it properly and it was completely different than how she showed me).
She hires new people, loves them for a month and once their newness runs out, she begins to feel like they are the most incompetent employee we ever had. There is another guy I work with and everyone on staff feels he's a great guy and good hard worker (it's even his first job) but my boss finds him annoying and hates him. She constantly tells me how lazy he is and every time I work with him he's actually been nothing but absolutely wonderful. He now only works on days with her cause she feels she needs to be there to make sure he isn't slacking off.
If she gets mad at you, she cuts your hours. I've been burning through school loan money cause I can't get enough hours at work to make enough to pay for my monthly bills. A few weeks ago, I received another write up cause I spend too much time (when we're dead on a weekday) making displays look good and apparently I spend too much time helping single customers when I should be quickly disengaging to help more... So apparently I'm getting written up for avoiding doing my job by... doing my job? Anything I work on, she tells me it looks great but then after I leave she completely redoes it cause it "wasn't working for her". If you actually take the initiative and do your work efficiently without her having to tell you, she finds a way to make your decision wrong. I once restocked the store but my boss decided that the items I restocked it with "never sell" which is why she had them in the backroom, so she removes all of it and tells me to never stock without asking her if its ok in case she's holding stuff in the back for specific reasons. A week later (we never got a new shipment in) she yells at the staff for never stocking. She tells us to call her if we have a question or want to do something we're not sure she'll be happy with but then she gets annoyed when you actually call her.
This is what a lot of my problems is, she has placed us in a "damn if you do damn if you don't" situation and its never her fault. I either get yelled at for not asking her opinion on things and just doing my job but then I also get yelled at for not taking the initiative enough cause frankly whenever I do its not up to her expectations despite the only right answer was to do nothing.
This past week, she has really pissed off most of the staff. She bought a security camera, initially to watch for theft (which we don't get much of) but later she told me and a few other employees she did it so she could make sure we're all doing our jobs when she's not working. She told me this to my face with smile a saying "Big Mama is watching". My only form of enjoyment with this job is being able to not work with her and finally do everything at my pace instead of her but now I have pretend like we actually have stuff to do despite our store being dead for weeks. I can't even have conversations anymore cause the camera records audio and heaven forbid co-workers talk while they work, even though its fine when she does it.
I've been looking for a new job for over a year but places are still not hiring. Its gotten so bad at this job that I've been seriously thinking about sucking up my pride and begging my old boss to give me my old job back. I was royally pissed with my old management but I quit that job for less than what I've been going through now and regretfully I was unemployed for almost a year between that job and my current one and I eneded up getting into some serious debt cause of it. So I can't just quit my current job until I can get a new one cause I don't want to repeat that mistake. Anyway, I just seriously needed to rant about this cause its been bugging me for ages and well this new development has really made the job unbearable.
My corporate office has us fill out tons of paperwork which all basically list the same information but then they will chastise us for not filling it out with the correct information cause out computers actually record everything and send them all the information before our written reports even get there... Anyone else see the problem here? Our computers break down constantly and are filled with bugs. Fixing them is a terrible hassle and if a component breaks down, we can't replace them cause our computers are at least 10 years old if not more. It would be easily remedied by purchasing new computers with accessible components but apparently that isn't a good way to spend the companies resources so instead they open new stores in cities I've never heard of in god forsaken places that have probably never even heard of our products.
My boss is exasperated with their silly dogmatic policies and is annoyed that they create horribly unreasonable goals for us to achieve. The problem is they have made her powerless and so in order to feel like she has control she imposes more silly useless rules upon her employees. My boss is crazy... She will literally ask you to do something, then make you stop what she asked you to do, so you can work on something that is "priority" and before you are even done with this "priority" work she yells at you for not finishing the first thing she asked. When you try to explain that she's crazy and you didn't finish it because she made you start on another project she either sheepishly apologizes but then reprimands you for not working fast enough to finish both tasks or she flat out refuses to let you get an explanation in saying "she doesn't want to hear excuses".
Six months into my job I was tasked with doing a new pointless task from corporate. My boss never even did this assignment but it was tasked to happen on a day she had off (though she still had to do a conference call). I was working that morning and had to do it, I wrote down exactly what she told me to do verbatim and completed the task the way she showed me the night before. Turns out she didn't show me how to do it right and so the higher ups reprimanded her for my mistake, she told them it was entirely my fault cause I didn't listen and wrote me up and treated me like an incompetent employee so I couldn't even talk to her bosses to explain what really happened. I took the fall for her and she still treats the incident as my fault (she even later showed me how to do it properly and it was completely different than how she showed me).
She hires new people, loves them for a month and once their newness runs out, she begins to feel like they are the most incompetent employee we ever had. There is another guy I work with and everyone on staff feels he's a great guy and good hard worker (it's even his first job) but my boss finds him annoying and hates him. She constantly tells me how lazy he is and every time I work with him he's actually been nothing but absolutely wonderful. He now only works on days with her cause she feels she needs to be there to make sure he isn't slacking off.
If she gets mad at you, she cuts your hours. I've been burning through school loan money cause I can't get enough hours at work to make enough to pay for my monthly bills. A few weeks ago, I received another write up cause I spend too much time (when we're dead on a weekday) making displays look good and apparently I spend too much time helping single customers when I should be quickly disengaging to help more... So apparently I'm getting written up for avoiding doing my job by... doing my job? Anything I work on, she tells me it looks great but then after I leave she completely redoes it cause it "wasn't working for her". If you actually take the initiative and do your work efficiently without her having to tell you, she finds a way to make your decision wrong. I once restocked the store but my boss decided that the items I restocked it with "never sell" which is why she had them in the backroom, so she removes all of it and tells me to never stock without asking her if its ok in case she's holding stuff in the back for specific reasons. A week later (we never got a new shipment in) she yells at the staff for never stocking. She tells us to call her if we have a question or want to do something we're not sure she'll be happy with but then she gets annoyed when you actually call her.
This is what a lot of my problems is, she has placed us in a "damn if you do damn if you don't" situation and its never her fault. I either get yelled at for not asking her opinion on things and just doing my job but then I also get yelled at for not taking the initiative enough cause frankly whenever I do its not up to her expectations despite the only right answer was to do nothing.
This past week, she has really pissed off most of the staff. She bought a security camera, initially to watch for theft (which we don't get much of) but later she told me and a few other employees she did it so she could make sure we're all doing our jobs when she's not working. She told me this to my face with smile a saying "Big Mama is watching". My only form of enjoyment with this job is being able to not work with her and finally do everything at my pace instead of her but now I have pretend like we actually have stuff to do despite our store being dead for weeks. I can't even have conversations anymore cause the camera records audio and heaven forbid co-workers talk while they work, even though its fine when she does it.
I've been looking for a new job for over a year but places are still not hiring. Its gotten so bad at this job that I've been seriously thinking about sucking up my pride and begging my old boss to give me my old job back. I was royally pissed with my old management but I quit that job for less than what I've been going through now and regretfully I was unemployed for almost a year between that job and my current one and I eneded up getting into some serious debt cause of it. So I can't just quit my current job until I can get a new one cause I don't want to repeat that mistake. Anyway, I just seriously needed to rant about this cause its been bugging me for ages and well this new development has really made the job unbearable.