At my old job, I started out being good friends with the manager (I was the assistant manager) and ultimately wound up really disliking him (I can't say I hated him...but did dislike him...as did everyone else in the store). A few examples of what he would do...
-lots of busywork without doing a thing, which meant I had to do my job AND his job
-we were responsible for doing inside AND outside sales, and outside sales were generated by leads from someone in their company. We'd give the manager leads to follow up on, and he never would but claimed he did. Then he'd blame us for the lack of outside sales. We only found out he would never contact the leads when a couple of the leads we gave him happened to be personal friends of ours
-While he required us to work every Saturday (store was closed on Sundays), he had a habit of either taking the Saturday off, or working 2-3 hours in the morning and cutting out when someone else arrived. Meanwhile I only had 2 Saturdays off the entire time I worked there...one was because he was forced to not schedule due to me recovering from surgery and another was because I took some paid time off. He also was making me close almost every night, which actually violated our store standards that the company put out...we were supposed to have three closers (me, manager, and one other key holder) and we each were supposed to have 2 closings a week and that's it unless smoething unusual was happening that week (i.e. someone on vacation). I complained to him telling him that I did not want to close every night and that I wanted to spend some nights with my DH. He told me to get over it.
-I had surgery scheduled one day and he kept pressuring me to reschedule because he had tickets to a college football game he wanted to be at. I refused, so he made this other employee work by himself and close by himself when he had only been on the selling floor for 3 days. The employee naturally didn't do a good job and the manager blamed him over and over. Umm, hello? He was only working for 3 days!!
-He started referring to some of our clients and even one of our coworkers by racial slurs (not to their face). I called him out on it several times but he just laughed it off. When I reminded him I was Hispanic and took even more offense to his words, he told me that because I look white, I am not Hispanic (I'm Bolivian & Irish) and therefore I don't count.
-He took over a month off during the summer which happened to be when our biggest sale of the year was. During that time, he was making me work every day (except that day we happened to be closed...Sunday). When I told him I wanted myother "supposed to get" day off a week, he started griping and complaining about how I didn't understand how difficult it was to do a schedule (umm, he only needed to schedule 5 people...I used to be a floor manager of another store where I was scheduling about 15 people, half of whom were students so I really had to work around their schedules).
-He wanted me to write up this one girl because he didn't like her clothes (note: what she wore did not go against dress code). So I told her what he wanted me to do and she had alreayd been thinking of quitting so I told her that this was the time. On the corrective action form, I put the manager's name and said "Manager (name) has issue with the following:". He was mad that I did that, and called her up and lied to her saying that he never told me to do that, that I wasn't supposed to give that to her. Note: the only way I even had that form was because *he* gave it to me via email, and I showed it to her so she could see for herself.
-He wrote me up for things *he* wasn't doing. Seriously. I mean I had even gotten a personal call from the company's vice president thanking me for things *I* had done (i.e. I sold 10 seats in one month to a workshop the company was having...about $300 a seat...and it was unheard of to sell that many in just one month). But he wrote me up anyway.
-The Marriott Courtyard had given me gift certificates to stay for 2 free nights and they were mailing it to my job (kind of a long story as to why they were giving them to me). I never received them, so I asked my manager if he had seen them. He said they never came. Well I was in the store office a short time later...sticking out of his bag was an open envelope addressed to me...inside were the gift certificates. He stole them from me. I didn't take them back or even confront him on it because I had a strong feeling that he would claim I was taking other things from his bag (another long story as to why I thought that). I was really upset because DH and I had been going through a really stressful time and we were looking forward to having 2 nights "away".
I know that's quite a bit there, but trust me, the list goes on and on. I confronted him big time on it, and as a result, I was fired. So I filed a formal complaint against him (and the district manager as well...but that's another story) detailing everything (which I intended on doing anyway, but the wrongful termination just fueled it)...and nothing happened to him. Three other former employees also filed formal complaints against him and the DM, still nothing happened. In fact, the DM got DM of the year. However, justice is sweet...apparently since I left the store, things have not been done, the store has been a wreck, and they are not making their sales goals. There's a strong suspicion that the store will close at the end of spring.
It took standing up to this man - many were afraid to do it because he would just rant and he was downright scary and creepy when he did it. I finally said enough was enough and that was that. Fortunately, he steered clear of me from that point on.
, and we started looking for someone else full-time. When he started, we let her go. It's been the best month here!
laughing: ) of. She's the type you have to watch your back with. She likes to feel important & she goes out of her way to make others look bad. It's pretty common knowledge where I work that you need to be extra careful when she's around. Luckily, about twice a year she has a "nervous breakdown" & takes a few months off.
