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F Off
I used to work for a maternity clothing company as an assistant
manager. Needless to say I started looking for a new job on the day I
started working for the company.
My first day on the job, I found out I had been hired by the old
store manager (she quit the day I started) so that she wouldn’t have
to hire her boss’s inept niece. I had been hired full time, with them
knowing I was getting married 3 months later, and would need a week
off after the wedding. The day I started training the District
Manager spent the entire day telling us how she was trying to hide
the fact that she was over $60,000 in debt from her husband, and how
she had just gone out and spent another $1000 on buying shoes..
Really???
Since the store had no manager I was the only person in the store who
could do the bank drop, and since I didn’t have a car, I had to go in
early, fill out the deposit forms, then walk a mile and a half to the
bank to deposit the previous day’s sales then make it back in time to
open the store.
When the time came for me to get married, I was told that I was no
longer eligible to be be full time (I had just reached eligibility
for benefits), and that I would still work 40 hours a week, but they
would have to call me part time to be able to get the time off for my
honeymoon. I was ok with this, because my husband worked for a bank
and had really good benefits.
To top it off, when the DM sent the schedule in for the store, Not
only was I scheduled to work the day of my wedding, but the 3 days
following. I called her and told her that it was not possible, and
she would have to schedule an Assistant Manager from another store
until I returned.
When I got back, I got written up for not taking in the bank deposits
on days I didn’t even work. The other store’s AM had just filled out
the deposits, then left the money bags not in the safe, but under the
counter where anyone could have picked it up and walked out with
several thousand dollars worth of cash…
A month after this incident the DM said she had gotten a complaint
that I was unprofessional in the store, because I had told a customer
they couldn’t return an item for cash (company policy). This ended
with her admitting that I had followed the policy and was right.
After another 2 months we finally got a manager for the store. Things
got a little better, but the DM still was out for me, because she
wanted her niece to have my job.
3 months after this, we had an overnight inventory in the store. As
part of inventory, the DM and 3 managers had to be present as well as
the Assistant Manager (me) and the other girls who worked at the
store.
During the inventory the DM as a ‘Team Building’ exercise asked us
how we delt with fights with our spouses. Being young and not so
street smart I told of the one fight I had with my husband where I
had told him to f off.
The next day while the DM was with the owner of the company, a friend
of hers called and complained that she had shopped with me and I had
used the F*** word in the store. To look good the DM HAD to fire me.
In the exit interview the manager of the store wrote that the only
time she had ever heard the story come out of my mouth was when the
DM had specifically asked for stories of the such during inventory
the previous night, and that I never cussed.
I was able to qualify for unemployment due to the documented issues
with the DM the entire 9 months I worked for the company.
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Sounds like a horrible experience from day one. I don’t know why you put up with having to walk 1.5 miles to make the bank deposit.
The walking to deposit money was STUPID on the stores part. If anyone knew you were doing that you could have been killed for the money. As far as the cussing. HAHAHHA I work on a Marine corps base. If I don’t hear and/or say the F word about 1,000 times a day the command must be sleeping.
Best wishes to you and your hubby.
Why is it “Needless to say” you started looking for a new job….? That makes no sense whatsoever. Learn how to write.
The bank deposit thing was a serious safety problem. having to walk to the back with thousands of dollars was asking for you to be robbed. not sure why they did not have cash pickup from an armored service. Most large retail stores do. It is a loss prevention nightmare to have an employee robbed over the previous days receipts.
Glad to see you out of there.
#1. Not the company’s fault you didn’t have a car. P.S. Ever heard of a bike?
#2. And understand about the part-time thing – had you been full time with no vacation built up they could have fired you for missing those days. So they did the best they could for your situation.
#3. DM’s are over many stores in their district – sounds like an honest mistake with the schedule.
#4. It sucks they didn’t take the deposit, but at the end of the day, if you’re the acting manager you are responsible for what goes on in the store, even if you’re not there.
#5. If the DM got a complaint, it is her JOB to bring it to your attention. Even if you were right, you probably had an attitude and that was the problem.
#6. Even if she did ask you about your fight with your hubby, you should have known better than to drop the F-bomb. Totally unprofessional
Having you WALK that distance to make a deposit is a major safety violation, irregardless of company policy. The assumption is you were making the walk by yourself, (which i hope not). Your better off not working for them.
If it’s “Needless to say” then there’s no need to say it, yet you will and in great detail too. I don’t think 90% of the people who use the phrase know what the hell it means.
you know….sometimes violence is the answer, lol. There’s no way I’d let that stupid witch keep both her job and her teeth if I were you!
Irregardless is not a word, Hmmm…… It’s *regardless*.
“3 months after this, we had an overnight inventory in the store…..” I honestly stopped reading right there. I couldn’t take your babbling any more.
from grammargirl.com
“Standard Versus Nonstandard English
Now, on to dictionaries. Although it’s true that the American Heritage Dictionary, the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, and the Oxford English Dictionary all list the word irregardless, they also note that it’s considered nonstandard. Listing a word as nonstandard is a way that dictionaries concede that a word is in common use, but isn’t really a proper word. Standard language is defined as the language spoken by educated native speakers (1), but comprehensive dictionaries also include nonstandard words, dialect, colloquialisms, and jargon–words like ain’t, conversate, and irregardless. It seems pretty common for people to look up a word in a dictionary, and if it’s there, they think it’s fine to use that word every circumstance. It’s the “Look, it’s a word!” phenomenon. But you have to look a little further to see what kind of word it is, and if it’s nonstandard in some way, then use it with caution. You’ll sound uneducated if you go around saying things like I ain’t gonna conversate with him irregardless of the consequences.”
To sum up, it may be nonstandard, but as long as you are careful in the usage, it is considered okay to use. Do some homework before you correct grammar.
Depending on the employment laws of your area you should look into this… if you had discussed the time off needed for your wedding in advance of being hired by the company and they agreed to it, they have NO right to take it back… once a company says you can have the time off they MUST give it to you, regardless if the time has been accrued or not, unless you didn’t have it placed in your terms of employment contract.
Also for the f-bomb… one instance of any insubordinate behaviour is not grounds for dismissal. Though this is based on the employment laws were I live so it might not be the same for you. However I would check it out if I were you as long as it is within the statute of limitations, you might have cause for a wrongful dismissal action against this company.
I agree with ME. You might have had a wrongful termination case there, but at least you got the unemployment benefits. Sounds like the DM was quite the treacherous bitch, I feel sorry for the poor sap that married her.
So you left out your honeymoon details..did your hubby give you a dirty sanchez?
Jetta, FIrst off they couldn’t fire her for days she told them she needed off before hand. Secondly she said she never actually cussed. Do your homework.