Many folks have asked me for an update on this... And what I can tell you is that the place is a mad house! I have figured that this place is in no way worth my spit as far as fighting for some things... So I have instructed my husband to help me by making me half sandwiches with low carb bread, and a bag of nuts and meat stick bites to help supplement my calories in a 15 minute break. The stress has considerably raised my blood sugars 30+ points all around. I have already applied at other places of employment, and I have a job interview tomorrow.
At this place, there is a LOT of drama. The manager is always on the defensive, and will not let one finish one's sentences, just assuming what one's intentions might be: i.e., I may want clarification on a schedule post, and he may assume that I just want to demand days off, and will vocalize it as such. Some days, we (myself and the lady who got hired on with me) are told to work on the sale's floor, and then all of a sudden we are recriminated and questioned "Why are you working on the sales floor? You haven't passed a criminal background yet, and we don't let you work on the sales floor until you have... Get to the back room and hang clothes, and price them..."
Today was a day when we were told not to hang any more clothes... and not to worry about the roller racks which were sitting on the sales floor, because we would have enough additional employees to handle it... Go work bric brac, we were told... But then, more than half the day later (with just 2 hours left of the day) we got yelled at for "touching" bric brac, and told to go on the sales floor and help this guy "John" work the clothes... (after all morning working in the back on bric) because he hadn't been able to put away all clothes, and that if we didn't finish it all by the end of the day, that we would be given two forced days off for not getting it done.... And then he pulls us aside to say "Oh, don't worry about John, he's just lazy... don't help him in any way cus he's about to be fired and I don't want you dealing with him -- go to the back end receiving, and sit there, it's a slow day, and take a break... waiting for deliveries..." Almost two hours sitting on my butt doing nothing... While others take 30 smoke breaks a day, or McDonald's breaks... And then we are not allowed to purchase anything from the store, or allowed to take anything... (and that's fine... I accept that)... but then he yells at us if we even comment on how nice some donated item is... (don't take my money from me!, he says) yet he's always pushing things on us, too... Today he pushed on me candy, and three pairs of shoes... yesterday he tried to push tons of pastries, pies, donuts, etc on me. Luckily he left early, so I left it all there... It's like someone told him it was okay for us to have sugar, and he then maybe took it to mean we can gorge on sugar, or something... I dunno. :/
I don't like making assumptions about folks... but this manager does NOT seem right in the head... He takes it that we're unhappy that we're not getting 40 hours, and well... It's a little sad that we can't... but a job is a job is a job... I take 28 hours gladly... My problem is not that, at all... It's the insanity of it all... They say he likes his girls and his booze... so I really just don't want to be around that environment... when you haven't even worked there a full week and already people are volunteering information on you that you just wish you had never known! lol I should've known when, at the interview, they told me to "just stay away from drama, and everything will be okay." lol