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I have hated my boss passionately, but tonight has officially sealed my hatred.

Let me elaborate a little bit: my manager at work is lazy. She doesn't do anything. Unlike the other managers of our department, she is not productive. She does not help put stuff away when trucks arrive with freight (freight is stuff that comes in off of trucks that is put onto carts that, in turn, are taken out to the main store for stocking). She does not help us do the little miscellaneous jobs that we are required to do daily. Honestly, she does practically nothing. I know that sounds hyperbolic, but its not as far-off as you're probably thinking. Other managers -- including our other assistant manager that drinks with / is friends with her -- have conceded this. She just stands around exaggerating stories all day.

Most of the time she's alright, and is willing to [expletive] with your or whatever. She has a fatal flaw though: staying late. I don't know if it's because store managers bully her in an attempt to get her to quit (since she's lazy and does nothing), but we stay late far too often with her. I can understand a manager doing their job, but when its flat-out unnecessary busywork or crap that could easily be pushed back to the next day without causing any conflicts at all, it's nerve-wrecking. My guess is that she just likes to milk hours so she gets more money; that, or the her-superiors-hate-her conspiracy. It's self-righteous when you are ruining Friday and Saturday nights of people, or cutting into much-needed study time. The fact that stores cannot honor a schedule is incredibly frustrating to me.

Anyway, tonight I came in, and the first thing she said is, "do you feel like closing tonight?" I got there at 3:30 and we close at 9:00, so I had no idea what she was talking about. ("What? I just got here -- I am closing" is what I thought.) She pointed to our schedule, and I saw that I was only there until 7:30 for some strange reason. "Uh, I'll think about it." I then thought about how convenient the short shift was, because I had (or have, at the time of writing this) a program due tomorrow morning that I haven't started yet.

A few hours later, she paged me to an aisle, so I went over there. This conversation ensued:
Her: "So, are you going to stay and help us then?"
Me: "No I'm not. I have a program due tomorrow."
Her: "Oh, so now your program is in the way, even though you came here thinking you had to work tonight?"
Me: "That doesn't mean I didn't need the time to work on it. Don't try and run me on a guilt trip, I feel no obligation to stay."
Her: "Oh, well, then I guess I feel no obligation to ever let you leave early again."

What a [expletive]. I've been on the verge of quitting that place. I don't know how many more straws this camel can take. I just wanted to chew her out, rip into her, throw my name tag down and walk out the door. That is disgustingly rude for her to get on my back like that just because I told her I wouldn't stay, even more so considering the fact that I had something legitimate to do.

Kyle wrote:I have hated my boss passionately, but tonight has officially sealed my hatred.

Let me elaborate a little bit: my manager at work is lazy. She doesn't do anything. Unlike the other managers of our department, she is not productive. She does not help put stuff away when trucks arrive with freight (freight is stuff that comes in off of trucks that is put onto carts that, in turn, are taken out to the main store for stocking). She does not help us do the little miscellaneous jobs that we are required to do daily. Honestly, she does practically nothing. I know that sounds hyperbolic, but its not as far-off as you're probably thinking. Other managers -- including our other assistant manager that drinks with / is friends with her -- have conceded this. She just stands around exaggerating stories all day.

Most of the time she's alright, and is willing to [expletive] with your or whatever. She has a fatal flaw though: staying late. I don't know if it's because store managers bully her in an attempt to get her to quit (since she's lazy and does nothing), but we stay late far too often with her. I can understand a manager doing their job, but when its flat-out unnecessary busywork or crap that could easily be pushed back to the next day without causing any conflicts at all, it's nerve-wrecking. My guess is that she just likes to milk hours so she gets more money; that, or the her-superiors-hate-her conspiracy. It's self-righteous when you are ruining Friday and Saturday nights of people, or cutting into much-needed study time. The fact that stores cannot honor a schedule is incredibly frustrating to me.

Anyway, tonight I came in, and the first thing she said is, "do you feel like closing tonight?" I got there at 3:30 and we close at 9:00, so I had no idea what she was talking about. ("What? I just got here -- I am closing" is what I thought.) She pointed to our schedule, and I saw that I was only there until 7:30 for some strange reason. "Uh, I'll think about it." I then thought about how convenient the short shift was, because I had (or have, at the time of writing this) a program due tomorrow morning that I haven't started yet.

A few hours later, she paged me to an aisle, so I went over there. This conversation ensued:
Her: "So, are you going to stay and help us then?"
Me: "No I'm not. I have a program due tomorrow."
Her: "Oh, so now your program is in the way, even though you came here thinking you had to work tonight?"
Me: "That doesn't mean I didn't need the time to work on it. Don't try and run me on a guilt trip, I feel no obligation to stay."
Her: "Oh, well, then I guess I feel no obligation to ever let you leave early again."

What a [expletive]. I've been on the verge of quitting that place. I don't know how many more straws this camel can take. I just wanted to chew her out, rip into her, throw my name tag down and walk out the door. That is disgustingly rude for her to get on my back like that just because I told her I wouldn't stay, even more so considering the fact that I had something legitimate to do.

When is your busiest time of year? Hand in your notice two weeks before that

A friend of mine had a quick conversation with his boss over the walkie-talkies they had to carry.

him: Kathy,do you like apples?
her: sure.
him: I quit! How do ya like them apples?

This happened on a saturday afternoon in a very busy Wal-Mart while she was standing at the service desk,and her walkie-talkie was turned up load enough that everybody heard the whole thing.

I worked at a SAMS for a few years and I know the type. I would get crap for asking off months in advance to ether volunteer, or have the night before a final off, and other people wouldn't get any crap for taking off last minute because they drank too much the night before.

Seriously, how do these managers who are working with college age students not understand that college is the #1 priority for your workers?!?! My current boss understands it, and when I leave she's by herself doing two peoples jobs, but she is still letting me take off 2 days for finals. (And letting me take work home that weekend, after finals to make up hours, because I need those hours)

JCShutout wrote:Seriously, how do these managers who are working with college age students not understand that college is the #1 priority for your workers?!?! My current boss understands it, and when I leave she's by herself doing two peoples jobs, but she is still letting me take off 2 days for finals. (And letting me take work home that weekend, after finals to make up hours, because I need those hours)

Yep. She's polar-opposite of your boss.

At a meeting, she honestly said that college was not a valid excuse. She said that if we couldn't handle balancing a job and school then we needed to find someplace else to work. (I agree with that to some extent, because some people think they can call in the afternoon of the day they work and say something like, "oh, I have to study," despite knowing of a test full-well weeks in advance.) With that said, listen to her reasoning behind her complete and utter lack of sympathy: "When I was your age and in college, I was raising a kid and working full-time. I got three hours of sleep a night." I understand using exaggeration for emphasis, but saying something like that (the three hours thing) is just absurd.

How on earth can she say that college is not a valid excuse? Most of these retail places (Menard's, WalMart, Home Depot, etc.) love to hire college kids because it's part time jobs (i.e. they don't pay benefits) and they can cover various shifts which fit in with the school schedules. I worked at K-Mart during my first year of college and my managers had no problems with it; I'd tell them my schedule and my hours were set around my classes. It's not rocket science. If you do quit, you should request an "exit interview" with one of her bosses and let them know exactly why you are leaving. She should not be a manager.

Ok, now you're dealing w/ this and you still question whether or not you should took a higher paying job (even though its on the phone) and w/o a doubt has SET hours that your not there until they say you can leave. Not to mention sounds like there's about a 99% chance you'll have a better boss.

Oh yeah, one more thing to add. Female bosses suck....sorry ladies of the forum.

cardinalkarp wrote:Ok, now you're dealing w/ this and you still question whether or not you should took a higher paying job (even though its on the phone) and w/o a doubt has SET hours that your not there until they say you can leave. Not to mention sounds like there's about a 99% chance you'll have a better boss.

Oh yeah, one more thing to add. Female bosses suck....sorry ladies of the forum.

I know, I've been working everyday and haven't had a chance to stop by there after work.

I don't really like my chances of getting a job there. They were doing a lot of hiring, but then they had this like "open interview" thing where you could stop in and get an interview right away, but I didn't have time that day.

I'm probably going to stop by there on Friday, though.

I worked at Wal-Mart not too long ago, and they were generally pretty flexible with me. I was honest with them: if they were sending people home early and I had a major project or assignment, I asked to be one of the people that could go. If they needed some extra time and I had nothing going on, I was generally pretty open to staying.

But, I have had friends on the wrong end of this. My buddy worked one night until 11PM, and because the shift before ours was late in getting their work done, it made us late. He clocked out at 11, and a manager told him to go back and clock in because we aren't done yet. He ultimately ended up quitting because of this.

Another friend of mine worked in electronics for a number of years. However, he made no bones that college came first to him. One evening, a manager approached him and basically gave him the Jocketty: he told him that it looks like you don't want to move forward with the company. They were going to force him to switch to cashiering (and taking a 50 cent per hour pay cut) or let him go. He said "nice knowin' ya" and has moved on quite nicely.

cardinalkarp wrote:Ok, now you're dealing w/ this and you still question whether or not you should took a higher paying job (even though its on the phone) and w/o a doubt has SET hours that your not there until they say you can leave. Not to mention sounds like there's about a 99% chance you'll have a better boss.

Oh yeah, one more thing to add. Female bosses suck....sorry ladies of the forum.

Maybe yours have, but mine haven't. I've had 5 female managers over the years (including my current one), and they were all great. I've had great male bosses too, but the worst were all male for me.