Working gal
So I started my new job (again..) at EB Games last Tuesday. I’m not really sure how to describe my first few days there… Well, I left the first day and I was very upset. I couldn’t sleep that night because I as so anxious and stressed. Why? Well, let me see… I walked in, and I got no instruction. None. The assistant manager just assumed I would walk in and get to work. I kid you not. He says “So, I’m going in the back to do work.. you remember how everything works right?”.
“Uhh.. no” I say
“Well.. it’s only been a year..” he replies (with quite a shocked look on his face).
“No, I’ve been gone for two years Brian.” I reply, a bit angrily I might add.
At least when he went to the back to work I wasn’t by myself. There was another girl with me. But they never did actually show me the tills. The first time I used the till was when the assistant manager was on his lunch break, and the other girl decided it was a great time to take the deposit to the bank and leave me all alone on the floor for about half an hour. So I just guessed at how the till worked. I picked it up pretty quick, it was familiar, but damn if I couldn’t remember everything. But..it gets better..
When I get to my lunch break I go to use the bathroom.. I walk in and almost puke. The toilet is covered in something orangey-yellow, and it’s totally surrounded by used paper towel and toilet paper. There is a paper moat around the toilet. I’m guessing nobody had taken out the garbage in quite some time. The sink was worse for wear too. It was blaaack. When I got home that night, I was really thinking that when I saw that bathroom, I really should have just walked out and said “Screw it!”. (Yes, *I* was the one who ended up cleaning the bathroom, toilet and all on my next shift)
Today was the second day that the district manager was in. I don’t know how long the current assistant manager will be there. He left the store crying actually. (Mostly from the DM, but also his cousin had died, so rough day for the guy). I had talked to the DM and pipped up about an assistant manager position, he said he would consider it. Now THAT shocked me. When I was hired back, they told me that I WOULD be ASM, they just put me in the system as “Full-time” employee until they could get the paperwork through. Now they are just “considering” it?
Now I’m wondering why I left my other job. It had fewer hours, yes. But it was clean, efficient, paid more, and I had made some friends. Okay, I know why I left the other job, but still. What have I done?
There is a temp manager staying up just for the week to help clean it up. So hopefully it gets running better, and I suppose I could hope like crazy for the ASM position even though I know I’m not really in the running anymore. There is another guy who works there who is being considered. He’d be okay at it too. He’s okay with working hard and constantly, he knows everything he needs to, and he’s currently employed; he’s not new. I would have to re-learn everything, why do that when you already have someone who’s just as capable, plus knows what’s currently going on promotion-wise and store-wise. So now I’m stuck at a dirtier job that pays less. Working my butt off no less.
I really hope a promising job pops up soon (ha! didn’t I say that right before this one came along?). I want maybe a retail-less job? Any ideas anyone? *sigh*
