It snowed here. Something awful. And the last couple of days have been rough.
Work is beginning to suck something major. And I have one manager to blame. We have a new manager at the store with the same name as the last manager. But that is where the similarities come to an end. On the surface she is very nice, polite, and dare I say friendly. But that is about 15% of her personality. The rest of the time she is pushing people around, not managing us well, and two days ago she yelled at me because of something incredibly stupid.
I am a very defensive person. I don't know what it is. Maybe I was suppose to be a lawyer. But even if I am dead wrong, I will defend my actions or at least give a reason as to why I acted a certain way. But when I am right, and sometimes I just so happen to be, the defensive thing goes to a whole new level. I will not only defend my actions, but I will defend anyone else's.
It's a really long story. I'll try to sum it up nicely. After the store closes (around 10) we get an hour to clean it up. Each person is assigned a zone (our store has 4, not including kids), and is accountable for that zone. We were short staffed the whole day. Nice Matt was there, along with me and a girl I have become friends with name Melissa. That's 3 bookfloor closers, a music closer, and 2 people in cafe. It's a small crew considering how big the store is.
Anyway, this week all the schools are closed and because of this teenagers are tearing the store up. Looking at the nudie books, destroying manga, hanging out in the kids department, and fucking eh- the magazines department was a mess.
We had a long night ahead of us, but instead of letting us get started on cleaning the store Evil Manager decided to have us ALL watch a 20 minute video on the new e-reader product we are selling. We all had to watch it at one point, but they usually assign us a project hour for that. I guess she wanted to get as much people to watch it in one night as she could, so she would look like the awesome manager in the morning.
We all began complaining that maybe we should hold off on the video because the store was a mess, and it would cost us a good 20 minutes. But she didn't care. Of course 20 minutes later the video ended and we went off to our zones. I had to clean kids, and zones 2/3. It took me 30 minutes, and then I started working on resort.
This is when the bitch went crazy. She realized then that no one had touched magazines all night. But at that point it was already 11pm. She assigned me to go over there and do as much as I could. But there were two full carts of magazines, plus a basket. Melissa and I attempted to put the mags away (half of one cart), but then 10 minutes later EVIL manager told the store that we would be out of there in five minutes. So I started putting the rest of the magazines on a cart to clean up the mess that we weren't able to get through. I dragged the carts in the back, parked them near the newstand station and started heading back to customer service.
Evil manager stopped me in the aisle and was like "what happened to five minutes" I looked at her like she was insane and said "i put the mags on a cart and spent those five minutes dragging them back here, so that Lisa would be able to see what we couldn't finish"
She then proceeded to yell at me because that is not what she told me to do. She wanted me to finish newstand in five minutes, or leave it a mess for the newstand lady in the morning. At this point a crowd surrounded. Matt lingered, Melissa listened closely, the music guy looked away. She said she was very upset about the whole newstand thing, and that she was bothered by my lack of follow through. I, being defensive, asked her if she wanted me to drag the cart back out there so that I could put two magazines away only to have to drag the cart back. Okay, maybe I shouldn't have said it like that, but what the hell lady.
This set her off, and she then proceeded to follow me around the break room while I was putting the phones away to remind me that the store was not cleaned yet, and that we would not leave until she was finished. So I asked her 'finished in your five minutes, or the regular ones'. And then I walked away.
It was embarrassing, and awful and unfortunately not the first time I have been her punching bag. She just had a baby, her mother has cancer, she is new there but that doesn't give her the right to use me as her target. I was pissed. I am still pissed, and I was minutes away from doing something irrational.
But I didn't. And now here I am at the library writing about it , because I still dont have a computer. Oh life, whenever you want to start I'll be here waiting for you.
I hope that by the end of this week, or the beginning of next I will have a new computer. More blogging, youtube, and sending out applications like crazy. I debate living here everyday, like maybe this isn't the place where I will become somebody. Who says it has to be new york? My application search will be nationwide!
Sorry about the lack of posts again. Soon I will be a functioning computer having person again. AND I will be 24! Can you believe it. March 1st is approaching. I'm obsessed with dinosaurs lately, so I am planning a geeky trip to a museum that day.
Until my next post,
Becks
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