I must find another job or my head is going to explode.

For two and half years I have been working for a big Retail Chain which I will not name in this blog.  When I first started working for this company life was sweet.  They really did care about their employees.  The year passed and our manager was quickly replaced with a drill sergeant bitch who didn't care about anyone but herself and how she appeared to the big bosses.  Slowly I watched employees that worked very hard and gave their job 300% disappear over crazy issues that were set up by other employees working under her.  The atmosphere at the store became a dog eat dog world.  Basically people were stabbing each other in the back to cover their asses and it didn't matter who they took down when they took such terrible actions toward their fellow employees.

Several months ago I stepped down from my position and went part time in a certain part of the store that requires a lot of hard work.  The main reason why I stepped down was because of the politics that involved my job position and I was tired of the back stabbing, childish games some of my peers were playing in order to keep their freaking jobs.  So when I was given the chance to step down I didn't hesitate.  Except I didn't step down but was actually forced to step down because they would not work with my schedule so I could get my children to school.  Yes, I was forced to step down because according to upper management I was told that I had to have open availability in order to work the job that I had been working at the time for over a year and half.   I know that they were lying through their teeth because the person that they hire in my place can only work nights.  So what is that about open availability?  Yes, another one of their lies.

So I step down from my position and went out to the garden center part time.  Things were going well out there.  Even during the cold months I manage to make it through the days.  I could always find stuff to do and stay busy.  Life was good!  Less stress!  Then this past week my manager over me came up to about going out for a department manager position over another area.  I wasn't sure about it because of the stuff that I had put up with up front and the headaches and stress that was involved.  After talking to several department managers about whether or not I should go out for the position I decided that I would go out for it.  I was also told that my department manager was also going out for it.  See where this is going.

Today we were busy.  People were buying plants left and right.  I don't think I took two minutes to breathe.  My store manager came out to the garden center which she never does.  It turns out that they were having problems getting a hold of me up front because the walkies were acting up.  Several time I made the comment over the walkie that if someone could hear me please answer because I didn't think my walkie was working correctly.  Oh by the way she brought me a pull to assemble together and set up during this busy day.  Needless to say Buddha never made it to the fountain area because a few washers and nuts were missing.  After she realize that I was busy and working at the register the whole time and she couldn't bash me for something I didn't do she sent out my department manager to do the dirty work.

We were busy and as I was checking out people out my dept manager went on to say that I have to tell you something that you don't want to hear.  Just remember that this is coming from upper management and I am having to do this.  Well lets just say this was done during a time when a customer walked in that knew me and heard everything that was going on.  So now I have a witness.  Anyway it turns out that my freaking store management thinks that I sit around all day at the register and do nothing.  Whatever!

Needless to say I am very upset by this comment because I work my butt off in the garden center.  I do not give 100% but 1000%.  If I was standing around and doing what they said I was doing that would be fine to coach me but this is b.s.  And when I asked what it was that they wanted me to do and they reply I told them that I do that.  It is not my fault that the darn wind blows everything back into the area where I work after I leave the premises.  No matter what I do it is never good enough.  Plus what is up with a coaching in front of a customer.

So I am off to find another job.  Wait I have been doing that ever since the witch lady came to our store.