I love my job. I get paid ok, and I have it almost easy. What I am upset about is my so called 'manager' She is my boss (not the one I will write a letter to). She is never here. she is paid hourly, and only works about 2-3 hours a day (maybe 4 once a week). She has another job, and has made it very clear in words, and in her actions that this other job is more important then this job. I know when they hired her they where desperate to open this store and have someone local work it. Well it never worked out because she worked half days, so I ended up driving up here a lot to cover her shifts--or when she didn't work. I don't think upper managment has cared. Now I work here full time. I am not getting the raise that was promiced to me when I started here (or with the company). But that is ok. I like my job. Tell now the hours have been great. Now I am working 6 to 7 days a week. She is never here. I know her other job was very busy (bussiest time of the year for them is
October). I gave her the benifit of the doubt (or however that is said, lol). That when November came around things would change. Well I just saw the work schedule for November. She is working 1/2 days a lot. Yes, I will be getting a few days off (so working only 5 days a week on average). But I noticed the 1 day I requested off I didn't get (that is the day after Thanksgiving). AND she isn't working for 1 weeks at the end of November (she says vacation). WTF she just took 17 days off in October for her stupid festival her other job put on.
When she is here she rarely does anything. I have even tested it. I would leave like 5 (easy) things to be shipped. She wouldn't ship them, she didn't take pics, and didn't launch anything (we work at an eBay drop off store). So when things get skrewed up I am left to blame, and when things go right she takes the credit.
If I where to hire a manager I would want my manager to work. Instead most of the time she sits on the phone. What is funny is I can spend most of my shift talking on eMail with you guys (egroups) and not doing anything. In the last hour or two I can check in like 6 items, photo them (and other stuff that needs to be pictured), and launch them. Yes, shipping does take baout 2 hours, so I do that in the morning. So if I can do all that in about an hour or two, I am sure she can. But sometimes NOTHING gets down. But she will write a long note (that must have taken her the whole shift to do) of thing I need to do the next day. LOL, what else would I have done. And I wtill wait tell most of the shift is over and get it all done and then some.
I am getting sick of it. If I have the responsibility I woudl at least like the title, and maybe a pay riase. I don't think I should have to answer to somoene who is NEVER here. Oh, she was suppose to hire someone (right after I started at this store about 3 months ago) to 'help out' She did hire someone and then he quit like a week later. But nothing has happend yet. Now she is talking about hiring another full time person and a part time person. "This way when I can't be here I know the store is taken care of." Yup, that was a direct quote. I would love to launch at least 30 items a day, and if I had another person working 9actually working) that woudl be no problem. But now i can't because I will have to ship the 30 items a day once they come off auction. I can't do it all. I need help and she doens't help.
At first I thought the upper managment knew what was going on (they see the time sheets, I work 40+ a week and she works 10 a week). But now I am begining to t hink they don't. I have no idea what to do. I want to say something to the 'main boss' he owns the stores (nope, no other managment yet to go through before him). I just don't want it to sound like I am whining., Or should I just deal and do my work?
Megan
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