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* WARNING: LONG-WINDED RANT INCOMING, BUT fukk IT, I NEED TO VENT 
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First, some background. I work in a smaller retail chain, was promoted to floor manager at the beginning of 2024, and our store's organizational hierarchy goes as follows: sales associates ---> floor managers (3, including me) ---> our assistant manager ---> our general manager (who's been our interim GM since December).
This past week has SERIOUSLY ended the last of my patience with the other two floor managers. To sum it all up, the two women that I work alongside with as a floor manager have spent the past year running the store into the ground, constantly showing up late or leaving early if they even show up at all, disappearing frequently for over ten minutes, being high on heroin and other drugs while on the job, bullying and being passive-aggressive towards the other women that we work with, stealing from the registers sometimes when they close at night (suspected, no proof), and -- as I recently found out a few days ago -- schemed to try to get our assistant manager fired as retaliation for him speaking out against them.
And they've faced ZERO consequences for their antics over the past year. All thanks to our former sleazy GM who let them get away with anything that they did because he was too busy trying to fukk them and literally every other woman that he hired (he exclusively only hired women during his time there). Allegedly, my two co-managers had dirt on him via sexual text messages that he had sent them, so all that did was embolden them even more to do as they please while doing the bare minimum at work.
Fast-forward to today, the first week of Quarter 2, and team morale is completely in the drain despite us getting lucky by having a very knowledgeable, helpful, and experienced interim GM since December who's in-house with us twice a week when he's not managing his main store.
We received our quarterly visit from corporate last week, which went "OK", but they're really getting on us to improve now that the old manager's gone. I've been working harder, our assistant manager's been working harder, I've been taking the reigns more as a manager to motivate our sales associates, and I've noticed some improvement among them under my guidance and leadership.
My co-managers on the other hand? Same old shyt. Either standing up front and doing the bare minimum while delegating the tasks that they don't want to do to our associates, disappearing into the break room to eat after one of them managed to sneak out of the building and go get fast food without telling me or any of our associates, or running off into the women's bathroom to either get high or argue on the phone with one of their family members.
Yesterday, just me and one of the other floor managers were scheduled to open the store in the morning, no one else was scheduled to come in until 10:00 AM. This co-manager in particular usually comes in late when we open together, but still usually makes it in just enough time for us to unlock and let customers in.
One hour goes by. Nothing. No phone call. No text in the manager group chat. Two hours go by. Nothing. Two and a half hours go by, then she quietly enters the building with her head down without saying a word to me or our assistant manager who wasn't even scheduled to there to help me open -- he was only in the store with me because our district manager needed him on our weekly conference call. Had my AM not happened to have been there by sheer coincidence, I would've had to have kept the store closed until another employee could've been there to open with me. I would've been fukked, and the store would've missed out on two full hours of potential sales.
After this last stunt, I'm absolutely done playing nice with both of them.
I'm one of the highest performing workers, get along with all of our other employees, and am very good at teaching and motivating others on the floor to hit our goals and metrics.
Problem is, my co-managers are CONSTANTLY dragging the rest of the team down with their nonsense when others try to make improvements, morale is low, and thanks to them the overall vibe is pretty tense. One of our younger sales associates has started hanging around both of them more, and I can tell that their mentality is quickly starting to negatively influence her, too.
Our interim GM is great, but I get the feeling that he's just waiting for the new permanent GM to eventually come in and take his place, which would explain why he's letting this stuff still go on, and my co-manager's attempting to go behind our AM's back to try to get him fired because he spoke up about their behavior has basically rendered our assistant manager to act very passive toward them on top of being mentally checked out.
It's a fukking mess right now and these two bytches are fukking up my team's morale
*First, some background. I work in a smaller retail chain, was promoted to floor manager at the beginning of 2024, and our store's organizational hierarchy goes as follows: sales associates ---> floor managers (3, including me) ---> our assistant manager ---> our general manager (who's been our interim GM since December).
This past week has SERIOUSLY ended the last of my patience with the other two floor managers. To sum it all up, the two women that I work alongside with as a floor manager have spent the past year running the store into the ground, constantly showing up late or leaving early if they even show up at all, disappearing frequently for over ten minutes, being high on heroin and other drugs while on the job, bullying and being passive-aggressive towards the other women that we work with, stealing from the registers sometimes when they close at night (suspected, no proof), and -- as I recently found out a few days ago -- schemed to try to get our assistant manager fired as retaliation for him speaking out against them.
And they've faced ZERO consequences for their antics over the past year. All thanks to our former sleazy GM who let them get away with anything that they did because he was too busy trying to fukk them and literally every other woman that he hired (he exclusively only hired women during his time there). Allegedly, my two co-managers had dirt on him via sexual text messages that he had sent them, so all that did was embolden them even more to do as they please while doing the bare minimum at work.
Fast-forward to today, the first week of Quarter 2, and team morale is completely in the drain despite us getting lucky by having a very knowledgeable, helpful, and experienced interim GM since December who's in-house with us twice a week when he's not managing his main store.
We received our quarterly visit from corporate last week, which went "OK", but they're really getting on us to improve now that the old manager's gone. I've been working harder, our assistant manager's been working harder, I've been taking the reigns more as a manager to motivate our sales associates, and I've noticed some improvement among them under my guidance and leadership.
My co-managers on the other hand? Same old shyt. Either standing up front and doing the bare minimum while delegating the tasks that they don't want to do to our associates, disappearing into the break room to eat after one of them managed to sneak out of the building and go get fast food without telling me or any of our associates, or running off into the women's bathroom to either get high or argue on the phone with one of their family members.
Yesterday, just me and one of the other floor managers were scheduled to open the store in the morning, no one else was scheduled to come in until 10:00 AM. This co-manager in particular usually comes in late when we open together, but still usually makes it in just enough time for us to unlock and let customers in.
One hour goes by. Nothing. No phone call. No text in the manager group chat. Two hours go by. Nothing. Two and a half hours go by, then she quietly enters the building with her head down without saying a word to me or our assistant manager who wasn't even scheduled to there to help me open -- he was only in the store with me because our district manager needed him on our weekly conference call. Had my AM not happened to have been there by sheer coincidence, I would've had to have kept the store closed until another employee could've been there to open with me. I would've been fukked, and the store would've missed out on two full hours of potential sales.
After this last stunt, I'm absolutely done playing nice with both of them.
I'm one of the highest performing workers, get along with all of our other employees, and am very good at teaching and motivating others on the floor to hit our goals and metrics.
Problem is, my co-managers are CONSTANTLY dragging the rest of the team down with their nonsense when others try to make improvements, morale is low, and thanks to them the overall vibe is pretty tense. One of our younger sales associates has started hanging around both of them more, and I can tell that their mentality is quickly starting to negatively influence her, too.
Our interim GM is great, but I get the feeling that he's just waiting for the new permanent GM to eventually come in and take his place, which would explain why he's letting this stuff still go on, and my co-manager's attempting to go behind our AM's back to try to get him fired because he spoke up about their behavior has basically rendered our assistant manager to act very passive toward them on top of being mentally checked out.
It's a fukking mess right now and these two bytches are fukking up my team's morale
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