Thursday, February 19, 2015

One More Reason To Hate Your Employer

My most recent employer initially wasn't terrible, but like everything else in this world, the honeymoon didn't last long, especially when many of their promises were as empty as Kim Kardashian's head.  I was basically thrown into my job and pretty much expected to learn everything myself because the former area manager (demoted) doing the "supposed" training was busy texting and calling her kids and boyfriend almost the entire time she was supposed to be training.  I never got any feedback as to whether or not I was doing things correctly until I got an annual review (which was actually very good, though I didn't get a raise or anything out of it).




One of the biggest problems came when my one-year anniversary came around and the company tried to fuck me out of 24 hours of vacation time because they didn't rollover vacation time (which I think is very chicken shit, as well as not making employees aware of this).  Bad enough that they only give one week of vacation no matter how long you've been at the company (unless you're management, I'm sure).  I did get paid 16 hours of the 24 owed, but I was left with a pretty bitter taste in my mouth.




About a month later, my co-worker was fired, and the district manager dumped all of said co-worker's workload on me.  In other words, I got to do the work of 2-3 people with no extra pay or incentives or help.  I was told that when needed, the aforementioned "trainer" would step in and help me out, which was bullshit because she either never showed up or came in and complained about her kids and boyfriend and then left without taking any work with her.  I was not only supposed to do all this work, but also field calls every week from literally hundreds of angry people demanding to know where there records were.  Don't get me wrong:  I have no problem with hard work.  I just don't think it's necessary or warranted to dump all the work on one person and expect them to take all the complaints and headaches and then not at least compensate them for it.




After several months of this, on top of the district manager refusing to communicate with me at all, the "trainer" advised me that because I have a bad attitude that I was about to be fired.  WTF?  I just can't imagine why anyone would have a bad attitude in this situation.  And how fucking tacky and unprofessional of the district manager to send her little minion to tell me this instead of talking to me personally about the situation.  It was not something the "trainer" should have even known about since she was not a manager or supervisor.  What the Hell did they expect?  I'm human, and I'd bet that most other humans would react in much the same way.