LEFT MY JOB
You know, this Journey is about Excellence. It's about a Journey to better health, better mental health and basically an overall well-being. This is NOT a journey of stress or learning how to live with stress and thinking of clever ways to act like the stress is not there.
I left my job today! I'm not going back tomorrow :(
It got really bad! A few days ago, my manager Cindy had to go to Albuquerque for a Manager's Meeting. All managers in the store had to go. So my days off were switched again because her dumbass lazy piece of shit husband, Adrian, "had" to go with her. Why? He's not even a damn manager. He's just a baker like me, but yet he too off work, well actually I think he got paid for it. That store is so corrupt, well not the store but the Bakery part of the store is. Cindy and Adrian have that place as their own personal playground and do whatever the hell they want in there and rake in the money each day on the backs of their slaves they got working in there. Anyway, Adrian went with his wife to the manager's meeting. I'm guessing he just sat on his ass outside in the parking lot while she attended the meeting. Well, they both left me with an unreasonably crazy amount of work to do and there was no way on the face of this beautiful planet that I was going to get it all done BY MYSELF. Just No Way! I had a load to do that day and then they wanted me to bake off about 14 cases of each of the 12 pies we had, as well as 2 cases of each of the 10 cookies we carry, along with all the other shit we have to put out on a daily basis AND fill up the empty floor because for some damn reason, Adrian didn't do shit the day before he left. Well, of course I busted my ass but did not get the whole thing done. I did as much a I could.
So the following day I was off, and when I came back the day after that, they both chewed my ass out. Apparently the store manager (according to them) came down really hard on the department because the shelves looked empty and they blamed EVERYTHING on me! I got blamed for all of it. Adrian said a lot of shit to me and Cindy was really mad. I had to stand there and listen to their shit, then explain myself. Then they both accused me of being slow and that I needed to "hustle" which is what Adrian has been saying for weeks now. I can't get all the shit done because his fucking ass doesn't help me at all. He's a baker also but he doesn't do anything! The son of a bitch doesn't even show up for his shift on time. He is scheduled 4am to 12pm just like me, but I swear he doesn't walk into the baker until almost 6am, and by then I'm just about done with all the donuts. Then he'll just wander around or he'll sit up front in his chair with Cindy. Fucking pisses me off! I swear that guy has it made. Making a shitload of money and not doing a damn thing for it. I've never been in a place that was this bad before.
Well today was the last straw. Yesterday they told me to come in today at 7am instead of 4am. Cindy told me she wanted me to work up front because they were bringing in someone else to train as a baker. So I came in a 7am. While I was there, Adrian comes up to me and starts talking shit. He's constantly throwing in my face that I'm too slow and that basically I'm being punished for being too slow by being put up front. He then goes on to say that I'm no longer a baker and that my pay is going to be cut by $2 per hour. Also that my hours are going to be shit now, all mixed up. I was just going to be a fill-in and be put wherever I was needed. I'd be working mornings, evenings, and when him and the other baker was off, then I'd have to bake by myself. FUCK THAT!!! That is exactly what they did to the guy who was there before me, Mike. They turned him into a freakin lap dog and just had him do all the dirty work while they raked in the time, the cash, and the hours. Well fuckin fuck that! I swear I wanted to lay that asshole out right then and there. It took me everything I had not to punch Adrian in the face and beat the shit out of him. I bit my tongue and just took all his bullshit. I did not want this to be like Albertsons. When I was at Albertsons, the store manager came up to me and threatened me just because I was planning to leave early on Christmas Eve like everyone else did. I was always there and I worked all the holidays every time. I never complained. I never called in. I actually came in on the days the other staff called in or quit. So on Christmas Eve, since everyone left early and I was the only one there and the shitty girl I was working with (whom was a really crap ass worker who didn't do shit and left me there by myself all the time) was sure to be leaving early again because she did that to me on Thanksgiving, I wanted to leave early. Well that girl went complaining to the store manager that I was planning on leaving early. So he comes up to me and threatens to, if I left early, "make me work every holiday for a long time", "take away ALL my holiday pay", "dock my pay so that I'd be getting paid Less per hour than I already do", and "cut my hours everyday from now on". I mean, who the fuck takes that shit! I sure as hell don't. Not once did he ever threaten anyone else like that. We had one lady who worked with us. She called in every other day. She worked at the store for 3 months and all together she had over 40 call-ins and he never said a word to her. How she finally left was one day on her scheduled shift, which happened to be my day off, she was standing out on the floor stocking, then just like that, she walked out and never came back. Abandoned her job and the department. They never saw her again. That day, the store manager called me in and I CAME IN WITHOUT COMPLAINT. So when he threatened me like that just because I wanted to go home and be with my family on Christmas Eve, I walked out. I was so pissed off at him and everyone else that I took my shit, left my damn uniform there and clocked out and left. Never went back!
Anyway I did not want to do that with Smiths. I had no problem with the store manager, whom both Cindy and Adrian hated. They hated him really bad, but me I had no problem with the guy. His name is Brian and he seemed cool, like a nice guy. Since both Cindy and Adrian are rotten ppl, I can see why they hate him or me for that matter. But yeah, so I stayed my whole 8 hours today. It was shitty and I hated working up front on the floor. The work was crap and I just hated it. I thought long and hard about everything and how I was going to go about handling it all. I never get any breaks, or lunch breaks. The first couple days I started, they gave me 30 mins lunch break, but after 2 days, then I got no breaks and no lunch breaks. They worked my ass like a mule for the whole day, which is why I was so tired, sore, and wiped out by the end of the day that I couldn't exercise. Today, however, Cindy gave me a lunch break but it wasn't until after Adrian left at 12pm. While sitting out in my car during my lunch break, I almost just turned on my keys and blew out of the damn parking lot and never looked back, but I wanted to finish out my shift, so I went back in and stayed the next 2 hours. Once I was gone and turned in my time sheet, I bought me some sushi and a big Diet Coke, then I headed out to my car and came home. I made my decision, I'm done there! I am not about to put up with Adrian's shit anymore. I hate working around him. I hate that bakery and how bad it is. So that's it! I'm done. I'm not going back and I've had it with the stress and backstabbing. There is too much work there and I'm being used like a slave. Adrian doesn't do a damn thing and he's always just sitting around and complaining about me. I thought about putting in my two weeks notice, but then Cindy is going to find out and she tells Adrian EVERYTHING so then she'd tell him about it and I'd have to hear his bullshit comments and crap talking about me every freakin day of that two weeks. Fuck that too!! I'm just done. So as of right now, I am unemployed all over again. It's ok though because I know I can handle it. I'm my own person and I do what I want to do. If I make a decision, I stick by it and I follow it thru. That is one of the biggest parts of Fyrescape. Learning what I need to do and how to handle it. So that's what I'm doing. I will get thru this. Lisa is finished with her Nursing School 1st semester soon and then she's planning on working throughout the summer until her 2nd semester starts in August. So yeah, this is a sad day, but for me, this is a day of triumph. I mean, who else can say that they gave up something like a job and feel like they just conquered a tyrant who tried to keep them there?! That's how I feel. I'd rather be moneyless and happy, then be stressed out everyday with a job. It's not worth it. Money to me is never as important as the finer things in life.
I'm excited to see what this new path brings. At least now I'll get to do some things this summer. If I still had that job, I wouldn't be able to do anything. What can you do with split days off and shitty early hours? Nothing. Goodbye Smiths Bakery. Piss off and thanks for NOTHING!!!
I left my job today! I'm not going back tomorrow :(
It got really bad! A few days ago, my manager Cindy had to go to Albuquerque for a Manager's Meeting. All managers in the store had to go. So my days off were switched again because her dumbass lazy piece of shit husband, Adrian, "had" to go with her. Why? He's not even a damn manager. He's just a baker like me, but yet he too off work, well actually I think he got paid for it. That store is so corrupt, well not the store but the Bakery part of the store is. Cindy and Adrian have that place as their own personal playground and do whatever the hell they want in there and rake in the money each day on the backs of their slaves they got working in there. Anyway, Adrian went with his wife to the manager's meeting. I'm guessing he just sat on his ass outside in the parking lot while she attended the meeting. Well, they both left me with an unreasonably crazy amount of work to do and there was no way on the face of this beautiful planet that I was going to get it all done BY MYSELF. Just No Way! I had a load to do that day and then they wanted me to bake off about 14 cases of each of the 12 pies we had, as well as 2 cases of each of the 10 cookies we carry, along with all the other shit we have to put out on a daily basis AND fill up the empty floor because for some damn reason, Adrian didn't do shit the day before he left. Well, of course I busted my ass but did not get the whole thing done. I did as much a I could.
So the following day I was off, and when I came back the day after that, they both chewed my ass out. Apparently the store manager (according to them) came down really hard on the department because the shelves looked empty and they blamed EVERYTHING on me! I got blamed for all of it. Adrian said a lot of shit to me and Cindy was really mad. I had to stand there and listen to their shit, then explain myself. Then they both accused me of being slow and that I needed to "hustle" which is what Adrian has been saying for weeks now. I can't get all the shit done because his fucking ass doesn't help me at all. He's a baker also but he doesn't do anything! The son of a bitch doesn't even show up for his shift on time. He is scheduled 4am to 12pm just like me, but I swear he doesn't walk into the baker until almost 6am, and by then I'm just about done with all the donuts. Then he'll just wander around or he'll sit up front in his chair with Cindy. Fucking pisses me off! I swear that guy has it made. Making a shitload of money and not doing a damn thing for it. I've never been in a place that was this bad before.
Well today was the last straw. Yesterday they told me to come in today at 7am instead of 4am. Cindy told me she wanted me to work up front because they were bringing in someone else to train as a baker. So I came in a 7am. While I was there, Adrian comes up to me and starts talking shit. He's constantly throwing in my face that I'm too slow and that basically I'm being punished for being too slow by being put up front. He then goes on to say that I'm no longer a baker and that my pay is going to be cut by $2 per hour. Also that my hours are going to be shit now, all mixed up. I was just going to be a fill-in and be put wherever I was needed. I'd be working mornings, evenings, and when him and the other baker was off, then I'd have to bake by myself. FUCK THAT!!! That is exactly what they did to the guy who was there before me, Mike. They turned him into a freakin lap dog and just had him do all the dirty work while they raked in the time, the cash, and the hours. Well fuckin fuck that! I swear I wanted to lay that asshole out right then and there. It took me everything I had not to punch Adrian in the face and beat the shit out of him. I bit my tongue and just took all his bullshit. I did not want this to be like Albertsons. When I was at Albertsons, the store manager came up to me and threatened me just because I was planning to leave early on Christmas Eve like everyone else did. I was always there and I worked all the holidays every time. I never complained. I never called in. I actually came in on the days the other staff called in or quit. So on Christmas Eve, since everyone left early and I was the only one there and the shitty girl I was working with (whom was a really crap ass worker who didn't do shit and left me there by myself all the time) was sure to be leaving early again because she did that to me on Thanksgiving, I wanted to leave early. Well that girl went complaining to the store manager that I was planning on leaving early. So he comes up to me and threatens to, if I left early, "make me work every holiday for a long time", "take away ALL my holiday pay", "dock my pay so that I'd be getting paid Less per hour than I already do", and "cut my hours everyday from now on". I mean, who the fuck takes that shit! I sure as hell don't. Not once did he ever threaten anyone else like that. We had one lady who worked with us. She called in every other day. She worked at the store for 3 months and all together she had over 40 call-ins and he never said a word to her. How she finally left was one day on her scheduled shift, which happened to be my day off, she was standing out on the floor stocking, then just like that, she walked out and never came back. Abandoned her job and the department. They never saw her again. That day, the store manager called me in and I CAME IN WITHOUT COMPLAINT. So when he threatened me like that just because I wanted to go home and be with my family on Christmas Eve, I walked out. I was so pissed off at him and everyone else that I took my shit, left my damn uniform there and clocked out and left. Never went back!
Anyway I did not want to do that with Smiths. I had no problem with the store manager, whom both Cindy and Adrian hated. They hated him really bad, but me I had no problem with the guy. His name is Brian and he seemed cool, like a nice guy. Since both Cindy and Adrian are rotten ppl, I can see why they hate him or me for that matter. But yeah, so I stayed my whole 8 hours today. It was shitty and I hated working up front on the floor. The work was crap and I just hated it. I thought long and hard about everything and how I was going to go about handling it all. I never get any breaks, or lunch breaks. The first couple days I started, they gave me 30 mins lunch break, but after 2 days, then I got no breaks and no lunch breaks. They worked my ass like a mule for the whole day, which is why I was so tired, sore, and wiped out by the end of the day that I couldn't exercise. Today, however, Cindy gave me a lunch break but it wasn't until after Adrian left at 12pm. While sitting out in my car during my lunch break, I almost just turned on my keys and blew out of the damn parking lot and never looked back, but I wanted to finish out my shift, so I went back in and stayed the next 2 hours. Once I was gone and turned in my time sheet, I bought me some sushi and a big Diet Coke, then I headed out to my car and came home. I made my decision, I'm done there! I am not about to put up with Adrian's shit anymore. I hate working around him. I hate that bakery and how bad it is. So that's it! I'm done. I'm not going back and I've had it with the stress and backstabbing. There is too much work there and I'm being used like a slave. Adrian doesn't do a damn thing and he's always just sitting around and complaining about me. I thought about putting in my two weeks notice, but then Cindy is going to find out and she tells Adrian EVERYTHING so then she'd tell him about it and I'd have to hear his bullshit comments and crap talking about me every freakin day of that two weeks. Fuck that too!! I'm just done. So as of right now, I am unemployed all over again. It's ok though because I know I can handle it. I'm my own person and I do what I want to do. If I make a decision, I stick by it and I follow it thru. That is one of the biggest parts of Fyrescape. Learning what I need to do and how to handle it. So that's what I'm doing. I will get thru this. Lisa is finished with her Nursing School 1st semester soon and then she's planning on working throughout the summer until her 2nd semester starts in August. So yeah, this is a sad day, but for me, this is a day of triumph. I mean, who else can say that they gave up something like a job and feel like they just conquered a tyrant who tried to keep them there?! That's how I feel. I'd rather be moneyless and happy, then be stressed out everyday with a job. It's not worth it. Money to me is never as important as the finer things in life.
I'm excited to see what this new path brings. At least now I'll get to do some things this summer. If I still had that job, I wouldn't be able to do anything. What can you do with split days off and shitty early hours? Nothing. Goodbye Smiths Bakery. Piss off and thanks for NOTHING!!!
Comments
Post a Comment