My work week thus far.

[Pinkie Pie]

Monday : Must have been at least decent because I can't remember any of it.

Tuesday : At around 9:30, my boss informed me that the owner had sold my store (and two others) to a different franchise, meaning that in about two weeks, I'm not going to be working there anymore. I had been giving some thought to switching jobs anyways, but it's different somehow when it feels forced on you like this.

So that was hanging over my head all day. Normal work stress and craziness was added during lunch.

I don't really remember if I mentioned this here before, or if it was only one or two people who I told, but several months ago I'd been having a real problem with two girls who were almost to the point of stalking me, and I'd had a harrassment report filed and they'd been banned from the store.

I mention this because at about 3 PM or so on Monday one of them came back. I was able to actually get the police there before she wound up leaving, but they couldn't confirm that she'd been told not to come back (she of course denied having been told anything of the kind), so she was given her official warning. If she comes back again, she'll be arrested.

Which is great, but add the other issues hanging over my head already at the time, and my nerves were close to the breaking point. I nearly had a panic attack in the back room.

I somehow hang on until 5, when my closer got there, and I clocked out and headed home, ready to go to sleep and not wake up again ever.

At about 5 minutes to 6:00, I got a call from him telling me that his grandfather had been rushed to the hospital.

So I had to get back into my uniform, turn around and go back to work to do his shift too. I was only barely keeping from being a complete basket case by the time that shift was finished. On a slightly higher note I was able to get my inventory counts done right away since I was already there.

Wednesday : Got to work, had to finish up the few counts I'd missed the night before, and then start on the normal pile of paperwork for Wednesdays (technically the end of Subway's work week period, so it's all the reports regarding sales and such). Actually got it done on time for once, but then I had to go immediately to start working on a party order that was supposed to be finished by that afternoon.

Because of these things, my focus was not on certain other things that I normally have to do every morning, and so there were a few things neglected. Normally this wouldn't have been a big deal in the slightest, but it happened that our inspector decided to pick that day for our monthly inspection. At around 11:00, I realize she's walking through the door and promptly freak out.

We didn't do horrible on the inspection, but we still didn't pass, due to the few things neglected that morning.

I then had to report that we failed inspection to my boss, got in trouble for it, and still had to get the party order done. Whether or not it makes sense to stress out over getting in trouble over a job you aren't going to have in two weeks, I still felt really bad about it, and stressed over it anyways.

Thursday : Got a call from my lunch employee around 9:30. He was calling off because he was sick, and he sounded it. I didn't think much of it at the time, and told him not to worry about it, to go get rest and stuff.

Attempted to call one of my other employees to fill in for him. He answered the phone, and was at his other job. He was getting off work there two or three hours before I'd need anyone, so I asked if he could make it in. He said he "wasn't feeling good", and wanted to go home and rest.

Alright, whatever. I called the other of the two employees available, and got her voicemail. I left her a message asking her to call me back. When I didn't get a call after a half an hour, I tried again. Voicemail again. Waited an hour. Voicemail again.

Basically, I tried calling her five seperate times to see if she could cover the rush with me, and she never picked up the phone.

So, I worked lunch by myself, the line went almost to the door because people were waiting so long. I went as fast as I could, but one person just can't get a rush going fast enough no matter how hard they're working.

Anyways, got through that, then called both of my employees again to see if either one of them was going to show up to close the store that night.

Got both of their voicemails this time. Left both of them messages.

Waited about an hour, then tried again. I actually got through to the employee I had tried to call so many times earlier. She wouldn't give a straight answer as to why she didn't answer her phone earlier, and said that she was working at her second job that night and couldn't close. I found the schedule for said job that she had hidden posted in the back room, and saw that was actually true, so I couldn't have her come in.

Got through to my other employee. I asked him if he could come in to close, and he told me that he "didn't really feel like it". When I said that I didn't have anyone closing and I really needed him and could he please just come in for a few hours to close the store, he mumbled that he didn't feel good and hung up the phone.

Out of desperation I tried to call the employee who had called off today to see if he might be feeling any better and come in for the closing shift, and found out that he'd been taken to the emergency room.

So I worked closing shift too.

Basically, I worked a twelve and a half hour shift today completely alone.

13 more days to go.

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[Nickelback]

Holy fucking shit. That's insane. I feel really bad for you, Tess. :/
You should bitch about that. I mean damn, pulling a whole day by yourself should get you some sort of overtime pay or something.

[Bloozilla]

Well, wow... I don't know quite what to say other than your situation sucks hardcore. =/

[Setzophone]

My God... if it were me, I'd have snapped. I guess if nothing else... this proves you're a trooper. Jesus, though, I'd seriously go off if there is another week like this. It's just way too much for one person.

[Night]

That is fucking wild. At least you got through it, right?
You should put this on your resume.

[Kaffee]

damn Tessa, I wish I worked for ya, I would have atleast answered when you called.

[Gamerlen]

You should bitch about that. I mean damn, pulling a whole day by yourself should get you some sort of overtime pay or something.

Thats the really shitty part, managers are paid on salary. No overtime for them.

My God... if it were me, I'd have snapped.

She actually did have two panic attacks during this week... o_o()

Its pretty scary when she has those too, she gets all unresponsive, then her body tenses up, and she starts making loud screechy noises and twiching. Scares the jeebus outta me every time.

That is fucking wild. At least you got through it, right?
You should put this on your resume.

Thats about the only good part of this week actually. She's got a good chance of landing a job at a local Border's Bookstore. Movies, Music, Books, and a cappuchino bar, as well as a starbucks within a hundred feet. Perfect job for her.

That and after all the other crap she's delt with she's a shoe in for the job.

... >.>() Come to think of it, didn't they say they'd call her in two days... two days ago? o_o

[Miles]

Hooray! Tessa-Chan could be starting somewhere uber more fun!

You don't need all this stress, Tessa-Chan. You're being underappreciated. Good for you for sticking at it. But you deserve a job where you get alot more respect.

[Altima]

Working more than 12 hours isn't that big of a deal.....of course when your alone I suppose it makes it seem like it is a lot longer. Too bad for being on salary for the fact you get no overtime too. You won't have the job much longer so it won't be too bad.

I actually may try to become a manager at my job too as we need them and they don't do jack shit anyway, so it seems like a good job for me to have and a higher pay comes with it and salary which is great.

[Miles]

Working more than 12 hours in Subway is a big deal x.x specially on your own.
That and since she's a manager, she has more to do. If she's stuck serving the whole time, it means that she'll fall behind with other stuff.

That place gets manic! Even over here...You often find the line going out onto the street.
And then alot of people cause problems by not knowing what they actually want...So they stand and hold up the line while they're deciding 6.9

[Pinkie Pie]

Working more than 12 hours isn't that big of a deal

Go ahead and drop dead at any time, kay, Wal-Mart boy?

kthnxbai. =D

Come to think of it, didn't they say they'd call her in two days... two days ago? o_o

It was around 8 or 9 on Wednesday when they told me that, it hasn't even been two days yet.

Thanks for the reassuring comment, though.

[Altima]

Go ahead and drop dead at any time, kay, Wal-Mart boy?

LOL...I used to work 10 hours a day at a bath tub factory and it wasn't that bad. Lifting bathtub is easy once you do it for a while and get used to it. The worst part of it was the immense heat in the summer and the intense cold blowing in on the trucks in the winter.

Wal-Mart is harder than subway anyday, you are a manager so your work load is light a lot of the time and all you have to lift is bread and lettuce when you do have to work the line, unlike me and having to lift furniture and dog food, since I am only person that doesn't complain when put in those areas.

I need a new job tho, im not paid enough to work at that store and im tired of watching kiss asses get ahead while I a person who works hard all night gets nothing at all.

I just remembered that I have to pick up 2 checks tonight. Getting paid every 2 weeks sucks, that is 4 weeks of work for me, since I never pick mine up, as I always forget them.

[Rainbow Dash]

Thats the really shitty part, managers are paid on salary. No overtime for them.
She's a manager? Fire that guy's ass - the one that didnt feel like coming in!

Kaoru, I bet you would think that stacking tubes at a theme park is easy too? Just because you havent done it doesnt mean that its easy. The customers are always an unwelcome factor in the workplace.

[Dark Marmosett]

Shit tessa. Best of luck with the final days of that job. I surely myself would have just given up and left.

[Gamerlen]

She's a manager? Fire that guy's ass - the one that didnt feel like coming in!

It doesn't matter at this point. Come next Friday they're all out on their asses. The store got sold to a different franchise, I'm not even sure it'll still be a Subway by September.

Go ahead and drop dead at any time, kay, Wal-Mart boy?

kthnxbai. =D

Yeeeeeeeeeeah... I'm guessing that since Alty thinks that twelve hours is no big deal that Wal-mart's subliminal programming in the Computer Based Learning modules is still there. Up until three months before I left I really did think that Unions were evil and that George Bush was the second coming of Jesus Christ. o_o()()()

[Miles]

This thread isn't about you and what you think is easy, Kaoru.

Work is work, it's hard, annoying and nobody wants to do it. You should remember that.

She wanted to rant and let off some steam, not have an arguement.

It doesn't matter where you are or what you're doing. Just because it's something you haven't done, you can't go around and say "It's easy."
Dealing with customers AND food at the same time isn't easy.
Mainly because 1 out of every 10 customers is probly a moron.
They have to work fast and not make a sloppy job of it.
Doing a lunchtime rush on your own is a nightmare, no matter where you work.

So stop having little digs. She gave you a reaction, you can leave her alone now.

[Jack The Ripper]

Yeah, working with food and customers at the same time gets pretty crazy at times. Especially at a place like subway, or like where I work where you make the food right in front of the person and they're watching your every move. It gets a little nerveracking at times.

[Pinkie Pie]

Wal-Mart is harder than subway anyday, you are a manager so your work load is light a lot of the time and all you have to lift is bread and lettuce when you do have to work the line, unlike me and having to lift furniture and dog food, since I am only person that doesn't complain when put in those areas.

Oh?

So, then, let me get this straight.

Do you run the entire store almost completely by yourself?

Do you have to work every single job in the store if needed, which in my case is frequently?

Do you have to pay money out of pocket to cover any shortages that employees come up with if they refuse to?

Do you have to work 20 hours more than what your schedule says with absolutely no compensation?

Do you have to deal with getting yelled at on a daily basis because you actually try to let your employees get decent pay?

Do you, on top of all of this, then have to do all of the extra tasks and paperwork that comes with the management job, and take responsibility for everything that goes on in the store no matter who's fault it is?

How much heavy lifting is involved is not any indication of how easy or hard a job is, unless the only thing you're capable of doing is picking up something and moving it. Just because managers at your store might get to dick around doesn't mean managers everywhere else are the same way or have the same tasks.

Kindly go fuck yourself, please.

She's a manager? Fire that guy's ass - the one that didnt feel like coming in!

The problem then is that if I just go ahead and fire people left and right that I'm stuck running the store by myself everyday. Though that particular employee isn't on the schedule for this week at all now because of that day.

Oh, and if anyone was wondering, today was actually decent, though I'm still absolutely exhausted.

[The Deity]

Well sorry to hear it lady. Its almost over and that certainly sounds like a blessing.

[Pinkie Pie]

Tomorrow. Is. My. Last. Day.

I think that fact alone is what kept me from just walking out the door today.

My assistant manager (not one in title, but he might as well be, he's the one who's there to help me out all the time and the only employee left who gives a damn about the place anymore) had to leave early last night to go into the hospital to help out his friend, who had just gone into labor. He got another of our employees to promise that she would come in to finish all of the post-close stuff for him, so that stuff would be ready in the morning for me to come and open.

Well, um, she never came to do it.

Meaning that when I got there this morning, the place was an absolute mess. Nothing was stocked, all of the trash cans were full, and the place just was messy in general. On top of all this, I got a call from my assistant manager letting me know that he was in the hospital with his friend and wouldn't be able to come in to help during lunch. At this point, I didn't realize that he wasn't the one who technically closed last night, so I was pretty irked at him, but didn't really say much of anything to him, since he was still coming in tonight to close and I'd see him then.

So in addition to doing all the management paperwork stuff that I normally have to do, along with the normal prep and setup that goes along with opening the store, I also had to do half of night shift's job, since nobody had actually been in to do any of it.

Of course, there wasn't nearly enough time to get it all done before our lunch rush, and so not only was I running lunch rush alone, I was also having to run in the back to prep and stock stuff during the rush, which meant customers had to wait even longer than the already longer time than usual. I wound up giving away a free lunch or two to customers who had to wait for me to prep the stuff they wanted after already having waited in line.

Tuesdays are also the days that we place our orders for inventory delivery, and luckily they called to get the order during a point when there weren't any people in line. Normally we can get a readback of the order we placed to make sure that it's accurate, but I had only just gotten the order done when another rush started, so I had to end it without getting to check on it, so hopefully nothing weird shows up in the delivery tomorrow.

Tomorrow's our paperwork and inventory count day, which are usually frustrating in themselves. I'm really hoping this one's not any more so than it normally is, but even if it is, I'm hoping that the thought of it being my last day will make it tolerable.

On a lighter note, I had my orientation at Meijer's (a department store) yesterday, and I start working there on Friday. It means that I'm not spending a long time unemployed, but it also gives me a day off in between, which I think is actually pretty ideal. I got hired on as a cashier, and the starting pay is pretty good, and they're supposed to be really good with raises if you're doing your job well, so the pay cut I'll technically be getting with switching jobs may not be by so much after all.

At the very least, I'm on the home stretch now. I just have to make it through tomorrow, and I'm done with Subway.

Thank God.

[Nickelback]

That's cool that you got a new place to work. Sounds like your old job was a portable hell-station.

[Pinkie Pie]

It really only started getting really bad towards the end. My main issue with the job was always that I really do not have the appropriate personality type for management at all, and had very little control over my employees, even before they got the "screw this" attitude that came with the news that the store was being sold.

Not that it was great before getting that news, but it got like ten times worse afterwards, which is evident by the two weeks described in this thread.

[The Deity]

Good luck at Meijer, I managed to tolerate Kroger for over a year, though I hate, hate, hate cashier work.

[Midnight]

Wow..a little behind here. Bless you girl...I know how it feels to work alone in a busy environment like that. And..12 hour shifts no matter where you work can be hard. Good luck with the new job...hope it's a better experience. :-)