Don't really know how to feel....
Jul. 31st, 2014 11:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spankingfemmeSo, Tuesday I was hailed to the ops manager's office walked up there by the manager of my department and my supervisor (to which I'm thinking oh shit, did I fuck something up so bad somehow that I'm going to be fired? ...I had the week previously had to cover both clerk positions doing everything myself, so I thought maybe I might have made a mistake by overlooking something. I'm very anal retentive about my work though, and thankfully that was not the case.)
It came to pass that what I was actually being pulled up there for was to tell me that they were eliminating my position... my supervisor had spoken to me briefly before I went on leave that they had wanted to reduce the support staff in the office down to a clerk and a half once the voice callers were ordered to reduce the work load (still a ton of work to ask one person to do... it IS a two person job, but that is Dollar General for you... cheap and wanting employees to work like chickens with their heads cut off...) Anyway, I just transferred to this position to get away from the bitchiness that was my last department, Receiving. I loved the job, just couldn't stand the management because they were a trollish chick click. Thankfully the only one that is still there is the manager with two new supervisors (one of which I know from night shift who had been brought back to the department after one of the other two receiving supervisors left, he's laid back but a bit immature. Tolerable though.) So, long story short, I was given the option to take a checker position in Receiving because the other shipping clerk has seniority (which honestly, I'm fine with. Shipping really wasn't for me as the tasks were pretty much same shit different day which bores me to tears)
Positives:
I'm going to make $1 more an hour because the checker position is on the floor. (At least I'd better as I lost a $1 to be in the office, and the position I'm taking officially gets the dollar bump up. Don't mess with my money!)
I've already been informed I'll be in the office covering for the receiving clerk at the end of the shift so she can leave in 8hrs, vendor problems clerk (my previous position that I adored and which has suffered a LOT since I left I'm told), and the trailer locator position (which I've never done, but I'm being trained to do)
I REALLY like doing a multitude of different things, so thinking of my days flying by doing a bunch of multi-tasking jobs kind of energizes and excites me. I like to stay busy, makes the days go by so much faster.
Everyone was excited to have me back in the receiving department telling me that a lot of stuff fell to shit after I left... I like to feel needed especially if I feel I'm making a difference in the work I do as I pride myself on being the best at whatever I do.
Employees in the receiving department are more laid back and friendly than the shipping area (not that I didn't make a lot of friends, people just seemed more dour and negative overall there, so I won't miss that at all!)
Negatives:
I'm going to have to work back under the same manager I had issues with previously. Her and I have butted heads mostly due to her not knowing my job and being a fucking rude ass by telling me to "just do what I'm told" by trying to get me to do things that made absolutely no sense and were contradictory to what she was telling me corporate told her... (THAT whole incident still ruffles my feathers since I spoke directly with corporate to which they told me I was doing it right the way I'd been doing it... but yeah, work SMART not HARD you dumb bitch *growl*
The two supervisors are not the same, but like I said, one is pretty immature and the other I don't know much about, but from what I was told is a bit of a ditz. From the little time I spent with her, the rumors seem true, so we will see how that goes over. I try to give people the benefit of the doubt.
The fact that I will be pulled around like tug of war basically being told that I will be put "wherever I'm needed" whether the office or floor leaves me feeling very displaced, and with this particular manager, I know how she operates, and I know I'm going to be USED to the fullest extent of being able to be squeezed dry from these people because that's how they roll.
Being pulled around and working so many different positions makes it easier to make mistakes because you never get into a full grove and things are being messed with by a lot of other people, so it's harder to keep track of or clean up behind others and often quite frustrating. Any mistakes are quickly generated in to write ups, and any write ups mean that I automatically lose my scholarship money (which is 4 grand a year, and the thought of losing that money is scary since my classes are an average of about 2 grand a piece 0o)
Neutrals:
They changed my shift hours. Positively, I will only be working 4 days a week 10hr schedule verse the 5 days a week 8hr schedule (not that we ever work a regular 'schedule' hours wise, but that's fine I like a little extra money) The only hitch is that I now work Mon-Tues, have Wed-Thurs off, work Fri-Sat have Sun off. I actually like the prospect of having a couple 'business' days off, but working both Fri and Sat is a bit of a bummer. Thankfully both kids are young, so it's not going to effect time to hang out with them because they'd be in school.
I was working over 50+ hours in the shipping department every week which left me feeling very drained, the receiving position I'll most likely be fighting to just get my 40hrs... I will have more time with my family and to do homework and other stuff like maybe drawing and writing which is awesome! On the other hand, I'm the sole provider in a family of 4, so less money means re-budgeting and struggling to pay bills (and we have a lot of them still from the birth. Thankfully I did get more than 3/4ths of them paid off with that loan stipend, but my paycheck is also being docked the remainder of what I owe for insurance for the last month I was out before returning to work... gods I hate juggling money matters *sigh*
So yeah, that's where I am right now. Going to go make me and the family a tasty chicken salad with all the fixings (totally snagged a Klondike bar to munch on... bad Jenna! XD) and start work on my powerpoint presentation that I probably won't finish until late tonight... I am hoping to do some internetting and catch up on the huge list of emails I've got (and still growing) I spent yesterday with the family at the waterpark and watched Lone Ranger with Jason and a nice glass of wine mmmm.....
It came to pass that what I was actually being pulled up there for was to tell me that they were eliminating my position... my supervisor had spoken to me briefly before I went on leave that they had wanted to reduce the support staff in the office down to a clerk and a half once the voice callers were ordered to reduce the work load (still a ton of work to ask one person to do... it IS a two person job, but that is Dollar General for you... cheap and wanting employees to work like chickens with their heads cut off...) Anyway, I just transferred to this position to get away from the bitchiness that was my last department, Receiving. I loved the job, just couldn't stand the management because they were a trollish chick click. Thankfully the only one that is still there is the manager with two new supervisors (one of which I know from night shift who had been brought back to the department after one of the other two receiving supervisors left, he's laid back but a bit immature. Tolerable though.) So, long story short, I was given the option to take a checker position in Receiving because the other shipping clerk has seniority (which honestly, I'm fine with. Shipping really wasn't for me as the tasks were pretty much same shit different day which bores me to tears)
Positives:
I'm going to make $1 more an hour because the checker position is on the floor. (At least I'd better as I lost a $1 to be in the office, and the position I'm taking officially gets the dollar bump up. Don't mess with my money!)
I've already been informed I'll be in the office covering for the receiving clerk at the end of the shift so she can leave in 8hrs, vendor problems clerk (my previous position that I adored and which has suffered a LOT since I left I'm told), and the trailer locator position (which I've never done, but I'm being trained to do)
I REALLY like doing a multitude of different things, so thinking of my days flying by doing a bunch of multi-tasking jobs kind of energizes and excites me. I like to stay busy, makes the days go by so much faster.
Everyone was excited to have me back in the receiving department telling me that a lot of stuff fell to shit after I left... I like to feel needed especially if I feel I'm making a difference in the work I do as I pride myself on being the best at whatever I do.
Employees in the receiving department are more laid back and friendly than the shipping area (not that I didn't make a lot of friends, people just seemed more dour and negative overall there, so I won't miss that at all!)
Negatives:
I'm going to have to work back under the same manager I had issues with previously. Her and I have butted heads mostly due to her not knowing my job and being a fucking rude ass by telling me to "just do what I'm told" by trying to get me to do things that made absolutely no sense and were contradictory to what she was telling me corporate told her... (THAT whole incident still ruffles my feathers since I spoke directly with corporate to which they told me I was doing it right the way I'd been doing it... but yeah, work SMART not HARD you dumb bitch *growl*
The two supervisors are not the same, but like I said, one is pretty immature and the other I don't know much about, but from what I was told is a bit of a ditz. From the little time I spent with her, the rumors seem true, so we will see how that goes over. I try to give people the benefit of the doubt.
The fact that I will be pulled around like tug of war basically being told that I will be put "wherever I'm needed" whether the office or floor leaves me feeling very displaced, and with this particular manager, I know how she operates, and I know I'm going to be USED to the fullest extent of being able to be squeezed dry from these people because that's how they roll.
Being pulled around and working so many different positions makes it easier to make mistakes because you never get into a full grove and things are being messed with by a lot of other people, so it's harder to keep track of or clean up behind others and often quite frustrating. Any mistakes are quickly generated in to write ups, and any write ups mean that I automatically lose my scholarship money (which is 4 grand a year, and the thought of losing that money is scary since my classes are an average of about 2 grand a piece 0o)
Neutrals:
They changed my shift hours. Positively, I will only be working 4 days a week 10hr schedule verse the 5 days a week 8hr schedule (not that we ever work a regular 'schedule' hours wise, but that's fine I like a little extra money) The only hitch is that I now work Mon-Tues, have Wed-Thurs off, work Fri-Sat have Sun off. I actually like the prospect of having a couple 'business' days off, but working both Fri and Sat is a bit of a bummer. Thankfully both kids are young, so it's not going to effect time to hang out with them because they'd be in school.
I was working over 50+ hours in the shipping department every week which left me feeling very drained, the receiving position I'll most likely be fighting to just get my 40hrs... I will have more time with my family and to do homework and other stuff like maybe drawing and writing which is awesome! On the other hand, I'm the sole provider in a family of 4, so less money means re-budgeting and struggling to pay bills (and we have a lot of them still from the birth. Thankfully I did get more than 3/4ths of them paid off with that loan stipend, but my paycheck is also being docked the remainder of what I owe for insurance for the last month I was out before returning to work... gods I hate juggling money matters *sigh*
So yeah, that's where I am right now. Going to go make me and the family a tasty chicken salad with all the fixings (totally snagged a Klondike bar to munch on... bad Jenna! XD) and start work on my powerpoint presentation that I probably won't finish until late tonight... I am hoping to do some internetting and catch up on the huge list of emails I've got (and still growing) I spent yesterday with the family at the waterpark and watched Lone Ranger with Jason and a nice glass of wine mmmm.....
