Are my coworkers and I unreasonable?
Hey guys, the premise of this issue is regarding hours; I know we’re in a crunch for hours this season and my co-workers and I are part time. However, we feel like we’re being mistreated.
So, we simply asked for more hours (and there is room for it according to our DS’s). However, our store manager is refusing and not letting us get hours since we’re “protesting.”
For context, every month my coworkers and I average around 11-15 leads - we’re garden and plumbing. We get a lot of work done (when we had hours), produced more leads than flooring, appliance, millwork. Actually, we are the ones getting leads for those departments, not the old hags that work there. However, since they’ve cut our hours to basically >20, we haven’t gotten as many leads. The Lead Manager keeps telling us to get more leads and we tell him we can’t because they’re expecting 40 hours of work to be done in 20 so we can’t focus on that.
Then eventually we just told management we’re not doing 40 hours of work just to be yelled at for not completing it fully in 20. All of our DS’s keep fighting to give us hours cause they see we work hard but they’re being pressured by the store manager to make us work but they know we can’t.
Idk I’m just annoyed.
Then the lead manager pulls me aside and ask what he can do to make us get leads. I told him to fire the old folks in flooring because they’re expecting haven’t gotten a lead in 4 months and can’t lift anything - they’re useless. He got mad but every DS agrees too. Then the manager tells me to move these big flooring boxes and I say I can’t because I’m 2 weeks post surgery for my broken wrist. He talks shit about me and says I’m a “lazy fuck.” Sorry but shouldn’t that mean you fire the old people because they’re expecting haven’t can’t even do their job description and lift.
I’m just so frustrated. It’s not my fault you choose to keep unhealthy, fat old people who don’t even do their job on payroll. I say that because my department has a fit 67 year old who actually can move.
This is just ridiculous. It’s not protesting because we don’t get hours to do everything or mean not wanting to break my wrist again. Then saying I’ll get fired if I don’t provide the X-Ray???? I WAS IN A CAST.