Hot topic is ruining my mental health
Not just mine, but my entire teams.
Throwaway because I need my job.
But I can’t just not vent about this. The corporate culture of this company has become unbearable and unrealistic. Cranking up our shipment numbers beyond what is reasonable, shutting down space and amenities for customers and employees alike. TONS of clerical work that never gets double checked or noticed. (Not one single employee I’ve ever had has given a single second glance at these wow boards). Cutting labor by over half and acting like it our fault as managers that things aren’t getting done. But don’t you dare forget to do those huddle sheets that no one will ever look at or find useful. It doesn’t matter that you’re packed out all day and don’t actually have the time to give to sit down and do “cool downs” about their day while Karen has been turning a simple exchange into a two hour ordeal. Turnover for associates is crazy because you refuse to pay more than minimum wage for them, when they can go to any grocery store and stock shelves for $20. So every week you’re training someone new while doing everything else. Meetings meetings meetings meetings. Don’t forget the standards that you have to keep up with for KPIs that’s are 60% above normal industry standards. Can’t let those slip. Oh but wait there’s more! You met the standards set by the company for KPIs?! DOESNT MATTER because your peer groups did better than you so, you get a bad grade. Why is your ADT down? What can YOU do as a manager to be better and pull that up? Putting it all on us when you’re massive miscalculations on how much product a store can handle is abhorrent. We are all shutting our dressing rooms down to accommodate, so now the customers mad that they can’t try before they buy, so they don’t buy at all. There goes a $265 sale because of YOU as a company not me as a manager. But sure, let’s focus on ME and what I can do better. Not on how you as a company are directly causing the demise of the unrealistic numbers that you create. Then take away our discount on collectibles, because even with the discount we were paying well above MSRP for most of that shit but that’s just not enough for you to still be making a profit off of us and calling it a “benefit”. GREEDY GREEDY GREEDY and not even trying to hide it. And on top of that don’t even pay me enough as a store manager to eat food and afford gas. I have to ask family/friends for gas money just to make it a finale few days before I get paid. Guess I should just stop eating right? So I can SHOW UP FOR YOU to continue to not pay me enough to put food in my stomach, and deal with your BULLSHIT. Pay me just enough to keep me awake at night so I can realize that the most financially responsible thing I could ever do is to kms because you won’t pay STORE MANAGERS enough to live. Sick and greedy and gross. And then to top it off you send these STUPID ASS cardboard notebooks with a pen that exploded and turned its inside contents into projectiles the first time I tired to use it and call it a “gift managers notebook” when the dollar tree sells better bullshit than that. You couldn’t even give us something DOLLAR TREE quality. What an insult. What’s a slap to the fucking face. Why sent me anything at all. I can’t fucking WAIT to lay this job to rest. FUCK HOT TOPIC.