Is there a way to handle the BS that is happening?
First time posting ever, throw away because I know how crazy Autozone is about online presence. So hypothetically ... there exist a DM, who, if you are someone they truly like you can do no wrong, they will sweep anything and everything under the rug. They dont care if they have an entire mountain under the rug, they will keep sweeping. There doesnt seem to be an "obvious" pattern for how you become one they will take care of, there are both men and women they look out for. But they will go to GREAT lengths to take care of the ones they have picked out. So far as to tell employees to quit talking about incidents, instruct them to not carry things further up the ladder, the typical hush hush that you see with corrupt leadership. However! There are employees that literally CARRY stores on their backs but lets just use reviews as an example. This DM tells the SM to not make someone look so good and kicks back the review MULTIPLE times. BUT if one of their "lackeys" had a glowing review even if they are a trash person they would approve it.
This DM ignores all the cries for help from stores UNTIL someone gets fed up enough and goes to someone else higher up and extra attention is brought in, but then the DM feigns ignorance and blames the people that have BEEN reaching out for help. Oh! and Heaven forbid the DM have any level of accountability! Everything is someone elses fault, never theirs, they truly believe they do no wrong. If the shit is rolling down hill they will make SURE it bounces over them and on down. The only thing this DM is concerned about is their numbers and trying to move further up, not caring about everyone they leave out to dry, royally screwed over.
So collectively is the area just screwed til the DM gets promoted? Are we just stuck waiting and hoping their replacement is better than them? They have some far reach in the company, considering you know DM and all, is there someone we can actually go to, that'll take care of these complaints ?
Of course this is ALL hypothetically speaking. Just curious who we could reach out to.