trainee manager making me wanna quit
I’m a newer associate and honestly, the job itself is not bad. I actually like working here. I’ve worked multiple jobs before this and I’ve never had this much of a problem with a manager. I get along fine with the other managers and associates. It’s specifically this one trainee manager that makes my shifts miserable.
My biggest issue is his tone and the way he talks to me. He talks to me like I’ve been working here for five years and should already know everything when I JUST started and I’m still supposed to be training. Other associates have literally asked me, “Aren’t you still training?” and at this point I don’t even know because it doesn’t feel like I am.
I don’t have an issue with being given work. I’ve had shifts where I was given meat and fish by myself, which was A LOT, but I stayed in that section and got it done. I’ve finished my pallets and done plenty of stocking. Hard work is not my issue.
My issue is being talked to like I’m incompetent when I haven’t even been properly taught half of this stuff.
For example, I’ve done bread before, but nobody ever told me I was also supposed to do trays or actually trained me on how to do them. All of a sudden this trainee manager is acting like I should already know how.
I told him I needed someone to train me. His response was basically, “Didn’t someone show you before?” Someone doing the task themselves while I stand there watching is NOT the same as training me and letting me actually do it.
Today he told another manager to show me how to do the trays. She started showing me, I did what she showed me, and then she walked away. I thought she was coming back, so eventually I went to the back waiting for her. She never came back. My store manager happened to be back there, saw that I looked overwhelmed and told me I could clock out. At that point I was already past my scheduled time anyway.
He also gets on me about things while I’m literally in the middle of doing something HE told me to do. Earlier I had carts from bread that I obviously knew needed to be cleared. I was about to clear them, but he redirected me and had me stamping bread items one at a time. Then while I’m doing that, he comes over telling me I need to clear all the carts.
I KNOW. I was about to do that until YOU redirected me.
And the way he speaks to me while doing all of this is what really gets me. Today he raised his voice at me at 5 in the morning and I finally started talking back. I’m not proud of getting irritated, but I’m also not going to pretend his tone doesn’t bother me. You can manage me, correct me, and tell me what needs to be done without speaking to me like I’m beneath you.
What makes it worse is that when I finish the work I actually know how to do, it feels like he doesn’t know what to do with me next. Instead of actually continuing my training, I get sent to some random task I haven’t learned yet, and then somehow I’m expected to already know how to do that too.
Meanwhile, I was told I would be getting trained on register and that still hasn’t happened.
I genuinely like the job itself. That’s what makes this so frustrating. I’m fine working with everyone else. I’ve had difficult shifts without this manager and got through them without feeling like this. When I work with him, I leave mentally exhausted and pissed off.
I’m planning on talking privately to my store manager because it’s gotten to the point where this ONE person is making me consider quitting a job I otherwise like.
I don’t expect managers to baby me. I just expect to actually be trained while I’m new and to be spoken to like a human being.