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I'm just going to let you know: watch this space. I have a feeling come autumn things at the swamp are going to be veerrrrryyyyy interesting.
Why, you ask? We are losing, or may lose, several key people in the store.
First, there's the guy I work with every other weekend on the stock team. He had been trying to get a job at the home improvement store in town whose name rhymes with "blows." In fact, the store manager there used to be one of our managers, and he had just the position for him, but couldn't give it to him because the guy working in it was on FMLA. Also, there was some issue with his computerized application/personality test/whatever. Apparently all those hurdles have been cleared and he starts at Blows August 1.
Which means I lose my partner for my weekends and probably get instead whomever they can dredge up. On the positive side, I may no longer need to bounce among departments for my hours as he was 1/4 of our team. Still we are losing lots of experience and mechanical aptitude--the guy was pretty much the store handyman.
Front end manager is leaving for a position at another one of our stores. She didn't make much of an impression on me. Mostly I knew her as the one joined at the hip with Moon Unit walking around the store every day. I wonder who Moon Unit will do laps around the store with now.
The salesfloor supervisor, who I used to call "numbknockers" until I retired the nickname because I felt she was no longer living down to it, is moving to Florida because her husband got a job down there--at twice his current salary. If somebody would offer me twice my salary to move down to the Sunshine State and do what I do now, I'd be happier than a pig in sh!t. I really thought she started to become more productive and actually try to get on the slackers' cases. I will miss her.
Finally, the company is opening another one of its small-town stores 5 or 10 minutes away from my manager's house, and she's applied for the store manager job there. Not knowing who the competition is for the job, I have to think she's got an excellent chance to get it. She practically runs the store anyway and this would be a perfect situation for her. So there's a good chance she's gone as well.
So we'll be breaking in new supervisors and managers who may be competent, may be tyrants, may be totally disengaged, or may not know their ass from a hole in the ground. I gotta say I'm feeling a tad uneasy about what's to come.
Why, you ask? We are losing, or may lose, several key people in the store.
First, there's the guy I work with every other weekend on the stock team. He had been trying to get a job at the home improvement store in town whose name rhymes with "blows." In fact, the store manager there used to be one of our managers, and he had just the position for him, but couldn't give it to him because the guy working in it was on FMLA. Also, there was some issue with his computerized application/personality test/whatever. Apparently all those hurdles have been cleared and he starts at Blows August 1.
Which means I lose my partner for my weekends and probably get instead whomever they can dredge up. On the positive side, I may no longer need to bounce among departments for my hours as he was 1/4 of our team. Still we are losing lots of experience and mechanical aptitude--the guy was pretty much the store handyman.
Front end manager is leaving for a position at another one of our stores. She didn't make much of an impression on me. Mostly I knew her as the one joined at the hip with Moon Unit walking around the store every day. I wonder who Moon Unit will do laps around the store with now.
The salesfloor supervisor, who I used to call "numbknockers" until I retired the nickname because I felt she was no longer living down to it, is moving to Florida because her husband got a job down there--at twice his current salary. If somebody would offer me twice my salary to move down to the Sunshine State and do what I do now, I'd be happier than a pig in sh!t. I really thought she started to become more productive and actually try to get on the slackers' cases. I will miss her.
Finally, the company is opening another one of its small-town stores 5 or 10 minutes away from my manager's house, and she's applied for the store manager job there. Not knowing who the competition is for the job, I have to think she's got an excellent chance to get it. She practically runs the store anyway and this would be a perfect situation for her. So there's a good chance she's gone as well.
So we'll be breaking in new supervisors and managers who may be competent, may be tyrants, may be totally disengaged, or may not know their ass from a hole in the ground. I gotta say I'm feeling a tad uneasy about what's to come.
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