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I'm not good with talking to people so I'll get straight to the point.
There's been 2 big things weighing on my mind lately, and I would really love to hear some advice from you guys. I'm splitting it into two posts cos this one's kinda long
First of all, about my boss (sorta).
Background: I left my job at the video store mid last year, cos I had something else lined up and had to quit that to be able to start the other because of a time problem. Long story short, the other thing didn't work out. And I'd already been replaced. So I started looking for full-time work somewheres. ... About a month ago now, my old boss gave me a call saying that one of their fulltimers was quitting but head office wasn't letting them replace him with another fulltimer. So he needed someone to fill in the occasional closing and opening shift. I said sure. I knew closings already, but had not been trained on openings when I was there before.
So. I go in for my first shift, a close on my own, fine. My boss's shift finished just as I got there so he stayed a couple minutes and went through some things with me and etc. He said he wanted me to come in that Saturday morning for an hour, learn to do opening, and then do the Sunday morning shift all by myself.
Gobsmacked is about the closest I can get to describing what I felt. It took about a dozen times going through closing before they would let me even TRY to close, WITH someone watching over my shoulder! I am not doing an opening entirely on my own after ONE runthrough.
I told him that, as nicely as I could. He was, to put it nicely, adamant that I could, should and would do what he had just proposed. I stood my ground, said I wanted more than one runthrough before doing it entirely on my own. After a minute or two repeating myself thusly, he says "Well you doing mornings was part of the deal!" I told him, I'm fine with doing mornings, I just need more than one training session on it before I do it ENTIRELY ON MY OWN.
Anyway I was stubborn about it (stubbornness - one of my redeeming qualities
) and after a couple more minutes he basically said 'we'll talk about this later' and went home.
I haven't had a shift with him since then, yet, thank god. But I do have one with him on this Friday. And I feel certain he's going to bring it up. I want, well, some opinions. Mostly, am I 'in the right' here? Is it really so much to ask to get more than one training session on opening the store before I have to do it by myself? And if he gives me some big ultimatum or something - "Open the store on your own after one training session or else you lose the job" - what do you guys think I should do?
There's been 2 big things weighing on my mind lately, and I would really love to hear some advice from you guys. I'm splitting it into two posts cos this one's kinda long
First of all, about my boss (sorta).
Background: I left my job at the video store mid last year, cos I had something else lined up and had to quit that to be able to start the other because of a time problem. Long story short, the other thing didn't work out. And I'd already been replaced. So I started looking for full-time work somewheres. ... About a month ago now, my old boss gave me a call saying that one of their fulltimers was quitting but head office wasn't letting them replace him with another fulltimer. So he needed someone to fill in the occasional closing and opening shift. I said sure. I knew closings already, but had not been trained on openings when I was there before.
So. I go in for my first shift, a close on my own, fine. My boss's shift finished just as I got there so he stayed a couple minutes and went through some things with me and etc. He said he wanted me to come in that Saturday morning for an hour, learn to do opening, and then do the Sunday morning shift all by myself.
Gobsmacked is about the closest I can get to describing what I felt. It took about a dozen times going through closing before they would let me even TRY to close, WITH someone watching over my shoulder! I am not doing an opening entirely on my own after ONE runthrough.
I told him that, as nicely as I could. He was, to put it nicely, adamant that I could, should and would do what he had just proposed. I stood my ground, said I wanted more than one runthrough before doing it entirely on my own. After a minute or two repeating myself thusly, he says "Well you doing mornings was part of the deal!" I told him, I'm fine with doing mornings, I just need more than one training session on it before I do it ENTIRELY ON MY OWN.
Anyway I was stubborn about it (stubbornness - one of my redeeming qualities
) and after a couple more minutes he basically said 'we'll talk about this later' and went home.I haven't had a shift with him since then, yet, thank god. But I do have one with him on this Friday. And I feel certain he's going to bring it up. I want, well, some opinions. Mostly, am I 'in the right' here? Is it really so much to ask to get more than one training session on opening the store before I have to do it by myself? And if he gives me some big ultimatum or something - "Open the store on your own after one training session or else you lose the job" - what do you guys think I should do?
- I went in, he said "ok I'm off to do the banking" and left... When he came back, after he'd put the banking stuff in the safe out back, he said "Ok I'm off see you next time!"
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