Let me start from yesterday. Just like everyday, I arrive at work. The first thing I do is go to the back to get directs. It is something that needs to be done, and working the movies and music that comes in on a daily basis is something I really look forward to doing. But yesterday, I go to the back to pick up the shipment, and I am stopped by the Department Manager. He tells me not to worry about the movies right now, there were already three carts on the floor and we need to work them first. They had already taken all the video games that came in the directs out to the floor and they were being worked. So, I go out and do what I can. Two of the other associates working were working their areas of the department. After awhile, one finished their two carts and got it off the floor before going to lunch. Since the requirements of the Department Manager had been met, I figured it was a good time to get started on the movies I needed to work, so I went back and grabbed what I needed to start and get some done while one was out at lunch. Normally this would give me a hour of working movies before the person would return.
As I came out with the cart of movies, the Area Manager stopped me and told me not to worry about movies and music today because we are so shorthanded, in fact I am the only person in the department so just stay in the department and don't worry about the rest. With no one else in the department, I parked the cart off to the side, until I could get someone to watch the department and then I would run it back to the backroom. It doesn't take long for our department to get torn up, so I started "zoning" the department, or basically tidying up. The Department Manager saw me, RAN over to me, got just inches away from my face and told me in an extremely angry voice, "I told you not to work the movies! Now put them down!" I tried to explain that I was just straightening the department, and not working the movies, but he wouldn't listen, and walked off. I couldn't believe it.
After a couple of people returned to the department, I took the cart of movies back to the backroom, and set them aside on a pallet for someone else to work. But curiousity was still with me. I was wondering why everyone else was able to work their area, but I was being addressed with extreme hostility when I tried doing my area. That's when I got the news. Apparently when I do my job, no one else is able to do their job. So, basically, one person taking movies from the back room, taking them out of a box and putting them on a shelf where they belong prevents two other people from doing their job. And then to top it off, it is okay if other people do this job. That way it doesn't distract the others who are trying to work. So, one person, me, doing a job is bad, but three to four people dedicated to the same job is good. After digging, I discovered that one person complained to the Department Manager and Area Manager about this, saying that I am the reason no one can work in the deparment.
Then comes the cherry on top. Today, this person comes up to me and tries to apologize. She tells me, "I didn't mean to get you in trouble. I was mad at Melissa and misdirected my anger." Okay, so let's look at this. She is mad at my wife (who doesn't work with me) and gets me in trouble at work. She still has her area, which she likes, I have nothing to look forward to anymore. I am now faced with a Department Manager and an Area Manager who believes outlandish claims without even trying to find out the truth from someone with an outside personal vendetta, but takes it out on fellow associates. Trust is now an extreme issue.
So, what is the etiquette for apologizing after dropping a nuclear bomb? You still have what you like to do. So does everyone else. I am the one out, I am the one who has had my work environment destroyed and you want me to accept your apology? You take away everything I enjoy about work, and want me to be happy? I spent alot of time today thinking about the times I took her side when she was having dilemmas or problems with others in the store. Now I am wondering who was actually right. Maybe the problems wasn't where I thought it was, but from the one shedding the tears. That's fine, I got a look at a true side over the past two days. I have to tolerate, but I do not have to respect or appreciate. It is impossible to respect someone who has done something so completely disrespectful to me. I don't believe in your pain, because you are too good at dealing it. Do not try to fake the tears, do not try to gain sympathy. And hope and pray to God, no one asks me my opinion, because I will make sure everyone knows the true side of a fellow associate. This is Texomite friendship at it's finest. Take someone who has defended you and stab them in the back. Thanks.
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