Not sure where to put this so I hope Depression is okay.I’m sick of
being stuck in this job.I’ve been working at a big company’s department
store for three years now when this job was meant to be a ‘while I look
for something better so I can make mon...
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Not sure where to put this so I hope Depression is okay.I’m sick of
being stuck in this job.I’ve been working at a big company’s department
store for three years now when this job was meant to be a ‘while I look
for something better so I can make money in the meantime’ job - needless
to say, job hunting hasn’t gone well, and it feels like I’m going to be
stuck here forever. I don’t mind my immediate coworkers - they’re
friendly enough. We don’t have anything in common beyond the job (I’m a
twenty-one year old closeted transmasc amongst middle aged women), so
naturally we aren’t particularly close or anything; which is fine. I
like the manager we have in the later half of the week too, she’s nice.
But that’s it. It’s not ‘good’, but the only not-bad part of it really.
Aside from getting paid I guess. The job I (and my immediate coworkers)
do is essentially tidying and putting returned stock out. It’s also
meant to be organising stock (i.e: putting an arm of shirts in
S->M->L->XL etc), but more on that later. We also do customer service &
price checks. It honestly feels like nothing I do here is ever good
enough. I’ve been told I’m a part of the ‘strong team’ for our half
(clothing half), but that’s where the praise ends. I run around like a
headless chicken every shift to try and make sure I get all the returns
back onto the floor, the tables are folded & everything is in it’s
correct place/nothing is on the ground (which would be natural if this
was only happening at this time of year, Christmas leadup - but it’s
been all year). I don’t take any of my fifteen minute breaks - and I’ve
started skipping the thirty minute ones I’m entitled to when my shifts
expand beyond the mere 4 hours I usually get. I haven’t sized since
before the Christmas rush last year. I haven’t had time. The year prior
to last year, after Christmas - when it’d quieted down, we had a fair
amount of people on (minimum three - our half of the floor is best split
into three) and had decent hours for shifts (always at least four) which
allowed us to catch up on all the stock to put back out & fix sizing. We
had a new guy start doing the rosters last year, and consequentially
when the store quieted down - he cut us down to as little as he could
and we couldn’t catch up. During the quieter parts of this year, we’ve
only had two people on, both for the minimum time you can roster on
(three hours), meaning each had to now do 1.5 of the work prior within a
measly three hours. Of course, it was simply impossible to do sizing as
well as regular tidying & folding as this is done while we’re still
open. Yesterday, a manager who’d recently come back from a month off was
complaining about the lack of sizing - which beyond being annoying for
the fact I, and my coworkers really don’t have the time for it, is also
annoying in the fact that she didn’t notice this prior to her time away.
Nor has anyone else complained about it. My shift was four hours long
yesterday and I still didn’t manage to even finish my section without
doing sizing, without any fifteen minute break. Yet this is the same
manager who will tell me I need to take my fifteens. Which one is it? Do
you want me to take the break? Or do I need to work harder? Because even
though I put everything into trying to get everything done I just can’t?
I run around with my stomach cramping from hunger on my longer shifts,
my left hip/knee randomly acting up sometimes (I don’t have any actual
problems, I’m not with a disability - my hip joint just kind of feels
like I’ve pinched a nerve/knee aches sometimes), forgoing even drinking
from the water bottle I bring because I don’t even feel as if I have
time for that … and my work is still poor? But also oh I should take
care of myself? It can’t be both. It’s not possible.Not to mention how
pleasant (sarcasm) customers are. But that’s to be expected so. I’m
sorry this is a whole lot of whining I’m just sick of it, really. I
don’t need to be lathered in praise from my managers, but I’d like some
form of appreciation … some acknowledgement. And also to get a new, more
enjoyable job.
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