Hey!
Thank you Lord for such a wonderful day. Work went well. When I got off I went over to my sisters house with her and her fiance, and then my other sister came over, then her husband, and we sat and laughed for a good while. I forgot my coworker was suppose to come over to take another gurl her Birthday money. I am Vice President of our Birthday Club at work. Guess Imma have to take to her tomorrow.
Thursday I went into the office to talk to my Asst Manager about hours that have been cut in the store. For 2 weeks my co worker didn\’t have ANY hours , she\’s been there for about 7 years. The store has only been there for about 8. How does it come to this? I felt so bad for her, because she said she had to sell her food stamps in order to pay her rent. It pissed me off!! The less store hours they give out, the better the chance for a bonus. For the last 9 months we have gotten 3- $450.00 bonuses. Yeah, that\’s good. But now the big money is up for grabs, and if we do good now, in Dec we will get $450.00, and then in Feb we\’ll get another $1100.00 a piece like year before last. I understand management don\’t want to be asked * well what happened you guys have been getting bonuses for the last 4 months* if we don\’t make it this quarter? Then the killa part about it is. The pay week we are to get our bonus, they cut short allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll employees hours, making your * bonus* check look and feel like a * regular*one. I\’m so sick of these scamming bosses. I can\’t wait to walk * God\’s Red Carpet* on Judgment Day to Paradise, I\’m not giving no eye contact to non of these greedy, selfish, scheming, underpaying, fake people. I\’m sick of them.
So I went into the office and told my Asst manager who is over the front end that I needed to talk to her about my hours. Ive been at my job for 5 years and I have never in my life gotten 16 hours in one week. See this is the main reason why I go to work and not socialize and smile up in management face. Because when I need to go to one of them for STRAIGHT UP LACREASE business, they know I\’m on the real tip. All that fake, ha ha he he stuff, I\’m not even standing for it. I love my Asst manager, I really do, plus she\’s a Christian woman and she carries herself accordingly …….. always. But her * by the book* ways has pissed me off. She tried to explained to me how the computer generates the hours according to the sales in each store. I\’m so glad that I keep restraining myself when she was talking…….I have a habit of over talking someone especially when I need to make a point. I\’m looking at her eye to eye saying to myself, SHUT UP WITH THIS MESS! I was very calm, I said to her, you can show me all these computer print outs stuff all day, I\’m still trying to understand how an employee of 5-7 years get 0 hours a week, and 16 hours. Before she took over the front end, we had another manger which was only a month ago. He was giving out hours left and right. He worked with you, he used * common sense* when he scheduled. And that\’s why we always had coverage on the front end.
Today it was sooooooooooooo busy in our store and we were so short handed, they called up Dept managers, floor associates, CSM, and OUR STORE MANAGER WAS ON THE REGISTER RINGING UP CUSTOMERS IT WAS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CROWDED. The customer waited so long in line, when they got up to me, I had to work extra hard to get them friendly. What kinda MESS is that? We have cashiers at home wanting to work those hours and here we are pulling associates from other areas of the store just to get folks rung up. Then when those associates go back to their departments, they have a ton of work to catch up on. That ain\’t right. Me on the other hand, I love when its crowded. The time flies and I love the hype of getting them in and out. But its bad when a coworker tells you, hey……. I cant even pay my rent this month for the first time in my life working here. That kills me!! Espcially when the store is so crowded and cashiers are willing to work.
Back to me and my Asst managers talk. All while she was talking, I\’m looking her in the eye saying to myself. Is she dayum slow? She keep wanting to show me this tracking system on the computer and I told her I didn\’t want to see it. I just don\’t. I need to know why I\’m not getting 25 hours a week, and why since you\’re over the front end things changed? She didn\’t want to break down, so I waited until she finished and said………. I need to speak with someone higher. She said you can talk to ***, I said NOPE…………NO IN HOUSE!! *they are all friends and run together* She said well you can talk to such and such. I said fine! Since the lady wasn\’t there, when she comes to the store next week, I\’m going to talk to her. So I went back to my register, and don\’t you know about 2 hours later, she had my manager * CSM* to come tell me to please come back to her station. So I\’m walking to the back like dang wonder what she wants? I gets back there and she shows me the schedule and how it works. I\’m saying to myself, DAYUM DIDN\’T I TELL HER THAT I WANTED TO TALK TO SOMEONE ELSE? Did I * move some furniture* by saying that I wanted to talk to someone else about this? I\’m standing there looking like
I\’m trying not to show rudeness on my face, because she really is a nice person and I like her a lot she has great management skills, but she uses no common sense in issues that she can handle without referring to her * by the book policy*. I\’m listening to her talk, and she shows me these hours that are available. Saturday is the day in questioning for extra hours because she has me off. I\’m available to work on Sat 10:30-4:00 on Saturdays. She shows me this 8:30-4:30 schedule, and says here are some extra hours. And I said to her how is it that people want extra hours and they are just sitting here in the computer not generated to anyone? I cant remember what her answer was, but it was DUMB! Didn\’t make any sense to me. I said well yeah I can take the hours * ummmmmm mighty funny hours came up after…..NOPE ….NO IN HOUSE MANAGERS*. Then she says, well you\’re not available those hours, she said in order to take them you would have to write your name with mines on the schedule to take them pass your availability. I said, well can you just give me the 10:30-4:00 she said no she couldn\’t split those up, I would have to work the shift in whole. I guess my facial expression started talking for me, cause when I looked at my watched and realized that I was 30 full minutes over for the day. I WAS REALLY TO GO!
Now see next week when time goes in, they are going to make me leave .30 minutes early because of it.
After she realized that I wasn\’t interested in that mess, she told me to think about it. I went home and thought about this:
I\’m use to being feed * meaning the hours I work*
I\’m not eating like I use to eat * meaning I\’m not getting enough hours.
Then she offer me *Macaroni and Cheese*. Well I\’m not going to except it because I don\’t eat cheese.* meaning the hours I\’m able to work on Saturdays*
How can she fully say she offered me hours * food* that I didn\’t take, when it doesn\’t fit into my schedule* macaroni and cheese?
You know you always have those people that says * well I did offer*. Yeah you did , but guess what? I DONT EAT MAC AND CHEESE!!! What you are offering I DON\’T EAT! So you are really doing NOTHING!
The new schedule comes out on Monday, I can\’t wait to see it! If its not looking right………. I\’m moving some furniture. That\’s all I\’m saying for now. I know how to get in touch with the BIG WIGS
Speaking of Big Wigs. I came home yesterday after dealing with that mess, to read 1000000 google alerts about Tyler Perry and 4 black writers of his being fired. So, I went to his message board to see if I could find posters who may have went or was invited to his Celebration! Ya ll know how I love Tyler Perry. Nothing! So, I said well I know Oprah is going to be There, and Sidney, and Gayle, Will, and and all his famous rich and famous Hollywood friends WHO WAS AT HIS PLAYS BACK IN 1999.
I KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW some faithful fans of his are going to be there. Ive been READING HIS MESSAGE BOARD for 6 years so I\’m expecting TO READ some stage play back in the day fans to be invited.
Got home and went to watch the footage of Tyler\’s Celebration and all I saw was famous people. Right now…………………………..I\’m SMH.
I\’m going to pray TONIGHT!
Inside the mind of cree 
