I went to work in the deli yesterday morning for our 7 a.m. opening shift. Usually the next person doesn't come in until 8:30 or 9. Well yesterday the Deli manager scheduled two of us at 7 and seemed shocked I was and there and asked why I was there. For the rest of the day she rode my ass every chance she got and it was usually for talking to one of the others in the department, which I didn't do any more than I normally do. But yesterday it was a problem. Don't know why she was mad that I came in at 7. She did the damn schedule! Well my question is what is the craziest thing you ever got chewed out for?
-- Edited by krogerman77 on Friday 22nd of March 2013 08:36:23 PM
But I did, and it looked like a gorgeous brick wall of bread. He hadn't walked by there, and assumed the new girl didn't do her job. He never gave me any more problems after that.
Probably the time I got written up because my manager ordered too much of the milk that wasn't the one on sale before going on vacation and I couldn't sell through all of it by marking it down. They said I didn't communicate that there was so much milk. Which is awesome considering my store manager lacked comminication skills and instead of asking me what happened he just told the co-manager to write me up. After explaining the situation to the co-manager he DIDN'T communicate the issue to my manager and just said that he had to write me up since the manager told him to.
Was over my shift by 5 minutes on my way out and the manager on duty asked me why I was still there, I told him I was on my way out and he got mad and instead of saying "alright, have a good evening" like any considerate person would do, He started this argument about not leaving on time and I argued back with him for about 10 minutes. I told him thanks for the 15 minutes of overtime at the end and left.
He should have known that if you were only 5 minutes late there wouldn't have been any overtime! You're "ok" on overtime until 7 minutes after the hour :/ But yeah for the bs you dealt with, at least you got OT for it. :D
I got chewed out for having the cooler in a mess and disarray when my boss came in later on that night. I told him I would of finished if they would of let me stay overtime, but I had to leave.
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Making a cardboard bale that CO-Manager told me to make on the busiest Sat. of year.(Weekend before Thanksgiving) Night crew did not finish truck, had freight on salvage trailer, tons of beer and soda all over the place and I was to be stocking the baking aisle and stay stocking all day to keep full(directed by Grocery manager). CO decides that bale needs to be made and asks that I make one, I look around and have no place to put the bale after I make it that won't take me at least an hour or more of time to move the bale to the salvage area due to all the freight in the way. So I make the bale and leave it right in front of the baler(really the only place that was available, we could still put in cardboard and hit the button for compression and people could still get by the bale). Any ways she calls me back to rec. and starts yelling that I didn't move the bale to the salvage trailer and I should know where it goes. That I should move any items out of the way, etc. etc., I told her that she doesn't need to speak to me like that and if she has a problem she and I should go to the office to discuss. Any way I end up having to move the bale to the salvage truck, The Groc. manager, Drug/Gm manager, CO, and one other assoc. spent 30 minutes each restacking freight and moving things around and I spent another hour to get one bale, that really was not in the way, to the salvage truck. That was a total of 3 man hours to move something on the busiest day of the year. Mean while our baking center and baking aisle were wiped out and we lost sales. Oh, one other thing, the bale was only about 3/4 full, so it really did not need to be made.
Let's be honest here....Just be glad when it's not YOU who wrote the schedule, YOU who changed the schedule (sometimes at the last minute, too...), YOU who came in late, YOU who called in (or didn't even bother to call in), YOU who worked when it was your day off, or YOU who screwed up royally, but remember this...YOU will probably still hear about it, regardless!!! It's the "nature of the beast"...What can you do?
Will someone please tell me where this DOESN'T happen???
mine happened like a month ago. I cleared the lot of all the carts before 9:00 at night. During the time I handed off the job to the next person, there were probably at least 5 customers with carts that exited the store. My supervisor started yelling at me for not clearing the whole lot when she saw the other guy bring a stack of like 6 carts in. I was really pissed off because I displayed one of my best efforts in clearing the lot- considering the number of carts that were originally out there when I started and I still got yelled at.
Hello we have department manager that go her job because she is doing the manager or he wants to do her. She was handed the job with no experience in that department and no communication skills she didn't put in for the job during the enrollment period she was brought into after the first interviews had already been done. Her idea of running the department is keeping a notebook of all the things the employees are doing wrong according to her and her boyfriend manager. How can you do your job if you are keeping a long list of notes on each employee? You can't you blame every one else for your mistakes. I cut wrote up for not cutting the fruit fast enough to come out and fill salads and do markdowns so she has more time to make notes and flirt.
Hello we have department manager that go her job because she is doing the manager or he wants to do her. She was handed the job with no experience in that department and no communication skills she didn't put in for the job during the enrollment period she was brought into after the first interviews had already been done. Her idea of running the department is keeping a notebook of all the things the employees are doing wrong according to her and her boyfriend manager. How can you do your job if you are keeping a long list of notes on each employee? You can't you blame every one else for your mistakes. I cut wrote up for not cutting the fruit fast enough to come out and fill salads and do markdowns so she has more time to make notes and flirt.
A few years ago I was in the hospital for a ruptured appendix. Damn thing had burst and came within maybe a few hours of killing me. I was there for a W E E K. Took another week to recover.
Come back to find three of my GM unloaders are gone, half my GM stockers are either gone or on leave; I foolishly ask "Why wasn't this taken care of?" My (then) Store Manager: "You weren't here to take care of it."
one time on Christmas eve several years back, i got on the PA and made a page for the bakery back-up asking for "Jorge to come to the bakery for guest assistance". His name was Raul. I go home and celebrate Christmas and come back several days later to a discrimination charge filed against me. Hell, I thought the dudes name was Jorge! I was up in the manager's office for over an hour trying to get myself outta that one. In retrospect, I should of had them just fire my ass
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