We have an inspection this week, and everyone in the store is going nuts over it. However the managers, even though I try my best to do what they want me to do. They just say move, I'll do it. I'm very capable of doing the work I'm hired to do. There is a huge lack of communication between my lead and the others who are under them. Apparently the manager said they told us to do it three weeks ago, however I only heard about it yesterday. Since it was alone, and didn't have a extra set of the item I was told about. I decided to just leave them there since It wasn't hurting anyone and it didn't look bad, just like the other stuff we had around it that we never put out.
Basically I feel like the managers are short with us, don't listen to reasons why I don't do certain things they ask. Also I don't wanna put myself or anyone in my department under the bus. Just yesterday a manager kinda broke down in a sense of just asking what they were doing wrong, if they weren't giving proper directions and if we just don't want to put out things. Though we do our job perfectly fine when someone just calmly sits down with us and have a conversation about what we need to do for that day or why, (like previously stated about the inspection or other certain events) instead of just saying "Hey, get this done by today period." in a demanding tone and then walking off to do other things on their checklist.
Anyways, sorry if I am not making sense in some parts, I tried to make it a bit discreet while still trying to get my point across.
What should I do? I feel like if I talk to a manager about this situation or anything else, they'll just blow it off and say it was because of my department not doing their job.
What department? What position are you? What is your pay?
If you are just a clerk, just do whatever your lead instructs you to do. If management comes to you personally about something you done incorrectly, refer to them that you are just following your lead's instructions. Remember that you are just a CLERK. Not a lead, not a backup, not a former backup, not a coordinator, not a ****ing college graduate with a master's degree in Kroger, just a damn clerk who probably doesn't even make more than a McDonald's employee. Tell them you are just following instructions and to **** themselves if they don't like it. Don't let yourself get stressed out by these morons.
I learned a long time ago. Don't panic. If you are always doing your job like you should be, then there is no reason to do extra special work to prepare for a visit.
When inspectors are coming in, any business, managers get panicky. If you were trained to do your job, properly, then you (personally) don't have anything to worry about. If you are doing your job the way you were trained and management says something about how your doing it, agree with them then let them know you weren't trained to do that or do it that way. I haven't learned everything at my job, but what I have learnt I know I was trained to do it properly. I don't worry about it when management tells me what needs to be done, they are my boss and they are just wanting the highest score possible. It is my job to listen to them and do my best. On the other hand I do not like it when someone who isn't my boss tells me what to do. That just annoys me. seniority or not they aren't my boss.
