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Honeymoon period, well and truly ..........over!
What is it with me? I seem to attract everything bad in life to come and follow, I knew it was too good to be true and by this I mean my new job!
Over the last few weeks a fellow employee has been being funny with me, I wanted to address the issue because being a newbie I don't want to gain enermies in the space of a month!
My boss has always said she doesn't like gossip and if there is ever an issue she wants me to tell her.
Here's whats happened. When I first started said employee was really nice, trying to copy my accent which was kind of annoying to tell you the truth, how would she like it if I tried to immitate her philippines accent I would probally be told off for something!!! Here's that one rule for one thing coming into my work life again! Oh no Cassie, just bite your lip and be nice.
The next thing to happen was I forgot my water bottle, I was just walking down the mall and I remembered. I walked back into the shop to hear her talking to another co worker "Cassie, forgot her water bottle!" I just walked in and heard it and said "sorry ***** I forgot my water bottle" and they both started laughing which made me feel very uncomfortable now. I got the impression she was bitching.
The next thing to happen was on another of my cross over shifts with her she came in 10 mins late and I was struggling with a customer. **** came in just in time to help me so I handed it over to her explaining before what the customer wants. I ended up leaving the shop half hour late as I needed to tell her a few things before she left.
Her face was on fire, I explained what there was to do and the reaction seemed to be "I know what i'm doing Cassie!"
So over the next few days she was very cold towards me, wtf have I done? I decided to tell the daughter my feelings and she reasured me but she told me there are some things that I say in the English language that can be taken the wrong way.
She brought up this example. There was one day when my boss was serving someone and a man was just stood in the doorway. He didn't say anything when I looked at him so I said "Is everything o.k.?" He replied with "Why, shouldn't there be?" I was kind of shocked with his response. Now the daughter says that if you say this in Canada it implies that something shouldn't be o.k, that there is something wrong!
Well in England it means that i'm concerned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry for being concerned.
Anyway the first night I closed which was this last Tuesday, the heating seemed to stop working in the store I was frozen and there was no hot water. I decided to only mop the back half of the store and leave the front as I was concerned about a possible slip if a customer came in. I wrote this in the communication book and said employee wrote. We always mop the floor with cold water the floor ALWAYS gets mopped. Yes the capital letters were there, and it really pissed me off. Did she think I was being lazy? I'm not lazy I just didn't want a claim going in, at my last work place we were NOT allowed to mop the floor untill the doors were shut!!!!!!!!!!!!! common sence I think.
Anyway I was pissed off and upset and decided to talk to my boss. I said I think i'm having problems with ******* and she asked why I showed her the communication book, I then told her that she had already said that the floor had to be mopped why was someone else telling me again. I explained why I had not mopped it. I also said about that time when I was struggling with the customer and her face cream and she said said employee told her I was interferring, wouldn't shut up and I keep repeating myself.
This is where I got said employees life story, how she works six days a week, she lives with her daughter on her own. Had a horrible husband she has got rid of and now after eight years has just started dating, please would someone tell me what this has anything to do with the price of fish?
I was told how said employee is probaly one of the best part time people she has ever employed better than most of her full time staff members. (insult number one, bing bing)
I was also told that I need to learn how to speak Canadian, as Canadians are very prejustice (insult number two bing bing). I was shocked to say the least. I was just addressing a concern and now she has a wall built up, wtf is the deal with that. She also told me that she hates people that lie to her(insult number three ding ding) and over fabricate situations (insult number four ding ding). This then upset me, I don't lie......... I was being honest with her. To be honest I lost it and started to cry, what kind of person was she now seeing me as? I had walked into the lions pit now just let them eat me and have done with it.
She said I need to go and have a coffee with said employee and talk it through. Hang on rewind, she said if I have any problems to go to her and anyway I don't care about wanting to get to know said employee. I come to work and work, I don't want to get to know her I get paid and go home! I have my own problems and stress, I don't need any more created by this employee. Why anyway so she can take the piss out of me?
I love how said employee can just roll up ten mins late because her other job down the mall finished at 5:30. Well mine finishes at 5:30 and generally I like to go home. Every shift she is late so why not have me untill 5:45 and have her start at 5:45pm god that would be an idea. But oh no because said employee has a "hard" life she is favorite. Saying that she rolled into work with a gucci bag the other day, wish I got paid that much.
I know the last place I was working at was bad but I don't think I can take much more of this either, where are the normal jobs?
I didn't leave my water bottle on purpose that day, nor did I have any intention of interfeering as the employee calls it. My boss told me in the interview that she would be training me to become her assistant manager and I've already said I have problems with one person, if she likes this woman so much offer her full time status. I think this said employee has a disliking to me, why should I be all sweet and kind and be shit on like that! bitch.
In my contract it said if I was to leave before a month I have to pay back any training I receive which is $60 an hour, I don't see how they can jusify that with my position. I get paid $12 and hour and the only training i've received is inbetween appointments from the estition. I also get paid monthly, i'm thinking of getting that check and finding another job asap because to be honest this boss can be bitter and I think she will just steal my wage.
To say I'm worried about not getting a reference again and even my remaining wage is an understatement! How the hell do I find these situations or should I say how do they find me? Maybe I should have shut up and left it but now its obvious said employee started bitching about me before I did her.
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Posted: 06:49, Sunday 27 June 2010 |
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