Well, that’s the shorter way to say 11 months, 2 weeks and 3 days, isn’t it? Maybe I should have said “Only 10 more days until 1 year down!” Oh well, next time/next year.
A lot has gone on in the past couple of months at work (I did write you a lovely rant about it, but sadly I had no clue I was trying to post it during Blog.com’s format conversion and it got lost in the works somewhere). We had the remodel (boy do I hope I never have to work in a grocery store for one of those again!), we’ve had a little bit (not much) of staff roll-over in my department and generally, morale is down.
If I were to try to cut the remodel situation down to a paragraph, I think it would go like this: the hired contractors largely sucked. There was a lot of poor quality work performed, a lot of safety hazards left behind on a daily basis (resulting in 2 semi-serious injuries of our employees) and lots of corner-cutting to save time & money.
Now that we’re done with the remodel and approaching our final week of the grand re-opening (it runs a full month long), I am hoping to find some peace working it’s way back to the store overall. There’s been a lot of stress for pretty much everybody and we really need an opportunity to kick back and regain our sanity.
There’s been no change in my title since I was hired. Not the full-time guy’s either, but there’s definitely been a difference in our treatment over the last few months. When the Produce Manager would go on vacation before, the duties used to be pretty evenly split between us- this is no longer so. He now gets about 95% of the responsibility and I have one specific manager task I perform. I don’t know exactly why this is and I don’t ask. I assume it’s not that I wasn’t making the grade, but rather that he’s supposed to be the Assistant Produce Manager and therefore, it is his job to take over the Produce Manager’s responsibilities. This is how it’s been the last times the Produce Manager has been on vacation, so I assume this is how it will continue to be.
Don’t worry, I’m not upset about it. I wasn’t planning on staying at the Grocery Store forever (though I know I’m going to be there quite a while waiting for something better to crop up in this economy) and it’s just not worth getting upset about. Frankly, if you make minimum wage- you shouldn’t be doing the work of Management anyway (the full-time guy doesn’t get a Manager’s pay, but he does get more per hour than I do. Full-timers get more money to start than part-timers. Isn’t that stupid?)
I guess there isn’t too much more to say about it without going into some sort of tirade, so I’ll hush up for now (at least about this).
10 more days and I get my “1 year of service” pin, just 10 more. Oh, and my raise! Don’t worry, I already know what it will be. The corporate machine is very set about this. You do a good job and you’re not a Manager, you get a raise of 25 cents per hour (if you work full-time, that’s an extra $10 a week or $520 a year). You do a good job and you’re a Manager, you get 50 cents per hour (That’s an extra $20 a week, or $1,040 a year). In my case, I’m not full-time, and based on my average schedule, I figure for about an extra $8 or $9 per week.
Remind me not to do the math on that again, okay?