Work Saga in Current Events

The saga continued with my supervisor. At our morning meeting, she brought up some of the metrics, and long story short, I told her that I see a pattern that looks like theft. Point blank, she told me that I shouldn’t care. She doesn’t care. We shouldn’t care. That is the store’s problem. She does not want us to put any energy into it. I can’t even count the times she told me not to care. This is not the right thing to do.

She has been shutting down everything I have to say. She takes me on a long intellectual journey as to why it is a dumb idea, every single time. Then it’s her idea a week or two later. Just last week I told her that we could just lock up the phones our teams works on since she continues to complain about the store using and losing ours. She shut that down. Yesterday, it was her great idea. This isn’t the first time she has done this. I will problem solve and she will reject it. She will act like it is the dumbest thing she has ever heard in her life. Then tell us a week or two later how she figured it out and told her superior.

I don’t even care about her taking the credit. I’m extra sensitive these days and I have had enough of her behavior. I don’t trust my judgment right now. Is this a big deal? I am going to go over her head and at least bring up the pattern that I have been seeing. This is also why nobody on the team approaches her with anything. They come to me and I go to her because I can handle myself.

Yesterday, I mentioned her little tantrum. She emptied the shelf I worked on. Put it all on the floor and just left it. She told us that we have been doing our job wrong this whole time with the service we do on Mondays. I reached out to our team’s contact support this morning about it. I asked them to lay it out all for me. I was correct. Unfortunately, when they replied, they CC’d my supervisor. This is going to be great. I thought to myself. This is going to be a thing tomorrow. I went over her head. Even though she told us this morning to reach out to them if we ever need anything. The e-mail I got back was sassy. It was in corporate talk but it was sassy. Basically, I should be asking my supervisor. I didn’t mention in my e-mail that we were all confused because of our supervisor.

She has a new District Manager that she reports to. We all just met them today. First of all, my inner misogynist was hoping that they weren’t going to be a woman. This is going to be great. I thought to myself once I saw her. Our previous DM was down to earth, I don’t want to be participating in someone’s fantasy land where everything is perfect. I overheard her talking to Marcello. She has no idea who we are or what we do. She is deeply out of touch. What she described to Marcello, as what to do when we do the specific service he was doing, went against everything we were taught from the previous DM. It does not comply with any of the standards listed anywhere. It is completely ass-backward. Her expectations are radically unrealistic. If she had an army or had us working 24/7 we could produce what she wants. Thank god she did not come to talk to me. I literally had my e-mail printed and on my person which laid out what our job is. I don’t want to start drama but I want to start drama.

I talked about this with my coworkers, they all started telling me their horrors stories with our supervisor. She blows up on them all of the time. Won’t stop until she makes them cry. Does it in front of everybody. Including customers. How is this behaviour ok? Whatever. At the end of the day I don’t want to care. I don’t want to care about anything at all.

On that note, I have to go to class and try to give a shit.