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Anxiety and Work in Current Events

  • Dec. 27, 2018, 8:57 a.m.
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I usually have more control over my anxiety but it has been a bit of struggle the last few days. My boss is transferring my assistant and my supervisor to his new store and I am pretty much left to fend for myself now. I’m the only one running a multimillion-dollar store and now I have to do it with very little support. I would have more confidence in myself if my boss hadn’t explained to my assistant why I am not worth my wage. I think he is jealous of me. I have the respect of all the staff, I am entitled to more holidays than him and my salary is pretty close to his. He had an abusive tyrant running his store before he asked me to transfer there. He offered me this salary, he said I would get to work independently and we agreed that he would develop me to become a general manager.
After the first week, it was clear that the store was deeply mismanaged. It was an actual shit show but I started to turn it around. Brad, my manager, would take every success and win and bring it to his other store. He struggled to keep his other store staffed. Employees there hated him and people never lasted long. We spent the first year always fighting. His interpersonal skills are atrocious. He is very inappropriate with his employees. From misogynistic jokes to throwing tantrums and belittling everybody. He tried to behave that way with me around one time and one time only. It was disgusting and sad and I kicked him out of the store. I still had a business relationship with the Operations Manager at the time and I got him involved a lot to keep my boss in check. My boss was under a lot of pressure and scrutiny from the business owner and Operations Manager because he always made bad business decisions that he didn’t know how to fix. I knew how to fix everything but he did not know how to let anybody else have control.
My first year was better than it was from the guy they had before me but it was still not “good” business. He made one bad decision that affected both his stores and he failed to make any of his targets as a result. He had us doing most of the production for his other store and still expected me to be able to make his labour target. I had to get the Operations Manager to mediate a meeting between us so that we could find some common ground. My boss was no longer able to hold me accountable for all his failures after that meeting because I spilled all the T on how he was running a business.
By the end of the second year, we have learned to get along. He has learned to let me take the lead and now his business is the one with the most growth. We get a lot of positive attention from head office and we’re actually going to make most of our targets. I still do not have the level of independence that I need to run my store because I have to rely on him for a lot of petty things that he does not trust me with. On my last review, he said that he wanted to give me more money but he needs me to take on more responsibility. The business owner and Operations Manager wanted him to loosen his reigns so that I could run the store more. They were going to open up new stores and he would not even be considered to be given one if he couldn’t show that he knew how to develop a manager. So he took all the credit for my success and now his new store opens tomorrow and he is taking all my support with him lol.
I will be okay, I can develop more managers. I am patiently waiting for a review and I feel like I know how that will go. I can bring something from a 40 to an 80 and he will only see that last 20 and my review is just going to be him blaming me for my shortcomings. The huge success of the store will be a blip on that review. I always tell people before I go over their reviews that there should not be any surprises. If I am doing my job as a manager then there will be no surprises on a review. Good or bad. I am just shocked to hear that he still feels that I am still not worth my salary. I am honestly so pissed off about it that I could actually walk out. I at least earned his respect. I am going to demand a raise this time.


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