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Personal vent here....
This is my last week at my job. I gave it my best, as I always do. If my husband hadn't told me Friday there was a mandatory meeting for employees yesterday morning, I wouldn't have known. My manager didn't tell me. He knows I don't get the group texts, but didn't let me know via email or anything. I didn't go and he didn't ask about me. My son is usually at school until 5:00 on Tuesdays, but not today. My husband has to work a route that's at least 30 miles away, so I have to finish my route quickly to be able to get him. It's already 15 stops, with one being 20 miles away and that I only work about 10 minutes. My manager seems to think he set up a good route. Well, he hasn't and good luck to whoever gets it after me. He won't change it. The person will have a screwed up week and the pay will suck (it ends up being a little more than minimum wage after taxes, even though it's salary. The manager makes sure to put at least a nine hour day on the employee). He/she won't be trained to use proper apps for it and will have to text photos to the manager all day because the manager himself doesn't even know how to use the apps.
Oh, and I will now say the main reason I got the job in the first place was because my husband interviewed elsewhere, was offered the job and would have gotten a nice raise, but his current bosses didn't want him to leave, so they gave him a little raise and gave me the job, thinking it would smooth things over. He's mad they didn't take care of me and help fix the route. Understandable. This whole thing had me in the middle of it. My manager has always had something against me because he didn't get to hire me. He didn't know about why I got hired.
Sorry Lucy, but remember every thing has a reason for working like it does. You deserve better. Don’t settle for anything less. You got this. Vent as much as you need to, I understand.
Thank you so much! I know God has something better. 😃
He does ❤️🙏🏻
Dang. Appreciate the update and the vent. As you know, I've been following your saga pretty closely for some reason. 😁
As I was reading your entire post I had, in the back of my mind, the hope that somehow I could find an optimistic encouragement - some platitude. Mostly I was looking for a typical "well, it sounds like a mess there". But those last two sentences iced it: that's an unacceptable mess, really.
On the bright side, I feel like your husband is probably much more motivated to take the next job he finds that is a better, higher paying fit. My wife and I are the same way about being maybe too loyal to employers, so I feel I understand why you both tried to make it work.
Lastly, that vent was well articulated and mature. You'll be fine in the long run.
Best wishes and love o7
Thank you so much. If we were closer to family, it would be easier, too. But as it stands, we have to do things this way. He may try to look elsewhere. So many others have quit on this place recently. Management isn't the best.
A job is just that...supposed to pay for your life...not be your life
Believe me- I think he has thoughts about it.
He is kind of the glue that seems to hold the place together. He can do anything there and they seem to take advantage of it. 😔
Is your husband going to be actively looking for a job elsewhere that will pay him more again?
Sorry to hear about this. Sometimes managers are given the position without reallying knowing how to manage & lead others. Often I have found it happens more with government or small business staffed with close friends.
Hope you find something else to help you out.
I have no idea. He thinks they may offer him a position from a manager who's set to retire soon. He already sees what's wrong with it and what he would want in order for him to accept it, if offered.
My current manager played for a college football team that the company's owners really like and that is one reason why he got it. It's a feather in their cap! He hasn't had anything to say to me sice I gave my notice. My son had to be picked up from school earlier, as his nurse thinks he has strep, as others do right now, and my manager hasn't said anything to me after I texted him. Oh well. I have two days, at most, left with the douchebag.
Hope your little one gets good rest & well soon. Good for you for standing up to them.
Thank you. He is better. No strep!
I can sympathise. For decades I worked hard at making money for someone else's company. Then I was made redundant twice in quick succession, which was the push that I needed to work for myself. I never regretted it.
My husband and I have talked about it so much over the years and we'd be happier in some ways if we did have our own small restaurant and were our own bosses, but we don't have money to sink into it right now and this economy sucks.