I wonder what they’ll do when I’m gone

I got briefed on the happenings at the store while I was away. I can’t leave those people alone for a minute, honestly.

There was a bomb threat.
Two of my stockers quit.
I’m firing another one tonight because he’s an idiot (officially it’s job performance, but one leads to the other).
We may be firing yet another one once we research his attendance.
And every job I’ve applied for in the past six weeks called me for an interview while I was gone.

I really wish they’d told me about all of them rather than just Alaska. There are openings on several of the project teams, and that would be great. They think the store down by Ember called. I would have waited and tried to do them all Monday so I could pick what was best for me instead of only being told Alaska called. I’d rather do the project team. I’d be away so much I might be able to give up my apartment and live at my parent’s place the four days of the month I’d be home. During the holidays, when I’m at my home store, I could always get an inexpensive hotel room over in that town and the savings on gas alone would probably cover that. Of course I’d be checking out and running back "home" on my days off. In case you’re wondering why I’d bother, my parents’ place is another twenty or thirty miles farther away from my store than I am now, making the one-way commute distance 47-57 miles through the mountains. Not gonna do it. Wouldn’t be prudent.

Queeg talked to me last night. She says she knows I’m not happy at the store, and it’s OK, she’s not going to hold me back. She also was talking about trying to get transferred before her time was up, but it’s a devilishly difficult process, and pretty much unless it’s litterally a life and death thing then it isn’t going to happen.

They changed my schedule and didn’t tell me. They’ve cut us back to nine hours a day (from twelve) but put us on five days. It’s because the senior manager who is covering for the guy that quit is going to be on vacation starting Monday. I asked if it was going to be this way until we got our replacements the second week in December (cause if it is I’m gonna start going to therapy again, just to keep from going nuts) and I was told it’s only supposed to be this week.

It better be…

They are going to change my schedule further next week by completely altering the shift I work. I’ll be coming in five hours early so I can help with the trucks and get the new procedures streamlined. I’ll also be leaving five hours ealry too, so that’s good. The hope is I can reinforce the hourly manager’s position, since he’s getting push back from some of the also-rans (everyone in the back room applied for it). I thikn if I start fussing about the same things he’s been fussing about they’ll start listening because they all know I’ll fire their butts if they try that crap with me. I’ve fussed and hollered at them on more than one occasion for not getting their jobs done and screwing my crew, and I’ve told them on more than one occasion that the only reason I wasn’t firing them right then and there was because they didn’t report directly to me and it’d be rude to fire another manager’s people. I’ve told them to work every night like it was on over load night (5,000 cases or more) and that way 1) they’d have a little extra time at the end of the shift to clean up and help the pickers do their jobs and 2) when we did have an overload night they wouldn’t notice becasue they are always running balls to the wall and getting it done.

And I’m going to bed now.