Tessa120
Current game: Elex
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Six weeks into the new job.
While the boss has been doing internet sales for a long time, pulling him off the sales floor and creating a department for internet sales is fairly new. My only coworker was hired on about a week before me. So new department, new folks, figuring out exactly what is expected is in flux. The boss and his boss plus the GM had different visions of what should be done. Beginning of the month, the boss was out for surgery for a week and a half, his boss came down for several days and taught us exactly what she wanted us to do. He came back and every time he asked why I was doing something and I said "Your boss told me to" he slumped and looked like someone kicked his puppy.
My coworker was out the entire weekend, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, something planned prior to employment. There's two overlapping shifts, there's the boss and I, should work out well even though she's out.
Friday I showed up for work, late shift, and the boss is gone. Tendered his resignation effective immediately and left before I arrived. I had to handle the entire department's work on my 6 weeks of knowledge. And with limited time to track down a manager when something unfamiliar cropped up, so pick and choose which ones to guess and run with it and which ones to put everything on hold and find someone. Oh, and while I got some extra time approved to come in on my day off, I couldn't get enough time to do all day coverage of the other day, only partial day, so I had to prep before and fix after.
And sad as it sounds, it's not near as bad as the stress was during my last few months at Target. Heck, whenever I go back and say hi while shopping, everyone talks about how I'm smiling and I look so happy and how great I look.
While the boss has been doing internet sales for a long time, pulling him off the sales floor and creating a department for internet sales is fairly new. My only coworker was hired on about a week before me. So new department, new folks, figuring out exactly what is expected is in flux. The boss and his boss plus the GM had different visions of what should be done. Beginning of the month, the boss was out for surgery for a week and a half, his boss came down for several days and taught us exactly what she wanted us to do. He came back and every time he asked why I was doing something and I said "Your boss told me to" he slumped and looked like someone kicked his puppy.
My coworker was out the entire weekend, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, something planned prior to employment. There's two overlapping shifts, there's the boss and I, should work out well even though she's out.
Friday I showed up for work, late shift, and the boss is gone. Tendered his resignation effective immediately and left before I arrived. I had to handle the entire department's work on my 6 weeks of knowledge. And with limited time to track down a manager when something unfamiliar cropped up, so pick and choose which ones to guess and run with it and which ones to put everything on hold and find someone. Oh, and while I got some extra time approved to come in on my day off, I couldn't get enough time to do all day coverage of the other day, only partial day, so I had to prep before and fix after.
And sad as it sounds, it's not near as bad as the stress was during my last few months at Target. Heck, whenever I go back and say hi while shopping, everyone talks about how I'm smiling and I look so happy and how great I look.
