Bevendre

A rant on whatever grinds my gears at the moment:
I’m rather livid at the state of my own job, and of common practices in the American job market, or at least the local job market.  Where I work, my department consists of my manager, me working full time, a friend working part time for 30 hrs/wk. one coworker working 10 hrs/wk, and one coworker working 24 hrs/wk. as well as two night stockers.  One of the two stockers quit after 1 day of work, leaving us without anyone between 9 PM and 6 AM 4 days a week.  My friend is leaving at the end of the month, and my manager is leaving at the end of the week.  My store’s HR is so terrible that the last 4 night stockers that were hired for my department quit within a week of being hired, so the likelihood of finding a new manager for the department soon is slim.

To avoid hiring a manager I am being made the interim manager of the department, despite saying repeatedly that I DO NOT WANT THE POSITION.  Until they find a new manager I will be doing my own job, and the manager’s for my current pay of $8.90/hr and that is unlikely to change for some time.  Because the department is so heavily understaffed, and will be made moreso by the end of the year, I can’t quit without having the action come off as a major ‘fuck you’ to the company and potentially losing them as a reference despite having worked there for 6.5 years.

I need a new job.  Badly.  Unfortunately I’m overqualified for most entry level positions, being a college graduate with a Bachelor’s in English, being conversational in Spanish and knowledgeable in French, German and Japanese with 6.5 years of experience in retail and customer service.  I’m also underqualified for most positions above what I have now, as I haven’t been working in those fields for years, and don’t have connections to just put me into a job.


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