How would you take this if you were a manager?¬ ¬ We have sidework at my job like a lot of other jobs. That being said first, so you know I understand that. ¬ ¬ However,¬ ¬ The other day at work I had been there past the time our schedule says I was to leave and I got kind of fed up with one of our managers telling me to do a job for him and then I could go home. ¬ ¬ But see it's not ever just a job for this manager and then I can go home. Once the job is done, I'm asked to do another job, and then I can go home. And sometimes even when that job is done, I'm asked to do something else, and then I can go home. ¬ ¬ So I finally got frustrated after months of this and realized I'd rather he make a checklist of things to do, let me do those jobs, and then let me go home. Don't keep saying do this then you can go, oh and do this other thing and then you can go, can you do one more thing for me even though you're here an hour after the schedule says you can leave? And then you can go?¬ ¬ This has gone on and on for months. ¬ ¬ Last week however, this particular manager was actually going to just let me cut out at my scheduled time off. This particular day, our district manager was in the store and she asked me to do a specific task before I was allowed to leave.¬ ¬ I agreed and went and did it. ¬ ¬ Once the job was done, I was ready to leave, and then the manager that was going to just cut me and let me go in the first place decided(while the district manager was in the bathroom) he wanted something else done before I left and changed it again. And started doing that crap described above. Again. "Go do this other thing for me before you leave."¬ ¬ A little context:¬ ¬ This manager had arrived at 4pm after I had been in the store since an hour after opening. I was one of two day employees working the shift. This manager had about 8 other employees coming in for the busier shift at 4pm and is also the time he arrived and started barking jobs to do when I had already been working there all day. ¬ ¬ So here I am now in the back of the store doing the additional tasks and seething, and the district manager walks out of the bathroom.¬ ¬ I look at her and point to the other manager through the walls who is in the front of the store saying something like "how can any member of management say to do one thing, and then change it up once it's done, not be seen as lying?"¬ ¬ The district managers face changed and she said "Well I was in the bathroom." and immediately went and grabbed the manager I was complaining about and offhandedly announced that I feel they're all liars and that I have a problem with management. ¬ ¬ Haha. ¬ ¬ My question is, would you have taken what I said personally as if I had personally called you a liar? It blew me away that she could even think I was including her in that statement of fact. ¬ ¬ For one, my statement included absolutely no accusations at all. And because I pointed in the direction of another manager I thought for sure she wouldn't have been stupid enough to think I was calling HER a liar personally. ¬ ¬ If anything it's a hypothetical question that I would ask anyone. "If someone says one thing and does another, how can that not be potentially seen as lying?"¬ ¬ The point is, I had a complaint about one of the managers. I took it to his boss as is accepted by our open door policy and she took the complaint back to the manager I was complaining about and threw me under the bus. ¬ ¬ I'm about to go to the district managers boss(the owner) and explain this situation to him. Because now the district manager is being a bi*ch to me now and I haven't even seen the other manager I complained about since it happened. ¬ ¬ ¬ If I were the district manager in that case, and an employee of mine was saying that to me, I wouldn't fly off the handle like that I would have listened to the employee and figured out wtf is going on. Wouldn't you?

How would you take this if you were a manager?¬ ¬ We have sidework at my job like a lot of other jobs. That being said first, so you know I understand that. ¬ ¬ However,¬ ¬ The other day at work I had been there past the time our schedule says I was to leave and I got kind of fed up with one of our managers telling me to do a job for him and then I could go home. ¬ ¬ But see it's not ever just a job for this manager and then I can go home. Once the job is done, I'm asked to do another job, and then I can go home. And sometimes even when that job is done, I'm asked to do something else, and then I can go home. ¬ ¬ So I finally got frustrated after months of this and realized I'd rather he make a checklist of things to do, let me do those jobs, and then let me go home. Don't keep saying do this then you can go, oh and do this other thing and then you can go, can you do one more thing for me even though you're here an hour after the schedule says you can leave? And then you can go?¬ ¬ This has gone on and on for months. ¬ ¬ Last week however, this particular manager was actually going to just let me cut out at my scheduled time off. This particular day, our district manager was in the store and she asked me to do a specific task before I was allowed to leave.¬ ¬ I agreed and went and did it. ¬ ¬ Once the job was done, I was ready to leave, and then the manager that was going to just cut me and let me go in the first place decided(while the district manager was in the bathroom) he wanted something else done before I left and changed it again. And started doing that crap described above. Again. "Go do this other thing for me before you leave."¬ ¬ A little context:¬ ¬ This manager had arrived at 4pm after I had been in the store since an hour after opening. I was one of two day employees working the shift. This manager had about 8 other employees coming in for the busier shift at 4pm and is also the time he arrived and started barking jobs to do when I had already been working there all day. ¬ ¬ So here I am now in the back of the store doing the additional tasks and seething, and the district manager walks out of the bathroom.¬ ¬ I look at her and point to the other manager through the walls who is in the front of the store saying something like "how can any member of management say to do one thing, and then change it up once it's done, not be seen as lying?"¬ ¬ The district managers face changed and she said "Well I was in the bathroom." and immediately went and grabbed the manager I was complaining about and offhandedly announced that I feel they're all liars and that I have a problem with management. And then kicked me out of the store.¬ ¬ Haha. ¬ ¬ Haha. ¬ ¬ My question is, would you have taken what I said personally as if I had personally called you a liar? It blew me away that she could even think I was including her in that statement of fact. ¬ ¬ For one, my statement included absolutely no accusations at all. And because I pointed in the direction of another manager I thought for sure she wouldn't have been stupid enough to think I was calling HER a liar personally. ¬ ¬ If anything it's a hypothetical question that I would ask anyone. "If someone says one thing and does another, how can that not be potentially seen as lying?"¬ ¬ The point is, I had a complaint about one of the managers. I took it to his boss as is accepted by our open door policy and she took the complaint back to the manager I was complaining about and threw me under the bus. ¬ ¬ I'm about to go to the district managers boss(the owner) and explain this situation to him. Because now the district manager is being a bi*ch to me now and I haven't even seen the other manager I complained about since it happened. ¬ ¬ ¬ If I were the district manager in that case, and an employee of mine was saying that to me, I wouldn't fly off the handle like that I would have listened to the employee and figured out wtf is going on. Wouldn't you?

How would you take this if you were a manager?¬ ¬ We have sidework at my job like a lot of other jobs. That being said first, so you know I understand that. ¬ ¬ However,¬ ¬ The other day at work I had been there past the time our schedule says I was to leave and I got kind of fed up with one of our managers telling me to do a job for him and then I could go home. ¬ ¬ But see it's not ever just a job for this manager and then I can go home. Once the job is done, I'm asked to do another job, and then I can go home. And sometimes even when that job is done, I'm asked to do something else, and then I can go home. ¬ ¬ So I finally got frustrated after months of this and realized I'd rather he make a checklist of things to do, let me do those jobs, and then let me go home. Don't keep saying do this then you can go, oh and do this other thing and then you can go, can you do one more thing for me even though you're here an hour after the schedule says you can leave? And then you can go?¬ ¬ This has gone on and on for months. ¬ ¬ Last week however, this particular manager was actually going to just let me cut out at my scheduled time off. This particular day, our district manager was in the store and she asked me to do a specific task before I was allowed to leave.¬ ¬ I agreed and went and did it. ¬ ¬ Once the job was done, I was ready to leave, and then the manager that was going to just cut me and let me go in the first place decided(while the district manager was in the bathroom) he wanted something else done before I left and changed it again. And started doing that crap described above. Again. "Go do this other thing for me before you leave."¬ ¬ A little context:¬ ¬ This manager had arrived at 4pm after I had been in the store since an hour after opening. I was one of two day employees working the shift. This manager had about 8 other employees coming in for the busier shift at 4pm and is also the time he arrived and started barking jobs to do when I had already been working there all day. ¬ ¬ So here I am now in the back of the store doing the additional tasks and seething, and the district manager walks out of the bathroom.¬ ¬ I look at her and point to the other manager through the walls who is in the front of the store saying something like "how can any member of management say to do one thing, and then change it up once it's done, not be seen as lying?"¬ ¬ The district managers face changed and she said "Well I was in the bathroom." and immediately went and grabbed the manager I was complaining about and offhandedly announced that I feel they're all liars and that I have a problem with management. And then kicked me out of the store.¬ ¬ Haha. ¬ ¬ My question is, would you have taken what I said personally as if I had personally called you a liar? It blew me away that she could even think I was including her in that statement of fact. ¬ ¬ For one, my statement included absolutely no accusations at all. And because I pointed in the direction of another manager I thought for sure she wouldn't have been stupid enough to think I was calling HER a liar personally. ¬ ¬ If anything it's a hypothetical question that I would ask anyone. "If someone says one thing and does another, how can that not be potentially seen as lying?"¬ ¬ The point is, I had a complaint about one of the managers. I took it to his boss as is accepted by our open door policy and she took the complaint back to the manager I was complaining about and threw me under the bus. ¬ ¬ I'm about to go to the district managers boss(the owner) and explain this situation to him. Because now the district manager is being a bi*ch to me nowevery time I see her and I haven't even seen the other manager I complained about since it happened. ¬ ¬ ¬ If I were the district manager in that case, and an employee of mine was saying that to me, I wouldn't fly off the handle like that I would have listened to the employee and figured out wtf is going on. Wouldn't you?