Have You Ever Had a Manager Who's Had It In For You?

[DarkSentinel]

So, I'm dealing with issues at work with my store manager, have been for a while, and can only conclude that he has it in for me for whatever reason. I'm wondering if anyone here has had similar issues before and how did you ultimately resolve those issues, positive or negative. Thanks.

 

[Erzengel]

Just sleep with them and end the tension.

 

[the last son]

I would ask them what there deal is. Or you could just go to HR.

 

[Primal Slayer]

Yes but luckily they were at the bottom of the totem poll when it came to managers. We would get into all the time and end yelling at each other.

 

[Hobgoblin]

I've had department managers not like me, but since it was a union job there wasnt much they could do about it. I just did as well as I could and didnt quit. I think that made them crazy.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

When I worked for Pop-A-Lock this manager had it out for me and tried to screw me out of a promotion. I told him to f*** off and quit. Made quite the scene when I did so. In retrospect, I could have handled it better and considering the economy was about to collapse it would have been better had I just stuck it out

 

[PyroChamber]

I wouldn't say my manager has it in for me, but she does get on me sometimes because I don't talk to customers or smile.

 

[Matt Mortem]

I was an assistant manager at a Family Dollar a few years ago and the store manager hired on a cashier that hated my guts. She buddied up to the store manager and little by little worked her way into a position that some-****ing-how she ended up the store manager when the other manager got transferred out. This new store manager (who I trained in how the store operates) not only fired me, but called the police and had assault charges filed against me because she felt threatened by how angry I was. In the state of AZ you can have assault charges filed if someone feels threatened. The charges were of course dropped, but that woman was the most evil creature I have ever met.

 

[THUNDERSTRIKE]

I was an assistant manager at a Family Dollar a few years ago and the store manager hired on a cashier that hated my guts. She buddied up to the store manager and little by little worked her way into a position that some-****ing-how she ended up the store manager when the other manager got transferred out. This new store manager (who I trained in how the store operates) not only fired me, but called the police and had assault charges filed against me because she felt threatened by how angry I was. In the state of AZ you can have assault charges filed if someone feels threatened. The charges were of course dropped, but that woman was the most evil creature I have ever met.

sounds like a real rhymes-with-runt...

 

[James]

Matt wins.

I had one manager, my first job out of school, he just had in it for everybody. Super grumpy, chop your head off any chance he got. He owned the business actually, a couple of gift stores, which went bankrupt about six months after I walked out.

 

[DarkSentinel]

Well lo and behold, after I call my district supervisors to request a transfer I get a call from my manager informing me that I'm "suspended" till Tuesday (Nevermind that I have Monday and Tuesday off this week ) and that Tuesday morning I'm to have a meeting with him and one of the district supervisors (who I had called about a transfer) to "discuss my future with the company".

So come Tuesday I'm just gonna tell the district supervisor exactly what's up and if he still refuses to transfer me I'm quitting on the spot. And I have four red flags to put forward:

1. When he first got there he stuck me on graveyard for three months straight, despite the fact that I had a proven track record in the daytime.

2. One day he calls me in on my day off after I had walked home from work the previous night (I didn't have my car then and at that time didn't even have my bicycle). Needless to say when I got there my feet were in agony, and this guy has the gall to LAUGH at me IN MY FACE.

3. There was an instance where he scheduled me for a graveyard shift (10p-6a), and the VERY next day 10a-6p. I still didn't have my car at the time, and couldn't even go home. He had all week to see this discrepancy and didn't do anything, then acted like he didn't know when I showed up.

4. Since this guy's taken over the store from the previous manager, everyone who was there since I got hired, barring two employees, have quit or transferred. My assistant manager transferred to another store. He hired a former Marine, a VETERAN, and harassed him so bad the guy quit in two weeks and the guy's own father came in to cuss him out.

The man does not know how to schedule, treats the employees in his charge like crap, and blows the most minute things out of the water. If that's not enough to get me a transfer then I'm just walking out of the company. That's just bad management and above all bad business.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

Plenty of times, usually from managers that suck at managing or are just plain bad, like in your case.

 

[Schlosser85]

My last manager at my old job was the most miserable, unbearable person I've ever met. Incapable of speaking with out sounding pissed off, had something to say about every single tiny little thing anyone ever did, nothing ever good or approving to say about anyone, and watched the cameras in her office like a hawk, just trying to catch anyone doing anything.

She started firing the old crew for any petty infraction she could get them on and replacing them with her personal friends, and talking **** about us in front of customers.

Also, if a cashier's significant other dropped by to visit for two seconds, they got an earful, but the manager's boyfriend would just hang out in her office with her for hours.

The old crew were either fired, quit, or transferred, and some of our regular customers stopped coming because they found her so unfriendly.

 

[DarkSentinel]

Well either way, my problems with my manager end this Tuesday. And for that at least I can be excited.