Employee Has To Deal With Unreasonably Dense Supervisor

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    Font - r/IDOWORKHERELADY + Join u/onyxaj · 8d Dense Supervisor The backstory - The year is 2003, and the mighty K- Mart still stands. Friend got me the job of being a highly-touted Utlity Associate AKA cart pusher for the summer. Easy job, working with other kids my age goofing off while getting carts. However, the manager decided our supervisor would be from Customer Service. As soon as this was some announced, she would order us around for no reason, making us LESS efficient. Luckily, she had
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    Font - The event - A huge storm ripped thrkugh the area. Power outages, trees down, the whole shebang. I was off that day but it was payday. Storm damage be I'm getting my check. The wat they were operating (without power) was customers would walk to the entrance, tell them what utens they need, and an associate would run through the dark store getting the items like some demented, dangerous treasure hunt. I get there and walk through the doors. Manager was at the front and at least SHE knew who
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    Font - "Excuse me! Sir!" • I keep walking. She not talking to me surely. "Sir! Excuse me! Sir, stop!" • I turn to face her. Thinking she realize her mistake. "You vacant be in here. You'll have to wait outside to get your items."
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    Font - I stare at her in disbelief for a minute. No recognition on her face. "No, I'm getting..." "You have to wait outside. The inside of the store is closed to customers!" "I WORK HERE! YOU'RE MY SUPERVISOR! ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Il'm getting my paycheck. Leave me alone!" I get my check, leaving the store as she gives me a death glare. Thankfully I didn't stay long after the summer. Job started to suck as the cool people left and I had to work with Troy, the 38 year old K-Mart lifer. 4 581 11 1,
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    Font - MuckRaker83• 7d Reminds me of the year I spent working at sears in shipping, receiving and assembly as a third job while I was in school. This was after Kmart took over sears. Management was hopelessly and hilariously out of touch, and the floor supervisors no less so. They'd frequently assign me or another single employee an obvious 2 person job, then get upset if it didn't get done. Once I was tasked with setting up a display of pool tables, which each weighed 100-280 pounds. I asked wh
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    Font - So I went back to unloading the truck, left the pool tables where they were. An hour later, one of the store managers came by and asked where the pool table display was. I gestured to the pile of very large boxes. He asked what team was assigned to complete it. I told him it was just me. He went over and tried to lift the corner of the topmost box, couldn't, then laughed and walked away. The pool tables may still be there to this day, I don't know. G Reply 4 14 3 + ...

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