‘She was telling MY COWORKERS the same lies she’s been trying to spread at her store’: New manager gets her branch to near perfect condition, while a different location’s supervisor paints her as lazy and a job taker

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  • Talking about me in my own store? Let me tell your manager.

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  • For some context, this employee (unknown age, F, we'll name K) and I, (32F) work for the same company, but at different locations;
  • she was originally from my store. She's worked here for over a year and I've been here for almost 5 months.
  • I'm an external hire for a management position in a kitchen and was an MIT for a little over 2 months while she's been a shift supervisor for
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  • a portrait of a woman standing with confidence with a restaurant behind her
  • over a year and a half, but has been wanting to move up for awhile. Toward the end of June, I was told I was finally getting
  • my own store, the location, and the date/time I'd be starting. I walked into a chaotic disaster. It was completely unorganized; dirty;
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  • and in so many food safety violations I could have did. Waste was also out of control and our cost of sales were so high,
  • I'm shocked the previous manager before me lasted as long as she did. I took immediate action and got that kitchen reorganized (including the cooler and freezer)
  • woman working on a laptop sitting in a cafe or restaurant setting with a coffee mug next to her
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  • clean, and back in regulations. The health department showed up after this and we got a 98%!
  • Everything was operating as normal and I didn't even know this other employee existed until the end of July. She seemed nice and offered to help
  • my store whenever I needed it. I did end up needing her help and she did a great job! The second time she came to help,
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  • I helped get food ready for the next rush then sat at my desk to get some of my admin work done because it was so busy that I didn't
  • have time until then. This is where things get toxic.
  • Fast forward to the past few days. I get a text from someone I'm very close to that she was at her store talking a bunch of cr p about me - AT HER STORE -
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  • claiming I stole her position/job; I'm lazy; I don't know what I'm doing; she could do better; and how I'm a terrible manager who is disorganized.
  • She was at my store today to help out the non-kitchen side and was there for maybe 3 hours before she was telling MY COWORKERS the same crop she's been
  • trying to spread at her store. One of my supervisors from the corporate office was there and ended up confronting her and K did not stop.
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  • Later on, we both ended up outside on a smoke break (I actually vape was outside first and was in a completely separate area at first).
  • As I was walking toward the door, she stopped me and started complaining about her manager (who I trained with as an MIT) and said a bunch of lies about him
  • and I recorded it. (Our state is one party consent). I sent him a text when I got home and his response was "that tracks" and that he's gotten
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  • "similar reports." I don't think she's going to have a job much longer.
  • TLDR; another employee at the same company spoke to others about me in a negative way and spoke about her boss in a bad way,
  • so I reported her and she's probably about to lose her job.
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