Villains - Higher Management.

[DazaB_WCFC]

We’ve got a new Area Manager at work. She started the weekend before the severe floods hit. With me living on the West side of the river I decided that I wouldn’t be going in on the Sunday as both bridges were shut by the Saturday night. After telephoning her to tell her I was told that I ‘had to get there’.

Have a guess what her final piece of advice was. Keep in mind that people were dying or losing homes because of these floods:








“Ring 999 if you have to.”

[ambersalamander]

[malxscfc]

dazab1wcfc said:

We’ve got a new Area Manager at work. She started the weekend before the severe floods hit. With me living on the West side of the river I decided that I wouldn’t be going in on the Sunday as both bridges were shut by the Saturday night. After telephoning her to tell her I was told that I ‘had to get there’.

Have a guess what her final piece of advice was. Keep in mind that people were dying or losing homes because of these floods:








“Ring 999 if you have to.”

If she's that bad, you might try 'working to rule'.

Brush up thoroughly on Company Policy in all areas, and thwart her when you feel like it by sticking precisely to the letter of corporate Law (e.g. with Health & Safety, working time directives etc. etc.).
If you're supposed to have triple cover in the shop, for example, and you're on your own with one other person (due to a Staff Member not turning up) you could shut up shop and quote the regulations later....

Hardly constructive - and could be risky ;D - but might be worth looking in to.
Corporate contracts between employer and employee these days often actually favour the poor schmoo on the frontline over a greedy Management hierarchy, so it might be worth studying the Company Handbook and learning it by rote!
If nothing else, it will lead to some amusing power struggles with said Area Manager on a dull afternoon!

[DazaB_WCFC]

Some amusing power struggles have been had by all.

Having left it until the nght before Margaret rings up:

"I'm not coming in until 9am tomorrow morning." (Should be in at 8.)
Area Manager "What do You mean? Why Not?"

Marg: "I don't want to." - then to me: "hopefully she'll try to discipline me - she's probably too thick to realise I need an 11 hour break between shifts!"

I've also heard that people across the area have been threatening her with the human rights act.

Here are a few amusing stories:


After being asked to work, on my own from 5pm to 10pm- in a shop with 7 telephone betting accounts as well as the counter trade and machines, my till, not unexpectedly, didn't balance - showing a deficit of £32. After two weeks of trying to contact her with regards to a three figure shortage on my wage packet she decided she wanted to speak to me all of a sudden. Unfortunately I wasn't there this morning.

In Hereford, there is a shop nextdoor to a hairdressers. There is an agreement that the rubbish will be put out for collection together which Mrs Area Manager didn't like. When the hairdressers put out their rubbish outside the bookmakers, she decided she'd take the bags back into the hairdressers and tip the contents on the floor.

There is a shop in Cheltenham for whom she has put 5 staff in from 8am 'til 5pm and nobody there after 5pm one day next week.

There are many thingy up's on her 'perfect' rotas - I will list a couple of mine.

I have been put to work 30 hours in a single day.

I have been put to work in three shops at the same time.

My favourite one regards next Sunday.

The rotas usually have the number of hours followed by 'am' or 'pm'. The exception is when the box will be coloured black with white writing - with, for example 'H' for holiday, 'M' for Maternity Leave, 'RD' for Rest Day or 'Co' for Course. Next to my name on next Sunday's rota is the letter 'S'

S stands for ABSENT SICK.
Quite what my illness will be I can but guess. Answers on a postcard.

[medibot]

Marvellous.

Makes the internal mail and sales tips sent around WH Smith with on average at least 5 mistakes in them look positively professional!

[ambersalamander]

What a legend! Hahaha!

[bh]

Sorry, but who on earth did she sleep with to get that job!!

[DazaB_WCFC]

The South West regional manager. I'm sure of it.

[bh]

That make sense mate!!