This is ridiculous!!
So I'm 16 I been working at Dollar Tree since February 9th I started as a cashier and then moved to being an early morning stocker at 5am about 5 weeks ago I would say.
For the record I love my job, the job itself is so easy and I enjoy it a lot. But there has been wayyyy too much going on at work itself and I don't even know where to start with this.
First, the root of all the issues is our District Manager, so he is making our incredible store manager fill in for a DM for "about a month" at another district wayyyy on the otherside of town about an hour away. So obviously, we really haven't had her around at all, but our DM has been in the store a lot which is fine.
Our DM in general does take advantage of everyone in general and he is a bit of a jerk he often threatens to fire us if we don't stay for overtime and stuff like that. We are also going through this whole reset which also is making my coworkers angry.
Our store is a model store it's one of the best stores in town I hear it every day and we have a really great team I'm proud of my store.
And I get the DM is just doing his job but we'll just never please him. But he's becoming too much for me.
My normal schedule is 5am-1pm Monday-Friday which is perfect for me considering that I can still do school after work and have time with friends. It's still basically full time and more than all my friends work, I also average 200-250 cases per day so it's not because I'm "lazy".
He first came to me last week saying "Hey Brooke I have a project for you if you don't mind staying for a little bit after your shift ends." And I was thinking in my head "wow the DM asked me specifically to do a project that's awesome" and he didn't seem like it was going to be a long time after my shift so I blurted out "Absolutely!" Then he says "You're staying until 3 cleaning the full front end." And my heart dropped 😂 I did it it's done but how he did that pissed me off.
Then, he asks me again the other day "How long can you stay for today?" I said "I can only stay my scheduled hours until 1 today" and he sighed and said "okay whatever." I said "I'm sorry I just have some stuff for school." And he walked away.
Next, our daytime freight team was 4 people.....then one of my coworkers just walked out on Monday morning.....and never came back. We had a whole corporate meeting on Monday so we had to delay the truck until Tuesday now this is where I almost hit my breaking point.
Our truck was scheduled for 5am....it got delayed until 9am.....then it said 11:20 it'll be there, we were all scheduled to get off at 1pm so my freight manager called our DM asking "hey can we possibly bump this truck until tomorrow?" And the DM's response was "No, none of you are leaving until this truck is emptied I don't care if it's until dark."
Thankfully the truck came at 10 and the three of us kicked ass and got the truck unloaded at 2:30 so it wasn't as late as we thought, it was also a 3,500 case truck. But during that morning of waiting for the truck I called my mom and bursted into tears because it's too much for me it really is.
I don't want to quit, I just want my store manager to come back but then again our DM told us last week "I can guarantee you she'll be back, but if she doesn't come back you'll have a new SM" so it's like which one is it? 😅
Anyways that's just part of it, am I in the wrong or is our DM a jerk? Because it is illegal for me to be working this much. But I'll do it I guess. I work my ass off o love the team I work with but damn.