This man wants ice cream workers to stay broke forever 😭 good thing tools like InterviewMan exist now to help people escape jobs like that.
Everyone is an artist until rent is due
Because you pay people to work here and I need money
Deeply feel this
After more than 18 years in the same tech role, it's become painfully clear now (lol) that this job isn't going anywhere. I told my manager, after I finished yet another huge office buildout basically by myself - which had me working over 70 hours a week for about 4 months - that I've reached my limit and I'm leaving.
I've asked for more staff maybe 25 times over the last 10 years. The request always gets denied because of "budget." Their alternative solution, for some reason, is to let me bring in outside vendors at about 2.5x the cost instead.
When I told my manager I was leaving immediately, he asked me not to resign and to give him 10 days so he could come back with some kind of answer.
I don't know if giving him that time is a smart decision or not. I have serious concerns about my health and my marriage, and on top of that, my salary has effectively gone backward over the last 6 years, while my retirement plan has been stuck in place.
With everything I've been asking for to be able to run this department properly for almost 19 years, I don't see them suddenly fixing all of it. My concern is that my manager will go fight for me again and come back with some small "solution," and when I say that still isn't enough, I'll have burned a bridge I would have been better off not burning.
What's the right move here?
I work for a large retail chain (no need to hide its name, it's been mentioned in other related forums), and I am primarily responsible for their express pickup service,ء Z bg which is, in simple terms, curbside or car pickup.
Recently, our senior operations manager, Mark, informed the pickup team that we needed to reduce our delivery time. We have about 150 seconds to get orders out to customers. To achieve this goal, it was clear we needed more people, and Mark was happy to give them.
At my location, these pickup orders come in waves. So, we often have a period where we stand waiting for orders, followed by a crazy rush when several cars arrive at the same time.
The problem arises when other team leads pass by us during these quiet times and get annoyed when they see us not actively working. They pull many employees from the pickup point and send them to the front cashiers, which leaves us severely understaffed when the inevitable wave of orders arrives shortly after.
Mark and I have no issue with the team taking a breather between orders, as long as delivery times remain accurate. However, a particular shift manager, Diane, cannot understand why she shouldn't take from my team when they appear not to be very busy.
This led to a very frustrating conversation (I've changed internal terminology to make it clearer):
Me: I need at least three people at the pickup point at all times.
Diane: Understood, but if your group isn't actively working, I'm moving someone to the cashiers.
Me: Even if it's quiet now, we could get swamped at any moment. I can't waste time retrieving my team from the cashiers when that happens. They need to be ready.
Diane [giving me an uncomprehending look]: I hear you. But if you're standing around doing nothing, I'm moving someone.
Me: No, I really need at least three individuals present here.
Diane: Then you need to keep working constantly. Find something to clean.
Me: All cleaning tasks are already done for today.
Diane: Then find something else. You must appear busy at all times.
Me: But why?
Diane: Because at work, you simply must be busy all the time! [She repeated this exact sentence several times.]
Me: Really, why?
Diane: That's just how it is.
Me: But I genuinely don't understand the reason. I'm not convinced that staying busy all the time is either useful or necessary.
Diane: Then I will remove employees from the pickup point.
Believe it or not, that's the gist of the situation. We continued to converse for about ten more minutes. I was pressing her to give me a real reason why we must appear busy all the time, and she kept repeating the same meaningless answer until I eventually changed the subject. Thankfully, I managed to keep my team.3WW2Q1j vhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhn