The people I work for are stupid

[phil_]

You know what you all should do? You should work for a kid fresh out of high school. He won't screw you over on hours or make you do dangerous bullshit because he hasn't figured out that he can yet. Plus, he treats his employees like they're his friends because he's still set in that mode of social interaction. It's great.

[FloralVikings]

I work for Domino's Pizza, and I have to say, it's a fucking great job, great work environment, great money, good hours, and the people are pretty easy to get along with as long as you stay within the store and don't look to any corporate honchos.

And when I say they're easy to get along with, I'm mean about CSRs (Customer Service Representatives(glorified cashier/pizza makers)) who make half as much money as the drivers and do more work actually help us out as much as possible, b/c they know that if they become drivers we'll help them out learning the ropes. Other drivers, with whom I compete for runs and therefore money are helpful and nice, and I've never even heard of any of the drivers in my store getting in an argument.

Even managers are a pleasure to work with, and they work longer hours and still make less money that us. They're cool because they used to be drivers, and the only reason they're not is because they're on their way to a better paying job (Assistant managers make about $9 an hour, which is a little over half what a driver makes on a decent night, but store managers make $10 plus insane bonuses if the store does any business whatsoever.)

Except for one. This woman is officially the laziest, most incompetent manager in the history of ever. Ever. Or at least that I've worked for.

She was never a driver, so she doesn't understand routing us so that we can take runs in order and so that we can take multiple runs going in the same direction. She was never a CSR, so she can barely handle a phone call or make even the simplest pizza. I kid you not, in the time it takes me to take 3-5 pizzas from a shapeless lump of dough to a beautiful pie, she's putting the pepperonis on a single pizza. And then she bitches at me for going too slow. She routes drivers before they get back into the store so that the service times look good during her shift, not caring that it confuses the hell out of us and if one of us takes the wrong run (and she never bothers to remember which run is assigned to whom) we lose money. Usually in the neighborhood of $50.

One morning I was scheduled to open with her. A driver's job when opening is to wash dishes, take orders, make pizzas, and fold boxes, a manager's job is to prep the food needed for the day and help with any orders that come up. I did all of this, her jobs and mine, much of which I had no idea how to do because I wasn't trained to do it because the company doesn't want drivers doing it, while she spent 2 hours on the company phone on a personal call. BLARGH

[walkertexasdruid]

I quess the grocery store that I work for is not so bad. I get pretty decent pay, I work forty hours a week, and my shifts are somewhat flexible because my department manager is very reasonable. My assistant manger, however, is a piece of work. His main goal seems to be to skate along with doing as little work as he possibly get a way with. I always end up working twice as hard when he is in charge, than when the department head is. I just survived the department manager being on vacation for a week, with the assistant in charge, and I am exhausted. It is just not his laziness either, he has the personality of cardboard. It almost feel as if he drains the life out of you when working with him. I swear I was on the borderline of extreme dpression this last week. At least I have the next two days off, and the DM will be back. The assistant goes on vacation in a couple of weeks, and I think everyone in our department will celebrate this, hopefully he will not come back.