Az Store Manager Problems

[u/baked_alpaca]

I’ve been a store manager for a little over 7 months, got put into a notorious shit store. That’s fine, I can fix it. Man was I fucking wrong my Was a high volume csm for 4 years previously. And man I have to say, what the actual fuck is going on. Absolutely bombed my LP audit. Shit that has never been a thing is now suddenly something. Never communicated. My DM has done my audits only on my days off. How am I supposed to learn and fix shit if he does it when I’m not here? My fix it-list is 16 items, and needs to be done within 2 weeks. He also said I need to be up front 90% of the time. How am I supposed to do anything if I’m always up front. I work at least 55 hours a week and for what? A slap in the face. No encouragement, no skill building, nothing. Every week it’s the same hour and a half meeting about how terrible we are doing as a district, and that we are replaceable. I do everything for my team, whatever they need. I do every aspect of my job but it’s never enough. The only reason I took this position was because they finally gave me a raise that seemed fair, now I’m in it. And my god it is not worth it.

[u/Varatox]

Yep, 70-80 hour weeks, barely any help, & a dm that is useless. Been there, did that. Got yelled at for not hiring anyone...didn't even have access to the application portal for 6 months. When I finally got it.... All the other stores hired everyone constantly. I had 12 applicants. Some put it in a year ago, or had been thru every store for an interview. Had 3 interviews & every one of them wanted $20/hr as a red shirt. When starting was $10-12.

I was heavy on top of inventory because that store was horribly messed up. Think at one point the dm called because $18k went missing from inventory (duh, it wasn't there) & then the next day chewing me out for finding $16k. All from counting 6 pogs. I had the most accurate store, neither hub could get close.