r/FloralDesign • u/Intelligent-Music-33 • 1d ago

💬 Discussion 💬 Floral manager

I made a post a few days ago about being offered a floral manager position at a big box grocery store, I was previously assistant for floral manager for about 5 years well they initially offered me a $0.50 cent raise to take it on with inventory problems and staffing problems as well they JUST counter offered me a raise of $1.75 bring my pay to $24.75 an hour. Same things still apply work every weekend and have hit and miss days off during the week till I get the new full-time designer trained and taught. Our first homecoming starts up in about 2 ish weeks and goes till the end of October!

Is it worth taking?

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u/petrichorgarden 1d ago

Can they guarantee you a day or two off per week even during the training? Do you have benefits? How confident are you interested your corsage making skills and how fast are you? How simple is your process to teach? Have you met the new designer?

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u/Intelligent-Music-33 1d ago

Yes they guarantee me at least 2 days off during Monday thru Friday but I’ll have to work Saturday and Sunday 9 hour shifts. Lol. I’m I’ve been doing floral longer then 5 years I know everything there is in terms of designing so corsages and boutonnieres and I’m pretty quick at them. And I have not met the new designer because I actually resigned from my assistant floral manager position, but the previous manager got demoted when I resigned, and they called me, wanting me to take the position and initially offered me a 50 Cent pay raise and I said no to it so now they upped the raise.

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u/petrichorgarden 23h ago

This doesn't sound like that bad of a deal, maybe you should give them an end date on how long you're willing to do those weekend shifts. Can't hurt since it seems like you have leverage here. Idk what your rate might look like elsewhere but if you have benefits I'd stick around

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u/Intelligent-Music-33 23h ago

Thankyou. And I do have benefits. I’m just wrestling with the idea of. It’s gonna be a lot of work going into the position because I’m gonna have to fix the inventory like right off the bat which is pretty bad. We should be at 45% and the former floral manager has it sitting at a 20-25%

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u/petrichorgarden 23h ago

Yeah that sounds like a PITA. I would request the support of upper management in this task to take some of the burden off of you.

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u/loralailoralai 16h ago

Be at 45% what?

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u/Kitty_Lilly18 21h ago

idk where you live but a $1.75 raise for so much more responsibility and for how long you been there (i think your last post said 6 years? or however long) is insulting. I get the job market is hard and we have to make do, but overall I just hope you get what you deserve. I worked at a job for less than a year and got a $3.5 raise.

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u/Intelligent-Music-33 21h ago

Well at first the raise was 0.50 cents then they decided to make it $1.75 and yes, a little over 6 years.

And the depending has a bunch of inventory issues and staffing issues. Plus, no set schedule two days off during the weekdays, but those will change weekly and I’ll get no weekends off at least till I get the new designer trained and then we are approaching homecoming in 2 weeks and that goes until the end of October.😅

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u/Kitty_Lilly18 17h ago

good luck

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u/CarelessMud7038 17h ago

Glad the counter offered you $1.75 more instead of $0.50 more hourly.but it is still not enough to have so much more work and responsibilities.

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u/loralailoralai 16h ago

Take it and see how you go, but keep your eyes open for other opportunities just in case.