Have you ever had the misfortune to be associated with someone who simply refuses to get along with you no matter how hard you try to make things work? No matter what you do to try and meet the person halfway they manage to both shoot you down and make you look bad at the same time.
This is the case with my latest boss. I managed to get myself into trouble about three months or so ago and in order to be reinstated to my previous status I was to make certain concessions, one of the specifics was the cooperation with certain co-workers. What I had not counted on was that I would have to sell my soul and throw my first amendment right to speak my mind out the window.
Amazing as it might sound I have achieved cooperation with these said co-workers and was demonstrating such when I was blind-sided by the boss, a skinny chimney-stack with little or no redeeming qualities or people skills. Lately he has been feeling as though no one respects him, in truth few of us do as he has done precious little for us to respect, and decided to take his aggression out on yours truly. This managerial twerp demanded that I stop what I was doing, which was helping one of my co-workers who always seems to get dumped on when it comes to sales setups, in order to do price changes because he was to God Damn lazy to try and do them himself. In fact the twerp is rarely seen outside his sometimes smoke-filled cave. When he does choose to grace us with his presence, he only manages to interfere with the smooth operation of cleaning, straightening, and restocking. The employees’ goals are to insure clean aisles, stocked shelves, and combat clutter. Twerp Boss is the exact opposite. He seems to revel in the fact that disabled patrons cannot get down certain aisles, that often an employee cannot find back stock in order to fill shelves and that the premises are in a general disarray. He is unapproachable, smells like rotting animal and vegetable matter, his breath at times could make a skunk cry uncle, and he makes it seem like asking him the smallest question is an enormous inconvenience. Ask for a day off, few and far between mind you, and though you get the said day off, you are punished for the next two weeks to a month as a result.