This time its about a wicked witch...not of the West, but of late 2018 going through early-2019, a time I ended up dodging most of thanks to going to a university and getting myself into more trouble than I was honestly ready for, with the debt I just paid off being the consequences of that!
Anyways, while I was gone, the store manager of my particular store for most of my time there until then had left, and new management from another Walmart in town came in to help the situation along. The changes they brought to how my department operated were...brutal, to say the least.
Everyone other than maybe the lady stocking the paper aisle and the minors had to unload the truck. Most of which made up the core part of the team for a while ever since 2018 until around the time I finally left for Target last year. Considering that some of us enjoyed just having to be on the floor and enjoyed that the only interaction with people for the most part were customers who, at their worst, would stick around the store all day just because and go full asshole if they asked for an item that we didn't have in stock, this was a shakeup not many liked at all, especially this guy right here who'd have some of the heaviest loads to stock.
Now, I wasn't there when this lady, which I'll call Violet, arrived initially. I don't know if she was always a witch, but based on how I interacted with her when I came in and to where she left our department, I can safely assume that she just wasn't a good manager like the main department manager we worked with on most days.
Violet would be very loud, verbally abusive, and somewhat on the edge emotionally at times. Like, I heard about a case where she got so mad at two female employees in our department that one went home early for the night, and the other just quit altogether. The former was a hard worker, and the other wasn't there long enough for me to really make heads or tails about. I can say from my experience that working with her was like walking on eggshells. Like, I'd try to stay busy, but I'd get somewhat tense mentally if I knew she was around. Think something like, "please leave me alone to do my job" kinds of tense, because I focus on my work, whereas a lot of the aforementioned core part of the team? They only managed to stay around for as long as they did because no one else came onto the team that lasted long enough to make them replaceable. But that's a whole other topic for another Nightmares.
No one liked working with Violet. She was clearly not good enough for managing the stocking and unloading department, because she eventually ended up where all failed or expendable Walmart managers end up: Pickup today! Yeah, if you see someone with the PUT cart the next time you're at a Walmart, chances are they used to be a manager. And it was here where it's like she either chilled out, or whatever was triggering...whatever her problem was didn't exist in this job position.
And Violet was only the first out of the three department managers before I left of a string of incompetent leads that made people wish the main department manager was there when he wasn't there...and that's assuming that people weren't using their Protected PTO...
...which is a circus I might cover next time now that I've mentioned it!
Anyways, while I was gone, the store manager of my particular store for most of my time there until then had left, and new management from another Walmart in town came in to help the situation along. The changes they brought to how my department operated were...brutal, to say the least.
Everyone other than maybe the lady stocking the paper aisle and the minors had to unload the truck. Most of which made up the core part of the team for a while ever since 2018 until around the time I finally left for Target last year. Considering that some of us enjoyed just having to be on the floor and enjoyed that the only interaction with people for the most part were customers who, at their worst, would stick around the store all day just because and go full asshole if they asked for an item that we didn't have in stock, this was a shakeup not many liked at all, especially this guy right here who'd have some of the heaviest loads to stock.
Now, I wasn't there when this lady, which I'll call Violet, arrived initially. I don't know if she was always a witch, but based on how I interacted with her when I came in and to where she left our department, I can safely assume that she just wasn't a good manager like the main department manager we worked with on most days.
Violet would be very loud, verbally abusive, and somewhat on the edge emotionally at times. Like, I heard about a case where she got so mad at two female employees in our department that one went home early for the night, and the other just quit altogether. The former was a hard worker, and the other wasn't there long enough for me to really make heads or tails about. I can say from my experience that working with her was like walking on eggshells. Like, I'd try to stay busy, but I'd get somewhat tense mentally if I knew she was around. Think something like, "please leave me alone to do my job" kinds of tense, because I focus on my work, whereas a lot of the aforementioned core part of the team? They only managed to stay around for as long as they did because no one else came onto the team that lasted long enough to make them replaceable. But that's a whole other topic for another Nightmares.
No one liked working with Violet. She was clearly not good enough for managing the stocking and unloading department, because she eventually ended up where all failed or expendable Walmart managers end up: Pickup today! Yeah, if you see someone with the PUT cart the next time you're at a Walmart, chances are they used to be a manager. And it was here where it's like she either chilled out, or whatever was triggering...whatever her problem was didn't exist in this job position.
And Violet was only the first out of the three department managers before I left of a string of incompetent leads that made people wish the main department manager was there when he wasn't there...and that's assuming that people weren't using their Protected PTO...
...which is a circus I might cover next time now that I've mentioned it!
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