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Oct. 21st, 2025 09:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blackicebobaCame in to work yesterday to find everyone freaking out because we were having "evaluations".
So for about half an hour, I was thinking that like management was going to like observe us and write us up if we did anything wrong.
Finally one of my coworkers came over and was like "I'm taking over for you so you can talk to (team lead)." And I said "oh hell, what did i do?"
She laughed and said "You didn't do anything. She's just going over your performance and what we're doing for the holidays, you'll be out in five minutes."
Oh. Okay. So at the start of the holidays, they pull everyone in to the office individually to go over what we need to work on and sort of what we as a store need to work on. It's just so everyone is on the same page kind of deal.
Team Lead was like "you're fine. I don't have anything to really tell you. Your time is good, you're friendly, you've never had a complaint." Then she went over like what to do if a customer gets confrontational which was basically "Walk away and call either one of us or one of the girls at the desk to come handle it." Because a couple coworkers keep getting into it with customers. Apparently our "friendliness" rating with customers has gone down and like. . .as she put it, it's probably just The Horrors we're living in making everyone on edge. I have noticed customers being more like angry or beligerent than usual. Like they walk up expecting that we're going to do something to screw them over and like. . .fam, I promise most of us don't care enough.
But ALSO there are multiple coworkers now who are new and who tend to like. . .pick fights or like just. . .AREN'T friendly or get confrontational. Like not even new people, one coworker (who I adore! I miss working with her when I was on mornings) tends to get mad and just like. . .shitty with customers really easily. And I get that like they get on her a lot about not doing things the way they want but like. . .NONE of us do that, we just do it enough to keep them off our backs.
Manager even said "you're always mid to evening shift and I can TELL when you've been here because everything is clean and the rates for hand scans are high". So she asked like "what are your goals here at (store)? Do you want to move up? or train in other departments?"
And I said, "No, I want a job where I come in, do my job and go home to live my life."
She said, "That's perfectly fine. Some people don't want to move up or learn more, but if someone does, i don't want them to feel like they're being overlooked."
Cool.
But that explains why so many of coworkers were freaking out. I'm assuming most of them got their asses kicked for not doing their jobs. Cause when she said "A lot of your coworkers don't do things right" I laughed because like. . .there are literally people I DREAD working with and I hate that. And it didn't used to be like that.
She also said that like. . .If I have to call in to make sure I give the manager I talk to a reason because I guess they take that into consideration about whether or not you get pointed and she said "if it's personal and you don't feel comfortable telling (whoever's running the store that day), then text or call me or (Area Manager) so we can work with you. We don't want you guys getting pointed for things that you don't need to be pointed for." Then she said, "I know you walk to work. If the weather is bad, if it's storming too hard or the winter is bad, do NOT try to come in here. Call me, let me know that you're not coming in and I'll handle it, I don't want you trying to get in here when it's unsafe."
Which made me feel a little relieved cause there have been a few times where I called out because the weather WAS so bad.
Anyway. Then she sent me out to take over for another coworker and the day was pretty uneventful.
Which is good cause I'd rather be putting my energy towards All Ships than worrying about work. I posted the two fics I finished and am going to TRY to finish the Edenshipping one this week. I feel weird not having anything for Yuki/Kakeru this year and like. . .IDK if I can motivate enough SPITE to do something for Yoshiki/'Hikaru' in the next five days but we'll SEE.
I TRIED to fix the dishwasher, which still isn't draining but could NOT figure out how to get into the drain even with instructions from the manufacturer, so I'm going to clean the dishes the next few days and then call maintenance to come deal with it.
With it getting to be the fall (it's barely getting above 60 degrees rn), I really wanna re-read Guardian. But like. . .I should probably do the canon for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
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I need to grab a Google Play giftcard after work so I can add some money to my Kodansha account to keep reading WBK. It's officially summer vacation there and I am EXCITED to see what bullshit happens next. Supposedly, the newer chapters are FINALLY getting into Sakura's backstory, so hype for that.
So for about half an hour, I was thinking that like management was going to like observe us and write us up if we did anything wrong.
Finally one of my coworkers came over and was like "I'm taking over for you so you can talk to (team lead)." And I said "oh hell, what did i do?"
She laughed and said "You didn't do anything. She's just going over your performance and what we're doing for the holidays, you'll be out in five minutes."
Oh. Okay. So at the start of the holidays, they pull everyone in to the office individually to go over what we need to work on and sort of what we as a store need to work on. It's just so everyone is on the same page kind of deal.
Team Lead was like "you're fine. I don't have anything to really tell you. Your time is good, you're friendly, you've never had a complaint." Then she went over like what to do if a customer gets confrontational which was basically "Walk away and call either one of us or one of the girls at the desk to come handle it." Because a couple coworkers keep getting into it with customers. Apparently our "friendliness" rating with customers has gone down and like. . .as she put it, it's probably just The Horrors we're living in making everyone on edge. I have noticed customers being more like angry or beligerent than usual. Like they walk up expecting that we're going to do something to screw them over and like. . .fam, I promise most of us don't care enough.
But ALSO there are multiple coworkers now who are new and who tend to like. . .pick fights or like just. . .AREN'T friendly or get confrontational. Like not even new people, one coworker (who I adore! I miss working with her when I was on mornings) tends to get mad and just like. . .shitty with customers really easily. And I get that like they get on her a lot about not doing things the way they want but like. . .NONE of us do that, we just do it enough to keep them off our backs.
Manager even said "you're always mid to evening shift and I can TELL when you've been here because everything is clean and the rates for hand scans are high". So she asked like "what are your goals here at (store)? Do you want to move up? or train in other departments?"
And I said, "No, I want a job where I come in, do my job and go home to live my life."
She said, "That's perfectly fine. Some people don't want to move up or learn more, but if someone does, i don't want them to feel like they're being overlooked."
Cool.
But that explains why so many of coworkers were freaking out. I'm assuming most of them got their asses kicked for not doing their jobs. Cause when she said "A lot of your coworkers don't do things right" I laughed because like. . .there are literally people I DREAD working with and I hate that. And it didn't used to be like that.
She also said that like. . .If I have to call in to make sure I give the manager I talk to a reason because I guess they take that into consideration about whether or not you get pointed and she said "if it's personal and you don't feel comfortable telling (whoever's running the store that day), then text or call me or (Area Manager) so we can work with you. We don't want you guys getting pointed for things that you don't need to be pointed for." Then she said, "I know you walk to work. If the weather is bad, if it's storming too hard or the winter is bad, do NOT try to come in here. Call me, let me know that you're not coming in and I'll handle it, I don't want you trying to get in here when it's unsafe."
Which made me feel a little relieved cause there have been a few times where I called out because the weather WAS so bad.
Anyway. Then she sent me out to take over for another coworker and the day was pretty uneventful.
Which is good cause I'd rather be putting my energy towards All Ships than worrying about work. I posted the two fics I finished and am going to TRY to finish the Edenshipping one this week. I feel weird not having anything for Yuki/Kakeru this year and like. . .IDK if I can motivate enough SPITE to do something for Yoshiki/'Hikaru' in the next five days but we'll SEE.
I TRIED to fix the dishwasher, which still isn't draining but could NOT figure out how to get into the drain even with instructions from the manufacturer, so I'm going to clean the dishes the next few days and then call maintenance to come deal with it.
With it getting to be the fall (it's barely getting above 60 degrees rn), I really wanna re-read Guardian. But like. . .I should probably do the canon for
smallfandombang. I need to grab a Google Play giftcard after work so I can add some money to my Kodansha account to keep reading WBK. It's officially summer vacation there and I am EXCITED to see what bullshit happens next. Supposedly, the newer chapters are FINALLY getting into Sakura's backstory, so hype for that.
