I worked for this company for a little over two years, getting promoted to assistant manager, and then store manager last summer. I was recently out for two months on medical leave, during which time nearly my entire crew left the company because of their treatment.
My position had been filled while I was out, and someone in the company, not sure who, took it upon themselves to inform the regular customers that I had been in a mental hospital because of a nervous breakdown.
I was informed upon returning to work a few weeks ago that I would have to be running registers as a floating manager at the store where I had previously managed. I was told that I would be training two new employees while I was there. My district manager stopped by one evening to speak with one of the new employees, and to give me my schedule, which consisted only of running registers. The employee that she spoke with informed me that the district manager had told her to disregard me, as I had no authority in that store.
How am I going to train people if they have to disregard me?
I was ordered by the new store manager to stock the cooler, which I informed her was the midnight shift's job, and had always been, at which point she berated me for being lazy. This after she had come crawling to me for help the day before, because she couldn't figure out how to fix a few invoices.
During my two months on medical leave, the store had been broken into twice, the first time while I was hospitalized. When I came back, I was treated with suspicion, and was asked multiple times if I knew anything about the break-ins. The alarm code had been changed, and I wasn't supposed to know the new code, even though we had to close down the store due to not having a midnight shift staff that day.
I had filled out paperwork to give one of my good employees the raise that company policy stated he was entitled to upon his 6 month evaluation. I gave the signed paperwork to my district manager, who then signed it, and told that my employee would get his raise. I went on medical leave a couple weeks later, and was told shortly before coming back that my employee didn't get his raise. He had asked the new manager about it several times, and she never gave him an answer. He ended up quitting before my return. I was informed that the company hadn't been giving raises for close to two years to save money. I was never told about this, and I recall getting raises, as did my other former co-workers.
My assistant manager was fired upon giving his two weeks notice to my district manager when I first went on leave. She kept dogging him about nit-picky things that she never mentioned to me or him while I was there. He was then banned from the property. He was an excellent employee, and had worked for the company for three years without a single write-up.
The new manager of the store is an obvious drug user and displays erratic behavior, and regularly violates company dress policy right in front of the DM, without getting spoken to. She kept using the term "faggot" around me, and I informed her that as a "faggot, " I didn't appreciate that language, and she just laughed.
I walked out on the job after being back a week. I did not get a final paycheck, and when I called the home office about this, no one answered, and I got a voicemail later on stating that I wasn't t recieve anything because of my insurance payments. Hogwash.
I'm sorry that I wasted two years of my life for this company.
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