bitch sesh.

I'm a bit over my job at the moment.

I think I'm good with lists. Let's list.

1. I've been there nearly 3 years, and I've seen the coming and going of about a gazillion managers. I've developed good relationships with a bunch of my co-workers, even supervisors, but never the managers. They get moved around too often, and all of a sudden, I'm required to change the way I do things in order to please the particularity of this whole new person. There's no connection and I feel like when it comes down to it, it doesn't really matter how long I've been there, I'm lost in the anonymity of getting new managers ALL THE TIME. I'm just drowning.

This point seems to be the start for all the others to come...

2. Last Sunday I left a note for my dept. manager to tell her that I really would like to change my contract, and not have to work on Sunday's anymore. I've done Sundays for 3 years straight with no complaint, but it's really gotten to the point where the extra money doesn't make up for all the beaches, birthdays, lunches, concerts and events I've missed. As much as *I* live here, at my home, as much as this is where I am based, I'm rarely here in a sense. All my extended family live at least 30 mins away, most more. My family are beach-junkies, and all the beaches are an hour away or more. The list goes on, but the point is, all this stuff happens without me, but because I haven't got my licence yet (or a car), someone always has to be up for either missing out or taking the long journey to work with me from somewhere else. Within the next two months I want to attend 3 concerts, all on Sunday evenings, so I really need to get my contract changed within the next week. Anyways, today I remind my manager, ask her if she got my note and she tells me that at the moment she is not changing contracts, because if she does it has a domino effect on everyone else's roster, but that she will look into trying to fit me in on a Thursday night and that she'll call me. Bahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I don't even know what that means. Will she even try? Will she forget?

3. My manager's ridiculous changing of rosters last minute. NO JOKE. The roster for the whole store goes up in the staff room showing this week and next week. I check it every week. Then she decides to make changes to it without calling you to tell you, or even writing it on the main roster. It's down in the dept., the one she alters. And then when you're late, like I was today, she calls you up saying "did you know you were supposed to start 10 mins ago?" WTF? I seriously believed her when she said I was supposed to start at 3 instead of 3:30pm, but after i finished my shift, I checked the roster upstairs and it had been untouched from my usual contracted hours. This is the first time she's done this to me, but not the first time she's done this. She seems to be doing this to everyone, and I have NO IDEA why. It's not productive, AT ALL. I see no point in this, and yet it continues. This shoddy management practice continues... All day we tell people "oh we're out of Winfield Blue's" - one of the highest selling cigarettes. The 25's, 20's and twinpacks, nothing out front to sell. Near the end of my shift, when it's quietened down, my supervisor and I go out the back to bring more cartons to the front. Lo' and behold, there's like a million cartons of Winfield Blue's. This practice is ridiculous: pay minimum wage, cut hours, understaff the store and overwork the ones there, in the mean time you're turning away people from buying things because you're too lazy/not organised enough to keep things stocked. This is some sort of exercise in mediocrity.

Ugh. I could go on, but I think I've had enough thinking about this for one day.