Brief Job Bullshit

I'm at work, and getting ready to call it a day.

Just wanted to briefly update. Mike is totally unhappy at work. It's a long story, but he's pissed. He's calling the guy that hired him (I forget what his *title* is -- he's like an area manager or something like that, where he oversees many stores, etc) and asking him to come into the store. He wants to talk to him, and also wants him to view the security tape from Christmas Eve. There is a "new manager journal" on the office PC (one that Mike has access to and MUST use to complete his job) and it's a long list of "complaints" and "problems" and "things he does wrong", etc. Well, most recently, she wrote down that on 12/24, as everyone else was closing, Mike was up front playing the crane (grabbing) machine. It's right by the front door - where the security camera is. Mike never touched the thing and was HELPING another employee do pie counts, etc while he was supposedly playing with this thing.

My point is this -- if she feels the need to lie about things like that, what else is she lying about? It might be in the company's best interest to investigate her and how honest her work ethics are.

Bottom line - Mike's going to tell him he wants to be moved to another store NOW. He's had it. The past 3 weeks of scheduling and this upcoming week, he's been scheduled to close EVERY day he works. He hasn't been home before 2am in a month. And, he's scheduled to close on New Year's Eve which is 10pm. Meaning, he's had to work and close EVERY holiday so far; Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and now New Years. It's getting ridiculous. I'm not sure what this general manager has against him - but apparently there's something. Her claims and accusations are mostly bogus, but Mike can suck it up and agree that not everything is false (coffee machines were left on one night - and he said yes, he did forget to check them before he left). Otherwise, she complains that he is not doing the closing properly, yet he is scheduled to close every single night that he works (which is 5 days/week). She claims he's been talking on his cell phone alot (I know this is false, the few times I've tried calling him on his cell, it's always rang and rang and gone to voice mail). She says he "hides" in the server isle during his entire shift (I know my husband, and he's a people person - which is why he hasn't taken an office job where he'd be dealing with people over the phone -- he's about face-to-face communication). She also goes on to write that the other staff "takes advantage of him" -- well, how do they take advantage? And if they are in some way, shouldn't that be stopped? How is that Mike's fault? Then she even writes that some servers call him "stupid" and that it's "like having a teenage babysitter there". What the FUCK does that have to do with how Mike does his job?? That is someone's OPINION -- and IN MY OPINION, that isn't something you put into an employee's work journal.

So, all in all -- he's pissed and he's had it. Good for him. I would have told them to go choke on a pie a long time ago.

But, the ball is moving since he's going to open his mouth for once. We'll see where this takes us.