…you gave up all your dreams, along the way.

Wow, it’s been a hectic and bizarre last week or two. As I’m sure most of you will know I’m moving jobs. Basically EvilBoss and me have been “not getting along.” I’d kind of resigned myself to not being able to get on with her after just having some insane clashes previously and had started to just accept that was the case and merely start responding to most assaults with a *shrug* or a “I don’t know” just because it was much easier than arguing.

I think I’ve come to the conclusion that the majority of the conclusions that Crishna came up with are correct. I think she’s very insecure and a control freak. A point in case is that she took the news team off of news last week, got her supervisor to do it and did some herself. The fact that she had insane amounts of other jobs on that week and wasn’t able to actually dedicate enough time to it so ended up fucking it up and missing getting credits checked off and rang through in time is by the by. I think she’s also quite paranoid as she keeps thinking that we are intentionally sabotaging things, hiding details from her and “ganging” up on her. Which is just insane. Some of the things I’m supposed to of sabotaged would benefit me more than they would her. Apparently, I sabotaged recruitment. Nothing to do with the fact she didn’t give me a vacancy list till only two weeks ago? But why the hell would I sabotage recruitment? Why would I intentionally want us to be short staffed? It’s not her that goes on the till, or does the rota and has to struggle with the fact there’s no one to cover the shifts, it’s me. So, surely, my life would be a lot easier if the recruitment was spot on, no? The same with the hiding stuff. Why would I bother? It’s petty and I don’t have time to be that petty!

But anyways, that’s all by the by because I’ll be free from her in one more working day. It should of been the end of this week as I wanted to see through the completion of the new unit, help out with us being short staffed this week and generally tie up any loose ends. However, we had a huge barney this morning that went a little like this.

Brett comes in at 4.45am, 15 minutes late but still with enough time to open all units on time, notices that EvilBoss is still in
Me : “Morning, how come you’re still here?”
EB : “Because the shops were a shit hole. I couldn’t go, they were awful and needed sorting out. Why?”
Me : “Well, there was no manager on last night and the supervisor had to spend 3 hours covering breaks, at which point there was only 1 person in each unit, as there was no one to help out and when I was in in the morning I had literally 2 other staff and me to open all four units, so I’m not hugely surprised it was a mess as we traded nearly all weekend without a fill.”
EB : “Well, that’s not good enough”
Me : “…”
EB : “You were the manager on!”
Me : “Yes and we worked our arses off to get stuff done but, tbh, we just didn’t have the time or the resources”
EB : “You were the manager”
Me : “I realise this, but I am only human and did end up working over 10 hours on each day, 4 over what I should of done”
EB : “I did 75 hours last week!”
Me : “And that is great for you, EvilBoss, and totally *your* choice. I am not paid for anything above 8 hours. I did 10, which is above that so it’s not like I just went ‘Ah, fuck it!’ and went home.”

This went on for some time where she was basically saying I was a law to myself and just came in and out when I pleased and basically insinuating that before she got here that we just basically came in and did whatever suited us and then buggered off. This *really* pissed me off as firstly she doesn’t know what we did when she wasn’t here and, secondly, we worked our fricking arses off for no extra money, hardly any recognition and a shed load of sleepless nights trying to get everything up and running. So, at this point it was 5am the staff were fleeting around whilst she was laying into me and I’d still not took my bag off yet. So, to say I was a little enraged was an understatement!

Me : “WHAT?! That’s Bullshit, EvilBoss, you weren’t here before you came here, obviously, so how the hell do you know what I was or wasn’t doing? Eh? How dare you say that we didn’t work our asses off? You’ve got absolutely no clue on what you’re talking about and you’re very close to having me just fuck off back home today because seriously I don’t need to deal with this first thing in the morning when I’ve worked my arse off to get the shops actually open for you everyday of the weekend so, please, don’t tell me that I’m a law unto myself who doesn’t do above and beyond the call of duty. If you want to work 75 hours a week, whoop-de-do, that’s fantastic for you but I’m no longer doing them hours for you because you just don’t appreciate it.”
EB : “…”
Me : “Now, what do you want me to do this morning, because we’ve wasted 20 minutes doing this when we could of been recovering the units!”

So, anyways, later in the day she rings up NewBoss and AreaBoss and says that she can no longer work with me and can he take me early, which he says yes to and the rest as they say is all history. So, tomorrow is my last day at Liverpool. At the end of the day EvilBoss came up to me and says that she’s doing this because she doesn’t want us to part on evil terms. I say to her that we’re not parting on bad terms, it’s all water off a ducks back to me. I’d be pissed off if the stores looked the way they did but she needs to learn not to jump down people’s throats before asking what went wrong. I doubt she’ll change, but I’m really not fussed because it’s not my problem anymore. Went to the managers meeting at Manchester and it all seemed to go well and, to be honest, things are looking pretty exciting over the next three months there with the landside/airside boundary moving and refits/relays/books unit coming up. So I’m a happy bunny!

Anyways, my little blue smurfs. Apologies about the post being all about work, but I needed to get it off the chest I’ll return to regular crap again soon.

not angry, just pissed.
B