So it's been a crazy month at work. Basically all around the same time we had one girl go on vacation, another girl moving away, and another getting married and going on a week long honeymoon. The wedding was today, which I missed because of what I am about to discuss. Because of all this and the fact that I'm back in school [therefore not available to take on so many hours], we are short a significant amount of help. My manager especially hates hiring new people because you wouldn't believe what dumbfucks are out there who either go through training and either get immediately fired or quit or just simply suck at the job and are pretty much worthless. A little background info, my manager is absolutely bad at being the judge of character. It's that radar that is pretty much always wrong or just nonexistent. So this is usually why a lot of the people that end up working with us just simply end up sucking. Heh, sucking. Including myself the main 4 of us have been in the job for at least 2 years and have had our experiences in multiple stores. So hiring someone new is usually not in our preference, we would prefer just to transfer someone from another store over. We had our "Now Hiring" sign up for over a week or so and you bet your ass that everyone and their moms applied. We were only looking for part time but just about everyone replied with "Anything is better than nothing." So as we all know, the economy is shit and everyone wants/needs a job. My manager hired a girl, I'll call her L for short and for anonymousness, she worked a total of two days, one of which I did work with her. She seems very nice and not awkward at all. She was only going through training which generally takes a couple weeks depending how often you are scheduled. My manager also hates training. For two reasons, the company doesn't give us extra hours to spare for training so it strains the schedule and two, more than half the time it ends up going to waste because people just quit or never show up right in the middle of it or right after completing it. I cannot stress how often this happens, it's just been for once that we actually have had a significantly long period of time of not needing to hire someone new. The last two girls that have recently joined us were transfers. Anyways she wasn't scheduled to work until after a few more days after the initial two, during that time she called my manager and cried while thanking her for giving her the job. Background story #2: L was engaged to a New York Giants player, whom supported her and paid for her car and so on. They broke up, so she pretty much has nothing, had to sell the car, and whatever else. So she was obviously grateful for the job. She was scheduled next to work this most previous Sunday, or Valentine's if you will. I had made plans and was across town to do so. I get a couple texts in the morning from my manager asking me to come in. I knew she was supposed to work but I had no idea why she wasn't coming in, all I kept thinking was, "She better have a damn good reason." I finally made it into work and found out L called out, an hour or so before her shift, she left a voicemail saying that she's sick and is just not going to come in. Background story 2349583.4: at the wonderful world of Sally Beauty, you cannot just call out. It's not that easy. We only have, including the manager, 5 total people employed at the store, two of which are scheduled full time and cannot work overtime, one of which never answers her phone and never covers anyone's shift, and then there is me. Reliable, responsible, can't-say-no me. Background story 3599795: I have worked at Sally for nearly 3 years and I have still to this day never called out. Never. So as one might correctly assume, I was pissed. And my manager was no happier. Since my manager actually did not speak to L on the phone, I told my manager that she needs to call L back and find out if this is how it's gonna be, then might as well just save us some time and energy so we can hire someone else that will actually do the job. It's complete bullshit. Manager calls, no answer, leaves an "We have to talk" message. L never calls back. Time is precious baby. L is scheduled next to work yesterday. We haven't heard from her since Sunday. I was at work yesterday with one other, exactly 15 minutes before L's shift starts we get a call from the devil herself. She's explaining some bullshit about being on new anti-depressants and she feels jittery and has diarrhea. I'm not saying that doesn't happen to people or anything of the sort. But to call 15 minutes before your shift! She obviously planned this whether or not she was actually feeling the symptoms. Professionally, on a day that you have to work and you are having concerns about possibly not making it into work, you call as soon as you start to have those concerns. Warn the people working, give a heads up and if you feel better or worse when your shift nears, call again. Or hey, maybe that's just me! My coworker, also the assistant manager, tells L to call our manager on her cell phone since she isn't present. I told my coworker to wait a few minutes and call the manager to make sure L even called her at all. We get a call from our manager, she agrees to the bullshittery. For once my manager grew some balls [which happens less than the occurrence of a blue moon] and told L "to save the excuse, you're terminated" I was pretty excited but now I just continuously wonder at how she responded to that. I've been so irritated with the situation that I really wish I could say some words to her myself, not harsh but just words of wisdom, something to show her the reality of things. People like her remind me of how reliable and responsible I really am. People like her remind me how stupid and selfish some people really are. There are so many counts against her here, that make me want to gnaw my fingers off and punch myself in the face with my nubs.
The economy is bad. People need jobs. You needed a job. You got a job. You were insanely grateful for the job. You barely worked and called out not even a week into it. You wasted all of our time. You took away someone else's opportunity of getting that position. You also made the mistake of telling us that you were going to see your ex-fiance on Valentines [the day you called out]. You made a horrible impression. You lost your job. You lost a good reference. You set us back another pace. I have to get all those hours that I cannot afford. I want to slap the crap out of you. You're 30 years old! UGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! *gnaws fingers off and punches face profusely*
Over and out!
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