I am beyond frustrated and about to lose it.
You guys all know how excited I was to get my job at Petco. I've been working there what..about two months now? I'm in the grooming salon, I'm supposed to be a grooming apprentice.
First of all, I'll start with my grievances in the actual salon itself. It took them forever to train me how to do anything with the phones and such. I had to teach myself, which was embarrassing when people called and I didn't know how to do stuff. But I did eventually figure it out after no one would help me. The salon manager was supposed to teach me and never did. The other girls tried but didn't have time because they were busy with grooms, which is understandable. Not their job anyway. Mindy, the salon manager, had said that I would get at minimum 20 hours a week and she'd start my grooming training pretty much right away. I get like 10 hours..maybe 15 if I'm LUCKY. She hasn't trained me at all yet. I can't afford my car. I got turned into collections for Delilah's vet bill because I missed payments because of this job screwing me over. I had to call them today and give them what little money I had to get out of collections. I don't know if she even plans on training me to groom. I'm so eager to learn. I don't get why they don't start. I help them with everything..I do HER bath dogs and let her have the commission. Supposedly she's going to start training me in January. We'll see.
Now, I love all the girls in the salon. We all get along great. It's this stupid b*tch of a store manager that I can't stand..Janet.
She has decided she absolutely hates me and has made it her goal to make me miserable. I hate complaining, I seriously do. But this has just gotten..bad. I'm currently fighting kidney stones and a kidney infection with no medication. It was worse a couple weeks ago when this started going down. She basically came in to the salon, while I was doing stuff, and told me I HAD to come out on the floor and talk to customers. Um. I'm not trained to do that. I don't know what you want me to do. So I went out..and I did it for a bit, then came back to the salon. She came in later for a second time and made me do it again. At this point I'm in agonizing pain from walking around with this kidney pain. I go back in after 20 minutes. She then comes back a THIRD TIME and tells me I need to get out there. At this point everyone in the salon is just mutually saying "wtf" because it is NOT OUR JOB to go out there. I told her, "Janet..I'm really not in the best of moods today" which I know I shouldn't have said. She then proceeds to tell me if I want to be unruly I can just go home. I try telling her that walking around like this seriously hurts because of my kidneys but she wouldn't listen to me..she just acted like she didn't hear me even though I tried repeating it.
That day I was going to the bathroom a lot. Hello, kidney infection. She started FOLLOWING ME TO THE BATHROOM. What. the. heck. What else would I be doing in there, Janet?? Seriously?? Then she started sending in other girls after me after she'd been following me for awhile!! Ugh. That day was horrible.
There's been more instances since then. She's made me leave early for no reason. She's been asking other people in the grooming salon questions about me. She told them I can't bring Delilah to work to bathe anymore because I do it too much. I've brought her TWICE. Once I did it after my shift then I did it a second time on my day off. We're supposed to be able to bring them in whenever as long as we aren't on the clock. Which I wasn't. Delilah needs a dang bath and I can't bring her to work now. Everyone else is allowed to. This other girl that's my age, Carrie, she brings one of her dogs every DAY to work. No one says anything to her! But I do it and oh dear lord it's horrible. It is my right to groom my dog there. I don't even use their equipment. I bring my own nail clippers and dremel and everything!!
She saw me walking a bulldog outside yesterday and assumed it was Delilah. It wasn't. It was Deuce, a dog I was grooming. He started pooping all over while I was grooming him. Nonstop poop. I couldn't take it anymore and took him outside to go to the bathroom so it would stop. Apparently we aren't supposed to take the dogs out. NO ONE TOLD ME THIS. uggggh. So I'm in trouble for that now. And Janet is convinced I was outside playing with Delilah while I was on the clock. That dog looks NOTHING like Delilah. It's like twice the size!!!
I got yelled at yesterday for not smiling enough. Really? I smile all the time at customers and in the salon. I get tipped a lot, people like me. I'm nice to them. I like my job, I like the dogs. But am I going to smile at her? no.
She's saying she's going to write me up and blah blah blah. I haven't done anything wrong. I've never missed a day. Never been late. I'm always early. I stayed late to do some extra dogs that the owner's really wanted in the other day..and those dogs were horrible and a flea infested mess and it was awful. Did I make any commission? No, that was Petco's pocket and I still stayed to do it.
It's gotten to the point where I dread going to work. I hate Janet. She is just horrible to me. She doesn't pick on anyone else. I don't get what I did. I'm seriously super friendly and a huge push over. I'll do what anyone says. I don't have a confrontational personality. I'm a people pleaser.
Today after Gina was telling me what all Janet was saying I broke down and sat on the floor and cried. I was a mess. I had Delilah there and I called Tim and had him come get her so I wouldn't get in trouble. So she didn't get a bath. I just cried and cried and cried because I was so looking forward to this job and it's turning into a disaster. I shouldn't be crying at work.
Oh, and to make matters worse, my mom said tonight that my just was stupid and required no skill, and that I needed to stop being a dumb a*s and get a degree so I can have a not worthless job.
thanks for listening and reading..I just really needed to vent.
You guys all know how excited I was to get my job at Petco. I've been working there what..about two months now? I'm in the grooming salon, I'm supposed to be a grooming apprentice.
First of all, I'll start with my grievances in the actual salon itself. It took them forever to train me how to do anything with the phones and such. I had to teach myself, which was embarrassing when people called and I didn't know how to do stuff. But I did eventually figure it out after no one would help me. The salon manager was supposed to teach me and never did. The other girls tried but didn't have time because they were busy with grooms, which is understandable. Not their job anyway. Mindy, the salon manager, had said that I would get at minimum 20 hours a week and she'd start my grooming training pretty much right away. I get like 10 hours..maybe 15 if I'm LUCKY. She hasn't trained me at all yet. I can't afford my car. I got turned into collections for Delilah's vet bill because I missed payments because of this job screwing me over. I had to call them today and give them what little money I had to get out of collections. I don't know if she even plans on training me to groom. I'm so eager to learn. I don't get why they don't start. I help them with everything..I do HER bath dogs and let her have the commission. Supposedly she's going to start training me in January. We'll see.
Now, I love all the girls in the salon. We all get along great. It's this stupid b*tch of a store manager that I can't stand..Janet.
She has decided she absolutely hates me and has made it her goal to make me miserable. I hate complaining, I seriously do. But this has just gotten..bad. I'm currently fighting kidney stones and a kidney infection with no medication. It was worse a couple weeks ago when this started going down. She basically came in to the salon, while I was doing stuff, and told me I HAD to come out on the floor and talk to customers. Um. I'm not trained to do that. I don't know what you want me to do. So I went out..and I did it for a bit, then came back to the salon. She came in later for a second time and made me do it again. At this point I'm in agonizing pain from walking around with this kidney pain. I go back in after 20 minutes. She then comes back a THIRD TIME and tells me I need to get out there. At this point everyone in the salon is just mutually saying "wtf" because it is NOT OUR JOB to go out there. I told her, "Janet..I'm really not in the best of moods today" which I know I shouldn't have said. She then proceeds to tell me if I want to be unruly I can just go home. I try telling her that walking around like this seriously hurts because of my kidneys but she wouldn't listen to me..she just acted like she didn't hear me even though I tried repeating it.
That day I was going to the bathroom a lot. Hello, kidney infection. She started FOLLOWING ME TO THE BATHROOM. What. the. heck. What else would I be doing in there, Janet?? Seriously?? Then she started sending in other girls after me after she'd been following me for awhile!! Ugh. That day was horrible.
There's been more instances since then. She's made me leave early for no reason. She's been asking other people in the grooming salon questions about me. She told them I can't bring Delilah to work to bathe anymore because I do it too much. I've brought her TWICE. Once I did it after my shift then I did it a second time on my day off. We're supposed to be able to bring them in whenever as long as we aren't on the clock. Which I wasn't. Delilah needs a dang bath and I can't bring her to work now. Everyone else is allowed to. This other girl that's my age, Carrie, she brings one of her dogs every DAY to work. No one says anything to her! But I do it and oh dear lord it's horrible. It is my right to groom my dog there. I don't even use their equipment. I bring my own nail clippers and dremel and everything!!
She saw me walking a bulldog outside yesterday and assumed it was Delilah. It wasn't. It was Deuce, a dog I was grooming. He started pooping all over while I was grooming him. Nonstop poop. I couldn't take it anymore and took him outside to go to the bathroom so it would stop. Apparently we aren't supposed to take the dogs out. NO ONE TOLD ME THIS. uggggh. So I'm in trouble for that now. And Janet is convinced I was outside playing with Delilah while I was on the clock. That dog looks NOTHING like Delilah. It's like twice the size!!!
I got yelled at yesterday for not smiling enough. Really? I smile all the time at customers and in the salon. I get tipped a lot, people like me. I'm nice to them. I like my job, I like the dogs. But am I going to smile at her? no.
She's saying she's going to write me up and blah blah blah. I haven't done anything wrong. I've never missed a day. Never been late. I'm always early. I stayed late to do some extra dogs that the owner's really wanted in the other day..and those dogs were horrible and a flea infested mess and it was awful. Did I make any commission? No, that was Petco's pocket and I still stayed to do it.
It's gotten to the point where I dread going to work. I hate Janet. She is just horrible to me. She doesn't pick on anyone else. I don't get what I did. I'm seriously super friendly and a huge push over. I'll do what anyone says. I don't have a confrontational personality. I'm a people pleaser.
Today after Gina was telling me what all Janet was saying I broke down and sat on the floor and cried. I was a mess. I had Delilah there and I called Tim and had him come get her so I wouldn't get in trouble. So she didn't get a bath. I just cried and cried and cried because I was so looking forward to this job and it's turning into a disaster. I shouldn't be crying at work.
Oh, and to make matters worse, my mom said tonight that my just was stupid and required no skill, and that I needed to stop being a dumb a*s and get a degree so I can have a not worthless job.
thanks for listening and reading..I just really needed to vent.