27.05.08: Slaphead In Charge, Slaphead In A Mood, Queen Chav's Spelling, Reversed Curse, Strangeness In Payroll, Awards, Redesigns and Rickaaaay Knows Things

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So, the transition is complete and Slaphead is now in charge whilst The Blonde Bombshell is back in Poland for the next couple of weeks. Joy. Working with him in charge is a very odd experience. Now, don't get me wrong; it's not an issue of being supervisor then not being supervisor. I'm glad I got demoted. Too much hassle with not enough financial compensation. But the thing is this – Slaphead is a great supervisor. For the most part. Take tonight for example, he started off fine, then for no reason got in a mood with Caroline and myself. And when we confronted him over it, he went back to being fine and denied being in a mood.

Which is another thing. He was in a mood, but then denied it. He stormed over to me and said “Right, I want to show you what I mean about your facing up. I'm not having a go, I just want to show you something”. Then showed me an area I hadn't faced up. I explained this, and he snorted and said “Well, it's obvious you didn't face up”. So, I asked why he was in such a bad mood, and he said “I'm not, I'm fine, I was just commenting. Actually I think you've worked really hard so far tonight!” Could have fooled me...

Now, regular readers of this blog will know that Queen Chav is not the sharpest tool in the box. However, she has really proven herself to be quite the moron. Now...I know she has Dyslexia, but it's no excuse when she has been working with the computers at work for almost 5 years, and at her level of management (one below manager) should really know how to use the spell check button. Some of them were common mistakes like “useing”. But she also said that we have to clock in and out for our “brakes”. But the best part of it is that someone in management (I think Pedro) has lost their patience with her poor spelling. There was a memo on the manager's desk which was a quarter of a page long, and had half a dozen mistakes in it. All highlighted with a yellow marker pen. And it was just sitting on the desk, waiting for her when she got in. Love whoever did that. Love their style. “Your spelling sucks, here is how badly”.

I used to be cursed. Whenever I went on holiday for the last 3 years, someone got fired or left. Not this time though. In fact, my curse has been reversed. We now have two new employees. Quite what they are going to be going, I'm not sure. One appears to be a date checker. Making sure our stuff isn't going out of date. Apparently this is a full time job requiring 8 hours a day. On day shift. At night, we are supposed to date check and it isn't to take longer than 20 minutes. Go figure. The other one...well...I'm not sure what he is for.

Right now I am really glad that I don't use real names on this blog any more, because this is really explosive stuff, stuff that would cause a huge rift at work if it got out. My life wouldn't be worth living. So, we have a sheet of employee numbers and clock in numbers for if we don't have our cards on us. Useful. And apparently in more ways than one! So I was looking through the names and job titles, and seeing how many members of staff came from the same family. And then I hit something quite bizarre. See, these names and numbers are pulled from the payroll database. Namely because our staff turnover is quite incredible (around 90%) so it needs to be up to date. Now, try to keep up with this because it gets complex. Queen Chav's Number One Son used to work at our store as a supervisor, but because of a push from Queen Chav, and because she wanted Rickaaaay to work at the store, Number One Son now works at one of Pedro's other stores. Pedro told her that would have to happen if Rickaaaay wanted a job at our store. Now, Rickaaaay's name was on the list of current employees. So was Number One Son. As a supervisor. And remember, this comes from the payroll database. Thing is, this isn't the first time Queen Chav has tried to pull a stunt like this. About a year ago it emerged that she had contacted Head Office stating that Number One Son needed his details changed from checkout girl to supervisor. And that his pay as supervisor needed to be backdated to his start date. Rightly, Head Office found this a little odd and queried it. And still she didn't get fired. But this is bigger. Because...if I am right...Number One Son hasn't actually been removed from the payroll as a supervisor, but his current job is a trading manager, which either means he is being grossly under paid (as if) or he is still pulling a wage from our store as well as his trading manager wage from the other store. Which would put his wages at about £26,000 a year. As opposed to £16,000 a year...

We have won an award! Not our store, I mean, come on! But the company. We have won Forecourt/convenience retailer of the year. I have just one question. HOW? The company is currently trimming the fat in pretty much every area it possibly can. But the thing is, that bribe must have cost them a lot of money. I mean...we didn't earn this award on merit. It's like when Pedro won manager's manager of the year. I think a lot of his bonus went on bribes. And don't get me started on Pedro's bonuses...that is a post all of it's own!

Now, I am working on a radical redesign of the site. It's an idea I've been working on for a really long time, and I am currently in final testing for it (not happy with one piece of code) but then I will be launching a public beta of it for anyone who wants to try it out.

Lastly, if it wasn't scary enough that Number One Son is now a Trading Manager, Rickaaaay may have ambitions to do the same. See, he was trying to discredit us on night shift this morning by grabbing a cake and snorting at me “This; is out of date!” I calmly informed him he was wrong because the date was the 27^th and the date on the packet was the 27^th. He laughed and said “Yeah, so, out of date.” I then calmly informed him that items are out of date after the printed date, not on it. Which actually stopped him in his tracks as he tried to figure that one out.
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Tags: Supervisors | Mood Swings | Bad Spelling | Dyslexia | Curses | Retail Awards | Blog Redesign | Idiots
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