Good grief, I work with a bunch of infantile idiots. We had to hire two new sales people. They are like superstars -- their sales skills are amazing. Which means they are kicking sales butt and leaving our top performers in the dust.
I'm happy for the new people and am encouraging them. I wish I could say the same for the top performers (who are performing so bad that it seems like they've forgotten how to sell!)
Their reactions amaze me.
One man has taken to throwing temper tantrums that actually scare us. I called hubby one night to come to work so I wouldn't be alone with him while he ranted. He's downright rude and nasty to the new salespeople.
The other woman is incredibly jealous but is taking the route of "keep your enemies close" and is trying to get the new woman to turn against me and the temper tantrum guy (but its not hard to turn them against him - he's doing a fine job of that humself). I caught her whispering to the new woman yesterday about how I act like I'm management.... ummmm..... I'm not, and I know I'm not. I confronted her calmly as soon as all the customers were out of the store. I was VERY proud of myself for doing that, because 6 months ago I would have kept quiet and fumed about it. I guess I was intent on nipping the jealous backstabbing in the bud, since I don't want the new woman to have a negative opinion of me. Its funny though.... the person complaining that I act like management ALWAYS comes to me for answers for everything, as if I were management
That brings me to another thing: The former assistant manager left to become a full time mom last month. The poor manager has been stressed big-time since her departure. I'd LOVE to ask the big boss if I could be the store designer AND assistant manager. Do you think they'd allow me to accept additional responsibility? We certainly could use the boost in pay.
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