Friday, May 18, 2012

Disappointed after 4 years

So where to start... Four years ago I started at a company named Winn Dixie. I was running down on my luck and moving from job to job. I never really had a stable job, if it wasn't me messing things up by doing or saying something stupid I would up and quit because I got bored. I stumbled upon Winn Dixie as I got fired from a culinary position. I got a call from a meat specialist named Eddy 2 days before I got axed. I left the messages saved on my phone by coincidence, and as soon as I got laid off I panicked, I mean what does a person do when they loose a job. As I got to my car I remembered the message I had so I called, and spoke to Eddy and landed the job I was nervous because I was going into a profession I knew little to none about but something inside me wanted to get out of the restaurant business. I started out and I liked it I mean I really really liked it, helping people, talking to customers, giving them cooking advice, that was the easy part the hard part was cleaning but just like every job there's perks and down sides. I worked with a four other guys Tom, he was the market manager until he retired (not his choice but that best left for another day) Devis the assistant market manager (aka dutch bag) Richey a young kid that thought he knew everything in life but was missing the whole picture and my friend that taught me the ropes Wayne. I worked at store 231 for about a year until I got transferred dew to favoritism but if that hadn't happened I would have been screwed because shortly after that store closed and a lot of good people lost there jobs. So I got transferred to store 218 and now the true story begins... When I first got there I thought it was going to be easy... But what was in store for me was far from it. I went in to meet my new manager his name is Charles Marlow (good man just a workaholic and a psychopath) I get in and he introduces me to everyone there, Willy the assistant meat manager(an Awesome person that I thank God for putting in my path) Freddy (my padrino well not really but we can pretend) and Derrick (a pathological lier) so after the introductions it was right to work. For a few days were a little touch and go because it seemed that what ever I tried to do to help it was and still is not good enough for Cris. When something went and goes wrong I get blamed in one way or another... After a few months Derrick got transferred to another store and we got a new guy, man did we get a bunch of new guys. It seems that the position of meat Assosiate is a revolving door. Things started getting better between me and cris because I want to think he started trusting me, key word in that last sentence WANT but I was and still am wrong. A lot of strange and bogus things happened in between the past 3 years that I have been working at Winn Dixie store 218 but none were as crazy and sad as 2 1/2 weeks ago. So I go into work on a Sunday early morning when I get there cris is running around like usual and as soon as I get in I ask him what needs to get done he hands me a list and tells me I'll get u the meat then asks me about some grinds he found I told him I don't know what he was talking about so he went in and grabbed what he needed at the moment, when he came out he asked me if me or willy did a case and a half of skirts I said no they haven't been moving so he said what the fuck is going on here there gone so I went to the back to double check and they weren't there he calls the MOD(manager on duty) which was Jon they talk I continue my day a few days later I get called upstairs to the abc room and basically indirectly accused of everything that happened and I was shocked... I could have been pissed off But I wasn't I was more hurt then anything... After all the crap I had to and still have to deal with, meat getting thrown at me the verbal abuse and the other illegal things that shouldn't be happening in a market and I stay quiet... I'm just tired of it, all of it and I no longer have the drive that I once did to go in and help people and do what I loved doing... Now I just go in do my job and 100% the 10% was destroyed at that meeting on that day :( but on a better note I'm looking for something better, hopefully I can get what I want.

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