I’ve been working the past month at Taco Loco, which is a taco stand in Break Time convenience store, which is owned by MFA oil. This means nothing to you guys, though, since MFA, and consequently any stores they own, is a Missouri-wide company and not nation-wide or world-wide company.
Today the store manager told me that a woman filed a complaint against me, saying that she had to yell at me to get me to wait on her (I was the only one there, and I was still expected to do jobs in the back of the store where I couldn’t check for customers readily, so it’s true) and when I did get up there I did not talk to her, which is a flat out lie since I talk to every customer that comes up to the counter.
She then said when she asked what was on a nacho thing I just showed her the monitor, which I know damn well, and did at the time, that the monitor doesn’t show the components. I checked the cheat sheet, which I only do to avoid misinforming the customers, but apparantly that showed ignorance on my part.
She then accused me of not washing my hands after I took the order. I slipped out of sight for a moment, and she had no way of knowing what I was and wasn’t doing (it just so happens that I did wash my hands back there, she just couldn’t see, and three cameras will verify that.)
And the final straw, she did not recommend that the store manager works with me, like a decent person should. She started screaming for my termination. Normally it wouldn’t be so bad, but she’s one of the heads of the company.
My store manager is sticking her neck out for me, because she doesn’t want to fire me, but this hippo started putting pressure on her subordinates, who put pressure on the regional manager, and the regional manager started putting pressure on the store manager. In other words, I have nothing against my store manager, even though she will technically be the one to fire me, and she will fill out the paper work.
So since I’m at the bottom, and the manager is just above me, she’s got the weight of a group of people plus the weight of a hippo jumping up and down on them, and since I’m at the bottom, I will be the one that gets crushed.
Years ago someone told me that MFA stands for Missouri Farmer’s association. Today I learned that it stands for mother fg a*s.
In closing, I know this request should be on the Q&A board, but can anyone direct me to a site that will teach me how to model a hippo? Gotta let off some steam.
… life is often so unfare…