I was at the store in which I work this morning because I thought I was supposed to go in at 9 am after my week long vacation. I saw one of my friends.(you might call her my best friend at work and I had not seen nor talked to her in a week.) She asked my why I was so early... I was thinking I was a few minutes early so I looked confused until she said I was scheduled at 12. I looked at my phone for my schedule and sure enough... I was over 3 hours early...
Since I was that early I walked down the aisle with her while she was stocking the shelves and talking to her. AND THEN... the store manager walked by the end of the aisle and saw us talking. At which point I said to Erika, "say something" even though I was actually saying it more as a taunt to him, because I knew he was coming down the aisle to boss us around...
He asked me what I was working on...
I said, "Nothing yet" as I wasn't going to be on the clock for some time.
He asked if I was on the clock yet and i said no.
He then told me that I couldn't be talking to Erika while she was working. With my body still facing her, I only turned my head to look at him like WTF! you can't boss me around while i am not working.
He asked me if I had a problem.
I said, "yes, I do"
which made him go further into rant mode.
I stood my ground while he as waiting for me to walk away. He said something else and I just looked at him for another full two seconds in the face and replied, "i wasn't saying anything was i?"
He said something else and walked away.
I told Erika I was probably going to call someone higher up than him to report his actions. and then I walked back to the schedule boards to update the rest of my schedule into my phone. While I was back there, my department manager was going to break and I told her about what happened and that I was going to make a call to report the incident... and of course the store manager came around the corner there... He said, "If you have something to talk about you need to talk to me"
I said, "How can I talk to you if you don't respect me?" He said something else about go ahead and make my call, and I said that I would.
Then the assistant manager that had been over my area and the other nearby areas for the last several months asked me how my vacation was... I told her that it was good until i came back to the store and got griped at first thing by the store manager.
Apparently, while I was on vacation, the grocery side stockroom filled up at some point. May have just been a bad night last night on overnights... I don't know. There were a bunch of people working on grocery freight and the store manager had already griped at 2 people while they were working on the same aisle.
Well, as long as I am not on the clock, and not supposed to be on the clock, I have no responsibility to tolerate that kind of disrespect in any form. Now, I get to see how bad things will be when I am on the clock.
I think I kept my temper pretty well. I didn't yell, or curse. I think my blood pressure probably went sky high... even though my volume is low from having given blood less than 24 hours before, which makes me feel tired. And, I haven't drank any alcohol in over 2 weeks now... which can cause some issues... even though I don't know if I am really suffering any withdrawal symptoms.
If I hadn't been disrespected by my store manager, I would have asked them about clocking in early... which I would have been clocked in gladly by Nancy(the assistant that used to be over me.) I feel like calling in sick, and blaming it on the blood donation. I am sure I could get a note from them that would confirm that I gave blood, and that I need to avoid any heavy physical activity today... But I am not going to call in... unless I go eat and end up vomiting my lunch back out. I would prefer that if I did vomit that I could do it in close proximity of my store manager...very close... then look him in the eyes and ask him, "Why did you do that to me!?"
