I work in the retail setting. I am an assistant manager who works for a manager who does not communicate at all and avoids confrontation at all costs. She constantly reworks projects I have done. Every time after I have left for the day only to find them fixed the next day. Never an explanation. I have no say in personnel matters such as hiring and firings. I have tried to give ideas and they have fallen on deaf ears. Also I will have an issue on a particular that only gets fixed when it affects her. A bad situation or is the problem my responsibility as well.
2006-11-01 04:48:34 · 7 answers · asked by ktar0420 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
I was in the exact same situation. I was a manager in a retail store and there was someone who did this very thing, and though I was an assistant manager, my ideas, thoughts, suggestions...everything was brushed off. I quit. Seriously, who wants to be an assistant manager and dont have the responsibility of one? What's the point if you cant hire/fire. what if someone on your shift badly needs to be let go...you gon go to the manager above you and beg and plead with them to fire this individual, and hope that your reasoning is good enough? Why should you have to go through all of that? I think you are entitled to an explanation when someone is constantly coming behind you changing everything you do. What's that all about?
2006-11-01 05:44:05 · answer #1 · answered by l_horton4nightfall 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would ask for a meeting with her. Taking a humble approach will spare you from retaliation. Explain that you feel a need for more open and direct communication. Ask her to explain what she did not like about the displays so that in the future you 2 will be on the same page, and the work only needs to be done once. Also ask that she give feedback on your ideas, both the positive and negative.
A manager is only as good as his/her team. If you are doing a good job, you only make her look better. Ask her to mentor you for the benefit of 'her' store.
Do not go above her unless you absolutely cannot work things out. Then I would also give her fair warning that you are taking this up with someone else. Remember, after you speak to her boss and he/she goes to her about the problem, she will be feeling defensive. If she is blind-sided by it, she will likely attack.
Good luck
2006-11-01 05:14:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I would request a meeting with her/him and ask them exactly what it is that they expect from you as an asst. mgr.. Explain to her that you want to be her right hand and help her with the smooth operation of your store. Tell her that you want you and her to be a team but that lately you have been feeling like she is dissatisfied with your work and wish she would let you know if you are not doing something as she would want it. Tell her that you are her asst. and are here to help alleviate some of the stress off of her such as in human resources dept. etc...
2006-11-01 05:00:06 · answer #3 · answered by Bren 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would go one step higher than her and talk to her manager/ supervisor and voice your concerns and make it clear that you can not learn from your mistakes if she doesn't talk to you or communicate with you in some way. Sound professional and don't sound like you are complaining or whining.
2006-11-01 04:58:30 · answer #4 · answered by c0mplicated_s0ul 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm going to of course provide my seat to the old person. In a bus that is lots crowded, how can the old person even pass to the senior citizen's seat? nicely, i'm a teenagers and it would not soreness to stand for a even as.
2016-12-16 17:35:09 · answer #5 · answered by gambrell 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She sounds like a control freak. I'd take your concerns to your HR department.
2006-11-01 04:51:45 · answer #6 · answered by Brainiac 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
address her directly then go to HR... always work from the bottom up in these situations!
Good luck
2006-11-01 04:58:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋