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I hate the manager at one of my jobs.

At one job I have a lot of managers and they are all cool. If they have to write us up for something it's because it's policy, not because they are really that annoyed. They are nice people for the most part it seems but if they need to get all manager-like it's not really a personal thing. And they were totally trained to be managers, so they know how to talk to people.

At my other job, I have one manager. She's "new to being a manager" but she's been a manager for almost six months now and in my opinion by that time you should know what you are doing. I learned both my jobs in a week or less, and while I appreciate there might be a steeper learning curve for running an entire store by herself, I'm not impressed. We are constantly out of something or another because she isn't on top of stuff. She leaves long ass to do lists for one person to do (because we have single person shifts) and if we don't get it done she leaves us passive aggressive notes on our punch in boxes about how she "specifically asked us to do such and such."

I got one of these today and I wanted to punch her in the face. On tuesday she asked me to do several things, including cleaning the designer area and sweeping the bathroom. This is all ON TOP of my normal daily duties and dealing with all the new plants that came into the store that day. 25 different plants that all needed to be priced and found a spot. Which takes time.

So I did my daily duties because those are most important and i put away the plants because I couldn't have them sitting in the middle of the store on the floor. And I managed to get most of the stuff done on the list. Minus the designer area and the bathroom. With the customers that came into the store (and note it IS the week before Valentines day and there is a Winter Formal this saturday AND next saturday so we have a bunch of corsage orders), and the fact that I had to EAT at some point in order to not starve, I didn't get around to them before it was time to close. I didn't purposefully blow them off, but by the time I had time to do them it was closing time and I wasn't going to stick around for another hour in order to finish the list. I'm not even ALLOWED to do that.

Of course, it never crossed her mind that I ran out of time because I am one person and I had a lot of stuff to do that day. Oh no. No, I'm blatantly disrespecting her authority. Pisses me off. I'm a very good employee. And she is like la la la...pay no attention to my record, no I must be trying to annoy her.

Also with this passive aggressive note (which she COULD have told me in person-except she can't do confrontation even with customers-because she has all the shifts before mine except on weekends) she reminded me that plants were 34.99 NOT 29.99 and that I should be taping the 16" vases with GREEN tape not CLEAR. I'll fully own up to the fact I priced them at 29.99, but in my defense, 6" plants are listed on our pricing sheet as 29.99. I CHECKED. Because I couldn't remember. Because I haven't memorized EVERY item in store. If she'd update these things once in a while, maybe when someone forgot it would still end up getting priced right. And as for the vases. I taped three boxes of 16" vases with GREEN tape before I ran out, at which point I stopped because she had given me a huge to do list.

I pointed that out to her. It's one thing to call me out on something I do wrong (even if it's an honest mistake) and it's quite another to be blaming shit on me that I didn't do. So I called her out on it, because I'm tired of taking shit from her for no good reason. I told her that I didn't tape anything with clear tape.
She told me she saw me. Number one, she couldn't have because I didn't DO it. I know how to fucking tape vases thank you very much. Second, if she saw me taping with clear tape then she would have and should have told me to stop. I taped some bubble bowls with clear tape (like they are supposed to be) and everything else with green. Until I ran out.

I'm tired of getting this sort of shit from her. If I was a bad employee I would understand. But I'm not. She KNOWS I'm not because she gave me a glowing review for my other job when I was applying. So she needs to shut up and let me do my job without pissing me off because sooner rather than later, if this continues I'm getting the hell out. The minute I can get a job to replace it I'm giving my two weeks. Technically I could give it now because I work at the theatre and I could beg more hours there. But I want the extra money. I don't really want to look for a different job but she's SO obnoxious. I can't stand it.

To finish my rant. I'm also tired of her making inappropriate comments while at work. She's actually younger than me (yes, this bothers me a little bit) and she can be very immature at times. Work isn't really a place for "that's what she said." You can't really be friends with a manager unless they know when it's being a friend and being a manager and how to distinguish. She can't and yet she tries to be all our friends. She makes the schedule and only pays attention to her wants and needs. She takes my shifts when she needs to have 4 a week and someone else is getting a morning shift for whatever reason. But I AM SUPPORTING MYSELF. I need the fucking money. Also, in this next week, Valentines week, she managed to give herself over 10 hours of overtime and me none. (We get overtime if we work more than 40 hours a week and she's at 51 for next week and I'm at 38.) I am unimpressed. I rearranged my schedule AT HER REQUEST and I'm not even getting an HOUR of overtime. Are you fucking kidding me? -.-