I am damn near dancing with joy over the fact that in two days,my employment with Godiva Chocolatier will be OVER!!
When I started there last year,I was leaving Target because of a bad situation I will not get into right now. Godiva seemed like the perfect situation…decent pay,decent hours and a great manager. Turned out the mgr wasn’t so great. The very first day I was there,the ass’t mgr(at the time)gave me very LITTLE instruction as to what I was actually supposed to be doing.He sort of showed me how the cash register worked and the sku for bulk chocolates and strawberries and that was IT!No orientation,no getting an employee handbook…nada.Just 'Ok…this is this and that is that and Ok…I’m going to lunch now.See ya later."I had to learn to survive on my past selling experience alone because the mgr didn’t really want to train me,though he did after I pestered him enough to do it. It took SIX months…six freakin months…to do what should have happened in the first six weeks of my employment.:smack: And it only got worse.This was right before Christmas.We were supposed to hire extra help for the holidays but ended up running the store with a bare-bones staff. After Christmas my hours were cut from 40/wk to about 15-20 with no real explanation other than ‘we can’t afford it right now’ or some other lame excuse such as that.I thought well heck,I can’t find a more decent job right now so I stayed put and hoped things would get better.They didn’t. The mgr who hired me quit in late July of this year so guess who got stuck holding the skeleton crew together?Me.Granted I did have help from a few other stores in our district here and there but it was mostly me keeping the funny farm running. In August we were given a new mgr who has treated me nicely,but like a one-trick pony.I am a very good salesperson,as evidenced by not only high sales numbers but an inordinately amount of perfect ‘secret shops’.I’ve been there for over a year,been shopped 11 times and only had one score that wasn’t perfect.Because of this,the current mgr almost refuses to train me for anything that might get me a promotion.She’s afraid to lose her hen that lays the golden chocolate eggs.I felt like I’ve been trotted out a lot this last two weeks,to show off how well I can sell without really feeling any good about it. The mgr has been tripping over herself to praise me for anything and everything I do.She’s been begging me to stay just ONE shift a week when I already told her numerous times that I won’t.I’m leaving and that’s it. I like Godiva.I don’t have any problems with the company itself. I just have problems with mgrs like her who only see me as a mealticket to make them look good on their visits from regional mgrs. I am more than a salesperson.I can do other things besides sell chocolate. I could be an asst mgr if she’d only train me but she’s shown she’s unwilling to train me or even let me do a single thing that might be construed as my learning anything related to being an asst mgr. So…I found a place where I won’t have this problem and I am SO ready to start my job there on Sun.
IDBB:)