So, my boss is railroading me and J out of a job.
While both he and I have consistently made our numbers (as opposed to certain of the boss’ friends) and while we have always been willing to put in extra work, been the fastest most accurate at whatever we do, blah, blah, blah, all of a sudden we both have “attitude problems”. J has been told to step down from his assistant manager position, I haven’t been spoken to yet (but J says they said I will be.) I don’t know if they’re going to talk me into leaving or what, but I’m up for an evaluation/raise at the end of the month and obviously they’re not going to give me the raise I feel I deserve.
They couldn’t give J any examples of his “negative attitude”. (The boss and the DM.) I assume the same with me. Meanwhile, I’ve never called in sick. (Been here a year.) I’ve come in all the time for people who did call in sick. I’ve always volunteered to do things that looked like they needed doing. I’m not the best salesperson there, but I keep my numbers up. If I don’t straighten, it dosen’t get straightened.
While other people use sick relatives as an excuse not to work, when my father was in the hospital I came in (half an hour late, I had to take his suitcase) when we were moving because I felt I couldn’t leave people in the lurch like that.
I have also never been trained. (I’ve been -reported- as trained, I believe.) There are beaucoup incicdents of managerial incompetance - we were going to write the DM a letter about it, try to get something done, but a) my dad and Certain People Here got all “how dare you screw with somebody’s job” at me and anything we do now just looks like retailiation, and b) school started, and it’s hard to juggle grad school, a GA, a part time job, and a major manager complaint.
Over the last few months the people I liked who worked there have left in disgust, mostly. Just J and myself and somebody we’ll call M survive. The boss has been hiring sketchy people with zero product knowledge - I don’t want to work there if J isn’t a manager because working with P makes me feel like I need a bath. Of course any complaint I make about P now looks like retaliation.
My question is: can they do this? I feel so betrayed! I’ve given and given and given to this job and this is how they repay me? Even if I’m “allowed” to keep my job certainly I won’t get the raise I deserve. I know we’re (the Musicland group) under investigation by the DOL anyway for unpaid labor (so now we’re supposed to go to the bank at night, come back, unlock the store, clock out, lock back up… really silly.) I don’t want a -lawsuit-, please no pain and suffering, but what’s really legally going on here? Is there a difference between J being “asked to step down” and “replaced” and him being “fired”? Can you be fired for a personality conflict? (Does anybody know Musicland company policy on this?) Please advise.