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googumpins · 6 months

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[ This is a bit more of a rant about my current job more than anything, so be aware. ]

At my previous job, there was this older lesbian who I got along really well with. Let's call her Tee.

Tee was very vocal about things, and we bullshitted about stuff all the time. She was the first and one of the very few people who I told that I was trans there, and the only person I told that I went by they/them pronouns. She was one of the few people I felt comfortable talking with there.

Anyway, Tee and some of my other coworkers there taught me some things about work, albeit indirectly.

I've always tried to do my best at work, because as a semi-visible trans person, I've always been afraid of being fired just for being queer. My supervisors at that particular job seemed to take note of how well I'd work, because they'd pull me to different lines constantly just to pick up the pace for them if they were getting behind. When I started, I'd even try and do 2 different jobs at once to keep the lines moving if someone was slacking.

Tee took note of this at some point when she was put on my line, and started telling me to slow down since I was doing 2 people's jobs. I did slow down, but sometimes would lapse and do it again. Eventually, I did just start to stick to the one task, although I still helped occassionally (within reason), but didn't take over a job completely. I was still doing very well in the supervisor's eyes, and I wasn't wearing myself out so much as a result.

This felt like an important turning point for me, because at that point I realized I didn't have to put out 100% of my effort just to secure my job, I just had to do what I was told to their standards and I was safe.

I recently remembered her, and I've started to incorporate that mindset to my current job.

My manager here is a lot less reasonable and, frankly, a lot more lazy. Because I organize our cooler super well however, she's seemed to like me a lot more than my other coworkers who've been here for longer than me.

However, I work night shift, and she always takes off seconds before my shift comes in. She also isn't so strict about day shift doing things because day shift is full of her friends. As a result, day shift doesn't do what they should, if anything, and that includes stocking the shelves of the fridge, which has been taking us 2 hours on average for what should take us 1 hour or less.

That means 2 hours of one single person on the register, not being able to get anything else done sometimes because some nights are so busy that there isn't 5 minutes of there being no customers in the store.

She expects us, as night shift, to do everything and make everything pristine by the time we close. Because day shift doesn't do anything though, we're basically doing 2 people's worth of work. The other people on my shift know this too, and we've been gathering photo evidence every chance we get in hopes of showing either her or the district manager if she doesn't take us seriously.

Before we can do that however, I've started keeping to doing 1 person's job. I haven't been so detailed in my job in stocking the fridge, and because I'm the "Star Employee" (as we've jokingly called me), I've started willingly taking the blame for things that weren't done to their full potential since she's been unreasonably strict on my other coworkers. Despite taking responsibility for the bad work, she hasn't complained to me at all. She still yells at my other coworkers and never says a single bad thing directly to me.

I wish there was some resolution to this, but this is still an ongoing issue for us. We've had a customer call corporate to complain about this situation, but there hasn't been any immediate change. We can't talk to the manager directly because she leaves before our shift, and she's too dismissive over the phone to be reasoned with that way.

I'm just going to keep going and stay in my lane, and do one person's job like how Tee taught me. Whatever's making me still be the star employee, I'm gonna use it to my advantage to help myself and my coworkers.

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