I'm a manager for a small retail bussines. I thought I had a great working enviroment. Was I wrong! For several months it was me and one other empolyee. I'm ten years older them the one employee. I thought I had been someone she could talk to and had always been more then ready to help her with some of her problems she has out side of work. I actully would let her get away with takeing longer them normal breaks. She has crediters calling her at work. which I didn't say anything about. To top it of this employee often talks about her drug use outside of work. Which again I have said nothing about. This empoyee is not the best employee she is increadable slow understanding the basics. Well the problems started with someone else being hired to work for the store. The new employee was someone who had worked for the company before. The new employee came in and started doing the normal paperwork I would do. This was very unsettleing. I mad the mistake of talking about how unsettaling it was to have someone doing my paper work. I told this to the employee that I had been working with for over a year. The employee that I had worked with for along time whe to the new employee and told her. Well this turned in to lets gossip about the manager. Well the gossip has gotten so out of contol that. The empolyee the I had worked with for the last year( who is very young and emotional) when not to my boss but to the owner of the company and what I fell made up some terrible lies abput me. Things like I'm out to get her and that I have told her in the past tht I have been known to get people fired in my last job. (like I have that power or I would use it now)and that I had been talking about her personal life with the new employee. The owner of the company came to me and confronted me on all the acusations that were made. I was so suprised that I don't think I handled the situstion as best as I could have. The problem now is I feel I need to become a by the book and follow policy to a tee now. How should I start to change from someone I would want to work for to a by the book manager?
POST A COMMENTDharmadee(10/30/2006)
You seem to me like a decent person who has been taken advantage of by a sleaze-bag. I do not suggest that you become a "by-the-book" manager...(yeccchhhh) - you just need better radar. This person that you confided in for so long was a user and a low-life. AND, she gave off all of the signs (creditors calling constantly, always in a crisis, etc.). Don't stop being a decent person, this was just a wake-up call. I know, I have been there. Part of being a manager is learning how to read people. This is not a bad thing for you, in the long run, but it is always depressing to see how nasty some people can be.
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blola (10/29/2006)
You sound so frustrated like so many of us. Why would you want to change other than maybe not sharing too much of how you feel with your staff. This young girl's perception of you is not you at all, but when you feed her gossip, she will spin into her own way of thinking; she's young and not that experienced. You are the MANAGER and apparently your employer has entrusted this posiiton to you because you are DESERVING of it. Perhaps you should request another meeting with your employer to express your thoughts about the way the store could be made more productive and how the over-all atmosphere in the store could be made more customer-oriented. Speak from a level of your expertise and never MINIMIZE yourself, but rather MAXIMIZE yourself because you are in control. Best wishes!
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