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Posted on 09/11/2005 by Nightmare Bosses
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Working in retail sales can be very stimulating and satisfying. However, when the owner or the owner's wife decides to force one to quit it is a different story. I was making very good sales and was one of the top sales people after only two months of working. One day I was told I could not approach customers until one or both of the owners told me it was o.k. I stayed in the background, out of the way since I could not talk to customers and when the owner noticed this I was taken to a spot in the store and the owner pointed to a spot and told me, "Stand right there." I was humiliated and felt disgusted with his attitude of treating not only me, but all the sales people like we are 3 years old. This went on for a second day before I was allowed to approach a customer. I have even heard the owner's wife call a couple of sales people they are stupid whenever they made a mistake.

Is there nothing that can be done about this owner's attitude toward his employees? In the short time I have been employed there I find their way of handling employees to be deplorable, insulting and intimidating to some.

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Walk the Planks (09/11/2005)
You, yourself, said it, "I was making very good sales and was one of the top sales people after only two months of working. One day I was told I could not approach customers until one or both of the owners told me it was o.k." The owners started to see that you were a natural and are employing a business strategy. If you are that good and that much of a natural in their selling market, it would behoove them to squash you now, before you could ever grow into any kind of competition for their business. It's basically cutting down a tree before it has a chance to grow. They saw your potential, got scared by it, and are taking a pre-emptive strike to kill off any future competition -- you and your sales career -- before it has a chance to grow into anything. There isn't anything you can do about these owners that are treating their employees so badly. You can get a group of people together and raise a fuss. You can also contact the news media and/or the newspapers, if you really want to turn some heads. The owners might just change their tunes then, when bad publicity hits or with reporters microphones pressed into their faces. Other than that, your choices are to stick it out and play by their rules, no matter how badly they treat you, or quit. You're not going to be able to change them.

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