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[kokopellinelli]

So last night I chatted with one of the girls I used to work with at Merry Maids. The way the office was when I left was as follows:

Shar: Owner
Borky: Shar's son, office manager
Lacy: Secondary manager, on maternity leave
Alice: Terciary manager, standing in for Lacy as secondary manager
Felice: Used to be a captain, brought in temporarily as terciary manager

All these names have been changed, yadda yadda, and I am not sure of the actual job titles. These will do for now.

Anyway, so I talked to this girl yesterday. I already knew that Lacy had quit, deciding to just not come back after her maternity leave was over. Alice became permanent Secondary, and Felice became permanent Terciary. According to my information source, Alice was just fired. For sticking up for the girls too much.

What?

The thing is, Alice didn't really stick up for us at all, and when she did, it took the form of cutting us a little slack when it came to cleaning times (i.e., not yelling at us when we took the time to clean properly as opposed to rushing through it so we could get to our next house.) All the girls complained about Alice being too harsh on us.

So how, pray tell, could she get fired for sticking up for us too much?

The way things are handled in that office are so ridiculous there just aren't words to describe it.

When Felice was brought in to be a Terciary, no one told her it would just be temporary. She turned down a really good job elsewhere so she wouldn't let the office down, and they were ready to screw her over. The only reason she is in the office right now is because Lacy quit and now that Alice is fired as well, Borky needs someone there to watch the office while he does whatever he does for the rest of the day, after he spends his obligatory 3 hours at his desk, griping about how clumsy the girls are when someone knocks over a lamp and breaks a bulb or something.

I am so glad Keels and I got out when we did.

Comments

[amoryl.livejournal.com]

holy crap that sounds like some of the jobs out here. the art gallery across from my old store fired a girl in the middle of her second week for "asking too many questions"

as for my old job, i actually didn't have it as bad as most. i just refused to take even that much shite from them. but they loved to put full timer's on salary then work them 50-60 hours a week, Washington, unlike much the rest of the country actually requires by LAW that even salary be paid overtime. when our manager was made our store manager, and the manager of another store simultaniously, she still hadn't gotten a raise from being asst. manager (her title from before) she had no health benifits, and accrued no vacation. plus despite the law being very very clear about it, the owners refused to pay overtime at all. one salaried employee who also had no benifits whatsoever was offered the chance to accrue vacation time. want to know how? basically he had to go to one of the two stores he didn't normally work at on his day off, and work an entire shift for free. and everytime he did that they put that day twards vacation. i don't know what the hell is wrong with small buisiness owners that make them such heartless assholes. but it's put me off from working in a franchise again permenently.

[kokopellinelli]

Damn. Some people need to be shot.