Chippygeoff
Established Member
I just had a phone call from a dear friend 200 miles away. She works for Tesco and yesterday she broke her index finger. I was shocked when she told me that Tesco tore her off a strip for having to take a few days off, she is in a lot of pain and they expect her to work. Last year she had to take a week off sick and again they laid into her. Not once did they ask if she was okay, no concern at all for her well being.
I believe it is the same with all the big retailers. Staff get promoted and the power goes to their heads, they become a different person, they like to weild the whip and exercise their authority. Its so sad people become monsters and the staffs worst nightmare. I feel for people who work in the retail trade for it is probably the only sort of work they know.
Work was thin on the ground one winter for me and I worked for B and Q, they were just the same. If a manager talked to me like something the dog left on the pavement I would lay into him with the same. There is just no need for it. Being polite cost nothing.
I believe it is the same with all the big retailers. Staff get promoted and the power goes to their heads, they become a different person, they like to weild the whip and exercise their authority. Its so sad people become monsters and the staffs worst nightmare. I feel for people who work in the retail trade for it is probably the only sort of work they know.
Work was thin on the ground one winter for me and I worked for B and Q, they were just the same. If a manager talked to me like something the dog left on the pavement I would lay into him with the same. There is just no need for it. Being polite cost nothing.