Recently accepted a job as Freight Flow Supervisor at Ollie’s Bargain Outlet. The store manager said , and I counted, ten times in 30 minutes that was a dick. That’s fine, I like the upfront ness. He then told me 5 different times that same 30 minutes he’d been an ex cop and shot and stabbed.
Vibe was off, but I’ve got a ten month old, I need a job to provide. I accept, on condition he can get me at least $15. I was asking for 16, he wanted to offer me $13.50. He said he had to move money around from his other mgmt to get me to 15 but that he would do it.
I go for orientation videos, and he tells me again how he’s an ex cop and how nothing gets past him. Ok he’s a real dick. Bosses can be…
He talks about Ollie’s army, how cashiers have to get 20% of their customers to sign up for the rewards program. He talks about how his domestics dept mgr just quit because she didn’t want to “try” at that goal. I’m thinking yeah she’s a dept mgr worried about her dept not a register goal.
I ask if I’m back room, freight flow supervisor will I have that register goal and told of course, because the store managers with the highest number get entered to win a car from Kevin harvick. I ask what my incentive would be and it was “you’re getting paid.”
Ok….
Next day he isn’t there. I work with the co mgr. she is no nonsense and tells me how she is called a bitch. Ok, I see the vibe the dick store mgr has created here…
There’s 6 cash drawers, opening mgr is to count them by hand , even though there’s a working money weigher.
The registers aren’t touch screen. I come from Walmart and goodwill mgmt, we used money counters and touch screens.
A day of register and people telling me no they don’t wanna sign up.
A closing mgr comes in and talks about me to the co I’ve been with.
“No use training him he will quit like the others”.
Well, I got home that night and talked to my wife. That’s a lot of bad vibe that maybe I want to get out early from. That night I dreamt about calling out 4 times, waking up often. Next morning I tried and didn’t get an answer not even voicemail. Ah well, yeah it’s second day, sucks but maybe third day I’ll feel better…
That afternoon I saw the job posted on indeed. Guess both of us figured this wasn’t gonna work out
I need a job yes. But not that job! Sometimes you just know it’s not a fit for you and that’s ok. Not every job needs a good month try.