For backstory, a month ago I got “promoted” to Training Store Manager at the Monro Muffler Brake I've been at for three years, a role equivalent to Assistant Manager, but with the added dangling carrot of becoming Store Manager when the current acting manager finally gets assigned to a store that isn't an hour away from the poor bastard's house. (They promised him this a year+ before they stuck him in our shop, so I'm not the only one getting fucked here)
The problem is, our store is too small for the ASM to be a salaried position, so it's instead “commission”. This means that I make $18 an hour, and if I did at least $4k in work a week, I'd get 20% of that money.
Problem is, for two out of the five days I'm working, I'm the only Manager on duty, so I'm in the office for 40% of my work week.
This leaves me with only two options – I either aggressively take for myself all the highest ticket jobs, something that is ethically disgusting because the other techs are also commission, and seriously undermines my effectiveness as a manager and a trainer; or I do what my predecessors did, and log jobs that other techs did as my own in the computer, which is not only ethically worse, but wicked illegal.
So, yeah, it's a stupid game, and damn it, I'm too good for this idiocy.