I’ll try keeping this as short as possible but its spans over 5yrs of me working here so please bare with me.
I started working here at 19. Its a small online store and I’m a picker/packer mainly. About 2 months in i got a warning for being slow even though i was packing everything but my manager wasn’t doing the postage labels for them and when asked he just blamed me for not packing them quickly even though they had been packed and waiting for up to a week sometimes.
I sort of blew it off and didn’t worry too much about it and over the years he’s made comments here and there but nothing too serious. All was going well for the most part.
Last year he was made manager of the entire online store and of marketing therefore making him my direct manager. Again everything was fine apart from a few times I heard him talking shit about me. Nothing i couldn’t deal with so all good.
Today though i was called into a meeting with the general manager who said that my direct manager had said that someone complained about me. Apparently i don’t pack enough items, I’m avoiding the bigger items, i am avoiding the hoses(pressure washer hoses which everyone hates making), I’m constantly on my phone and that I’m constantly saying “this place is a shitshow”.
The only two that are true is that i do say it’s a shitshow but that’s because it is and i do pack less recently but that’s because I’ve been training a new guy and also training another guy to do some more difficult items. It’s run soo badly and management won’t listen to my ideas even though I’ve been there longer than them and I’m the one actually doing the work and can see how bad it is everyday.
Anyways, the two guys i work with are genuinely my best friends in and out of work and i know they didn’t complain although i had doubts at first. Then another friend who is a manager and shares an office with my direct manager told me he was there when the general manager and my direct manager had the talk about me.
“You know how I feel about him” was his exact complaint about me. So from what i can gather my direct manager hates me and the general manager is making excuses and telling lies to intimidate me somehow I guess??
I’m not sure what I should do as this is really starting to get to me. I can deal with comments and whatever but telling lies about me and how i work is too much.
During the meeting when the whole “shit show” comments where mentioned i was told “if you don’t like it then I think it’s time you left”. My general manager said this. I literally trained this man on all the parts just 2yrs ago.
What should or even what can i do?
I’ve posted this on a few subs because i wasn’t sure where to put it 🙂