So I'm a store manager, I work for a fairly well known High Street store in the UK. I got promoted at the end of last year to manager, and got given my own store to run. The store I was given was an absolute shit hole. The guy before me had left 6 months previously to work in another store and the store was literally left to rot. The guy who was standing in could not be fucked to do anything other than play on his phone and go outside for a smoke break. So when I took over, I had a real job on my hands.
Fast forward nearly 6 months, and in all honesty, the store looks great compared to how it was when I started. Most of it is work I've had to put in and get right. However, my manager constantly puts the store down. I am the laughing stock of his group of stores, I am the lowest rated store in the area. I've been left behind and stuck with a team that just can't be bothered to work, and a head office that couldn't give a fuck if my store sinks. I'm under funded, over worked, under paid, its an absolute joke. My manager would rather come in and criticise the entire store than try to help me. The building is literally falling apart and head office won't justify the cost of repairing it
I'm honesty so fucking done with this place. I really want to stick it out and prove I can do this. I know this store can turn around. The only but of hope I have is a friend of mine in the company has recently become my managers boss, so I'm hoping they can stick up for me and get me the help I need