I need advice, so I will try to keep this short.
I stock grocery stores with cookies and crackers from “N company.” I am the best worker on my route, and several managers and employees with N have said so. The praise is not lost on my DM.
I live with my parents and would like to move out to another town, but still work for N. So I asked my DM for a tranfer to the route operating in this town.
He said that he could reach out to the DM for this specific town, (which is outside of his own territory) but he will not because, and I quote, “I am a selfish DM,” and since I work so hard and his sales look so good now that I'm working under him, he doesn't want to let me go.
You know, like he owns me.
So he is willing to put in a call to the manager of a route working within his own territory, meaning that the closest location I can work to the town I want to move to will be 30+ minutes away.
Not a bad commute, but it could be better, you know, if he would do the right thing and reach out to to the place where I want to live and work. Of course, that would mean signing me away to work for someone else.
He hasn't updated me since I first asked for the transfer. He still has it in his mind that he can transfer me only as far as he's willing to. Bear in mind, I'm just stocking shelves with cookies and crackers!
What should I say to my DM, who thinks I'm his trophy?