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Oh god why – Sick of tired of my retail management jobs and my stupid boss

I am going to give you guys a huuuuge wall of text just b/c I need to vent, please give insight if you are bored.

I started a new job for more pay but basically the same position. I have been with the company for about 3 months so far. At the beginning I really liked it, the company seemed more established, day to day operations seems more fine tuned and easier.

I am a department manager at place of retail, and my co-managers and general manager seem to yell at me for no good reason such as:

Today, on a Saturday, someone called in sick, so I was already short one person. We did hire a new person, but they weren’t trained completely, so they aren’t as helpful as someone who was there for awhile. Anyway, the other department manager comes in at 1:30 pm, and when they come in it was very very busy. I was helping people in one section, the other person was just getting back from their lunch break (I sent them b/c it was slow at the time) and the other guy was on the register.

Basically she calls me to the office and yells at me, asking if I can “handle” my position. That gets me furious and I explain that it was just busy and there was nothing I could do. She says I need to learn to delegate better. I try to explain that I can’t do much with the 2 other people, but she just gets defensive. She says a customer complained that we didn’t have shopping carts available inside, I explain that we JUST got some 20 minutes ago, and due to the huge burst of customers, they were all taken. She still wont’ listen. At this point I am getting more pissed off and just say that we shouldn’t be wasting time in the office arguing on a Saturday when we need to be on the sales floor.

Fast forward to 4pm. I am ready to leave. I see the general manager on the way out. I was told he stopped by to drop off an item for a customer. I didn’t think I was supposed to stay and entertain him. But as I am driving home he calls me and I know its going to be about the whole “busy customer” thing. He is furious and asks me why I left when I knew he was in the store. I tell him my shift was over and I wasn’t aware needed to stay. Keep in mind that he wasn’t even scheduled to work at the store that day, so its not like he was even on the clock. He says it was disrespectful to leave without saying anything to him. He asks me what happened during the busy part of the day. I explain myself (knowing the other manager is throwing me under the bus, totally exaggeration things as she has done in the past, trying to make me look bad.) He starts saying that I am not the person he thought I was, and that he wants me to improve because he doesn’t want to find another manager. He does not take anything I say into account, I plead to him that it was just extremely busy and I would have needed more people to get the crowd under control. I guess he assumed that I am a bad manager and the crowd slowly built up due to the lack of my management skills. I get off the phone with him, I am almost in tears, just because lately he has been very negative with me. It is frustrating because most things he is complaining about, isn’t even my fault.

The previous day I opened the store with him and another manager. I was assigned to open a particular department that I was never been taught how to open. I did a good job, but I asked a few questions here and there. He says things like “are you serious?, you are worrying me, what did you do during training?” I explain that when I was trained I was only trained to open the store as a manager. Surprisingly, he doesn’t except my excuse and says that I should have asked to be trained in those areas. EXCUSE ME BITCH. I didn’t know I was supposed to read minds and know what I need training in. That is not my job to train my fucking self.

Both of these events are just a sample of what I have to go through. I told my manager I am tired of being treated like an idiot and that I am always been scolded and never being praised. The final conversation ended on a decent note.

When I make a “mistake” he mentions either writing me up or firing me. I don’t know if that is just his crappy form of management, or what?

Reddit if you could be of any help, or just provide me some of your personal stories, anything would help before I have to go to work again tomorrow.

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