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13 years ago
Now, just to preface, I don't hate my job. Considering the many jobs that came before it, it's quite nice.
Things have just... changed since I've started... and not exactly towards the better. In short, one of the owners decided that they needed the person who oversees their chain of pizza restaurants needed to also oversee our store. Immediately words start getting tossed around like "Employee theft" and "we will be monitoring the security cameras remotely" as well as "store is no longer making enough profit" and "we need to raise prices on the customers." Because, in a bad economy, that makes complete sense.
The atmosphere of the store went from very calm and relaxed to very tense and paranoid. My manager decided to do what way too many people do when they get paranoid and tense. She began to drink. A lot. One day, one of the owners came in and the manager was on the clock, so drunk that she didn't even remember talking to said owner the next morning.
As a quick aside, I'm sympathetic towards my manager, but I don't agree with her desire to drink her problems away, nor do I agree with her having been allowed to keep her job after this. She's a nice lady, don't get me wrong, but she could have gotten the store shut down.
Back to the tale. Two days later new security cameras are being installed in the store. ALL OF THEM, in the backroom just to watch little old us. Now. I'm not unused to being on camera where I work. Most of my jobs involved at least a couple cameras in the back room to make sure employees weren't... well I don't know Peeing on the walls. But, this is absurd. There are five total cameras watching the sales floor (The store is quite small) ... There are EIGHT total cameras watching the back room. Some cameras are redundant just to ensure that every inch is being monitored. There is even a camera in the backroom cooler where we keep beer chilled before moving it into the cooler on the sales floor.
To top it all off, the cameras on the sales floor have holes in coverage, and the coverage is lackluster. Honestly, if I get robbed, I need to lure the person into the back room if the police want a picture of his face instead of the top of his head. I wish I were kidding.
This is just... well... ridiculous.
There was one thing about it all... The day after all the cameras were hooked up and turned on, the hub for all the cameras fried from being overloaded. =3 I giggled.
Things have just... changed since I've started... and not exactly towards the better. In short, one of the owners decided that they needed the person who oversees their chain of pizza restaurants needed to also oversee our store. Immediately words start getting tossed around like "Employee theft" and "we will be monitoring the security cameras remotely" as well as "store is no longer making enough profit" and "we need to raise prices on the customers." Because, in a bad economy, that makes complete sense.
The atmosphere of the store went from very calm and relaxed to very tense and paranoid. My manager decided to do what way too many people do when they get paranoid and tense. She began to drink. A lot. One day, one of the owners came in and the manager was on the clock, so drunk that she didn't even remember talking to said owner the next morning.
As a quick aside, I'm sympathetic towards my manager, but I don't agree with her desire to drink her problems away, nor do I agree with her having been allowed to keep her job after this. She's a nice lady, don't get me wrong, but she could have gotten the store shut down.
Back to the tale. Two days later new security cameras are being installed in the store. ALL OF THEM, in the backroom just to watch little old us. Now. I'm not unused to being on camera where I work. Most of my jobs involved at least a couple cameras in the back room to make sure employees weren't... well I don't know Peeing on the walls. But, this is absurd. There are five total cameras watching the sales floor (The store is quite small) ... There are EIGHT total cameras watching the back room. Some cameras are redundant just to ensure that every inch is being monitored. There is even a camera in the backroom cooler where we keep beer chilled before moving it into the cooler on the sales floor.
To top it all off, the cameras on the sales floor have holes in coverage, and the coverage is lackluster. Honestly, if I get robbed, I need to lure the person into the back room if the police want a picture of his face instead of the top of his head. I wish I were kidding.
This is just... well... ridiculous.
There was one thing about it all... The day after all the cameras were hooked up and turned on, the hub for all the cameras fried from being overloaded. =3 I giggled.
