Managers who are on other managers' dikks just because they're managers.

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What are y'all thoughts on this? Serious discussion.

I'm a Dairy Manager at a supermarket, and we have eggs on sale this week. We have something called a "bunker", it's in like the center of the store and is generally used as a secondary location for sale items (I'm sure you've all seen them before), and so I put the eggs in there. My store manager (who always panics about shyt and is a fukking idiot) told me that I supposedly "didn't order enough", and told me to take them out of the bunker and just "let them sell from the shelf all weekend", so that they don't blow out. This is fukking retarded, because we have 60 cases of them in the back, and there's no way that we're gonna blow through all of them like he thinks we are...so by taking them out of the bunker, we're just gonna have them sit in the back room. Pretty stupid, right?

But anyway...as I was getting ready to leave, I told one of my guys to put them back in the bunker, but just make a small section for them, as opposed to putting a lot of them in there, like they were originally. One of the managers walks up to me (a "shift manager"), and says "Hey, didn't Max (the store manager) tell you to take those out?". I was like "Uhh yeah, but I just told Ryan (my employee) to put them back and just make a small facing for them, just so that they're not sitting in the back and not selling". And he was like "Well, I mean, yeah, I personally wouldn't have taken them out either, but, you know...he's (Max) the boss. I mean, if he says take the eggs out and put friggin' candy in there (obviously just a hypothetical...even Max isn't THAT stupid), we gotta do it, ya know?". So I'm thinking "Alright bruh, get off his dikk". But whatever...he didn't really say much else after that, and just walked away. Then maybe like 10 minutes later, he (the shift manager) pages me to come up front, and so I do. I ask him "what's up?", and he's like "Oh yeah, uhh, Max said take those eggs out again" (even though it was just a small facing). Now, how would Max have even known that I put them back in there, when he hadn't even walked back to my department at all? I was just thinking like "Yo, what a fukking fakkit. Really telling on me though? Get off the manager's dikk".

I've always said that if I was a higher manager (shift manager, co-manager, whatever), I wouldn't just automatically be on other managers' dikks just because we're managers. That's a little gay, honestly. If a person's an idiot then they're an idiot...it doesn't really matter who they are. I'm not gonna be like "Oh yeah, [insert manager's name here] is smart, he knows what he's doing, etc." if I know he's a moron. I can't bring myself to be that fake. Like I said, I feel like that sh-t's kinda corny honestly.

What do y'all think about this? Discuss.
 

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You should eat about 50 boiled eggs and then take a shyt in the sales spot where you wanted to put the eggs.:sas2:

That'll teach em to fukk with you :ufdup:
 

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Did I just read "As the (Egg) World Turns...." soap opera in this bytch?!

:pachaha:, but really, it's like that in all work environments, breh. People feel they have to climb over and on the backs of others to get some....nowhere. I'm a manager too and I don't rock like that. My managers respect me more because I don't kiss a$$. It could be bc its a military job.
 

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Did I just read "As the (Egg) World Turns...." soap opera in this bytch?!

:pachaha:, but really, it's like that in all work environments, breh. People feel they have to climb over and on the backs of others to get some....nowhere. I'm a manager too and I don't rock like that. My managers respect me more because I don't kiss a$$. It could be bc its a military job.

Yeah, I hear ya. There's a lot of corny ass fakkits like that, he ain't the only one. That's what's up though that you're not like that...shyt's gay honestly.
 

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Good thread, I hate all my managers man, none if them have any common sense. I swear cacs r the smartest dumb ppl.
 

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Speaking from experience I will tell you to just do what you are told and forget about it. I can tell you are one of those guys that take their work home with them and I'm here to tell you to quit being too attached to that job. Do what the Store Manager said and keep it moving.

If he come back and give u another direction then do that too. You Job is to follow the last command from the higher authority not stress, or worry about all the other shyt. That's for the store manager to do, its his store.

When you delegate to ur associates and someone higher than u comes and give a different direction, don't fight them, let them. All you can do in situations like this is have a record of what u are told, what you tell your associates etc. But don't worry about the extra stuff. If you get a direction, delegate to ur associates and follow up, if u can help out then do so, go home and enjoy ur life after.
 

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What are y'all thoughts on this? Serious discussion.

I'm a Dairy Manager at a supermarket, and we have eggs on sale this week. We have something called a "bunker", it's in like the center of the store and is generally used as a secondary location for sale items (I'm sure you've all seen them before), and so I put the eggs in there. My store manager (who always panics about shyt and is a fukking idiot) told me that I supposedly "didn't order enough", and told me to take them out of the bunker and just "let them sell from the shelf all weekend", so that they don't blow out. This is fukking retarded, because we have 60 cases of them in the back, and there's no way that we're gonna blow through all of them like he thinks we are...so by taking them out of the bunker, we're just gonna have them sit in the back room. Pretty stupid, right?

But anyway...as I was getting ready to leave, I told one of my guys to put them back in the bunker, but just make a small section for them, as opposed to putting a lot of them in there, like they were originally. One of the managers walks up to me (a "shift manager"), and says "Hey, didn't Max (the store manager) tell you to take those out?". I was like "Uhh yeah, but I just told Ryan (my employee) to put them back and just make a small facing for them, just so that they're not sitting in the back and not selling". And he was like "Well, I mean, yeah, I personally wouldn't have taken them out either, but, you know...he's (Max) the boss. I mean, if he says take the eggs out and put friggin' candy in there (obviously just a hypothetical...even Max isn't THAT stupid), we gotta do it, ya know?". So I'm thinking "Alright bruh, get off his dikk". But whatever...he didn't really say much else after that, and just walked away. Then maybe like 10 minutes later, he (the shift manager) pages me to come up front, and so I do. I ask him "what's up?", and he's like "Oh yeah, uhh, Max said take those eggs out again" (even though it was just a small facing). Now, how would Max have even known that I put them back in there, when he hadn't even walked back to my department at all? I was just thinking like "Yo, what a fukking fakkit. Really telling on me though? Get off the manager's dikk".

I've always said that if I was a higher manager (shift manager, co-manager, whatever), I wouldn't just automatically be on other managers' dikks just because we're managers. That's a little gay, honestly. If a person's an idiot then they're an idiot...it doesn't really matter who they are. I'm not gonna be like "Oh yeah, [insert manager's name here] is smart, he knows what he's doing, etc." if I know he's a moron. I can't bring myself to be that fake. Like I said, I feel like that sh-t's kinda corny honestly.

What do y'all think about this? Discuss.
Everybody needs to be on the same page. The store manager is the head honcho, and he can set the tone for how things operate. If there's something to argue about, you can comply if he or she is your manager. Because if things fail, you and others can vouch that so and so made the decision and you just complied.
Just keep your head up. Take promotion opportunities when they come your way.
These other managers are brown nosing because it is part of the game. The brown nosing business is sometimes, the way to gain favor from the store manager.
 

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Speaking from experience I will tell you to just do what you are told and forget about it. I can tell you are one of those guys that take their work home with them and I'm here to tell you to quit being too attached to that job. Do what the Store Manager said and keep it moving.

If he come back and give u another direction then do that too. You Job is to follow the last command from the higher authority not stress, or worry about all the other shyt. That's for the store manager to do, its his store.

When you delegate to ur associates and someone higher than u comes and give a different direction, don't fight them, let them. All you can do in situations like this is have a record of what u are told, what you tell your associates etc. But don't worry about the extra stuff. If you get a direction, delegate to ur associates and follow up, if u can help out then do so, go home and enjoy ur life after.

Good post.

Yeah, I'm not gonna lie, I care a lot about work. I'm cool with all my workers, I don't over-work people or expect them to do retarded, unnecessary shyt (like the idiot store manager does), but I'm still serious about getting shyt done. I definitely feel what you're saying, though. The thing is, if the eggs just sit in the back room and don't sell, and then expire (which they do in a little over a month), I'm sure it'll come down on me. Not to mention, the shyt is taking up mad space in the back room, and I'm all about not having a lot of back-stock (unless it's something that we actually need extra of).

You definitely spit a lot of real shyt though. :salute:
 

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Seeing as you work as a manager at a Kroger, this shyt doesn't matter in the grand scheme at all. People (ESPECIALLY retail/grocery/restaurant managers and workers) have an annoying habit to think that they and their jobs and lives are more important than they really are, that's why you get this type of petty bullshyt happening.

And that's not a shot or me hating on you - I work/have worked in those industries too (three years in a grocery store) so I'm just coming from experience.
 

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Seeing as you work as a manager at a Kroger, this shyt doesn't matter in the grand scheme at all. People (ESPECIALLY retail/grocery/restaurant managers and workers) have an annoying habit to think that they and their jobs and lives are more important than they really are, that's why you get this type of petty bullshyt happening.

And that's not a shot or me hating on you - I work/have worked in those industries too (three years in a grocery store) so I'm just coming from experience.

Yeah, dudes is fakkits in retail.
 

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I feel where you're coming from. I work for a manager that doesn't always make the best decisions. My fellow managers and employees all agree on this. But we just do what we can to get thru the day. Are you ordering the eggs yourself? Or is it the delivery company? 60 cases is too much. How much does your store sell? They always send us too many eggs during a sale.
 

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I feel where you're coming from. I work for a manager that doesn't always make the best decisions. My fellow managers and employees all agree on this. But we just do what we can to get thru the day. Are you ordering the eggs yourself? Or is it the delivery company? 60 cases is too much. How much does your store sell? They always send us too many eggs during a sale.

I order the eggs myself. Our store does a pretty decent amount of business, but these particular eggs have never been on sale before, so it's kinda hard to predict exactly how many are gonna sell. We don't have any past sales numbers to look at.

Here's the thing, though...his dumb ass was standing right there when I told another manager how many cases I was ordering to start the sale (which was 60), and he didn't say anything (i.e. "That's not enough", or anything along those lines). Then he asked me Friday morning (which was the first day of the sale) how many I had ordered, and I told him "60", and he's like "60? That won't even last us until the end of today. Take them out of the bunker (secondary sale area), sell them from the shelf". Then, when I walk in yesterday morning, he asks me "How many cases of eggs do we still have in the back room?", and I said "close to 60" (I didn't have an exact number). He says "Close to 60? That can't be...we started off with 60, and we sold some yesterday". I said "Yeah, but the eggs are big (They're 2 1/2 dozen large)...we can only fit like a case and a half's worth to the shelf, so of course we didn't sell that many cases (there's 10 in a case). Then he's like "Alright, put them back in the bunker".

Yeah, he's not the brightest dude in the world (to put it nicely).
 

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you should have filled the entire bunker with nothing but eggs.
stood in front of the bunker and started yelling "free eggs, free eggs today!"
 
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