My store manager sat me down to tell me that our Regional manager, allegedly, is threatening to change my schedule up without my permission as some gross punishment because I haven't sold enough adjustable bases at work last week.
??????
I've had normal adjustable base sales for the year and a half I've worked here. quotas fluctuate like with anyone.
But the entire store is down, everything is down. All quotas for the store overall is mostly down. But that's the entire region, the company even!
Foot traffic is 80% DOWN at my store, we actually calculated it compared to last year. My assistant who works My same schedule, he's same as me on numbers and he's known for being amazing at this sales thing.
So to frame this as a punishment is cruel! And when I bring these reasons up, I'm met with "that's just an excuse". My store manager said that and it really got under my skin.

They know that Mondays are important to me, so it's felt like a low blow every time they do this. they've always tried to take it away because jobs just cannot STAND a person needing one day out of the week to not be available because it's the only day I can run errands and take care of my family. The only day I'm guaranteed to see my husband. holidays take it away which is fine, although sometimes I feel like my store manager finds joy when I lose my Mondays this way. But like I'm fine working that day occasionally as needed, just need it to be my usual off day for my personal life. If they take it, I'm absolutely screwed out of any appointments (share 1 car and I can't drive here ect ect), dates, anything that I do with my partner outside of work. It's only on this day because my shifts are 11 hours, it's impossible to squeeze family time with work time otherwise. My husband CAN'T change his off day at his job, he had to fight a lot to get his Mondays off too.
My managers know how important this is to me.

This is only because I didn't sell adjustable bases for one week! I mostly sold mattresses for kids last week!!

RSM also suggested I didn't sell any Tempur/Sealy/Stearns brand mattresses. another quota we have. But in fact I sold more than anyone else, I only didn't sell any last week. The week before last I only worked 1 day because bereavement, but I still sold these brands and an adjustable in fact!! I don't understand that even when I say this, they still continue to threat. I HAVE BEEN selling these things, just last week flopped!

I'm not inadequate! Why do they push my nerves like this?

I'm so angry
no other job around here will pay what this job pays, I've been looking, but I can't afford our home if I take a pay cut. This is just the straw on top, I've been biting back on so much work stress from these managers. I wonder if they're trying to push me to quit? Maybe this is why my store manager keeps pushing extra work on me.

In desperate times, my management team is becoming rude af.
It's terribly angering :vanora_cry:

@Totalanimefan:
I haven't seen any ads for any job that pays even close to this one that isn't about driving a box truck. I don't have a lot of wiggle room to cut my wage until my husband gets full time (his job is being crap too so he's also hunting). or until I pay off my car.
:vanora_stunned:

I made 52k last year, this year I'll probably be around 40-45k with how inflation actually dropped our sales and foot traffic. i try to stay in this pay range. This company pays well and its not absurdly hard, but the managers can really make or break it.

With warehouse guy gone too, we're all about to add a ton of tasks to our daily load. last one we lost, it was so chaotic trying to run the floor while managing the warehouse at the same time

@Totalanimefan:
sadly not, there's no one i can rely on when it comes to personal problems like this. my store manager and regional manager are expected to be as HR as it gets.
but they have such a mentality that "the job owns me" that there's no way they will listen. they cannot fathom the idea that my family is more important than this job, and why it's a big deal to me to lose the one day each week that i am able to spend time with my husband. they just know that it IS a big deal and so they'll use it against me.

but yes, it is an unusual pay range for a retail job. even with it being commission based. i don't want to sound ungrateful to that. people just suck x__x

@Totalanimefan:
its so sad, really. and frustrating!
if anyone would listen, there's a lot I could say about how much my store manager is just NOT fit for his job lol
hell, he makes the trainees do his job for him while he sits and watches police videos on full volume on his phone all day. He over promises, lies, cheats, steals customers from the rest of us. among other real frustrating things.

I need therapy for existing in this society, I swear :vanora_xd:

But yeah, I have my eyes open. Kind of been grazing the job market for a few months off and on. Nothing yet. I'm "not allowed" to work for another mattress/furniture store, but I have yet to find in the system if there is actually a non compete clause or if I have signed anything. I cannot remember and my asst manager hasn't found anything yet, so he thinks its only verbal. aka, don't exist lol other sales jobs I haven't found any yet that pay the range that I need. yet!

We also have a co-manager coming in July, so if I dont change jobs, I've been holding my breath to see if he makes any improvements to this store. I hear he's really good on integrity. And... I wonder what he'll find in his time with us? The errors are easy to see, the auditors are already noticing the current store manager.
If this co-manager presence helps at all to improve the balance at my store, I would wanna see if I could follow him to the new location they're building for him! But that'll be 1-2 years later ;;;;;;