On hiatus…
This blog’s going to be either on hiatus for a while or wildly off topic.
It’s ostensibly a blog where I talk about management and retail management.
After today’s melt down on twitter I realized I didn’t think that it was a good idea for me to talk about work right now in any context on the Internet. It’s part of that whole, “If you can’t say something nice don’t say anything” thing. I’m so frustrated, irritated, over-whelmed, and filled with feelings of hopelessness and despair that I really can’t think of anything to say that’s nice. I’m sure a relative quiet has been noticed around here lately.
Short version: We got new software at our corporate offices and the person who did it did NOT run the new system in parallel with the old system for even an hour to see if it would work. He turned off our old system and turned on the new saying, “If you keep the old one you won’t learn the new one. No sense using crutches! Dive in. It’s the only way you’ll learn!”
That was in October. Things still aren’t working right and seriously it’s horrible when you’re in retail and product doesn’t re-order and the office that does the ordering doesn’t know what your inventory is and there’s no way of telling it. I just don’t know what to do anymore. All I’m positive about is that we, on the front lines, are doing all we can to keep the doors open. My crew has really come together and is busting their butts to make bricks without straw and I have tremendous respect for them for it. But I’m just too tired to pretend any more. I’m ready to work at Wal-greens at a register. Seriously. I just don’t want to play right now.
Hopefully after Christmas things will sort out. I’m constantly assured that there’s improvement and things will fix themselves any day now. I pray I’m still here when it happens.
Until then, until I like work again this will be my last post about work. Things are just too stressful and tense right now. Those of you who work for the same company you know it. I’m turning off comments here so nobody says anything that gets them in trouble. There are too many eyes on this blog for me to be comfortable with what people may say and how it may be taken. If you want to e-mail me I’d love to hear from you. But comments… probably a bad idea.
This post is probably a bad idea, but I’ve looked. We have no internet policy. I’ll win the unemployment if they fire me and you know… I’d sleep in tomorrow if they did and wouldn’t look back. That’s what an emergency fund is for.
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