The Revolutionary Vol. 1

As I stood setting up my work uniform, for another day in the same place. I stood there without movement as if time was standing still, with my uniform shirt in my hand. It was a cold day and the sunlight was leaking through the cracks in my blinds. I was staring at the tag of my work shirt, reading it I notice that it said "Having fun at work, while being the best." It sadden me to realize that the slogan on that shirt had no longer a meaning, it had been morphed in the last six months. The work place had changed completely, it wasn't the happy place that me and many of my workers use to come to work to. Where we would be able to attract our customer, with our happy mood and well enough staffed floors and the general manager that always seemed happy with out showing us the stress in his life.

In the recent months many things have changed, there has been a depressing mood haunting the store, like a rapist stalks its prey in a dark alley where the fiends hang out. There is a new motivated tactic that has never been revealed till now in the Portable Electronics department. It seems that the highest seller/kissass/"productive" is the one who gains the most hours in the part timers, as if they were on commission. Many of them that it is based on to stay busy, doing things that might not even be necessary, such as down stocking product that is over fill because the majority of times that is all they have, which ends up killing the variety in products for the customers.

The new general manager is very aggressive, but yet the PNL is suffering the most, this store hasnt been able to hit their revenue target for various months, causing them not to get any of their bonuses, also known as Blue Crew Bucks. Which that adds on to the demoralization of the employees in the store especially the part timers who do not get that many hours. The General Manager doesn't help out in storing the morale of its employees. He became the eagle in the first encounter with everyone and then became the vulture attacking everyone behind their back, starting to cut their hours for how he perceives them. It was a surprised that one of his targets manage to prove him wrong in the Mystery Shops, by scoring 100% in them, which of course made a whole new impression on them, the district, and corporate. I wonder how he would feel that if he was told how they aimed for him to weed him out and how they cut his hours because they didnt think much of him as a worker. I spoke with him various times, it's sad that during this time, he wasnt able to afford to make ends meet on the necessities in his life, such as covering his medication for his hypertension or his diabetes.

Then there is also the current man in Digital Imaging that works two jobs to make ends meet. His schedule doesn't allow him to recover his exhaustion by sleeping, they've screwed him over by scheduling this other employee who has been claimed as the worst supervisor in that department. They schedule him in his preference over the one who needs the right shifts to allow him to rest. There has also been a young man in mobile, who has become a target of the General Manager, this young man has been the top leader in his group when their supervisor had to leave due to her pregnancy for a week. During that week he carried the weight on his shoulder, keeping the department at a top level position in the district. This young man has spoken back in response to the comments made of him by the GM and currently still comes to work everyday dealing with all the static he recieves, and still manages to fight off the pack of vultures.

The general manager has become a tyrant in the words of many. He commands his employees like if they were dogs and if they don't respond to his command then he perceives, to scream and yell at them adding to the demoralization, stress, pressure, and the feeling of hating to come to work. These are not things that are going to be prevented for they have already started to happen. In this wake of events I look at this tag and wondered that if we as the employees don't speak up against this abuse will we ever give a meaning to the slogan "Having fun at work, while being the best."