#district manager

[bearpillowmonster]

Got a new post for you guys that's a continuation of the last few but it's gone off long enough so just know I'm referring to these for context. Honestly, it's gotten worse-

My boss was sent an email to which he had to print out and hand to people, I blurred out any names or indications to locations.

I marked it up before taking a picture because I had so many questions, so that's the red pen but let's go through it. Also, it's obviously got a ton of typos and errors in it but that's this guy's signature.

He refers to two branches that don't close on Saturdays but are too shorthanded to fulfill it (because why, I don't really know but we'll get there.) And they expect the other branches to go over there in rotation to help. (you do one week, another guy does the next, so on and so forth) He says he asked to eliminate Saturdays but this guy is a penny pincher, I wouldn't believe that especially since that's all he elaborates on it.

He goes into detail about how it would work and then continues with the first underlined sentence, something I reread and reread and just couldn't wrap my head around. My manager made it plain though. Basically, this guy is threatening to punish those that don't comply...by opening their own branches on Saturday? And then the rotation would be weekly which is as stupid as it sounds, I know, I couldn't wrap my head around it because it's so beneath me that I couldn't process the reasoning behind it but yes, it's used as a threat. To make Saturdays a thing again and then make EVERY branch short handed and the problem grows and the cycle continues. This isn't our problem, you're just making a bigger mess than initially stated. And this wasn't backed by anybody else but himself, there is no CEO involvement, there is no higher up telling him this stuff, this is all him making bluffs and casting invisible chips that aren't there yet because there's no way that the CEO is going to approve that. An empty threat made on impulse and sent out before given any thought as to the repercussions. HR doesn't like it and if someone higher up hears about it, they probably won't either.

The next sentence just allocates which branch will fill in where but then goes on to explain that "If staff cannot work a Saturday, it is their responsibility to find a replacement and notify whatever manager available." This is also nobody's responsibility, this is a load of BS but this is his way of pushing off the problem. He sent out this memo for a reason and it's already almost over, can you guess why? Because he half bakes ideas, pushes them on other people and forces them to try and make the obvious blunder work, he then wipes his hands of it and blames you for the blunder you've now become "responsible" for. My coworker brought up that his son-in-law works at a prison and should the state mandate him to work on a Saturday then he would be in line to babysit his kids but he wouldn't know that until Friday night so there was no way that he could notify anybody of it or find a replacement.

Now the growing part. "One Manager and One Associate" this was originally going to be between four associates (including myself) but then one of the people already in this rotation brought up "But I'm technically a manager, why am I being singled out?" So this DSM's solution was to include all the managers and inside sales people, growing that measly 4 people that never gave an answer one way or the other into a threat to ALL employees. Well, I say all, I'll also get to that in a moment.

But the manager is needed to run overrides because the credit department doesn't have to work on Saturdays (whoop) and provide whatever's needed, that's the whole "denied or approved" part he could've worded that better. And that's about it with his sloppy name written at the bottom.

Now let's backtrack. ALL employees. This branch will NEED people who belong to this branch, STILL, because you need 1. A keyholder to lock and unlock the place. 2. Warehouse associates to pull and even find the product in the first place. Now wait- If you have all these people already needed, then why are we pulling from other places? My manager brought this up in a call about the warehouse guys and the response was something along the lines of "The warehouse workers there, you don't want to work on Saturdays." THEN WHY ARE THEY THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE? WHY ARE THEY EMPLOYEES? BECAUSE YOU'RE SHORTHANDED? WHY IS THIS ANY DIFFERENT? "Those are exactly the type of people I want there on Saturday because if they're being bad employees then I'm going to report them and-" My next point:

Saturdays are a good day to learn how to run stuff because THEY'RE NOT BUSY. Looking at the Saturday sales for each branch, they don't run it like their supposed to. Putting in orders for Saturday's business and having them pick it up on Monday is both a no-no and a useless effort because that person could've just called and said "I'll pick it up on Monday". That makes up more than half of Saturday sales for all the branches and the rest is kind of pitiful, you're spending more than you're pulling in. Branch...whatever, made -$16 last week. NEGATIVE. That means someone returned more stuff than they bought.

Then there are the people that are left. You see, this grew up to managers and inside sales but this company likes putting more labels on people than one can bear so technically that includes outside sales people and you can't single out them so you have to include them all and who's to stop there? Because there are teams of people in different departments that also fall into this category. If it's all about equal treatment then EVERYONE should be on board, regardless of their position. As long as they know how to operate the system, they qualify. But you know who won't be there? The DSM and the branch manager. Because both of them are complete imbeciles that think they have better to do and place all the work and blame on everyone beneath. Neither of them could last with just one of our customers, despite knowing the system, they'll never help out at the counter.

But this is where something interesting could happen. An uprising, if you will. I want us all to band together. I want us to beat this. But there's also an anniversary of the company coming up and it's before September 1st when this supposed thing starts. The CEO will be there. The DSM will be there. Need I say more? They're visiting all these branches and we can tell them exactly what we all think. That's what this calls for. I'm scared, terrified really because I'm not a confrontational kind of person, especially if I'm the starter, but enough is enough. We all have to do something.

If it doesn't become something then then it will later on down the line when everyone submits their overtime and mileage bill.

[flannelepicurean]

Machine on the left isn't just durable af, it's got DESIGN. It's got personality and character that can hold a really good dinner conversation, not "character" solely as in, "I gotta hold my mouth just right or it falls all to pieces." It could be fucken DECOR, in a really classy way, but it's NOT, it can DO THINGS to the highest degree. If it were a quest item, it would have been made by an extremely hot Dwarf who can engage in repartee in multiple languages -- including multiple dialects of Elvish. Absolute workhorse of high society; absolute "eccentric but classy, and with a damn smart mouth" of the most pleasantly disreputable bunch. Could cut you in half with a witty barb. Watch your fingers.

Machine on the right wears a gray polo shirt tucked into black pleated-front trousers, with a brown belt and shoes. The machine on the right is angling for a District Manager position. Absolute Josh trying hard to be a Kevin. Probably has an MBA, and not from one of the good schools. Created by humans who find the bottom line at the bottom of the barrel. With all the "worst of both worlds" advantages of picking Human as a race and a max-min multiclass build.

Yes, max-min. You heard what I said.

Do you think the people who design modern sewing machines in plastic cases ever feel insignificant because of it? knowing that they're making machines with the lifespan of a dog when they could (if they'd been born a few generations earlier) be making machines with the lifespan of a Galapagos tortoise?

[foldingfittedsheets]

My manager was supposed to do evaluations with all of us in December. Technically I think he’s supposed to do them like. Once a month.

But *shocked pikachu face* it’s been six months and I haven’t had one. Didn’t get the December one. Never see him. Just work in the tiny store and get ignored.

[cotl-flower-crown]

Happy Valentines day!

Throwing some cute art at y'all, featuring @radicalrainbow 's Valentina and Grinder (gang au Narinder) from their high school years. High school sweethearts that were separated by fate (and Narinder's self-loathing) once Nari ended up in jail. Will they ever find closure? Who knows. Only time can tell.

>:)

As bittersweet as their story is, it's surely something worth cherishing.

(NKSNKDS I'VE BEEN OBSESSED WITH THEM FOR A FEW DAYS NOW, THEY'RE SO IN LOVE AAAH <;3)

[uo6ep]

Q: Do you only use one type of prosthesis? How about trying something different?

[reasonsforhope]

"In Washington D.C., a sophisticated sewage treatment plant is turning the capital’s waste into a form of capital: living capital that is fertilizing the gardens of farms of the Mid-Atlantic region and saving vast quantities of resources.

Described by the workers’ there as a “resource recovery plant,” D.C. Water run a biogas plant and high-quality fertilizer production in the course of their dirty duty to ensure the city’s waste finds a safe endpoint.

The nation’s capital is exceptional at producing waste from the toilet bowls of the 2.2 million people who live, work, and commute through the city and its suburbs.

Reporting by Lina Zeldovich reveals that rather than trucking it all to a landfill, D.C. Water extract an awful lot of value from the capital crap, by looking at it as a resource to send through the world’s largest advanced wastewater treatment plant, which uses a “thermal hydrolysis process” in which it is sterilized, broken down, and shipped off for processing into “Bloom,” a nitrogen-rich, slow-release fertilizer product. 

The other “Black Gold”

At their facility in southwest Washington, huge aeration tanks percolate the poo of everyone from tourists to the President. After it’s all fed into enormous pressure cookers where, under the gravity of six earth atmospheres and 300°F, the vast black sludge is rendered harmless.

Next this “Black Gold,” as Zeldovich described it, is pumped into massive bacterial-rich tanks where microbes breakdown large molecules like fats, proteins, and carbs into smaller components, shrinking the overall tonnage of sewage to 450 tons per day down from 1,100 at the start of the process.

This mass-micro-munching also produces methane, which when fed into an onsite turbine, generates a whopping 10 megawatts of green energy which can power 8,000 nearby homes. [Note: Natural gas (which is mostly methane) is definitely greener than coal and oil, but it still causes a significant amount of emissions and greenhouse gases.] The 450 tons of remaining waste from the D.C. feces are sent into another room where conveyor belts ring out excess fluid before feeding it through large rollers which squash it into small congregate chunks.

D.C. Water sends this to another company called Homestead Gardens for drying, aging, and packaging before it’s sold as Bloom.

“I grow everything with it, squashes, tomatoes, eggplants,” Bill Brower, one of the plant’s engineers, tells Zeldovich. “Everything grows great and tastes great,” he adds.

“And I’m not the only one who thinks so. We’ve heard from a lot of people that they’ve got the best response they’ve ever seen from the plants. Particularly with leafy greens because that nitrogen boost does well with leafy plants. And the plants seem to have fewer diseases and fewer pests around—probably because Bloom helps build healthy soils.”

While farms around the country are facing nutrient depletion in soils from over-farming, turning to synthetic fertilizers to make up the difference, introducing more such thermal hydrolysis plants could truly revolutionize the way humans look at their feces—as a way of restoring the country’s soils rather than polluting them. As Mike Rowe would say, it only takes a person who’s willing to get their hands dirty."

-via Good News Network, November 23, 2021

Note: You can buy this fertilizer yourself here!

[wazzappp]

Random work doodle I ended up liking

[ultimaterickshowdown]

ULTIMATE SMASHABLE RICK: ROUND 3

DISTRICT MANAGER RICK VS DOOFUS RICK

[fishermcn]

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[cator99]

I also befriended my TLs screwed up 34 y/o daughter today. Due to union store restrictions we can only work in 2 isles at a time– we had to split up into mini-teams and since she gets reactive with everyone else she was placed under my care but I found her so fascinating that I decided to spend all my breaks sitting and talking with her which is how I managed to find out that a previous employee died as a direct result of head office's negligence and inability to deal with glaring internal issues at the root but I'm going to sleep sweetly now and I'll blog about that nightmare tomorrow

[myalonyalala]

Oh I wish I could tell the world how much I love Effie!

I have loved her from the second time i rewatched Hunger Games, that was when im 15 (now im 23). I just love the way she get herself, behave, and act like a weird (but normal in Capitol), apathy, and else. But since I just read the book in its original language, i love Effie more. She's such a unique person. She always get me everytime she talk, act like she know it all but actually she is verry shallow. She is just lovable! I love her✨️

[bunnykitty13]

LOOK AT THIS INSANE REVIEW SOMEONE LEFT ABOUT ME THIS WEEKEND…… “face hardware tattooed trans kid with boomer phobia” is EASILY the funniest description of me I’ve ever heard

[hythlodaes]

feeling a little crazy for wanting a shred of recognition in my district 🤪

[fadedlovemp3]

the art school kids need to get better at trying to shoplift bc i can immediately tell like your energy is off you need to align your energy with that of a shopper who just happened to put something in their bag and not pay for it like tip from me to u you are vibrating on the plane of guilt you need to fix that bc you’re pinging as a lifter also don’t try to lift in stores small enough for 2 employees to cover like it is amateur hour out hereeeee

[itstimeforstarwars]

"Oh you're a scorpio that explains so much about you!!" no the fuck it does not. The fact that I spent years in college to get a degree only to work in retail under a nepotism hire explains much more about me than a collection of fireballs billions of miles away, and the fact that destiel went canon on my birthday almost a decade after I started using tumblr explains everything else you need to know frankly.

[windy-apple]

I’m trying so hard not to bail on my job before I have something else lined up. So hard.