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I would try to be social with the supervisor which is a little small talk before the day starts and ask how was the supervisor weekend. It's possible your work relationship will improve if you continue to have small talk at the beginning of the day.
You said you worked in a grocery store right? Working in grocery I had a lot of bad supervisors (the vast majority) As long as you stand up for yourself and do your job you have not much to worry about.
Of course it depends on the company, but the HR at the place I worked was quite effective. If you filed an issue they would call the store the next day and it would generally be dealt with, because management was afraid of HR at that particular company. Once our store management was claiming they could require us to pack out so many items per hour. A quick call to HR told us there is no such requirement, other than showing up on time and working. They would threaten us all the time but would do nothing because HR would simply throw any write-ups out.
All of my other supervisors are decent. I couldn't sleep due to this and ended up reading this article. It is uncanny how much this article describes her;
All of OP posts are about the Grocery store. From bad Supervisor to coworkers. Are you sure its not you..?
Interesting.
And to think I got a warning for accidentally creating a thread that duplicated a previous thread I created. Different rules for different people I guess.
And, of course, you DID get the memo that HR is never your friend?
That thread isn't about her. It's about my financial situation. I wrote about her there because I didn't want to make another thread about this store at first.
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Originally Posted by leadingedge04
All of OP posts are about the Grocery store. From bad Supervisor to coworkers. Are you sure its not you..?
I'm sure. She switches from treating as the best employee she has ever seen (awarding me money, praising me to customers and others) to treating me like filth. At first it was for no discernible reason, as even though I know something was off about her I quickly became one her "favorites". After becoming aware of my financial situation it's like something woke up in her and she realized that I was a human being too and she started to treat me decently until Thursday. She was her original friendly, quirky self during the morning with big smiles and calling me pet names. Then she decided I needed to move the break-room tables around. The head manager caught her telling me to do this and their convo went like this; "What are you doing?" *Long pause* "Moving these tables." "Why? I mean they've always been over there." "Fine! Forget it!" *gets huffy and starts making a bee-line for the stairs* "Uh, I don't mind that you are doing it, I just want to know why." "Forget it!" *glares at him as she leaves* I knew that she was going to be a pain in the ass for the rest of the day and almost immediately after that she called me down to try to reprimand me about something trivial. That's what she does.
I have worked over thirty years. One truly monster of a boss/manager once. Not a whole lot you can do outside leaving and finding another position is the sad and unfortunate reality. There are some people who went into management because they get to try and crush and hurt people, there are some out there like that. You gotta avoid them is all you can do.
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