West Coast Florida Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Marissa
How are you feeling? What happened yesterday, if you don't mind me asking?
Re: Marissa
I feel like a failure. And I feel broke. But in a way I also feel a little relieved.
It all starts back in March sometime. The head honchos decided that the only way to get the inventory for each individual stores to be accurate was to make sure that all transactions were closed by Saturday (The vendors deliver the goods, the employees in the respective departments check in and "scan" the goods, and then those show up in a computer program that I used to check that the invoices matched the inventory scanned.) We have two vendors that usually have large invoices ($20K or more 2x a week, plus a bunch of other invoices that were smaller throughout the week.)). The invoices were usually 800-100 lines of product long (per large invoice) I was the only person doing this job until April-ish, I think.
Well, if I couldn't get a transaction closed by Friday and didn't have any extra hours to work for the week, then I would print a copy of the inventory scanned in, delete the tranaction, and then do it the following week. Well, things kept piling up and I didn't ask for help. Ever.
I should have. I was under the impression that if I asked for help, it was a sign of weakness, and that I should be ashamed to ask for help. The girl who does the same job at the Carrollwood location has been doing that job for 10 years and she has 4 people helping her. I didn't have anyone.
Well, before I went on Maernity leave, we got my "work mother" to help me out with some things, but it was with the little things I needed help with (filing, price changes, etc.) BTW, the other girl has someone who ONLY does filing. I was trying to get caught up, but I had so many responsibilities there, and never asked for help.
Then the babies came early. I worked for a week in the middle of my maternity leave (Luis did not save a DIME for my maternity leave and the car needed repairs in the two months prior to their birth and those repairs totalled over $900.) I was documented for having the invoices so overdue, inventory-wise (the bills for all these invoices had been paid) but not putting in the invoices in a timely manner affected or gross margin and profitabilty. I told my boss that I had more invoices that needed to be put in and he assumed that I had a few. I had about 12 (most were small invoices) and there were 2 big ones.
I went back for my first day, I worked the whole day, I was packing up to go home, and he said that since there were so many "other invoices" that he had to let me go.
I feel like a failure because I couldn't do the work.
I feel broke because, I was just not paid for 6 weeks. I feel relieved because at least now FMIL (with a bad back, cataracts, and Glaucoma) will not be watching my daughters while I am at work.
Luis doesn't make much and still hasn't saved any money (Don't ever let him know that I told you he only make $8.50/hour as a houseman at Rooms to go.)
He is supposed to get transferred to the Seffner Clearance center to work in Sales which should triple is income, but they need someone at his store before they can let him transfer. So, he's going to be $8.50/ hour for...idk how long.
Our lease is up at the end of this month, so we aren't worried about that.
My mom offered to let me and the girls come live with her and I can get my M.A. or I can get a teaching certificate and start teaching. This will be for a few months, and Luis was crying because he doesn't want to be away from the girls that long. I am leaning towards this, because I trust my mom watching the girls, and I would really like to go back to school. Luis would have to stay here, find somewhere and possibly someone to live with, and get things in order here.
He could transfer to another store, but only after 6 months and IF there is a job open.
He is also trying to get me a job at the Seffner Rooms to Go clearance center (where he is going to be transferring) on the corporate side. That way we could at least keep our family together.
I really am not sure what to do.
I need a large margarita.
/hug
I'm sorry you lost a job you loved. That's got to be very difficult.
Unless there is a corporate/store policy outlining a disciplinary process, you can be terminated at any time for any reason at all. For example, we are a small company and have no disciplinary policy, so if you had an off attitude one day we could just fire you.
If there is an employee manual that outlines these things, I would review it Marissa. You may have some grounds for wrongful termination if they did not follow their own process to a "t."