DammitJanet
Well-Known Member
Well seems I think Billy has gotten himself into some sort of problem with his job. He had transferred to a job in a town about 20 miles from us almost a year from us about a year ago because they promised him full time work after he had been on part time for most of the 2+ years he had been working for Radio Shack before that. Same company, just different store. He was also supposed to be next in line to be a manager or assistant manager should anything happen to the manager at that store.
Well as so happens, that manager up and quit but they wanted to try Billy out before actually giving him the store and I think I can understand why. He has the skills in some ways but not the social verbal skills to deal with employees beneath him and they ate him up. They refused to do anything he said and were obstinate and rude to him and he became sick with stress induced illnesses. He simply couldnt cut it. He begged his district manager to move him back to another store in my town as just any employee.
Well....he has only worked very minimum hours since then. Maybe 12 hours. I think Radio Shack has decided he cant be counted on to move up because he is weak-minded. The stress just got to him. He cannot find anything else and he has put in countless applications.
He is doing slightly more around the house but not a whole lot. I have told him to take care of anything medical before he loses any insurance but he just doesnt seem to get it real well. Right now, he hasnt been to work in the last 5 days at least. He has only done a minimal amount of work and thats when I have directly told him. Thankfully it is done when I have told him but I think thats because I have really been sick. However, tomorrow he has a dentist appointment and he seems to think I need to go with him to get his teeth pulled even though he doesnt have to go with me today! Now someone will have to go with me to get all of mine pulled if they do my entire mouth done for dentures but that will be because they are putting me under at least a light anesthesia. And I am going 2 hours away.
Well...this should be interesting.
Well as so happens, that manager up and quit but they wanted to try Billy out before actually giving him the store and I think I can understand why. He has the skills in some ways but not the social verbal skills to deal with employees beneath him and they ate him up. They refused to do anything he said and were obstinate and rude to him and he became sick with stress induced illnesses. He simply couldnt cut it. He begged his district manager to move him back to another store in my town as just any employee.
Well....he has only worked very minimum hours since then. Maybe 12 hours. I think Radio Shack has decided he cant be counted on to move up because he is weak-minded. The stress just got to him. He cannot find anything else and he has put in countless applications.
He is doing slightly more around the house but not a whole lot. I have told him to take care of anything medical before he loses any insurance but he just doesnt seem to get it real well. Right now, he hasnt been to work in the last 5 days at least. He has only done a minimal amount of work and thats when I have directly told him. Thankfully it is done when I have told him but I think thats because I have really been sick. However, tomorrow he has a dentist appointment and he seems to think I need to go with him to get his teeth pulled even though he doesnt have to go with me today! Now someone will have to go with me to get all of mine pulled if they do my entire mouth done for dentures but that will be because they are putting me under at least a light anesthesia. And I am going 2 hours away.
Well...this should be interesting.
Not to mention this must be upsetting so much for Billy after so long with this store and having fit in well and it sounds he was good at his job. Cutting his hours isn't right at all and I hope he gets to the bottom of it and has his work hours restored. Being not the right fit in a more senior position does not take away from how well he performed from his couple of years now of service to the company. Something tells me too that had he had proper management training to help him with the verbal/social stuff as management, he'd probably have done very well as the manager. How maddening! I have no advice on how to handle it, but I do hope he either gets his hours restored or that if he decides to look for something else that he finds a job somewhere that he can do as well as it sounds he did at this job.
