I got headhunted basically by my old company. It was a blast to work for them, very laid back, and pretty low stress. And the job was just really enjoyable to me over all. I quit in January to focus more on school again, after a 14 or 15 month run with them. I was the only person on the original staff at the store I started at, we were on our 3rd manager, and 3rd assistant when I quit. I would have been the assistant, but I just couldn't fit it into my schedule.
Now they're hiring me for assistant manager doing 32 hours a week. And they'll guarantee me a day off, completely. Something I haven't seen in so damn long(2 months now). They're going to be giving me pretty much what I get paid now(current job gets comission, but my store is so slow it's not really steady) as well.
But I feel bad for ditching out on my current job. It's a little strip mall store, right around the corner from my house. We lost our 3rd employee 7 weeks ago. We got one person hired, who then stopped showing up after 3 shifts, and haven't had any applications worth looking at. The people we set up to interview from other store referalls NEVER show up. So it's been just me and the manager for the past 7 weeks. I don't know what she's going to be able to do for getting staff, but at least I'll be giving her and corperate 2 weeks to figure it out.
The company that I'm going back to is just much more fun to work with. It's not a huge corperation. You talk to the owner of the company pretty frequently, and stuff that you complain about or suggest actually gets responses. It's a huge stark contrast to where I work now. Huge lumbering corperate policies that don't make sense. (No music to be played in stores because it's a 'copy right' issue) Numbers and statistics over all else. A district manager that'll come in right after a shipment day before we've had a chance to take the trash out (because it was only one person working since we've been short staffed) and writing the store up for it.
So it's what I want to do, but I just feel bad for hanging my manager out like that. I've gotten to be buddies with her over the past few months, and I feel bad about it.
Now they're hiring me for assistant manager doing 32 hours a week. And they'll guarantee me a day off, completely. Something I haven't seen in so damn long(2 months now). They're going to be giving me pretty much what I get paid now(current job gets comission, but my store is so slow it's not really steady) as well.
But I feel bad for ditching out on my current job. It's a little strip mall store, right around the corner from my house. We lost our 3rd employee 7 weeks ago. We got one person hired, who then stopped showing up after 3 shifts, and haven't had any applications worth looking at. The people we set up to interview from other store referalls NEVER show up. So it's been just me and the manager for the past 7 weeks. I don't know what she's going to be able to do for getting staff, but at least I'll be giving her and corperate 2 weeks to figure it out.
The company that I'm going back to is just much more fun to work with. It's not a huge corperation. You talk to the owner of the company pretty frequently, and stuff that you complain about or suggest actually gets responses. It's a huge stark contrast to where I work now. Huge lumbering corperate policies that don't make sense. (No music to be played in stores because it's a 'copy right' issue) Numbers and statistics over all else. A district manager that'll come in right after a shipment day before we've had a chance to take the trash out (because it was only one person working since we've been short staffed) and writing the store up for it.
So it's what I want to do, but I just feel bad for hanging my manager out like that. I've gotten to be buddies with her over the past few months, and I feel bad about it.
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