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Ricchan doubts that.

D'oh!

I take it you still weren't there quite long enough for unemployment?

Basically, it went down like this:

Cast of characters:
A.B. - New store manager, almost speaks passable English
Jose - New grocery manager, hardly speaks any English, also cannot read/write English
Alan - Former store manager, now in a semi-regional, supervisory position
Luis - My assistant, understands English alright, but has trouble speaking/reading it
Me - Too white for my own good

Now, they had switched over to A.B. and Jose from Alan and Ron because of the ethnic community that frequents the store. Regional douchebag Victor thinks that they will be more comfortable with managers who speak the language. What he failed to take into consideration is that there is still a sizable population of non-Spanish-speaking people who shop there, and if you replace all of the people who speak English (seeing as all except one of the grocery workers primarily speaks Spanish) well enough to help them, you are just appeasing one customer base at the risk of alienating another.

Apparently since A.B. took over, it has been in the pipeline to get Luis to replace me. Luis has been there just over four weeks. I started showing him how to do the ordering, since I was going to leave after the holidays in order to go back to school as full-time as I can. Anyway, Luis got about a week's worth of training before this all went down. He did the dairy order for the weekend, in which he ordered about 50+ cases of stock we didn't need, and failed to bring in the sale yogurt (Yoplait for 2/$.89), so they should be in good hands.

Anyway, I was unaware of this change being made. They had told me that the dairy and frozen food department would be mine until I left in January or February. Yesterday, I am at work, and go into the manager's office to get some tape for the pricing gun ***** MA forcing you to price everything). I see the schedule on Jose's desk, completed. Luis's name is where mine usually goes (managers at the top) and lo and behold, my name is nowhere to be found. I ask Jose why I have no hours next week, he freaks out and tells me I have to talk to A.B..

A.B. tells me that I have no hours, but if I want some, he can try to find me 15-20 at minimum wage (a $2/hr pay cut) so I can continue to write the orders and train Luis. Really.

An aside: I had been hearing since A.B. and Jose got to the store that neither of them liked me. They complained about how I worked, and how I argued with A.B. when I apparently should have no opinions of my own. Now, they did not mention any of this to me. I heard it from six or seven different employees of varying positions in the store, but never from A.B. or Jose themselves. It seems that they spent more time discussing my work with other employees than they did discussing it with me. Awesome.

So I declined A.B.'s generous offer to have me do the dairy manager job at reduced pay and hours. I also told him I would not be finishing my shift or coming in on Saturday, since he hadn't given me any warning, and was in fact not planning on telling me until Saturday (when the schedule would be posted). I said that had he given me notice, I would have worked out the rest of my scheduled shifts, but given the lack of respect I was being shown, I felt no obligation to help him out. He stared at me, and I walked out.

I found Alan in the store, and said goodbye and shook his hand. He was a decent boss, and I didn't mind working for him. He would at least come up to me if he had an issue with what I was doing. He was completely shocked that they had let me go so soon, and that it had gone down the way it did. He told me that they had planned to give Luis the reigns towards December, but keep me on fulltime at my current pay until I left (you know, since I gave them several months' notice so they could find/train someone). I explained the situation with how A.B. and Jose never say anything to me, but would talk in Spanish to my assistant and then walk away without saying so much as "hello" and how I had been hearing everywhere except from them about how they didn't like my work. Alan said he had let the regional buyer (who is basically the regional boss of the grocery/dairy managers) know what was going on, and told me to give it a couple weeks, and if I can't find something else anywhere, he would get me into one of their other stores. Obviously he could do that right away, but I told him that I want to see about another company first. I thought that was pretty nice of him, and at least I have a "Plan B" if I can't find something better.

I'm sorry to hear that spoonless, that would probably happen to me right now if I wasn't friends with the only person who can actually do the paperwork to get someone fired.

Cliffnotes plz

Why did that deserve two posts?

You posted saying you were made redundant, and then again to explain. That barely deserved one post, let alone two.

It's more like 99%.

You're just being silly.

Of course i'm right.

Probably because you're silly.