THERE IS A HELL! - - - IT IS CALLED RETAIL RETAIL

RETAIL – DEAD END CAREER? People see Retail and the Hospitality industry as a last resort or dead-end careers. For years you serve people and clean up after them. I have met many people who run various retail businesses with multimillion pound turnover and employed hundreds of people but it still is not seen as a particularly desirable or worthy job. Is it just me or have you noticed most retail Store Managers have huge ego's and think they are so special and wonderful. It seems most all Retail Managers I have meet are idiots and don't know what they are doing! It's like they are cleaning the toilets at Bob's Discount Store one day and assistant Store Manager at a major retail outlet the next! What do you think? Why Do Managers Power-Trip? It is a sincere question, something I have wondered for a while. Somehow, the biggest and laziest idiots in the company get a promotion and suddenly they look down upon everyone else and think of themselves as gods. If one particular assistant manager at my store could grow a pair and act like a man for a brief couple of minutes, I would gladly take him outside and show him the error of his ways. Seriously people, how many of you are managers at insignificant, worthless jobs and think you are some kind of mind-blowing world leader? "You are nothing special." Repeat that to yourself about 20 times per day to help decrease the swelling that has chronically infected your head. These arrogant managers are one of the main causes (next to unpleasant customers) of retail sucking so badly. So perhaps some of you could leave comments explaining your reasoning for Retail Managers to power-trip and thinking that they are "all that." Being a Retail Manager sucks because you get to spend your days dealing with something as bad as nasty customers! Retail District Manager. This is most likely someone who was once a Store Manager but now has lost touch with how hard it is to run a retail store but always has a story about how they did something similar to what you're doing without exceeding labour or how they made sales every day for ten or twenty years despite a recession. They're especially fond of telling you to do something one way that you just know won't work out yet you have to do it their way. When it doesn't work out they call you to say that maybe you can't manage after all. A personal favourite of mine that has occurred now that the economy softened is blaming poor sales on all your employees stealing. When sales are good, no one cares. When the economy drops and sales fall with it, suddenly you get a shipment of posters for an anonymous tip line to report employee theft. You get phone calls telling you to spy on your dodie ste®eo p®odu©tion ™ Page 1 of 17

THERE IS A HELL! - - - IT IS CALLED RETAIL RETAIL – DEAD END CAREER?