Am at a loss...

[MrKrabs]

Short version...

Store has a new GM... Useless as fawk... Doesn't even do daily's... Much less ordering...

Store does not have an assistant manager and prolly will not for the rest of the month...

Here I am "Senior Sales Associate" killing himself keeping the store afloat... And the only real assistance I'm getting is from another GM from another site...

Territory Rep doesn't give two sheets and Region, Rep well doesn't pick up or seem to know athe phone has been invented... The only shread of investigation is from loss control folks I contacted but there is little they can do unless there's a catestrophic # problem...

I should probably stop doing what I'm doing but not when the jobs and livelyhoods of my co-workers may be jepordized!

I don't know what to do anymore, I'm at a total loss...
 

[pipz]

Dam Krabs that's a shame ya have so much stress. A lot of people out there unfortunately that just don't care. What kind of sales are you involved in if you don't mind me asking?

[MrKrabs]

Dam Krabs that's a shame ya have so much stress. A lot of people out there unfortunately that just don't care. What kind of sales are you involved in if you don't mind me asking?

Just Retail Convience Store... Just a peon apparantly...

[MrKrabs]

I just dozed off in the office 

I'm staying here until at least 10am so I can make sure 2nd shift is covered on QSR side...

MUST STAY AWAKE 

[pipz]

Don't worry Im just a peon as well. The world needs us though. 
Get some rest when ya go home and enjoy yourself.

[MrKrabs]

Don't worry Im just a peon as well. The world needs us though. 
Get some rest when ya go home and enjoy yourself.

Won't happen, I need to be back a3pm and work until 11:15pm... Then come back at 6am long enough to prepare EOD and to see if the GM will do what she has been normally doing "just counting safe and going home". If so the GM from the other site has generously agreed to come and get the week started while I "might" get some sleep if people adhere to the schedule...

[Karnak]

Sorry, but you're doing the wrong thing.  You are covering up the problem with the new GM and running ragged doing work way beyond your pay grade to do it.  How long can you keep that up?  I understand your loyalty to your co-workers, but you can't kill yourself keeping things on track.

[GScholz]

A cousin of mine works for a publisher in Bergen and had a similar experience after her... I suppose you can call it a GM, died. The company leadership failed or neglected to get a new GM and she was left to take up the slack. She lasted a couple of months before she suffered a total breakdown and had to go on sick leave for a couple of months.

[Plawranc]

Tough breaks dude.

But your job is your job. And while your coworkers depend on you, they shouldn't need to. You need to make the situation known. And do so quickly.

Just make sure that once you decide what to do. You follow through on it.

[ABDCWOT]

Watch the movie "Office Space."

[Scherf]

Sorry, but you're doing the wrong thing.  You are covering up the problem with the new GM and running ragged doing work way beyond your pay grade to do it.  How long can you keep that up?  I understand your loyalty to your co-workers, but you can't kill yourself keeping things on track.

^this

No bonus points for making yourself sick.

[Brooke]

Any possibility of letting the current GM fall on her face and then getting promoted into the position?

Maybe it's an opportunity, not a problem.

If so, although it's got risks, you can work to set that up by going to whoever has the power to hire and fire GM's, letting them know the problem (documented in detail), that you would love to take over the position, and that you'd do an excellent job for them in that position, helping them make more money than if they keep the current GM.  The risk is if the GM hears of it and has the ability to make your life miserable.  If they don't flat our refuse, but seem hesitant, you could sweeten the pot -- offer to do it for less than she does, or do it for 3 months at your current salary, and if they don't like the job you are doing, move you back to your current position.

Good books to read to help you negotiate things and convince people:

How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Carnegie
You Can Negotiate Anything, by Cohen
How to Make People Like you in 90 Seconds or Less, by Boothman

[FBDragon]

I know how you feel crabby, I went through the same crap at one of my last jobs, GM didn't know crap. Me being the welding sup had to pick up his slack. Thing is even with as much as I did and what your doing there was know "good job" or any of that. My daughter is also going through the same thing at the WaffleHouse in Cocoa Beach as well!!! Her Mgr is as racist as they come, thing is it's reverse racsicm!!! Hang in the Crabby!!!

[MrKrabs]

I'm thinking when people are saying to go over their heads they didn't read the part where I already went way over their heads by 2 levels... And trying to get at least the VP of Florida operation's email is proving bothersome...

And Dragon wtf is she still doing at waffle house...

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Short version...

Store has a new GM... Useless as fawk... Doesn't even do daily's... Much less ordering...

Store does not have an assistant manager and prolly will not for the rest of the month...

Here I am "Senior Sales Associate" killing himself keeping the store afloat... And the only real assistance I'm getting is from another GM from another site...

Territory Rep doesn't give two sheets and Region, Rep well doesn't pick up or seem to know athe phone has been invented... The only shread of investigation is from loss control folks I contacted but there is little they can do unless there's a catestrophic # problem...

I should probably stop doing what I'm doing but not when the jobs and livelyhoods of my co-workers may be jepordized!

I don't know what to do anymore, I'm at a total loss...
 

Contact uppper management about the problem. If you're scared, make it anonymous so they will audit the slacker.