re: #440 BigPapa

Long story short:

I left my old company (the Evil Empire) last year. Primary reason was other key guy in our office was royal douchebag, following ‘intimidation/BS’ style of management. I told owner, he said he wouldn’t hire a shrink so we needed to find a way to get a long… I quit 3 months later.

Few days ago, a buddy still there is lamenting to me about what a douchebag he is, on Skype.

My buddy had just got a new laptop, old laptop turned in. Forgot to delete Skype password.

Douche is watching his Skype on his old laptop for a month. Buddy was wondering why Douche would say all the right things after he vented with other people.

Douche sent our chat to the owner.

Needless to say, Douche is about to have a mutiny on his hands because all the boys hate him. This event is just gas on the fire. If he doesn’t get fired, the damage is done.

The best part about it? In my Skype I told my buddy “I feel for you but there’s not a lot I can do. Honestly, as much as the fucker deserves some karma, he’s good for my business. Clients hate him and drive business to me. So I want him to continue working there.”

Since I haven’t been in retail all my life, I don’t know if ALL retail operates like Kroger, but I only have Kroger to go by. Oh, I worked some short term retail jobs off and on over the years, but only as transition jobs, never for more than a few weeks.

But this is the first long term retail job I’ve had, and from what I hear “in the business,” Kroger follows the old fashioned top down ivory tower business model, with a bunch of MBA’s running the show.

Non-management employees have NO means of communicating anything to upper management in some sort of organized fashion.

I’ll have been with the company a year, as of March 31st, and I have yet to see a single meeting of employees and management for any reason.

That’s just odd.