ALRIGHTY! It's time for a good ol' rant! I'm dedicating this one to a good friend in Taiwan who reminded me today that some people just love to hear a good rant every once in a while.

Today at work I was yet again reminded what a shitty company mine can be. Another trainee, though not the same type as me, was let go today. No warning, although he knew it was coming, nothing. The Regional Manager came in this morning and just essentially said your done. Then they left. So the poor guy's standing there thinking what the hell do I do now? So obviously he got his coat and went home. I thought about crying because of the whole situation. Grrr just makes me mad.

Now on to the Rant. My girls all seem to display the intelligence of rocks. It's increadible actually just how they don't seem to get it. No matter how much I tell them, no matter how much I pester them, no matter how much I coach, nothing! It drives me crazy but I know that they know I don't have the actual power to get rid of anyone at this moment and that I'll only be there for another week so it's not like I even care. The thing that makes me crazy about the whole situation is that they're going to lose their jobs and they just don't seem to care. They're so fucking stupid that they don't realize that it WILL happen and the planning is in the beginning stages for it already. I'm happy to say that in some small way I'm making it happen by having documented all of the conversations I've had with them... they should consider it my parting gift!

Yesterday for example I was heading out for a coffee break and the two that were scheduled to be there were standing around talking to one of the other Associates who was already off. For some reason she seemed to be lonely decided to stay and chat. I ignored the little tea party and left the store. about 40mins later when I returned they were all still standing exactly where I'd left them but they'd gained another! Aaarrrrggghhhhh! So as they usually scatter and pretend to be busy when I'm around I stood near the escalator and had a conversation with one of the other Sales Managers. They all saw me and yet they continued their conversation just like nothing was going on. Finally I'd had it and marched over and asked the one that was off what she was doing! She told me she was shopping. I told her it didn't look like she was as she didn't have any bags! She told me she was going to buy... wait for it... a WATCH! So go to jewellery I told her. Then I turned to include the other two in my tirade. "You girls just don't seem to understand what I'm trying to tell you! If you don't start meeting your targets soon and be at your $60/hr target year to date your gonna lose your job! Of course now they're mad at me for talking to them like that *smack forehead*. Oh I don't think that I mentioned that I had, just that day, gone over their productivity numbers and explained how dismal the situation was looking. Keeping in mind that they are supposed to be able to reach $60/hour in sales as an average and that one of them had reached the awe inspiring number of $13 last week you'd think they'd be worried. Nope. Fucking stupid. Just unreal.

Tomorrow I'm pulling them all off of the floor and I'm going to make one last ditch attempt to paint a picture for them. Why am I doing this with one week left before I go? Because I care! NOT! It's because I was told I had to. I think my Manager doesn't want to deal with the situation and that's why it's been so bad for the past year well before I took over.

The End.