And my manager turned into a Mr. <PERSON> at the first sign of stress
One of my biggest things with any place I work for is I pay attention to how managers act when they are stressed. For me it is a huge thing if a manager can manage to compose themselves even if they are under pressure.
Sadly my newest manager has spectacularly failed this test.
Recently two of our sales people quit, and our truck driver just put in his 2 weeks.
Yesterday was the first day that the manager was here without any other sales people to support him and he was being snappy with me the entire day, and getting on me about things that in the past he either did not care about or even outright praised me for.
He used to always be happy with how I went to the customers and yesterday he's all like; "Hey you don't need to be greeting the customers, and stepping on our toes like that because you're not a sales person."
I usually take my 15 minute break at the same time which is usually a little bit later just because I always seem to get caught doing something else before I have a chance to take it. It's not necessarily that I try to take it super late It's just whenever I plan to take it I end up getting roped into something. 156
Well yesterday he suddenly telling me that he wants me to take my 15 minute break earlier out of respect for the sales people.
Never something he had a problem with before but now I guess it's a big deal.
On most days I don't even get to take my 15 minute break and I don't know if he doesn't know that or not but I feel like given how closely work together he might have some clue about it at least.
Then he's spending what felt like over half the day nitpicking me over various things.
Now to an extent I do get this. I do know that there are people who when they feel stressed out they respond by trying to micromanage other aspects of their lives.
Unfortunately as someone who highly values my autonomy, and enjoys being treated with basic respect it also means I get fed up by this kind of behavior incredibly quickly.
Also another thing he pulled yesterday there have been times where I have been on lunch break and he will need me to do something. So I will go ahead and on my lunch break help out with whatever he needs and then he'll usually give me like an extra 10 or 15 minutes on it.
Yesterday he briefly asked me if I was on my lunch break or not and I said yes and he didn't say anything else So there didn't seem to be a huge issue.
Later off my lunch break he's saying to me; "We could have really used your help earlier and I would have given you an extra 10 or 15 minutes."
Okay then why didn't you say anything? You didn't say that you needed my help with anything. All you did was say; "Hey you on lunch?"
That was the entire conversation.
My biggest hope right now is that once we get some more sales people in here he will probably go back to being nice. 156