So here’s the thing. There’s this girl at my work who’s dating my GM’s best friend. And I feel like he’s been exceptionally soft on her at work because of that. He admitted to it just a few days ago, because that’s unfair, and understood that she makes you feel bad by playing the victim in the whole situation so that she’s never doing anything wrong. You are. When really, it actually goes both ways.
2 of the managers went to talk to her about how she works, and what we can do to help her. I’m actually supposed to be training her to become a manager but after she has disappointed me time and time again because I’ve had to constantly teach her the same thing over and over and over again, WITH OTHER PEOPLE, and she just doesn’t understand. Being a manager is a lot of responsibility and she doesn’t have that capability yet she still wants it. Because this put so much stress on me my GM gave me a plan B, and gave me two other potentials to train to be my replacement so I can move up. Who, are much more easier to teach and they are capable of understanding what I teach.
Anyways, a lot of people at work don’t really like her. They don’t like the way she works, how she’s like a new hire every day and have to re-teach her things that she knows but acts as if she doesn’t know, and so forth. When we have these kinds of problems, we usually give them a chance to improve, and if they don’t, we let them go, because why waste our time? She’s been working here for a year now and she’s still like this. It’s amazing how stupid someone can really be.
Yet she’s getting special treatment. Apparently, the GM wants everyone to like her. To give her a chance. Like, we have to make her happy. And if we don’t make her happy, then we can’t reach our goal. Thing is, she’s already been given like a thousand chances in the past fucking year.
Does this make any sense? Why should I, and a handful of others, have to waste our time and energy in making this one person happy, who’s constantly stayed while others who worked much better than her, were let go? I feel like just because her boyfriend is our GM’s best friend, she receives special treatment. She thinks she “deserves” to be treated like everyone else with her huge ego, who doesn’t know how to take feedback, yet thinks she has the right to say this–and doesn’t realize that you have to earn it. But because the GM is so particularly nice to her, she thinks she can get whatever she wants, especially the team liking her.
I don’t know what to do in this situation. Many of us have already told our GM and yet nothing’s been done about it. Even myself. I don’t agree with how a handful of us have to make HER happy. What about our own happiness?
