I didn't know whether to put this here or under 'Work and Financial Problems', but decided to put it here in the end. It's rather long, so I apologize in advance if you wasted your time reading all this. I just needed to vent.
When you start a new job and your manager doesn't properly explain shit to you, expecting you to just figure everything out on your own, you have no choice but to either figure it out or you're automatically set up for failure.
I should have just opted for paper checks when I first got hired, but instead I chose for it to be deposited onto a prepaid card (that my employer was supposed to enroll me in and provide for me). When I asked her about it, she had no idea if my card would be there by the time payday came around. Hell, she might not even have enrolled me in it for all I know, nor did she provide me with any information regarding how to enroll in it myself.
I had to figure out how to make an account on the employee online portal (another thing that was neither told nor explained to me), after which I found out that even when/if my card did show up, it would take a couple of pay cycles for the money to start being directly deposited onto it. So in other words, whether I got the card in time or not, chances are that my pay won't be on it.
So now I have no clue how I'm going to get my pay. After becoming aware of all this bullshit, I did end up opting in for paper checks, but I did it a day after this previous pay cycle was already over. So the question running through my mind is am I still going to get a paper check if the money isn't going to be automatically deposited onto the card (which may or may not even show up) this coming payday? Or am I going to have to wait until the next official payday to even get paid?
All I know is, I better get my damn paycheck this week, one way or another. None of this shit was explained to me and my manager seems to know jack shit about any of it. Her response to me, after I said "I just want to make sure I get paid this week along with everyone else" was "We'll just have to see what shows up on Friday, but I don't see why you wouldn't." Not incredibly reassuring. All that tells me is basically, "I have no fucking clue what's going to happen, but good luck with that."
I need that fucking money, and if I don't get it for 3 more weeks due to her cluelessness and failure to explain any of this shit to me upon hire, I'm going to fucking snap. She's generally a nice person - understanding, flexible, and pleasant - and I like her overall as a manager. The only problem I have with her is that I feel like I'm expected to figure everything out on my own, both with the paycheck issue, and the job itself.
On my second day of work, I was trained for about 2 hours on register, shadowing a more experienced employee. All I did was watch her for a little while; I hadn't even tried doing any of it myself yet. Despite this, on my third day, she put me on register all by myself, no one watching over me, no one there to teach me how to do the more difficult shit like in-store pickups, returns, manually putting in competitors' coupons (which aren't scannable), manual price overrides, etc. And with as little training as I had, I only knew how to do the basics. Because of this, I had to radio for help over and over again until I gradually Iearned everything.
Anyway, bottom line is, I do like my job. I like the manager, the supervisors, my coworkers. I love the environment of the store itself and don't mind dealing with most of the customers, even the ones that make my job more difficult because 99% of them are still polite and patient for the most part, rather than rude and obnoxious.
What I don't like, however, is being left in the dark about shit, especially my pay. I give my all to this job. I come in early and leave late every day. I do everything that's asked of me (when told to work on the planogram and clean up the aisles, I specifically make sure everything is in its proper place, neat, and perfect looking -- so much so that I had 2 managers compliment me on how great it looked). I learn quickly with minimal (one could even say inadequate) training. Considering all of this, I think I deserve to be paid fairly and on time for everything I put into this job.
I guess we'll see what happens on Friday. I know it's no use thinking about it until then, but it's been bothering the fuck out of me. Not to mention, my husband is going to have a fit as well if it turns out that I don't get paid when I'm supposed to, and that's definitely something I don't want to have to deal with because no doubt it's going to get taken out on me and cause a huge fight. And that's a bunch of extra stress that I don't fucking need.
When you start a new job and your manager doesn't properly explain shit to you, expecting you to just figure everything out on your own, you have no choice but to either figure it out or you're automatically set up for failure.
I should have just opted for paper checks when I first got hired, but instead I chose for it to be deposited onto a prepaid card (that my employer was supposed to enroll me in and provide for me). When I asked her about it, she had no idea if my card would be there by the time payday came around. Hell, she might not even have enrolled me in it for all I know, nor did she provide me with any information regarding how to enroll in it myself.
I had to figure out how to make an account on the employee online portal (another thing that was neither told nor explained to me), after which I found out that even when/if my card did show up, it would take a couple of pay cycles for the money to start being directly deposited onto it. So in other words, whether I got the card in time or not, chances are that my pay won't be on it.
So now I have no clue how I'm going to get my pay. After becoming aware of all this bullshit, I did end up opting in for paper checks, but I did it a day after this previous pay cycle was already over. So the question running through my mind is am I still going to get a paper check if the money isn't going to be automatically deposited onto the card (which may or may not even show up) this coming payday? Or am I going to have to wait until the next official payday to even get paid?
All I know is, I better get my damn paycheck this week, one way or another. None of this shit was explained to me and my manager seems to know jack shit about any of it. Her response to me, after I said "I just want to make sure I get paid this week along with everyone else" was "We'll just have to see what shows up on Friday, but I don't see why you wouldn't." Not incredibly reassuring. All that tells me is basically, "I have no fucking clue what's going to happen, but good luck with that."
I need that fucking money, and if I don't get it for 3 more weeks due to her cluelessness and failure to explain any of this shit to me upon hire, I'm going to fucking snap. She's generally a nice person - understanding, flexible, and pleasant - and I like her overall as a manager. The only problem I have with her is that I feel like I'm expected to figure everything out on my own, both with the paycheck issue, and the job itself.
On my second day of work, I was trained for about 2 hours on register, shadowing a more experienced employee. All I did was watch her for a little while; I hadn't even tried doing any of it myself yet. Despite this, on my third day, she put me on register all by myself, no one watching over me, no one there to teach me how to do the more difficult shit like in-store pickups, returns, manually putting in competitors' coupons (which aren't scannable), manual price overrides, etc. And with as little training as I had, I only knew how to do the basics. Because of this, I had to radio for help over and over again until I gradually Iearned everything.
Anyway, bottom line is, I do like my job. I like the manager, the supervisors, my coworkers. I love the environment of the store itself and don't mind dealing with most of the customers, even the ones that make my job more difficult because 99% of them are still polite and patient for the most part, rather than rude and obnoxious.
What I don't like, however, is being left in the dark about shit, especially my pay. I give my all to this job. I come in early and leave late every day. I do everything that's asked of me (when told to work on the planogram and clean up the aisles, I specifically make sure everything is in its proper place, neat, and perfect looking -- so much so that I had 2 managers compliment me on how great it looked). I learn quickly with minimal (one could even say inadequate) training. Considering all of this, I think I deserve to be paid fairly and on time for everything I put into this job.
I guess we'll see what happens on Friday. I know it's no use thinking about it until then, but it's been bothering the fuck out of me. Not to mention, my husband is going to have a fit as well if it turns out that I don't get paid when I'm supposed to, and that's definitely something I don't want to have to deal with because no doubt it's going to get taken out on me and cause a huge fight. And that's a bunch of extra stress that I don't fucking need.