Fucking Managers

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I sell for a family owned company, my dad is one of the owners, i work under his sister, my aunt Berry we will call her. She is nice and all, but when it comes to her lunch with my grandma and her twin. IT pisses me off they go out to eat for like 2 hours...so when she gets back she has a load of messages, everyone is looking for her cause i have to cover it up...its bull shit...i have to cover it up because she lets me leave to get things down, like oil changes my hair cut. What do you do?? ur in a eat shit eat shit situation.
another thing that pisses me off is i have to take care of her customers because she cant deal with a pissed off customers, and she is the manager, and she looks behind my back constianly...god dam what do you do...>?
 
I had the same situation before, the only difference is I work for a corporation. My boss would constantly leave, take days off, and go on vacation. He'd leave me in charge of the store while he was gone. At the time, I lived an hour away from the place that I was working at. So, he'd have me open the store (9:00 am to prep the store, leaving me getting up at 7:00), and sometimes have me closing the same day (12 to 14 hour workday, depending on situation). He'd also have me deal with his customers, and sometimes even tell me things to do to make the customer happy that would be non-compliant of our company.

I ended up putting in my two weeks notice, but he offered to transfer me to a store closer to home rather than lose all the tenier I had gained in the job. Right now, he's not in our company anymore because of so much merchandise that went missing during inventory, plus he was stealing from the company.

As far as your situation goes, I am by no means telling you to put in your two weeks or anything like that, but have you tried talking to your dad about it? Don't sit down and whine about everything, but rather ask your dad if he has time to talk, then point out some of the things that she has been doing that bothers you.



This is very true. Sometimes it's best to keep work and family separate. As far as that goes, talk to your dad as far as business, not him being your father.
 
Going straight to a family owned business seems like a lack of individuality. You hav to mooch off of your parents MORE? I dunno, unless the money is good, I wouldn't work for and/or with my parents. Once I move out, Im pretty sure i'll only see them at family get-togethers.
 
The difficult part here is that not only are your aunts taking advantage of you but you are taking a little advantage of them but taking your time off. But as things go, they are older and are supposed to be more responsible and not be using the fact that they let you have some time off.

Talk to them about it. Tell them that you feel like they are expecting too much out of you. Now you might tell them that it's not like every day you need to change your oil or cut your hair. Could they be a little more helpful by either not taking so much time off everyday making you cover up for them every day? If it is their job to take messages or confront the customers, can they please do that more often? Basically, they are tipping the scale of favors too much to their side. They need to cut back. If they don't change their ways, talk to your Dad. They are not being fair. Your Aunts are saying, "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine, and my head, and my feet, and my ass, etc..." It doesn't work like that. It's back for back and that's it.

It is true, working for family is hard. Things like this become easy for family to take advantage of. But you'll feel better knowing that you watching out for yourself. If this is not the business you plan on staying with as a career, this will help you learn how to play fair in the business world.
 
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