One of the perks of being a manager is that I get an extra paid weekend off each quarter. The only condition is that I notify my DM when I'm planning on taking a weekend off, fair enough.
I did what I was supposed to do and I received a confirmation this morning that there was no problem as long as I had adequate coverage. We have our big, huge exhibition this Saturday and I'll need to be off all day. Hopefully I'll have some good pics of Grandmaster doing his once-a-year demo.
Anyway, around 2pm, I get a call from the DM. He prefaces the call by saying "About your weekend off...". He then says that I need to make a deal because I'm taking off on a Saturday. He wants me to help with an Open House tonight! I tell him "no" because I have Tae-Kwon-Do with the boys on Monday nights. I offered to help another time, or conduct the New Employee Orientation but that wasn't good enough. It pissed me off for him to pull that stunt because there are no requirements for the weekend off. There are no deals that need to be made. I don't have to give a reason why I'm taking the time off, it's my weekend.
I don't anything will come of it, but if he makes an issue of it, I'm taking things over his head. I don't need this garbage and I was tempted to toss my keys on the roof. I've got 20 years with this company and I don't deserve to be treated this way. Hell, it's bad enough that they've essentially put me in a "window office". In three years I've gone from the highest volume store in town to the lowest ticket writing store in town. I'm not stupid, I know they are trying to get rid of me because I'm "stuck in my ways". Funny thing is...I still run a profitable business, even in a mall store. But I don't know what I'm doing...right. These idiots running the show wouldn't know a good business if it bit them in the ass. They talk a good game of customer service, but that still means shoving cellular phones down people's throats. I live customer service every single day. I train customer service to all my employees. Interesting that 3 current managers who trained under me are very successful and earning promotions while people trained by the former DM and current DM candidate are being fired for stealing or falsifying records and inventories.
But I don't know what I'm doing.