The horrors of retail have been told throughout generations. Shopping has been a core activity for Americans for as long as the concept of stores existed. They will line up behind your doors and wait for you to open. They will grow anxious as they wait for the loud pop music to welcome them into your store. They will shop around in circles while the store CD rotates to the same song they came into.They will shop even after your store has closed. They once continued shopping even after a shooting had occured outside in the parking lot! They will try to find any little flaw in an item in hopes for a discount. They will argue for a return even after the item has their lipstick stains from the night before. They will yell at you or tell you that
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You were hand selected during interviews for how you dressed, how pretty you were and if you were energetic...the typical ‘windsor’ girl. If you didn’t fit this criteria beyond the interview stage, H.P would pick you out in no time. Many girls hours were cut, managers were told to make them buy clothes to ‘fit in’ or fire them for any little reason. If H.P knew she had no direct reason to fire you, she would make a girls life at work miserable. If girls took H.P to court for unethical treatment, she would always win. You could never defeat H.P for she had a strong team of power behind her, everyone in the company knew of her, very few challenged her and won.
Now, you know a place is daunting when you’re about to transfer jobs and your old supervisor tells you the horror stories of your new employment. Before making my big transition from a sales associate at Discovery to a manager at Windsor, I was forewarned about the danger I was walking into. My previous manager warned me that no girls last at Windsor, thus explaining the ‘NOW HIRING’ sign outside their doors. But of course I thought she was trying to make me stay at Discovery, so I took the chance without questioning her …show more content…
This girl was known as Kelly, and she soon became Heathers ‘project’. Kelly worked extremely hard, worked overtime, took peoples shifts and was a phenomenal teammate. Behind her great work ethic, was a young beauty school student living on her own at the age of nineteen. Of course, unlike most nineteen year olds Kelly had to work to pay bills and survive. The minimum wage in Norridge was $8.25, barely enough to pay one or at most two bills in my opinion. Heather did not take the time to know Kellys story, but as someone who basically lived at Windsor I felt the need to get to know my coworkers. I knew that Kelly was driven to rise to the top in order to get a promotion. After 6 months of hard work, Heather finally took notice and decided to give her training to become a
You were hand selected during interviews for how you dressed, how pretty you were and if you were energetic...the typical ‘windsor’ girl. If you didn’t fit this criteria beyond the interview stage, H.P would pick you out in no time. Many girls hours were cut, managers were told to make them buy clothes to ‘fit in’ or fire them for any little reason. If H.P knew she had no direct reason to fire you, she would make a girls life at work miserable. If girls took H.P to court for unethical treatment, she would always win. You could never defeat H.P for she had a strong team of power behind her, everyone in the company knew of her, very few challenged her and won.
Now, you know a place is daunting when you’re about to transfer jobs and your old supervisor tells you the horror stories of your new employment. Before making my big transition from a sales associate at Discovery to a manager at Windsor, I was forewarned about the danger I was walking into. My previous manager warned me that no girls last at Windsor, thus explaining the ‘NOW HIRING’ sign outside their doors. But of course I thought she was trying to make me stay at Discovery, so I took the chance without questioning her …show more content…
This girl was known as Kelly, and she soon became Heathers ‘project’. Kelly worked extremely hard, worked overtime, took peoples shifts and was a phenomenal teammate. Behind her great work ethic, was a young beauty school student living on her own at the age of nineteen. Of course, unlike most nineteen year olds Kelly had to work to pay bills and survive. The minimum wage in Norridge was $8.25, barely enough to pay one or at most two bills in my opinion. Heather did not take the time to know Kellys story, but as someone who basically lived at Windsor I felt the need to get to know my coworkers. I knew that Kelly was driven to rise to the top in order to get a promotion. After 6 months of hard work, Heather finally took notice and decided to give her training to become a