FurryZoner.Blog

It's been a few months since I posted any blogs and I'm sorry. I simply lost track of time! 

Christmas came n' went, birthdays happened, family died, and new family was created. I find it very interesting how simple it all is. Death and Life. My Great Aunt Pat died like 2 weeks after Thanksgiving (not a big deal I barely knew her) and just after finding that out I discovered my best friend is pregnant with her first. Odd I know. We are all only like 2 years out of High School and almost all my old friends have had or are giong to have a kid and I'm here enjoying the luxury of not having one. 

~Anyways~ 

Been back to work for quite a long time now! I was out of work for about a month sitting at hime getting better after the Brake Rotor accident. Got out of the cast just before Christmas and have been in shoes since mid January. It is awesome being back in normal shoes but it sure hurts a lot when I fuck up and accidentally kick something or bend my toe too fast when I crouch to do much of anything. The Dr. (Non-Social and not worth the money Autozone spent on him to help me) said it will be about a year + before I am able to be fully functional without pain in my toe. Which is fine, I really don't care. Other than a few minor details my foots healing up great! 

Since I have gotten back to work we haven't lost any crew members, we actually have hired some! (Hell must be frozen over I know) The new dude we hired is a little slow BUT he is a very hard worker, he's pretty cool but man I sure wish he would brush his teeth or use breathments because it's really hard to talk to him without covering my nose. A girl my manager hired is the same way! Her breath is TERRIBLE, some days it's so bad I simply won't go near her. She got a DWI (Not her first) and so I am not sure how much longer she will remain with Autozone as soon her license is getting revoked and she will no longer be able to deliver parts in company vehicles which renders her pretty much useless. 
Now I know my manager just hired this huge breasted tall woman who is always wearing high heels and has a weird hidden hick accent but she seems pretty chill, she seems like the under-cover boss type though to me. Not sure if I should trust her but hell, my manager seems to have a GREAT taste in people he hires. Like the one guy he hired, he got in a small fender bender, he never came back because he was high off his ass, the girl (DWI girl) who is always drunk or WAY hung over at work, or better yet the emotionally unstable people who I have worked with forever but have come to love/hate. 

~Frieght Day~ 

I have worked for Autozone now for a 1 year, 1 month, and 2 weeks. I got my 1 year pin a few weeks back with a handshake saying good job for working your fucking ass off for less than everyone else pay. Yes, I am that person who has worked somewhere the longest then everyone else at that store (other than the store / commercial manager ) and make less then even the new fuck tards get hired in at. Well after watching the many 13 people leave the store and never come back I've seen a lot of people doing frieght on frieght day differently, but hell at least they did it. Not J.. Can't put his whole name but first intial must be ok! He's the one who was assigned rotors the day one fell on my foot because he wasn't doing what he should have been doing, he's the last ass who just because he gets somewhat good sells and makes my district look like he has the biggest dick out of the whole region, he thinks he can do whatever the fuck he wants. 

Closing is a simple task that if we both work on it kills time and it shows team work, not with most the managers it's not like that. I pretty much have to play manager and order them to help otherwise they just stand around and jack off to air. 

Today while working on freight I noticed that again someone was just standing around thinking he has the biggest D. SO I decided to make him up a bunch of stuff on one cart and set him up, he finally got to doing it because I kept rushing him that we needed to get our 5 pallets of freight up by tomorrow as usual. After a while he said he needed to be on the counter not on truck, I told him we ALL need to be on truck when were not busy. Yea after a bit he just kinda started ignoring me. After my shift I stayed after in civies (Normal Clothes) to do my 2 hours worth of truck (even though all day it was all I did) and there was a dude standing at the registers for like 5 minutes while J. and the DWI girl talked up a fucking storm. When I finally spoke up and said "You need to help this customer guys!" very loudly I might add. DWI girl finally shut up long enough to help him then went back to talking to the J. while talking to him in a very low tone now she kept glancing over at me as she spoke. I am really not wanting to start a fist fight at work but I do NOT allow any shit like that where I work and if I catch it again I'm going to say something about it. My manager and district may not give a fuck but I do! I will quit if it keeps up, I'm done with that kind of stuff. 

~Getting Tired~ 

After a very long almost 12 hour shift I think I will get to bed. I have a 12 hour shift tomorrow and a 11 hour shift the next day. I really hate these long shift days. Maybe if I got paid more it would be worth it. What do ya'll think??? 
Wonder if anyone even reads this shit XD 

After some much needed rest your alarm shoots through your ears telling you to wake up for your opening shift at work, it loves to interupt your wonderful one day off that you wished could last so much longer. The sun was high, the temperature outside was amazing, and your day seemed to be starting off very well, a false happiness was looming in the air though you would have to discover that a hour into your shift. 

Opening the store was the easiest thing that morning~ Pulling overstock was a fast chore and front facing was easy to do as well since most the store was actually clean and tidey from the closing shift the night before. The customers were few and far between at first, the phones seemed to ring just enough to keep me busy. Then the shift came around to where Commercials driver and manager is supposed to come in. A few minutes past their due time? They're just running late I guess. Then when 30 minutes into their shifts no phone calls or texts I really wanted to find out where they are, asking my Store Manager where they were he THEN informed me they had both called in sick. One with some ovarian issues, the other had a type of flu. Now having both the Commercial people out for the whole day, running us all ragged with only 3 people to run the whole store can drive someone crazy. The whole day we met our DIY goal and almost got to our Commercial goal, just to say, we we're dead tired and rather upset. 

That's just one of the times people have fucked us over!

Over the last few weeks our Commercial area has been rather slow at least a day or two a week, convienently then my Commercial Manager will state she is going home early since the day is so slow. When she states that she is going home it is usually on a day she isn't feeling good or she has earlier stated she doesn't wanna be at work. As if on gue on a day the Commercial Manager is off the phones in Commercial NEVER ring, we go from almost a $2,000 daily estimate to a scraping barrel $325 day. Convienent? I THINK NOT! Ever had that feeling that a Manager is wanting a company to think they absolutly NEED them so they kinda jinkx the playing field by texting all their customers and saying they're off, not to call us unless that person is there? I do. I am not the type of person who likes working with someone who is secretly hacking their own system to make themselves look better. The day you realize there's a rat in the system makes you think, who else is manipulating the system? 

I may know my way around some of the rules, and I know how to keep an eye out for certain ques when at work that you pick up on after working somewhere for 8 months, but still. After having many issues with my managment and watching us go through 10 employees since I started in January I've learned what to do and what not to do. I do intend to keep my job until I am able to find another, hopefully at Hot Topic. 

Much time has passed since I started AutoZone in January of 2014 and I guess after 10 months of working there I was only worth a extra .15 cents. AutoZones year goes from the 1st of October to the last day of September each year, weird huh, how years aren't done from January to December.  With each year there is a evaluation and with that evaluation comes a pay raise if you are good enough for one. Yay, I went from 7.75 to 7.90 when I do the work of a manager constantly! 
I will start at the beginning. 

After beginning a wonderful fun filled day I was called into the office of my store manager to discuss something important. He made it seem almost like it should be a secret, making sure no customers were in the store and I was hoping for one of our usual planogram schedule type talks. I was wrong. The new assistant who doesn't seem to like me all to much ( I get away with a lot of stuff ) was standing there beside my manager as he informed me of my "scores" of how I work with people and customers. 

Scores are done a 1 is bad and 5 is great! 
Working with customers I got 3/5 
Working with fellow employees I got 3/5 
Selling the extra required things 1/5 
Ability to stay on task 2/5 
He also stated I need to accept blame when I am at fault

After 10 months of busting my ass I get average and less scores!? What the actual fuck?? Everyday I come into that store and try to make all the other employees smile, everyday I come in and hope to make my customers smile. No, I do not run to every customer when there is 3 other employees who can easily do it when I am busy trying finish up the tasks my store manager constantly bitches at me about. I will not lie about that fact. Now I DO accept blame when it IS my fault, just before my evaluation another manager pointed out some flaws in my A/C planogram was messed up. I looked at the issue and when I pointed out that the parts that were messed up were the parts my store manager had redone because I did the tags wrong. I stated he was the last person to update that planogram. Rejecting the meer thought I was then blamed for his mistake and instructed to fix the issue. Later I was walked around each planogram and shown all that I did wrong on each one, most were just one or two missing tags, but he doesn't even know each time he points out something wrong I've done I feel more and more regret for messing up. 

With each passing day I come to love and hate my job. I love the people I work with, we are a family who helps each other when we need it, we care for one another and talk to eachother all the time. With that being said my manager told me I need to get along better with everyone, that purely pissed me off! Each day I listen to everyones bitching, everyday I watch people get hurt and try to comfort them then he has the nerve to tell me that?! He knows nothing of what really goes on between all us employees. 

I love my manager more than anyone there, he reminds me so much of my father yet watching / listening to him complain about my work ethic and tell me I am doing things wrong. I'm not overly happy with my job, and once my husband gets into the military I will never work for AutoZone again but until then. This blog will exist, even if no one reads it.