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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.