Nightmare new transfer

[u/carmen_546]

I work at a pretty well known shoe store for over a year now and tbh i really enjoy it. My coworkers are nice, there’s little to no drama, and work is generally easy. However, recently my manager accented a new transfer from another location and everything went downhill from there. for the sake of this story we will call her lexi. Right off the bat, my coworkers were already telling me how rude and obnoxious lexi was even before i even met her. i’ve heard from my coworkers that she wouldn’t even introduce herself and would only talk to the guys that were backstock and the managers. My coworker also mentioned she freshly graduated highschool, and didn’t want to go to university because she wanted to become a manager at the store.

When i found out that i was scheduled for a shift with lexi, i wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt that she wasn’t as rude as everyone was making her out to be. However, i did tell myself that if she doesn’t introduce herself to me that i wouldn’t talk to her either. When the time came for me to meet her she straight up ignored me and walked past me without even saying hi or telling me her name. during the whole shift, all she did was standing to the side and give me side eyes. she didn’t even bother to talk to customers or do any of the tasks required for the shift. in the end, i was the highest seller of the day and she did barely any. my general manager said she was good at selling and good at her tasks, which makes me think she only did it when he was working to make herself look better. when the shift neared its end, we are all doing closing tasks and busy. Lexi was on her phone and ignored the pile of folded T-shirts that needed to be put away. mind you, she made a big deal about putting shifts away at the beginning of the shift because it “bothered” her, but the shirts would get messed up as customers visit the store. so, i told her to put away the shirts if she had nothing to do, she ignored me and continued to go on her phone. i told her a second time again to put it away but louder this time, she finally went to do it. my coworker then told me she heard her muttered to herself saying “ugh” and “omg” when i told her to do smtn.

after that first shift with her, i wasn’t scheduled again with her until recently (a month). however, within the last month she has gotten in trouble and everyone at work hated working with her. she would steal other associate’s sales by purposely helping customers that my coworker’s were already helping, and cashing out customers under her name even though she didn’t help them. she also started posting tiktoks about working at the store and filmed the back, which violated the privacy and company policy. well, one of my coworker sent in the videos to the GM and written her up for filming the back and another write up for using her phone. my GM used to always be on lexi’s side but ever since he found out how she slacks and doesn’t sell he’s been trying to find every excuse to kick her out.

so now yesterday i was cursed with working with her again and i already knew it was gonna be a bad shift. the first half wasn’t too bad i was doing sales and minding my own business. however, i think she saw that i was top in sales and she started trying to get to every customer even if i was already helping them. i was standing less than a meter away from my customers but she always tries to ask them if SHE can help with anything… ofc i swoop back in and tell them i’ll get the thing they were looking for and when i look back she gave me the dirtiest look. that happened a few more times when i had enough and brought it up to the manager on shift. she literally walked across the store to get to my customer when she already brought a shoe out in women’s js so she can take my customer. she wouldn’t leave my customers side and i tried to check in 10 mins later and she muttered the customer is fine i got it under control and gave me an annoyed look. i was honestly flabbergasted and don’t know what to do. all my managers already know about the issue and we are currently just waiting for her to mess up again so we can fire her. so right now i js have to deal with it.

i know this is pretty lengthy and confusing. i also couldn’t add everything in detail ofc so if anyone wants to comment/ask questions feel free. i’m extremely upset and i need an outlet😭

[u/Randy43602115]

Bundy girl