Why Might I Be Struggling For A Job?

[abbeylee90]

I keep applying for jobs as I want to get out of selco as you know but I can't even get an interview

[abbeylee90]

I'm very upset in selco during my time off someone was cleaning as I wasn't there to do it and the deputy manager like how he did so he's now got him to guide me. Today I was showing him an issue then he shows me another way to use the cloth he then gets my colleuge in the canteen when I continued cleaning anyway the manager said to him that 'I should get it by now and my colluege said he doesn't mind cleaning or giving me tips manager said to him he hasn't got a problem with him giving tips or cleaning. I've been there 9 months. It was the same thing when I was on checkout with my product knowledge.

[naomi24]

If your colleague has a better way to do it and your manager doesn't mind him showing you, I can't see what the problem is.  You're learning a better way.  What's wrong with that?

[abbeylee90]

The manager said I should get it. It's been 2 weeks since I come back.

[naomi24]

And have you got it?

[abbeylee90]

Learning my colleges way. The store manager said before it's been so clean since I started.

[DDIL]

A colleague has shown you that there is a better way to do something, why would you not want to improve in your job.

It shows that you are listening and keen to improve.

Why are you upset?

[naomi24]

That's a nice compliment.  Try not to get upset if someone gives you good advice, abbey.  We all have to learn so just learn from it and thank your colleague for helping you.  You're obviously not doing a bad job otherwise you wouldn't still be there.

[abbeylee90]

By the deputy manager stabbing me in the back which I was warned anyway.  He thought I would he ok as I worked in a care home.

[naomi24]

I take it the Deputy Manager is not the Manager who complimented you?  How has the Deputy Manager stabbed you in the back?

[abbeylee90]

No not that manager it was the store manager, because I overheard him saying to my colleuge 'she should get it'.

[DDIL]

That is not stabbing you in the back.

He could feel it is a valid comment.

 

[naomi24]

Don't let it upset you.  The Manager is happy for the colleague to help you - he's not sacking you.                                                                                                                   

[abbeylee90]

I mean because he didn't say to me I should get it.

[abbeylee90]

Like I learned from my colleuge that things moping all the floors needed to be done everyday which I didn't so that meant things I've been shown to do now wasn't getting done as there was no time. Even if they didn't sack they wouldn't get another cleaner until in the new year because of thier recruitment ban.

[naomi24]

Abbey, it's an off the cuff remark.  If the Manager thought he should say it to you, he would have said it to you - and that would have been a criticism - but he didn't so he can't think you're doing too badly.   It's not worth worrying about.            

[abbeylee90]

Sorry did sack me

[naomi24]

What do you mean?  Did you get the sack?                                                                     

[abbeylee90]

Sorry meant if they did sack me they wouldn't get a new cleaner.

[naomi24]

Abbey, calm down.  They haven't sacked you.  You're worrying unnecessarily.    Just do the best job you can and make yourself useful.  That way you might get more hours.                                                                                      

[abbeylee90]

Not for cleaning I won't