Bridget
Fayetteville,#2UPDATE EX-employee responds
Mon, August 01, 2005
When my husband was hired as a manager, he was told at the initial interview that he would be required a MINIMUM of 52 hours per week and that there would be times he would work more than that. In the beginning, he worked exactly 52 hours a week while he was in the training program. We were under the impression that he was going to take over the Springdale, Arkansas so that the manager there could go on to be a DM. By the time he finished the training period, things had changed and he was transferred to Tulsa, Oklahoma because a manager had walked out and the store was in AWFUL shape. He got that store back in shape and did so well that he became a "clean-up manager" (my term, not the companies) and he went all over Tulsa helping with this store and that store. During that time, he was gone by 7:30 a.m. and I was lucky if he was home before 10 p.m., but he had his day and a half off EVERY week. Four months later, they built the new store in Jenks, Oklahoma and that was his store. He worked 55 - 60 hours each week, except for inventory week. I helped him with his inventory and another manager came over to help. My husband's two year old slept on a rug in the back room while we did inventory until almost 4 a.m. That was rough. Six months later he promoted to Store Development Supervisor and was away from home 13 days and home 3, away 13, etc. When we discovered that I was pregnant, he asked to drop back to manager. Again, he typically worked 55 - 60 hours a week. Now I think it's also important to mention that there were times that the DM was out working until 3 or 4 in the morning also, and on at least two occassions, he worked that late and then also turned around and picked up Russ (regional vp) at the airport at 6 a.m. But once the DM left and a new one came in, the hours became worse and worse and he rarely got a day off.