Ex-mg Store Manager
Hayesville,#2UPDATE EX-employee responds
Wed, January 21, 2009
I am a former Store Manager for a Movie Gallery in North Carolina and I agree that they treat their employees horribly. Store managers are overworked and always underpaid. There were numerous weeks were I would work 70-90 hours trying to get every little detail right according to standards (which change every hour/day according to some overpaid suits ideas) and only got paid for 40, even though I was required by my district manager to work 45 hours. I was there a year and a raise was never even mentioned even though I managed one of the largest stores in the district and was the lowest paid manager, while others who were hired at least 6 months after me were making up to $2000.00 more a year than me. I was also forced to cut hours from good employees to help with the budget shortfalls and then was yelled at because I couldn't keep help. My district manager also expected my employees (mostly college kids) to actually skip their classes to come in to work. Nobody is stupid enough to cut a class to come and work 4 hours for minimum wage and to be treated like they were second class dirt. I had good people working for me, who tried hard and were constantly under suspicion of my DM just because she said and I quote, "They're all theives, you can't trust any of them". I also had problems while attempting to continue my education by taking classes part-time for a nursing degree. I was told by my DM that anything I did on my personal time, such as school, had to be approved by her. I politly told her that what I did/or didn't do on my own time, was my business, that I was not a child and had no intentions of askind her permission for anything that did not concern or affect my job at MG. Also, while I was out on a 3 week medical leave, following major surgery, I was treated like I was faking my illness and was staying out beyond my needed time just to be difficult. I contacted my DM just to check and see how my store was doing during my time out, because I was concerned and wanted things to run smoothly during my absence. I was told "don't worry about it, just get well". However, when I returned I was accused of leaving things in a mess and not caring what happened during my time off and that I had been out without the proper paper work (luckily, i had copies of all the proper forms for my medical leave, WITH my DM's signature on them and the copies I had filed with the main MG human resources office). When I had finally had enough and found another position with better pay/working conditions, I was talked to terribly by the DM and was placed on the "do not rehire" list. Which, after all, is fine with me because I would rather have a sharp stick in the eye than work for them again! I could go on forever about how terrible we were treated and about things my former employees have told me since I left concerning treatment and pay, but these are not facts and I like to stick to the facts. Everything I've stated can be proven without a problem.