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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/totem-fox on 2025-05-13 18:12:07+00:00.
I worked in retail since November 2019 up until last month. I was made full-time in February 2020 when my supervisor was fired for insider theft and I took his place as fresh meat department supervisor. Two years later, our warehouse manager went AWOL and was a no-show due to management shifts so I was unofficially promoted because all the vendors knew me and I was the best possible person to work a borrowed inventory and tagging system. Ugh, whatever. Maybe I'll get a raise and then some. Half-truth, because I did, but barely covered much because everyone got hours cut due to budgeting issues with corporate (they shut down three stores and were renovating five in the course of three years).
Fast forward to March 2025. Corporate district manager says I'll be officially promoted to warehouse manager after proving myself competent and in spite of losing several departments due to budget cuts. I asked if I finally qualified for the 401K outlined in the employee handbook regarding the position, along with a substantial raise that wasn't a mere +$.15/hr. I was barely making enough just to pay rent and my credit card bills.
He then said it wouldn't be likely due to most of the budgeting gone to renovations and new suppliers (and of course, new idiot nepotism baby corporates who fucked everything up with the new suppliers in terms of purchasing). I still would be training someone else to run the meat department regardless because I would still be lead receiver minimal.
Fuck it. I put in my three weeks' notice and trained the former head of the deli department (replaced with a disgusting cave of American-only beers) to run the fresh meat section while another warehouse manager trained my replacement at another location.
Here's the current fresh meat department supervisor, "Dina": she's elderly, has only worked deli for four years, and has no understanding of how things work outside of that field. She stands around dumbfounded and can't read in simplified English despite being American-born and rasied. Dina fails at ordering from the suppliers because she thinks the store get deliveries daily when they only come every Tuesday and Saturday due to new contracts. Then she got the PLUs wrong on the scales despite me showing her the order guides and pricing guides with everything sorted out properly. And then she conveniently forgot how to stack meats just like in the deli. She had all the hands-on training and forgot everything lickety-split.
Oh well. I got paid for "training" her, and still running the warehouse until April 11th when I finally left.
Everything fell apart pretty quickly. The replacement warehouse manager is vaping indoors and elaving pallets and paperwork scatteredand the vendors hate him, and Dina is retraining at another store while she's racking up an entire 144 square foot cooler full of outdates and damages. I get texts from my former co-workers and I'm glad things are falling apart there anyways. I don't shop there or any of their locations because I can find better deals 30% lower or more at higher-end stores not supplied by the same distributors.
Edit: where's the malice? I never actually finished her training, because I spent most of my time in receiving with other vendors and filing paperwork. No one in current management has been trained in receiving either.
Edit 2: tl;dr: corporates got fucked once I left retail after not really training a replacement because they wouldn't give me a 401K in the promotion as per the employee handbook