OK, so I was at work yesterday and it was Suzanne in and she was lovely as usual. I felt pretty much OK for the whole day, I was on the till for a quite a lot of the day, the kids department was fairly quiet.
So we get to the end of the day, and one of my friends, J had mentioned that he'd had his salary raised. He now gets £5.75 an hour. All the other staff who've been with the store have had this raise and I have not. Firstly I would like to know why they feel I do not deserve this raise and secondly I just found out that one of the new girls is earning £5.70 an hour!!!! Now I know it is only an extra 25p an hour...but over a year that gives me £78 extra!! Not huge, but for a student definitely significant!!
It's also just the principle of it, I'm not a bad worker. I'm really really not. I'm not lazy, I don't skive, I've never ever had a duvet day and I've always volunteered to do more hours if they need me and things like that. I am an extremely hard worker and all my work goes unnoticed!! I mean, as shoppers you probably don't realise how much work sales assistants have to do...at least at my workplace we have to work our butts off!! We are constantly under pressure to approach customers, keep selling them accessories and add ons, yet all at the same time keeping the store tidy, keeping our conversion rates high and "using our own initiative and treating the store like our own business and wanting it to succeed." Now, I don't need to be the manger's favourite worker or anything like that. But having the work you do acknowledged is the minimum they can give me. LOL I know I sound like such a cry baby but this did bring me to tears yesterday. I just feel that the managers really push me down and keep me down every step of the way. As my boyfriend put it yesterday It's like everybody else is getting goodies and you're not, but on top of that they're beating you up as well. (To put a very childish playground analogy on it).
TBH, there will be plenty of other jobs I have to do where I'll be treated like crap...for example....as a junior doctor....(lol i am very dedicated to being a doctor, can you tell?
) But at least everybody will be treated like crap.
I've come to the conclusion that I'm gonna go find a new job. My exams end on Tuesday, I'll go out and distribute CVs and things after that I'm totally sick of this place. I don't want to have to cry like that every single week. I am worth something and I do not deserve to feel this badly about myself!!
