Okay, so I finished dept. head training and will be placed soon. Do I have any say as to where I get placed, will they offer the placement and I chose to accept or decline thus not promoted if I decline, or do I not even have that option and they just tell me where I'm going and if I don't like it the only option is to quit? There are like 8 stores in my district I would be just fine with and about 4 that I am truly not willing to work at.
What state are you in? What department did you train for?
We do things differently in Michigan or I became a manager before a new program. I trained by practicing everything the Department manager does and asking a lot of questions. I got the position by signing a bid to the store of my choice. And, going thru the interview process.
Your union contract may be different.
I have been told: If you are offered a Department head position, it is bad to turn it down. You might not be offered another opportunity to be a Department head again. Store managers do talk to each other. But, I saw a coworker turn a bid down the day before he was supposed to start at his new store and then got another bid 4 months later. Technically, he wasn't supposed to get any bids for 6 months but he was allowed to. Here, once you are in your new store, you have 30 days to change your mind. You can go back to your old position and store if there is an opening. You can step down as Department head anytime with a resignation letter to the store manager. Ask a Union rep how to do this. If you step down, there is no way to know where you will be put in the store.
I didn't really mean anything about race, i meant more of the stores themselves, they're the little run-down ones that no one's bothered to remodel in years because they're the "ghetto" ones in Dayton that they don't worry about because they only put their money into the fancy ones like freaking Austin Landing.
I go to Dayton for stuff often and have no problem visiting there, i just don't think i'd want to work there because the conditions there seem crappier. The city is dying. :(
I don't mean would something bad happen to you during your duration there, I meant what would happen if you said no? If you said you prefer not to work at a certain store or that you wouldn't work at a certain store. Like do you have a say in it at all?
Interesting that y'all seem mighty worried about "ghetto" (presumably, black) folks.
Biggest thug in our store is the store director; he's saltine-white, red neck, dense as a bag of rocks, and has a mile-wide mean streak.
Guess that's Krogrr diversity at work.
Well truthfully is difficult to say there is no reason for concern. It's not about race though, it's about culture and city crime rate. I wouldn't want to work in Iraq and I'm pretty sure my safety would be compromised there. That doesn't mean I hate Arab people or that I have a prejudice. I have a lot of Arab friend. Same as how I felt uncomfortable getting lost in the boonies. I like the sticks but when I start seeing super redneck things like hub cabs as house siding decoration and keep out signs on their barbed wire chain linked rusted fences. Didn't feel to safe there either. Just the same as a black man wouldn't want to work in an area with a bunch of prejudice white people who carry guns in a secluded boony area where it seems there's not any other black people, especially if the whites prejudice in the area is known and has caused violence befor, more so if the general crime rate is high.. Sure doesn't mean everyone in the area shares the prejudice, but enough to cause concern... Does not mean the black man is racist or trippin, only that he's smart and realizes that some areas in the world are culturally broken and are not suitable for him. Especially if he could get paid near the same if not even a little more in an area where he does feel comfortable.
