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April, thanks for your opinion. It's a weird situation all the way around. Here's a little about it. I've been working in my store for 10 years. I started out as a cashier, then moved to the Clothing part, then a Customer Service Manager (I was there for almost 4 years). I then wanted & needed a change so I started working as a Pharmacy Technician in the Pharmacy. I was there for almost 5 years. I just recently changed my position & am a Support Manager for the entire store. So, I've done just about everything & still do everything from cashiering to bring in carts to selling guns. I applied to go into the Management Training Program (which is a hard thing to get into) & that's why I'll be moving to another town. I will be there for 5 months during my training & after that I'll be sent to yet another store where I'll be their Assistant Manager. It's not that I don't want to cashier, but it's all about respecting Management. At my store now, I don't get the respect that the Asst. Manager or the Store Manager gets because everyone knows me as "the girl who worked herself up from the bottom, but yet is too new into Management to know anything". Once I go into another store, they would only know me as Management...nothing else. It's hard to explain, but it's really important to have your associates respect the Management. If they see me as a Cashier first, they don't have to respect me then. It will just be weird to be their Management after that. Hope that makes sense...it really is hard to describe what I mean.
I did talk to my Store Manager who talked to the District Manager this morning. He said that he would try to work with me & have me fill in where I would be needed once I get up there on the 20th. So hopefully I won't have to be too much in the publics eye for those 2 weeks. I really don't know until I talk to him personally on Monday. I'm sure it will all turn out ok in the end, it's just an extra burden with I didn't need at the moment.
I did talk to my Store Manager who talked to the District Manager this morning. He said that he would try to work with me & have me fill in where I would be needed once I get up there on the 20th. So hopefully I won't have to be too much in the publics eye for those 2 weeks. I really don't know until I talk to him personally on Monday. I'm sure it will all turn out ok in the end, it's just an extra burden with I didn't need at the moment.
