My Meijer Experience Sucked

My boss has had it out for me since the beginning. About a week after getting hired in July, I asked if I could request days off in December for a vacation I already had planned. She told me she couldn’t see that far ahead. That turned out to be a lie, because she granted another coworker days off in December when it was already October.

A couple months go by and it’s not terrible, but she’s always calling me on the intercom whenever she can’t see me for 5–10 minutes. Most of the time I’m either in the bathroom or breaking down pallets in the back. For anyone else, she’d give the benefit of the doubt, but with me she’s always on my ass. For the record, I do my job and I do it well. I’m not carrying the team or anything, but I definitely do what’s expected of me, if not more. It just feels like she likes to mess with me.

December finally comes, and I ask again about my vacation. She says, “Oh, no one gets days off in December.” So in my head I’m thinking, then why did you tell me to talk to you in December about it?

At that point I’m fine losing the job, so I check if I have any PTO I can use. I do. I ask her if I can use it before I leave, since I won’t have a job when I get back from vacation (I went to Paris, it was awesome). She tells me my hours probably aren’t even real. I go to HR and confirm they are, come back to her, and then she says no one gets PTO during that month either. It just felt like the goalpost kept moving.

On top of that, she apparently talks shit about me to some of my coworkers—people below her in authority. I wouldn’t care if she complained to other team leads, but not to regular employees. That’s also why I reported her.

A couple more months go by of her constantly calling me on the intercom, but it’s whatever. Then she leaves for vacation, and her best friend at work (another team lead) is suddenly on my ass about earbud use. A LOT of people use earbuds but anyways, I already got hired at Aurora making $24/hr while I go back to school, so these are my last two weeks here.

She tells me to take out my earbud, so I do, but as soon as I go back to stocking I put it back in. I know it’s against policy, but I’m leaving, so I honestly don’t care. She catches me again and pulls me into the banana room while I’m breaking down a pallet and starts threatening me, saying, “I don’t want to find out what’s going to happen if I see it a third time.”

I tell her, “What? What if I do want to find out?” She says it’s going to be “big trouble,” that she’ll have to get Mollie (our assistant store director), and that it’ll be serious. I cut her off and say, “Are you talking about a write-up? Just say write-up.” She says yeah, then storms off.

Like, don’t try to make a write-up sound like something crazy, and don’t threaten me like that. Who even talks like that?

Anyways, yeah—management at Meijer sucks. It’s really just them though. Most people are nice enough, but management seems like they don’t know what they’re doing.

TLDR My bosses do not like me