r/RantsFromRetail • u/v_pump • 10h ago
Employer/workplace rant I quit gamexchange because of management. Is there any other employees that feel that same or have similar stories?
I worked at GXC for 2 years. I love my coworkers and manager. The job itself was pretty straight forward - take in trades, put out product and check out customers. My real issue is management.
It was a hot mess. You couldn't even contact them without them getting back a week or two later - that's if you're lucky. Recently, I had opened one morning and walked in my District Manager (DM). He started questioning me out of no where, "did you close last night?" "do you know who closed?" "was it manager name?". Apparently two of our coworkers had put up a sign that said no cash trades. DM freaked out and saying that someone is going to get fired for this.
Soon after, my manager spoke with DM and told him that it wouldn't happen again, and that we will start using checks. mind you, NO ONE wants to use checks because you have to forge our Area Manager's signature. DM wasn't satisfied with that answer. A week later, DM came in with another manager of another store, questioning me about everyone on staff (literally only 6 people). They told me that some changes are going to happened and in the future, if something were to happened - they would like to make me manager. I've seen what my manager has got through, I'm not doing that bs. DM also ended our conversation with "you are a smart girl, don't fuck this up". So, yeah. That same day, those two coworkers got fired. No reason was given but we can all guess. On top of that, our manager got put on 90 day probation.
So I quit two weeks later, and another coworker put in their two weeks. I just wanna know if there is any other GXC ex employees that have similar grieves or stories.