So I’ve been at work for about a month now and what I thought was great, is about to be fucked.

So I show up to work pretty normal. Just trying to get the week by fast. 
I know it’s a “line and level” type night so I head over to my handicap coworker and ask if I’m starting with him, he says yup just get the lower stuff since he can’t bend with his leg brace. It’s cool, we’ve been doing that for a couple weeks now. 

Anyways, I’m taking the lower stuff while he manages the mid and tops for a couple aisles and of course, he vanishes to the break room. I start doing top, mid and bottom since he’s no longer with me. My night boss shows up and starts doing the bottoms for a couple aisles and says to just worry about the mids/tops. 

I finish an aisle or two and then my boss comes up to me. 

“Hey, the upper-management wanted me to see if you want to switch over to bakery or be a cashier?”

Hmm, well I kind of like doing this right now but maybe eventually.

“Well that’s the reason I’m bringing it up. You’re not really cutting it on night stock.”

Oh.. am I going too slow? Or not lining stuff right?

“It’s your speed.”

Oh. I thought we were supposed to take our time and make sure everything is lined up properly, labels up front and such.

“No, it’s more of a we gotta get this done fast.”

Can I get another chance or what?

“Well, the night manager said something about doing another 30 days or something but I’m not really sure” 

I’ll hurry up.

Now the complete conversation is a little blurry because when I get angry I get sad and kind of zone out.  But the general “u slow, we move you” was brought to me pretty obvious.

I feel betrayed. He never said we have to be finished before our shifts are done or anything. Just threw me into it with a general idea of how to work it. And to top things off, this could have all been avoided had the twat told me to speed things up in the 20 something days I’ve been there.

 Working through my emotions though I went into my aggressive “I’ll show these fuckers” state and blew through aisles 1-6 in a few hours. Got done probably two or three hours before I got off work. These are also known as “Backstock” nights because that’s what we do after leveling. 

So for the last couple hours I pretty much just blew through the tasks he gave me like tacking the water from the front to a shelf or taking charcoal to the outside stand. And to top off the night, the asshole doesn’t say anything else about my status or anything.

I really don’t know what’s going to happen now but honestly, do I really want to work in the same store where this sociopath works?

I’m hoping to find out more tonight since I kick ass at stocking, at least I think I do… wait a minute. I finished stocking before these two other assholes the night before! Maybe they can just take me off of leveling nights.

Still knowing everything is fine, I’m saddened by my failure.