I started writing this blog for my co-workers and people in the grocery retail industry, so we can have something that we all can relate to. I was also hoping for customers to see the other side of the retail biz and maybe, just maybe, employees in the industry would be treated better.
I’ve written within the employee handbook guidelines just in case the blog would come into question for violating company policy, and I think I do a good job of concealing my co-workers’ names. For the last 5 months, my co-workers and I managed to share our stories without upper management finding out. Well… it’s no longer a secret to management anymore…
One of my bosses was griping about customers and how they act. He’s also proactive on websites that talk about the grocery industry and it’s employees. There’s always negative things that are said on those websites about grocery stores but their isn’t many responses to defending its employees. Here’s a conversation with him I vaguely remember a week ago…
J the Management : They ought to make a website about our views.
Me: [Hesitant] Well, there is one…kinda.
J the Management : Really? Some people just don’t understand us.
Me: Yeah, its Mostlygrocery.com… I think. Its about stories working in a grocery store.
J the Management: I’ll have to check that out.
It’s one week later and I totally forgot I told him…
J the Management opens up the checkstand behind me to get the line of customers down…
J the Management: What’s up PK!
PK? I said to myself. No one calls me PK at work…
Me: Ohhh… crap.
J the Management: I saw your little site.
I figured its over. No more stories, no more postings, no more comments.
I’m checking out customers and my forehead is beginning to perspire with sweat. I’m shaking and nervous. This usually happens if I know I did something wrong but I didn’t do anything wrong, I followed the employee handbook!
I’m on break and J catches me sitting in the break room.
J the Management: You know it was pretty funny as I was reading it. Then as I was reading through it more, things started to seem familiar. Too familiar! Checker Irv, Johnny J, and David… then it hit me… IT’S MY STORE! ITS A BLOG ABOUT MY STORE!
I’m slowly sinking in my chair… I don’t know whether to be scared or embarrassed.
J the Management: I was thinking, PK, PK Wynn… Who’s PK Wynn…
J the Management:
If you were the boss of a company, how would you act if one of your employees wrote a blog about your workplace?
