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I keep disappearing lol I'm sorry guys
Okok this job has brought me nothing but unnecessary bullying and stress.
This store is too ghetto for me bro I can't do it anymore.
Like ik every job has cons but DAMN this store really had not business being open.
Ok if you need a refresher: I had until August 5th to get a job. At 12PM AUGUST 5TH I got a call from the store manager of a citi trends near where I live. At first it seemed like a sign from god, the universe, or what you believe in yk. But in reality they were desperate and so was i.
The managers were all shady black women. Why am I saying this? I'm a black woman that was taught to conduct themselves in society a certain way. They are the type of black women that set horrible generalizations.
Here's a list of some of the examples I've seen (i don't have time to name it all I'm sorry)
Super informal speech
Gossiping about one another
Mocking Spanish speaking customers
Showing up late
Showing up in bodycon shorts and/crop tops
Trying to physically fight customers
When they noticed me being quiet, doing what I needed/was told to do I guess they started to think of me as a target. Apparently I'm also the only person available to work mornings so I had more hours than the average part timer.
Update 1
Small recap: I got my first job August 5th 2024. It turned out to be shit. I think I stopped my last update at the register being 160 dollars short.
Yeah the drawer was like 200 dollar short and they just moved on or stopped bringing it up. About a week after that, a few hours after my shift apparently a man tried to steal and my managers jumped him.
I had three managers.
Katy- store manager
Maya- assistant manager #1
Sharon - assistant manager #2
The only other people working there at this point were me and another lady. We were "store associates"
Katy and Sharon are older women. Katy has a condition makes it hard for her to walk and has to keep one of her legs wrapped. Why did she think it would be a good idea to run and beat up a theft idk...
The day after that there was a hurricane and the store was closed for the day. The day AFTER THAT- my boss sent generic message kinda saying I needed to come in but not really. I wasn't on the schedule for that day. I didn't have a phone so this message went to my mom who was being weird about it.
I eventually called my manager and asked if I was supposed to be there today and she said yes. So I rushed to get ready because the store was literally about to OPEN in less than 30 mins.
After getting there she said sorry and explained what happened two days prior and I helped her find the correct HR number to call so they could be notified of her going to the hospital.
The way she just made it seem like i was supposed to be there when I wasn't... Like I was not given the option to come in on my day off- she just TOLD me to come in.
It gets worse from here.
Maya is technically the second in charge manager after Katy apparently.
To her that was supposed to mean something but to me I didn't matter. Especially knowing what I know now.
Maya is one year older than me (I'm 19 she's 20) and a college student. She was pretty cool at first but as she started to get frustrated with her job she started taking it out on me.
The manager problem
Maya seemed nice but I quickly started to notice she didn't like this job and to be honest I don't blame her. The more I saw the more I dreaded coming in. And I started hating shifts where it was just me and her.
At first it was a little complaining here and there
And suddenly - SHE WOULDN'T SHUT UP ABOUT HOW MUCH SHE HATES WORKING THERE.
Like this girl would stand around complaining about nothing getting done while I'm dealing with customers, packing up layways and unpacking new items to be put on the sales floor. She would stand there and complain to me about Katy and Sharon or chronically be on that phone.
She got on my nerves with that phone. I wanted to slap it out her hand I swear- bruh. If I had something to say or needed her to do something as yk- THE ON DUTY MANAGER, she either wouldn't do it or would take her time.
I think after Katy came back or right before, Maya put her two weeks in So she was only scheduled 4 more times. 3 of which I had to spend with her.
She got even worse. On her last two days she made it my personal hell. I'm starting to think the bitch hated me or something because she treated me like absolute shit the last two day she was there and she knew it.
I can go into detail about those last two days in another bulletin but I have to skip over it. I don't expect you to read my entire life story. So her last two days were Saturday and Sunday. I came in on Monday after everything that happened the prior two days to see Katy's car in the parking lot. She wasn't on the schedule and idk if I mentioned this but I was the only one ever on time.
(My mom had to drive me so of course I would be on time. Everyone was always super late to the point where the store frequently opened late. The only one who had a good reason being late is the other store associate. Her shifts started the same time the shifts for her first job ended. That's Katy's fault because she makes the schedule. Scheduling issue will come up again I promise)
When I came in, Katy had her arms crossed leaning over the counter. She was pissed. This is so ghetto i swear. She had on a bonnet, bathrobe and pajama bottoms 
She yelled at me about the way the store looked, told me to grow a backbone, said I would be getting a write up and left. I was too upset to realize it at the time but I'm pretty sure she knew what went on during the weekend wasn't my fault.
Katy and Sharon had a procrastination problem.
Like- it was BAD. The same way Maya would come over and complain about bs would doing absolutely nothing, Katy and Sharon would do it too.
Every Tuesday we get somewhere between 40-160 boxes of items.
The items would be mixed in together. Clothes with toys, perfume, deodorant car decorations etc
It's not bad.
But when Katy and Sharon are on shifts together they stand around and gossip. Same thing if it's Maya and Sharon.
Basically- shit wasn't getting done. There were ALWAYS boxes in their area. They chose to put two displays near each other in the middle of the store but kinda in the back. Conveniently in an area where there's no cameras.
I keep my area clean and even though I was on the registers I was expected to do at least 10 boxes.
One of Maya's biggest complaints was that even though Katy and Sharon are not on the registers all day they couldn't even do 6 BOXES. Their area had boxes so old there were bikini sets in them. It was September. Their areas looked like hoarders too. Piles of boxes, clothes and items everywhere.
Maya would pick up the slack by doing 20 or more.
This is true. I've seen her do it
Back to Saturday.
Since Maya left, Kory was being trained to be a manager. She could only do the morning shift that day so I ended up with night shift. In reality I didn't need to be there. EVERYONE WAS ON THE SHIFT ALREADY.
Kory was there for about an hour and she left for the day. She was nice but her tone and expression as she was leaving gave "poor kid. Good luck"
I should've known there was gonna be some bs 
Sharon and Amy started acted weird the moment she left. They started moving faster than they were before.
After the previous Saturday I forced myself to start slowing down and doing stuff at a normal pace. Apparently I was having several anxiety attacks and then a straight up panic attack. It was scary. I did my best to keep a store together by myself all to be threatened to be written up the following Monday.
They were hauling ass all of a sudden. Unpacking boxes like crazy but not really putting all the items in their areas. It was making a mess. I wasn't given any tasks. At first Kory counted the register down and let me start working from it but after she left Sharon told Amy to be on that register.
Which was weird because you're not supposed to work off of a register someone already started on.
I should've spoke up but I let it go. I ended up not being able to work on the counters either so it just started picking up items that weren't clothes to put away.
Amy didn't speak much too me. I just excused it away to the store being busy. But at one point she said to Sharon really loudly "am I going too slow?" And laughed. Sharon looked at me and laughed along.
As customers saw me they would stop me to ask questions. I would help them. A lot of them started going to me for things and I guess it made Sharon feel some type of way. At one point a man came in looking for breast cancer awareness shirts. As I was about to say "we do not have that" Sharon immediately said "go look in the men's section. She got things to do"
Sharon (and Katy sometimes) had a habit of belittling me in front of costumers. It was embarrassing.
The man gave her a weird look and went to the men's section. She told me to get back to doing boxes.
20 minutes later the man waited for Sharon to leave the registers and come back to me to ask about shirts. He didn't find any. I explained that we did not have shirts and apologized. He assured me I had nothing to apologize for and left.
By that point there were few customers. Sharon told me to make sure a certain area was clean and swept.
Like 10 minutes later Amy comes up to me to ask what areas she should be doing. I told her that normally a manager would tell use which parts of the store to clean and encouraged her to ask. She said with a nasty attitude "well I'm already doing (whatever she was doing idk) and I'm just going to keep doing that half of the store. You do this half." And left. I was confused by Sharon not telling her where to clean and Amy having an attitude with me. Why is she even asking me???
10 MINUTES AFTER THAT- Sharon calls me over and is like "tell me what you told her." I did and she acted like she understood.
I got back to cleaning up and as I was doing that area she pointed at another area and was like " I told you to do this area" so I went over there. I found clothes in that area and went to put them away and Sharon was like "why aren't you where I told you to be???"
I ended up rechecking my areas over and over before I started sweeping because she also kept saying they still looked messy.
I stared sweeping and a little bit later Amy came over and started sweeping the piles I created. She had the only dustpan.
Sharon said something about Katy coming back in a few minutes. And came at around 9:30 to count down the registers.
Idk if my mentioned this but Sharon said she has PTSD when it comes to counting drawers down. She was robbed while counting down a register.
If you're confused reading that so am I.
Katy came back her daughter. Her daughter is a year under me and she's kind of... Annoying. It's not her fault I find a lot of people my age annoying but there are a few things she does that would piss anyone off.
I'm off topic. Her daughter is not the problem.
Katy was gone when she was supposed to be scheduled that entire shift. She left after I got there and shows up 5 hours later to count the drawers down AND BROUGHT HER DAUGHTER??
Katy asked me how I was feeling about the night shift since I normally work mornings. I lied to keep it polite and said something like "it's not bad"
She then got into what she really wanted to talk about. She got very serious and told me all the things Sharon apparently told her. That I wasn't doing my work, I was constantly not in the areas I was supposed to be in and I had an attitude towards Sharon and Amy.
Now I'm not saying I'm a perfect angel but I know I didn't have an attitude. I always smile and give a doe eyed demeanor to people I don't know or aren't close to. I don't curse in front of them and I call them Ms (first name).
She said that when Sharon is on the shift I have to follow Sharon's rules. She also noted that I recited what Katy told me a few days prior about how a manager is supposed to tell us where to clean. At one point Sharon said really loud that I was acting slow. She said that twice.
I didn't realize it but I started tearing up. I'm a bit of a crybaby. I didn't even notice. I was pissed if anything. Katy PUT HER HANDS OVER MINE and talked slowly like I was actually stupid.
She basically said that she didn't want me to cry because it would alert my mom. And that this Shitty trends is pretty small and easy to manage. If I couldn't handle it let her know and she would get someone who could. She asked if I understood. I nodded crying at this point. She asked if I had anything to say and I shook my head no. She quickly took her hands off mine told me to clock out. It got dead quiet as I did and left.
That was so fucking embarrassing. Amy was sitting on a display and I'm pretty sure she giggled. Katy's daughter started talking about food with Sharon and everything went back to normal for everyone as I shamefully walked out.
The police showed up almost a full hour after the shooting to pick up evidence. 
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