I am seeing a lot of new partners on this sub and first, welcome and hope you are enjoying your work so far. But there’s a thing I want to share that I have been talking to many of my close partners.
Hopefully you are hired into a good store with good morale and team. Unfortunately, this is still retail and therefore, ridden with interpersonal politics and middle management power trips. One of the weapons often used to force people out or straight up terminate someone is writeups or a form called Corrective Action Form.
If you feel like you’re being given a CAF unfairly or on minor charges without being discussed with at least three times for improvement, do make sure to write ‘I do not agree with this assessment’ or something to that effect. And MAKE SURE that YOU have a copy of that.
It even says at the bottom of the form to give the partner being written up a copy.
It can be an emotionally driven experience to be written up but do your best to stay calm, read over everything and to be sure to keep notes and documentations for your protection.
There are a lot of exciting things about a job and lots of things to learn. Knowledge is power. One of the things to learn after training is the ins and outs of things like this. What are the guidelines? What can you and your management do and not do? Who can you go to or call in situations like this?
I do apologize for the long post but I’m tired of seeing people abusing power and seeing partners who are on the receiving end of those things. If anyone has any inputs or personally have dealt with this, you should share your experience.