Retail employee tells off their manager, Gary, pointing out his failure to handle his own tasks when he starts micromanaging theirs: ‘Slow clap for the hero in aisle 7'

Calling out the manager's terrible leadership skills felt particularly validating for this retail employee, especially when their lazy manager, Gary, spent every waking second of his shift nitpicking his team.

This employee really said, "I'm rubber, and you're glue. Whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks onto you." Well, not literally, but after 2 years of dealing with a despicable boss, they decided to be completely frank with him, refusing to hold back their pent-up retail rage. Gary wasn't capable of staying on top of his work, chronically turning in employee schedules late, missing deadlines for PTO requests, and failing to complete his duties as manager. But Gary had one critical skill that he loved to crank up to 100 in the workplace: His judgmental, micromanaging, over-the-shoulder managing tactics. Great!

Judging other people's flaws, while ignoring your own, is a fundamental character deficiency, and the workplace is not exempt from this type of belittling behavior. Oftentimes, when managers, supervisors, or bosses are completely incompetent, they'll focus their micromanaging energy on the team, pressuring them to overperform to make up for their own egregiously obvious flaws. Usually, the workers will sit back and accept their fate, letting management walk all over them.

If we're lucky, though, now and then, a hero rises from Aisle 7 in the Men's Casual Clothing department, putting an end to their coworker's fear and vanquishing a Godzillian managerial threat. All it takes is the perfect moment and the perfect Uno Reverse.

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Behold! Here I am, free from the shackles of the retailsphere. After years of paying my due diligence to the world of retail, I finally broke free of the chains of overly-repeated playlists, curt disingenuous smiles, and the backbreaking company uniform mandating high heels on the sales floor. Working in a department store that sold fancy clothes taught me a lot about customers and coworkers, but mostly about people. It seems that when folks are painfully aware of a personal deficiency, they'll do just about anything to cover it up, even if that means being distractingly cruel to those around them.
I had my fair share of Garys in the past, and this retail employee says the words we all wish we could, spouting the mentally rehearsed disses that we playback in our heads on our way home from a long shift. It feels good to tell off a bad manager, especially when they completely, 100% deserve it.
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