My manager and I couldn't be more thrilled to be rid of the place for another week.  The store has a visit walk from the higher ups tomorrow.  Let the shit hit the fan, let the bodies hit the floor while we're long gone!  The favoritism, the laziness, enough, all of it!
		
		
	 
	
		
	
	
		
		
			^^^   That just means in your absence,  you guys are the ones they'll throw under the bus to save their own asses.
		
		
	 
Not exactly.  The problem is about 4 or 5 people in that store, two of which are hourly managers, and two of those 5 people are mine and my overnight manager's counterparts - the overnight manager and cashier who give my boss and I days off.
Thing is, our regular customers and vendors who come in on the overnight watch all know what's going on.  Also, the good coworkers who actually pull their weight - one of which is also an hourly manager - everybody in that store openly know what's going on - my boss and I carry that store, the other overnight shift doesn't do shit else, while my boss and I are gone.  They don't work, they don't take care of customers, and they're doing nothing but hurting the business.
The other overnight cashier has a best friend (boyfriend?) who works days and evenings in the photo lab.  When one of these two guys is up at the store during his off time, the other guy, who's actually on the clock, doesn't do ANYTHING.  The photo lab guy just sits in the manager's office on his phone, most times.  If the front-end cashier needs help, or a customer out on the salesfloor needs something unlocked from a security display case, you literally have to page the photo lab guy by name, or he will not come and help.
Thursday night, he even mouthed off to his boyfriend - the overnight cashier - and the problem hourly assistant manager that if my overnight manager told him what to do one more time, that he'd break my manager's legs.  Why is he not fired yet?  Three simple words - favoritism and apathy.  Especially on the part of our store manager.  Our store's salaried assistant is culpable in all of this, as well, and she's got her own laziness issues to boot, as well.  
But we think that something might happen this week, while my boss and I are gone - we both have a gut feeling sneaking suspicion that a few of our regular customers have sent complaints to corporate regarding the other overnight shift, and all the bullshit they see going on.  Plus one of the day and evening cashier claims to have a friend or two in the district management office - not the district manager himself, but someone in loss prevention.  We think she might have said something to said friend.
Our store manager came in Saturday morning, acting way too cool and laid-back.  He fist bumped me, and shook my overnight manager's hand - my boss and I came to the same conclusion...  Why is the store manager so ridiculously nice to us, all of a sudden, out of the clear blue?  And the other overnight shift was nice to us, last night, too.  My manager and I both smell a rat.  We can't say for sure, with under-oath confidence, but we both highly suspect that some shoes have dropped behind the scenes that my manager and I aren't immediately aware of.
It really doesn't matter anyways, my boss is already past the point of no return on being fed up with the whole situation at the store, and with the company.  Since we both highly suspect the end of the overnight shift, period, for that store location maybe coming soon anyway, we're already planning our exit strategy, anyway.  My boss wants to get hired on somewhere else, to where he can actually use his college degree, and he wants to find me another job to where I can make an actual living, and not just survive paycheck to paycheck, barely making ends meet.  As it stands now, I work close to 80 hours a week, every other week for that store, and don't have shit to show for it.
He really wants that district manager job, because then, he can take me with him as either an assistant manager or a store manager, making $50-60K or more.  It would just about quadruple my income.  And then, bonuses, too.  I'd be catapulted from the working poor to upper-middle class, almost overnight.  And he knows that with that kind of financial security, I'd fight like hell to earn every penny I got of that salary.
It would open a ridiculous amount of doors for me in my life that are currently closed for lack of money.