They REALLY are closing my store!!!

[phoneguy2]

Over the weekend I posted two new chapters in my story The county Fair & Josh, in the story forum. In one of them I included a part where the fictional store the fictional Wally manages is closed by the corporation. Well, today at 12:30 PM my district manager and area supervisor came to my real store and told me that as of Monday at 11PM my store is closing, as it has been sold. The new owners take over
on Tuesday and will keep on four of my present employees but not me. I was offered another store with my company but that will involve moving back to Illinois and about 100 miles away. I moved over here almost two years ago and have transfered stores once in that time. I have been at my present location since the middle of March.

Right now I am very sad and very scared about what is going to happen and how I will manage to make all of the arrangements to relocate in a very fast period of time.

 

[sissyboy]

That sucks. I've been there. You have my sympathy. Good luck. The only advice that I have is to start making lists. When you can cross stuff off of a list, you feel a lot less overwhelmed.

 

[Corny]

oh that is fucked up to hear after that much work you put in it i hope you manage to bear the new change. all the best ..

 

[dolphwasser]

That sucks. I've been there. You have my sympathy. Good luck. The only advice that I have is to start making lists. When you can cross stuff off of a list, you feel a lot less overwhelmed.

This sounds like good advice. And my BEST wishes for the relocation and the new job. I'm happy to hear that you still have one - in spite of the problems that come with it.

 

[cocktales]

Wally, I just read a thread where you said you had a NEW job!

I didn't even know you'd lost your other job at the station!!!

So.................I went searching to read and find out what happened!

Man, you've gone through so much since you moved there and all and for them to sell the store out from under you is just wrong in so many ways!

I'm happy you've found a new job..........what is it?

..........and, I hope you enjoy this job and wish for you the very best in everything you do.............as always!

 

[davy]

damn Wally, that sucks

i'm sorry

Over the weekend I posted two new chapters in my story The county Fair & Josh, in the story forum. In one of them I included a part where the fictional store the fictional Wally manages is closed by the corporation. Well, today at 12:30 PM my district manager and area supervisor came to my real store and told me that as of Monday at 11PM my store is closing, as it has been sold. ....

i guess it's a case of life imitating art...

... too bad it didn't immitate it all the way; you could have atleast had the circle jerk.

^ lame attempt to make you feel better.

 

[TriBi]

Read his latest blog entry guys...

The Wallmeister has come out on top (as he should).

New job, new company, management position, appropriate remuneration...looking good!

 

[tbonez]

Do you still have to move? If you do that just plain sucks.

As someone who has lived in about six different cities I can certainly relate to the stress of upheaval. Granted, Toronto has always been, and will always be, my permanent home. That said, I hated the prospect of going somewhere when you didn't know anyone.

Eventually I just started to look at as an adventure. It isn't really all that hard to meet new people, and I'm painfully shy. Find a local (pub) and talk to the regulars, look in the paper and see what groups and clubs interest you...That's what I did. When I lived in Boston I scoped out the local gay bowling league. Never actually joined...not the kind of balls I'm into. Met some great people there and they pointed me in the right direction. BTW, pubs are a totally different animal from "bars". The atmosphere encourages conversation, no blaring music or blinding disco-balls illuminating the total blackness. If they have a pool table that's a great way to meet people.

Good luck!

 

[phoneguy2]

Do you still have to move? If you do that just plain sucks.

No. tbonez, I no longer have to move.

Since this thread has made it back to the front page I'd better update it, for those who don't read my blog.

I turned down the management offer, I simply did not want to move nor could I afford to do so on such short notice. I was then offered an assistant manager position but that would have required moving also, but back to the area I came from before moving to Indiana.

That evening I revieved a phone call from a regular customer telling me to call a friend of his. Before I could do that the friends company contacted me and set up a meeting for Wednesday, the day after my close was set to close.

On closing day, the offer of assistant was withdrawn and I was then offered an hourly position in that store, at a salary roughly half of what I was making and I would still have to move at my own expense.

The meeting with the new company went well and I had a second and they offered me a position as manager trainee, which lasts two months, at my current salary and it is in this area so no moving. I accepted the offer and start back to work Tuesday.

I feel my former company treated me poorly but I don't want to dwell on that. A new opportunity has developed and the best part of that is that I hadn't even applied to the new company. They called me and that was a great ego boost after the shoddy treatment my former company had given me.

If anyone is interested in a little more detail, please read my blog, I have several postings detailing the saga as it unfolded.

Wally

 

[Nonimus]

I worked in a store that they closed down with telling me, i know how you feel - only it was worse for me, i had to leave London and move back to Wales....but that's another story.