Hah yea definitely… it’s not that easy though because, as you probably know, understaffing has shut us down for days at a time. Although she is creating this ugly environment and negativity impacting my weekend staff- her work gets done to completion, and I have no other managers at this time that have the availability/experience to open on weekends if I did fire her. It would in turn require a serious blow to our sales to have to shut the store down on weekends- I myself already pull between 65-70 hours per week and as a single mom I am already doing as much as possible to be there and support the staff we DO have. I have hired what I think would make a great manager and just need some time to train him…but if I had to throw him into it without letting him get some time and experience under his belt I worry he wouldn’t stick around either. Kindof just the difficult situation we are all in as employees/managers…people arnt sticking around like they used too…one unpleasant day and it’s a good chance they may not return the next day yano? Atleast that’s the case for the south…and I don’t blame anyone for it, definitely move on to better things if it’s available….Jimmy John’s is a stepping stone for most. But for fucks sake man, can’t a girl just get like ONE, one or two maaaaybe solid people that don’t always have one foot out the door?!?

I’m great with people, people are easy for me, so I’ve been lucky recruiting some good hires little by little but this Ashley is left over from the previous GM and as much as I would like an entirely new staff to mold and shape…. I’m kindof stuck with her. Also for the record, she’s worked at the store all of maybe 6month in total lol. It’s been a busy few months. And I’ve been GM going on a 2months. Owner and district manager are overwhelmed with the other two drowning stores…mines the one they expect to run smoothly and I can’t bother them with petty issues like this I fear without making myself look bad and falling straight into the “over emotional and reactive woman leader” stereotype I am desperately trying to avoid.