Monday, June 20, 2011
Moving right along...
Well since the last post, that drama has passed. The visit from the new regional went fine. Not nearly as stressful as M expected. We got to continue with our plans to purchase a different house and the closing/moving stress has kept M from obsessing about Wal-mart lately. Something new will come up soon, I'm sure but for now life continues.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Too much stress!
Well, the past couple weeks have been filled with stress in our house. M got a new Regional Manager and he popped into the store for the first time one night after M had already left for the day. Needless to say, the visit didn't go well and M began to stress. If you know my husband you know that he is about as OCD as they come! Love him to death, but he has been known to stress himself right into a stroke (really it was a full blown anxiety attack about 10 years ago, but the docs thought it was a stroke for a while). He is a perfectionist and gets so worried about not letting anyone down that he takes too much on himself. This leads to a chain-smoking, non-sleeping mess! There have been so many times I just wish that he would relax and let a few things slide so he wouldn't be so hard on himself.
Anyway-back to the story-the Regional is coming back today for a follow-up to make sure that the things he noted were unacceptable are fixed. As I type this he is probably in the store nitpicking the things that the 500 associates have worked their butts off trying to take care of, as well as trying to help out the customers, all the while they have had to have their hours cut. Life ain't easy when you're a Wal-mart family! (or probably a Target family, or Best Buy, or JCPenney, or any other retail business that is at the mercy of a ton of customers and a large corporate office!)
I pray that it goes well today and M can finally sleep again for another week or so until the next stress begins. A lot of people might not understand the kind of anxiety he inflicts on himself (and then on his shift managers and assistants and on down the chain), I personally don't really get it, because I don't have that kind of personality. But throughout the many stores we have been in as we have been together, I have seen many, many associates with the same type of personality. That's what makes him great at his job. Some of the very best managers I've seen are the exact same type. We have some major life decisions happening right now at the same time so maybe this will help the work stress move aside for now and make room for the other decisions we need to make.
Anyway-back to the story-the Regional is coming back today for a follow-up to make sure that the things he noted were unacceptable are fixed. As I type this he is probably in the store nitpicking the things that the 500 associates have worked their butts off trying to take care of, as well as trying to help out the customers, all the while they have had to have their hours cut. Life ain't easy when you're a Wal-mart family! (or probably a Target family, or Best Buy, or JCPenney, or any other retail business that is at the mercy of a ton of customers and a large corporate office!)
I pray that it goes well today and M can finally sleep again for another week or so until the next stress begins. A lot of people might not understand the kind of anxiety he inflicts on himself (and then on his shift managers and assistants and on down the chain), I personally don't really get it, because I don't have that kind of personality. But throughout the many stores we have been in as we have been together, I have seen many, many associates with the same type of personality. That's what makes him great at his job. Some of the very best managers I've seen are the exact same type. We have some major life decisions happening right now at the same time so maybe this will help the work stress move aside for now and make room for the other decisions we need to make.
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