Turning the page at work

The ipod shuffle (it's like the truffle shuffle, but without the Hawaiian shirt):  Seconds by U2

Many new faces and new programs are coming into work.  The store manager left close to three weeks ago to move back home and get a new job.  So out the door she went, and in walked a new manager.  Good guy, as far as I know.  He hasn't been around long enough to make too many enemies yet.  Yet.  

So with a new regime (sounds a bit totalitarian) in place at work, new programs and new thoughts are brought into the building.  The one great thing I like about this new guy is that he at one time owned his own grocery store.  So that means he will actually give my side of the store something more than a second glance.  He and I have had some at length conversations about what needs to happen in order to run two excellent, money making departments.  So new plans are laid, with me on the bottom level.  I am starting to get support from the executive who was suppose to be there the entire time, but his attention span is that of a goldfish.  That would be a good comparison.  

So we had a sit down chat session amongst our new manager and the team leads today.  It went well.  It could have easily gone another two hours.  I don't even have the attention span for that, so thankfully we kept it to an hour.  The main focus was on communication.  Great feed back from all around.  One thing that was brought up was making sure that there are employees in each department at night time in order to make the store looking great for the morning.  It made me laugh on the inside in the fact that I have run my department (and then departments) for close to two years now and have not always had a closer.  It was never really an issue to everyone.  They just shrugged it off and figured whomever was opening would be able to play catch up in the morning.  This is something I have come not only to deal with, but also to embrace.  It makes the first two hours I am at the store go by quickly.  However, one of our clothing departments managers today had the audacity to say, after just one night of not getting everything picked up, that their departments were the 'red headed step child' of the store.  All I could do was laugh to myself.  He is a very selfish person and very moody, so if everything doesn't go right he gets bitchy is the best way to describe it.  

Afterwards, the other grocery managers and I were talking about that comment and they had the same reaction.  What a little bitch was the main consensus.  But we just come in every morning, punch the clock, and go to work.  That's what we do.  There is a reason why some of the grocery managers are well respected within the store (and to some degree, I fall into that statement, as conceded as it sounds.)  Every department has it's pluses and minuses.  It just feels like the food side has a few more minuses than others.  One of the biggest minus is being forgotten about throughout the day and the huge amount of effort we put into our side of the store.