Rory came to our store and asked for me to join him in the office to discuss more, which I did. At the beginning of the conversation I again said that I was not in no way, giving a demand but I was asking for the transfer. We began our conversation again around where is all the areas that I've already covered, and where exactly is home. This began to make me defensive because I know how to lead people into conversations to get certain results I'm looking for. It's called "open ended questions". Well he then started asking about personal aspects of my life. Like my kids, which he asked were living in Ga. I said yes they are, and then asked did they have kids, yes I have 2 grand babies, and he then said I'm sure your wife would love to be close
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So now it's clear that he and whomever are thinking I'm just moving to try and get my wife close to my other kids. HERE is the follow up question he asked: he said so your 3 daughters all live in Georgia and your grandkids, I bet your kids would be happy with their mom living back home. Now it's two different questions, but he was after the same result. He then asked me what did my wife do which I informed that she hasn't been able to find work in this area. He then asked did my wife finish college. I said yes for business. After the insignificant series of questions, I stopped him and said look Rory this has nothing to do with my wife wanting to move back home, this is about making the right decision as a family financially. Towards the end he ended his statement saying he would try and help so I could get my wife back home. Again he was making it all about my wife and not what we were facing. He then asked was this part of the reason why I didn't take Harahan or Slidell when they was offered and I said my reasoning was all around what made sense financially for my family. After that, he left the store and said he would let me know when he heard …show more content…
I had no problem with this so I got on the road heading to New Orleans. Sometimes things arise when we are least expecting it. As I'm covering the store a associate was commenting on how they like how the flow of the day went and that the other co-manager quit before even trying and I said wow yeah it's different. They went on to say that it's a shame we paid to relocate them here and they only worked 3 weeks and quit. Now I'm standing there trying to shake off what I had just heard, but I felt as if I had another door slammed in my face. Here we have paid to hire and relocate someone here for them to quit, and you have me a co-manager, that has been with the company for over a year, which has shown no signs of leaving the company, but I can't get a transfer. Everyone made it clear if I moved I would have to pay for everything. But to hear this was a total shock to me. I cannot eat, I cannot sleep, and I have severe anxiety problems now trying to figure out what I'm going to do next. Through all of that I'm still performing my daily tasks. After that week I returned back to my store in Baton Rouge, back to reality that I'm homeless and living out of my car. Then I didn't want associates to know I was living out of my car prepping myself early each morning before work, and then afterwards trying to figure out
So now it's clear that he and whomever are thinking I'm just moving to try and get my wife close to my other kids. HERE is the follow up question he asked: he said so your 3 daughters all live in Georgia and your grandkids, I bet your kids would be happy with their mom living back home. Now it's two different questions, but he was after the same result. He then asked me what did my wife do which I informed that she hasn't been able to find work in this area. He then asked did my wife finish college. I said yes for business. After the insignificant series of questions, I stopped him and said look Rory this has nothing to do with my wife wanting to move back home, this is about making the right decision as a family financially. Towards the end he ended his statement saying he would try and help so I could get my wife back home. Again he was making it all about my wife and not what we were facing. He then asked was this part of the reason why I didn't take Harahan or Slidell when they was offered and I said my reasoning was all around what made sense financially for my family. After that, he left the store and said he would let me know when he heard …show more content…
I had no problem with this so I got on the road heading to New Orleans. Sometimes things arise when we are least expecting it. As I'm covering the store a associate was commenting on how they like how the flow of the day went and that the other co-manager quit before even trying and I said wow yeah it's different. They went on to say that it's a shame we paid to relocate them here and they only worked 3 weeks and quit. Now I'm standing there trying to shake off what I had just heard, but I felt as if I had another door slammed in my face. Here we have paid to hire and relocate someone here for them to quit, and you have me a co-manager, that has been with the company for over a year, which has shown no signs of leaving the company, but I can't get a transfer. Everyone made it clear if I moved I would have to pay for everything. But to hear this was a total shock to me. I cannot eat, I cannot sleep, and I have severe anxiety problems now trying to figure out what I'm going to do next. Through all of that I'm still performing my daily tasks. After that week I returned back to my store in Baton Rouge, back to reality that I'm homeless and living out of my car. Then I didn't want associates to know I was living out of my car prepping myself early each morning before work, and then afterwards trying to figure out