Nomad JuanCa's Report

Hi, today i want to talk about the Truth about being promoted to higher position within a company. I know it might sound like a great chance and a lot of luck, but at the end of the day it might be only a big amount of stress, lot of pressure, disappointments, and for sure lot of loneliness.

Since the last time i posted, lot of things happened, we kept up with high sales... but a problem happened, as i said before i am now in charge of the administrator job in the store but my salary is still the same, so i though i could sale and then administrate..... too bad decision.... i learnt the hard way, that i will have to be administrator (without receiving the right salary for it) and then salesman. Why? because i have been a step away of being fired this week. How come?

We kept up with high sales and all that, but the problem was that all the administrator job was getting accumulated, specially the financial reports, i know... it was my mistake, i tried hardly to get forward with it but there was always things to do... and the people of the store were sometimes useless... they wanted me to do everything for them, and as i told them to do things for themselves.... they started to gossip about me... that i was not helping them, that i was so late with the reports and they started to complain with everybody, my past boss, my new boss, everybody except me.

I admit it was my mistake, i don't know what i was thinking of when i kept over 2000 usd in the store without any protection, i just though nothing would happen....but i was the only one thinking like that (so silly i am huh?). On this past Sunday i talked to my new boss and told her about that i was having troubles with the people in the store, and she told me they were complaining and saying that i was too impossitive, i was not helping them and that i was so fucking late with the reports, we talked and agreed that i will dedicate to these reports only and will do no sales. Suddenly on Monday i got a phone call from the logistics person in the headquarters of Alegro PCS and within all the things she asked was this thing... what happened with the report? I told her i was working on it but she got quite angry... and well she was right when i realised i had like 10 days delay. I started to work hard on it. Then i got a message from a friend working at another Alegro PCS store letting me know that she had heard that my boss and my ex boss would come to my store to push me about this reports cause the accountant in the headquarters and the logistic girl had complained about my delay in the reports.

I had to work harder to get some things done before they arrived, also in the mean time i had to solve this internal problem with the people in the store, and had a meeting and talked to them and well tried to make things easier, but nowadays i know that there are some people who just simply don't like me, and that people know they failed this time cause there were unable to kick me out, but i know they will try again.So far i feel i cannot trust none in the store now.... how things changed huh? that's why people say that as you grow.... you get more and more lonely.

Well... about the pressure gotten from my boss and past boss.. we stayed they whole Monday making accounts, and preparing reports, sending money to the bank and at the end of the day we found out that there were 250 usd missing. I almost die.... i knew that none from the store would want to pay a part of it so it all would fall on me. Just right now i am totally broken and have been unable to pay my credit cards.... i though it cannot be... it cannot be.... we made accounts again and i started to check more and more stuff and suddenly, i remembered my first days i had found a mistake in a invoice... it was charged in a credit card but in the invoice it appeared to be in cash. In the hurry to get the money done, my ex boss didn't verified if the vouchers from credit card were same amount of those mentioned in the invoices. So i told her to check that up....she was not convinced but we did and on Monday night we found someone had done same mistake with an invoice of 172 usd. (can you imagine such a "small" mistake?), we found same mistake on day 11th... so then the amount was getting smaller, then we found some other amount missing... at the end of the day it ended up being about 120usd the amount missing. it was still a lot of money for me.

When everybody left i decided to take all the invoices with me to home so i could check them personally, My mother who is certified accountant came home and stayed with me all night, we checked invoices that night until 2am... i was so tired i had to sleep. We woke up at 6am to keep on checking invoices, i was checking December 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and saddest thing was that instead of reducing the amount of missing money it increased 20usd more. Then i though.... it has to be in the first days... where there was more movement, there must be something there.

Flew to the store, and tried to work hard on this... before leaving home mom detected a mistake i had done in a report so i had delivered 25 usd more in a report where they should not be, uff... at least it was something. Working on the store i found out that on December 5th there was same mistake for about 80usd. I talked to my past boss and she said she would come by midday to visit me and check it. Well... we did it, we worked until 7pm. Sent almost all the money to the bank except from days 10, 11 and 12 which i have to save today. At the end we found out a total missing of 26.97 USD. Which i said i would assume, cause at the end it was my mistake not to keep this accounting stuff up to date. I will make withdrawal from my credit card.

After finishing this we also counted, the pre paid phone cards and found following mistakes... there are 3 cards of 5 usd and 4 cards of 10 usd missing, but also there are 3 cards of 3 usd and 4 cards of 15 usd of more. In other words, the 26.97 usd missing is because these guys have done wrong invoices or they have delivered wrongly the pre paid cards. Well... i am planning to recover that during this week but i will have to pay from my pocket today, but i know i will recover it.

After fixing all that i got to know that i was saved from being kicked just by few... cause if we didn't finish with the financial stuff the accountant at headquarters was ready to "paper me", and expression we use when someone try and in fact screw you up in actions, words and also leave it set in paper. I also got to know that even the regional director got to know about this and he was pissed off and disappointed with me, ... but come on, what the hell... he was the same guy, who said he didn't vote for me to be placed in this position so who cares that he is angry or whatever (which i don't believe i think he must be laughing from inside).

Well... these first two days have been so exhausting............. it felt like two weeks in a raw... but finally it is over. Now i have to take a shower and get dressed.... i have to go to the bank to withdraw some money from my credit card. By the way.... sorry for not posting these days but as you can see... i have been a bit busy.

cya,