Okay.....this particular district manager is much more uptight than others. He does not want us to decorate or relax in the break room. He had the store manager take down my displays so "all the stores in the area look the same" in this weird bulky look. It doesn't help that he does not like our store manager (it's very obvious). Our store manager loved how I dressed up one holiday and shared the pics with other managers, but we had to keep it on the hush hush since our district manager ignores corporate approval of it.
Lately things have been very dramatic, and I've been the brunt of the stress. This is just my particular store that I speak of, although in this region I hear rumors of similar events. I was written up twice for two days I missed without previous approval because I was stranded out of state for reasons out of my control and I called in to let them know. EXA did not tell the store manager I called, so he did not believe me when I said I'd called in before. More problems with EXA that literally everyone has had, but I am the one being blamed. It took almost crying to finally be believed, only slightly.
This district manager has zero marketing skills. Maybe very, very few, and it's hurting our potential sales due to each store being in a different neighborhood with different customer needs.
