So much anger towards assistant managers.. not all of them are like that. There is a bunch of us in my district that are fed up with the way the DM runs it. I stand up for my reps, I refuse to do unnecessary harrassment type coachings, I reached out and have been working with HR about this, and I have been reaching out to the training department. So don't generalize every SM into one category please. I understand reps' point of view because I used to be one and didn't forget the amount of hard work it takes to be successful WHILE being an honest rep. At the same time, I don't tolerate shadiness and cheating, so those type of reps will get no support from me, and I will go after them for that kind of behavior (tbh I've been unsuccessful at this, it seems like HR will look the other way as long as those reps look good on scorecard and make company money. No amount of proof of unethical practices is sufficient to even put those reps on a write up). The whole system is so messed up that I feel powerless. Reps are the most protected employees, despite coachings and harrassment you talk about. Who got laid off last round? SMs, not reps (unless the whole store closed down). All stores now run on 2 SMs and a GM. You say we do nothing all day but who does all the inventory, merchandising, greeting (all of which used to be done by other dedicated employees in the past), plus normal SM duties like inventory management, escalations, fixing reps mistakes, side by side selling, reporting, running the store in general. And don't get me started on working bell to bells or 6 day weeks if one of the managers has to take time off and being told by the DM "figure it out". So let's not bash each other, SMs and reps, we should work together.
Couldn't agree more with @USkj0Hh-4iux, hence the bump.