Why I'm Always Broke

Do you know why I don't apply the many available management positions?

Because I have integrity. I wouldn't blatantly lie and throw a hard working associate under the bus to cover up a mistake I made. I wouldn't stab people in the back to get them fired or transferred because I didn't like working with them. I wouldn't say one thing to a person's face and then something completely different behind their back. I wouldn't shove my head so far up corporate's ass that I forget that my associates are real people with real limitations.

Because I'm not lazy. I don't feel comfortable sitting in the office all day and complaining about the people who work hard for me. I can't stand around and do nothing while writing up associates for not doing the work of three people each. I wouldn't find the time to conveniently go on my tenth cigarette break of the day when the understaffed store becomes busy. I would get tired of walking from one end of the store to another, desperately trying to avoid any real work.

Because I am not simple minded. I don't buy into all of the petty, middle school drama that gets dragged into the store from the salon. I'm too in touch with reality to completely ignore all of the factors that affect sales and put the blame entirely on my associates. I'm unable to focus on selling whatever the worthless item corporate is pushing for that week and letting customer service suffer, while wondering why customer service is suffering.

Most importantly, I am beyond frustrated with seeing the complacency with which my friends accept their meaningless, dead-end jobs as something so much more than that and the way in which they expect me to do the same.

Clearly, I have no working capacity to become a manager.