Reading harold_maude's journal

Yesterday at work, the assistant manager who will be walking in the managers shoes very shortly, comes up to me and asks me to stay a week longer than I had planned.
I put my notice in at work to be the same day as the manager.
I was there at this job for one reason, to be a strong support for a woman who has been busting her butt to do the finest job I've ever seen any manager do, bar none.

The woman who is the assistant manager has used her position to slack and not really do her job. Let's face it, she hasn't.
She has a lot of bad habbits , she is always late for work, she leaves and the place usually looks like a bomb went off when she is schedualed to clock out, she has lied time and time again to the manager, these things and more has made working with her frustrating, and now she wants me to stay an extra week.

Her best friends who also work at the same place don't believe she will make it as manager, and if she keeps doing what she has been, she won't.
There is no business as usual, any more.
I have a decision to make. Staying an extra week might do a couple of things, put a little more money on my last paycheck from there, but it also cuts down some other windows of opportunity that would pay better and offer beneifits.
Do I stay and help this woman out, or do I let her just face it and let what ever happens, happen.

When she asked me, she said she was scared, and she should be.
But at the same time this is her opportunity to step up and prove all thoes people wrong who have no faith in her, due
to her work performance so far.
I told her I would give her my answer on Thursday.
I refuse to be a glorified baby sitter. And I refuse to carry the load of the place by my self.

Durring the day shift, the manager and I do the bulk of the work.
When this woman, the assistant manger has been on, all she wants to do is talk. She leaves things a mess, and I have yet to see her pick up a broom and even sweep.
I do know that when I talk to her tomorrow, that I am going to take of the nice kid gloves and be completely straight with her.
I'm of the opinion that she needs to either pull her shit together, put her head down and just step up to the plate, and start earning her wage, or go to the general manager and tell him she is not up to it, and ask him for help in this endevor.

She is in a panic. And that is the worst thing to do.

What I see happening when the manager leaves, and when I leave, is the place is going to fall far down in being the top store of the three here in this town.
I can see everyone who works there now quitting. And then it would be on the owners to fix it.
Which is justice, seeing as how they have made many promises but have yet to keep one.

Anyway, I've got to get ready for work.