Jen Sullivan

The Fabric Manager: A Memoir of a Craft Store Manager (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

After years of working for small businesses, I found myself employed as a manager for a craft store within a corporation. Though it was not as big as the some well-known craft chains, it was still a different environment than with which I was comfortable. I had high hopes for the job, knowing that larger companies can generally pay more than small businesses and usually offered more benefits. What I found was a company in chaos, struggling to survive in a changing world, and employees who were both overworked and underpaid.

As my time continued with the company, I began to truly hate the job, losing respect for my boss who never valued my experience, knowledge, or input, and never helped me to grow as a manager within the company, seeing me as just some kid who knew nothing about business. That could not have been farther from the truth; my own business idea slowing cooking within the depths of my soul. While my health started to suffer from unexpected complications, I still did what I could to stick by my employees, knowing that they needed a compassionate leader who wanted them to survive.

This is the true story of the lies of a corporation, leading up to and including the COVID-19 pandemic, and my struggle to continue for both my employees and my own family, trying to hold on to the tiniest sliver of my own sanity until I could someday get out and have the needed time to start my own business.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jen Sullivan
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798227491930
• Artikelnr.: 73573605

Autorenporträt

Jen Sullivan lives in Lebanon, PA with her husband, her mother, and their pets. She is an avid video gamer, tech geek, and gardener, and has many side hobbies, including writing, computer repair, genealogy research, and quilting, among others. She is originally from York, PA, and grew up in the Pleasureville area.

Jen has been interested in pirates and tall ships for most of her life, even though she does not like the ocean and much prefers a forest setting over a beach. She wrote her first novella, Pirate Ophelia, when recovering from mild PTSD after a prolonged illness and an extremely toxic work situation. She was later treated for Lyme disease, though she never had confirmation of any tick disease, and has had problems with her legs ever since. In 2022, Jen published Pirate Ophelia: The Real Story on Medium, telling the origins of the book and how it helped her struggle with emotions and nightmares.

Jen has worked in retail for most of her life and earned an Associate in Arts in Business Management from Harrisburg Area Community College in 2015. Within six months, she was promoted to manager at her job and later went on to become a store manager for a nationwide craft company. Similar to Pirate Ophelia, she later wrote and published The Fabric Manager: A Memoir of a Craft Store Manager to recover from the stress of that job and to provide insight into the struggles of the chain's retail employees.

More recently, Jen attended Southern New Hampshire University online and completed her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in Human Resources Management. She intends to work in HR and to support employees the best she can while making sure everyone including upper management follow labor and EEOC laws. Jen has always been an employee-focused leader, believing that happy employees provide better customer service and productivity, and this is reflected in the Pirate Ophelia series.