The marijuana dispensary where I work is owned by a large corporation that has marijuana dispensaries in several different states.
There are seven dispensaries in the state where I live and there are 33 total locations across the country.
The corporate office never comes to the store. I’ve never seen any one other than the manager. The corporate office has no idea how things are run from one day to the next. They sit in an office in Denver far away from our store. The manager has a lot to do. It’s clear that she has to work hard and probably doesn’t get paid enough money. A few weeks ago, I saw that manager at her breaking point. She got into an argument with someone from the corporate office regarding her vacation hours. She had been on the phone with them for the third time in a week. When she got off the phone, she started packing up a box with all of her photos and desk supplies. I didn’t really think she was going to walk out in the middle of a shift at the marijuana dispensary, but she did. She had zero regard for anyone else working in the dispensary at that time. I was left to pick up the pieces. I had to search the office for the corporate number and I decided to lock down the dispensary until they could tell me what to do in the situation. The corporate office thought I was joking when I told them that the manager walked out and I did not think she was planning to return.