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To think I forgot that today was the most magical of days, when tobacco excise goes up.
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Sep 1, 2017 08:35
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Zenithe posted:To think I forgot that today was the most magical of days, when tobacco excise goes up. Those are my favourite days of the year. I don't think we change our prices till Wednesday though. I'm going to come to work with a big loaf of bread to soak up all the delicious tears.
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Sep 1, 2017 12:21
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The Lord Bude posted:Those are my favourite days of the year. I don't think we change our prices till Wednesday though. I'm going to come to work with a big loaf of bread to soak up all the delicious tears. Cheapest durries are now over $1 each for us.
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Sep 1, 2017 15:16
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Zenithe posted:Cheapest durries are now over $1 each for us. You work at a servo though right? so you'll be more expensive than us to begin with. At my store you can still get the poo poo tier stuff (Superkings/reef etc) for $18-19 /20pk and the 40 packs are still around $37. IIRC that's the same as it was last week. And you can get that new chinese crap for $16.50 a 20pk, on the rare occasions when they deign to grace us with stock. I had an old Eastern European lady actually literally crying last time there was a major price rise, ranting through her tears that the government was treating 'us' like animals, and that they were all pigs, and she hoped they all burn in hell. The Lord Bude fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Sep 1, 2017 |
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Sep 1, 2017 15:51
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Cop Porn Popper posted:Yes, you should have. And called the police. I really needed money at the time as I was just coming out of extended unemployment and it was also off security camera so nothing could really be proven. I did however rip my boss a new one multiple times in the following months over other stupid poo poo the Cryptkeeper did until the foot was put down. We maintain a cautious peace but the guy is fundamentally unstable and a slave to his severe mental health issues. The best thing to do is just avoid interacting with him in any meaningful way but it doesn't always work. To be clear I'm not excusing his behavior in any way, the guys an ocd jackass who makes up 99% of his own problems. MC Hawking fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Sep 1, 2017 |
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Sep 1, 2017 19:50
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The Lord Bude posted:And you can get that new chinese crap for $16.50 a 20pk, on the rare occasions when they deign to grace us with stock. I die a little bit inside every time someone calls then "Shanghai", or "those Chinese ones", like most of the cigarettes aren't made in Asia. It's fun pointing out to casual racists that the cheap cigarettes you didn't want because they were made in China (and it's actually Singapore, not China), were made in the same country as the ones you are apparently OK with.
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Sep 1, 2017 21:43
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Zenithe posted:I die a little bit inside every time someone calls then "Shanghai", or "those Chinese ones", like most of the cigarettes aren't made in Asia. It's fun pointing out to casual racists that the cheap cigarettes you didn't want because they were made in China (and it's actually Singapore, not China), were made in the same country as the ones you are apparently OK with. There's still a generally a vast quality difference between products that are manufactured in China to the specifications of a western company (an iPhone for example) and a product manufactured by a Chinese company for a Chinese market. (Notwithstanding luxury products aimed at super wealthy Chinese people - a student was telling me a store on campus aimed at Chinese students was selling cigarettes laced with gold leaf, we definitely aren't selling those, we sell Hong Ta, which are intended to be as cheap as possible ) Not to mention substantial differences in people's taste between regions. In any event, as far as I can tell most of the cheap cigarettes we sell come from the Phillipines, Korea and Indonesia. Hong Ta is the only one I can think off made in China.
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Sep 2, 2017 02:09
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The ones we have are Shaung Xi, always the cheapest, and exclusively in reds. Made in Singapore.
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Sep 2, 2017 03:38
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Zenithe posted:I die a little bit inside every time someone calls then "Shanghai", or "those Chinese ones", like most of the cigarettes aren't made in Asia. It's fun pointing out to casual racists that the cheap cigarettes you didn't want because they were made in China (and it's actually Singapore, not China), were made in the same country as the ones you are apparently OK with. I like the guys that bitch about foreign made parts, then when I point out that I have a usa made part in a different brand, they whine that they can't afford it. I also enjoy when a customer asks what I drive and then makes a comment about me driving a japanese vehicle. Then I point out it was made at a shared ford and mazda plant in michigan from largely us sourced materials while their car was likely made in mexico. This goes over real well. Best was a dude who threw a hissy fit because the oil pan he bought was made in canada and said it was probably just as poo poo as something made in china. I just stood there going full on whatisthisIcanteven.
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Sep 2, 2017 04:33
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Labor day weekend is a big, busy block of days for any grocery store all by itself. Factor in the first of the month EBT refresh and yeah we were loving swamped today. Half of our cashiers didn't show up on the start of holiday weekend. Who could have foreseen such a thing?! Management planned for one person ( meeeeeee ) to be on surge for the whole. loving. Night. I was also expected to condition two departments, fill a number of holes, pull the expired dates list, unload a grocery truck, and refill dairy. There were no extra bodies scheduled for the floor. There was nobody I could have possibly called, and I still got everything done except for filling lows. My department has more holes than a Dan Brown novel in a termite mound. I already know they're going to try and call me in early tomorrow, and I already know I'm not picking up.
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Sep 2, 2017 05:34
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I just twisted my knee around hard by slipping getting out of the shower. I have 2 10 hour shifts this weekend as closing manager and 0 people that can cover it. Last time I did something like this to my right knee, I couldn't walk for 2 days straight. I'm going to want to die come labor day. 
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Sep 2, 2017 05:42
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Yesterday I got a piece of paper because I had the highest scores on our last audit It wasn't money I'm on day 4 of a 7 day workweek 
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Sep 3, 2017 17:05
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So this week I'm working 6 days, and I thought well hey, 3 days of 10 am to 6 pm, day off and then 3 days of 3 am to 11. Thats not too bad, I can go to sleep at 9 or 10 for my 10 am shifts and it will be very easy to get myself to sleep at 6 on my day off. Except of course that isn't the case cause I don't actually have 3 days of 10 am, I have 1 day of 2 pm. Guess which day this shift is on? Yeah, the day before my day off. That is loving spiteful. They couldn't of made my 2pm shift on any other day that I work a 10 am, no its on the day before my day off which forces me to stay awake to a point when I'm expected to wake up at 2 in the morning following my day off. Do they plan this? Like sit down and go "OK how can we make their home life the most stressful... I know, I'll give them a closing shift, day off, opening at 3 am shift AND THE CLOSING SHIFT WILL BE THE ONLY ONE LIKE IT WHILE EVERY OTHER SHIFT IS AN EARLY MORNING SHIFT!" *cackles, pops giant cigar in mouth*
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Sep 3, 2017 17:49
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They don't plan anything. Maybe they check to see if someone needs a day off ( often they don't ), then they just move numbers around a spreadsheet until they run out of numbers to balance. It's like extremely lazy accounting only the numbers don't get mad and poo poo on the accountant's desk.
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Sep 3, 2017 19:00
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This heat wave in San Diego has resulted in my store to run out of every fan. I've been in for three hours today and have been asked if we have fans at least 15 times. I wish they'd put up a sign saying we have none, but that requires guests to read.
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Sep 3, 2017 19:56
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My store gets exactly one (1) shipment of fans every summer. Then we get to spend the rest of the season explaining to customers that yes, we did have fans, but no, we don't have any in stock at the moment, and no, there aren't any out the back, we don't even have an 'out the back', and no, I can't tell you when we'll get more in stock unless 'next year' is an acceptable answer. If I ever meet the buyer in charge of seasonal products 
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Sep 3, 2017 21:58
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I'll trade you for the buyer that sends us diesel anti-gel and has us keep it on display in central florida. Who tf is gonna buy a gallon of that poo poo here? Nobody, thats who.
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Sep 3, 2017 22:05
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And I'll trade you couponers. "But this person on-line says they got $32.33 in laundry stuff for $5, why is it ringing up at $12. Why does this coupon not work? Can you change the price on the machine. Well, clear it let's try again." For two hours. Two loving hours. In the morning. Someone brought up the same laundry soap today and I almost had PTSD. Also the place I work now requires a manager to use their key when you want to void out or cancel a sale. So that's a fun ten minutes of waiting when some dipshit can't read an ad, or finds a misplaced item, or doesn't have enough money, or just doesn't want that candy bar right now, or etc... Also can't price check on the register, have to use a handheld.
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Sep 4, 2017 01:18
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It's nice when you're taken out of your department, taken away from poo poo you need to be doing, to do something someone else should have done loving three days ago. Maybe hire more people and stop pretending the manpower you have is the manpower you need 'cause that poo poo ain't working. I saw a new hire getting the tour today. He showed up to orientation in camouflage pants, set of Super Mario headphones, and a Dragonball shirt. If he lasts through a whole month I'll be impressed. NerdyMcNerdNerd fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Sep 4, 2017 |
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Sep 4, 2017 05:03
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4am, Chilled delivery truck waiting outside, night manager goes out to see what's up. "There are two trucks I was told to wait until the other truck was emptied as the depot want it back first." 5:10am, second truck parks up at the warehouse door. There is a single cage of delivery inside it. WTF.
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Sep 4, 2017 07:23
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Happy labor day all you Americans! How are you celebrating? Why, me, you ask? Well I'm celebrating it by working my 7th day of my 15 day work week as well as 50 hours in 5 days
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Sep 4, 2017 07:40
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Anora posted:And I'll trade you couponers. I already get those. Best one was about a month ago.  But my coupon facebook page says this coupon code is for your store and I get 15% off my entire purchase! Ma'am, it doesn't look like any coupon code I've ever seen my company send out, I've never seen my company offer a flat percent off on purchases like that before and this is not our company's official facebook page. Nor have I ever seen a code from one of those coupon sites claiming to work for purchases here actually go through. Well then why would your company send it out!?! Its not from my company mam, its from whoever made that facebook page. But it says your company name on it! Anyone can make a facebook page with a company name on it. That doesn't mean its official. You just don't want to honor your company's coupon! I want to speak to a manager. I am a manager. I want to speak to the assistant manager then! I am the assistant manager, if you want to speak to the store manager she will be here when the store opens monday morning. No you can call her and have her come up here right now. Not happening, I am not making her come up here on her day off because you got a bad coupon code off of a random facebook page.* proceeds to complain loudly to 3 other customers about how we are refusing to honor our coupons for 15 more minutes before leaving. All 3 look at her like the crazy person she is.*She wanted to use a fake 15% off coupon on a air filter that cost like $15. Its one of the cheapest loving things her car takes. I could have seen it being that big a deal if it was a battery, or something else over $100-150. I honestly can't figure out how people manage to be so loving dumb and still able to own and work on cars. Like, if you are trying to do a brake job, I should not have to tell you what a lug nut is and have you recount them 3 times to get the correct number. "Are they 5 lug wheels or 7?" "I count 6". 
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Sep 4, 2017 09:42
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Cop Porn Popper posted:I already get those. Best one was about a month ago. Coupons are the worst. I probably posted about this one before... wait, yes, I did, here: Fil5000 posted:I vividly recall Virgin Megastores putting a coupon in the national press advertising a free copy of "Big" on DVD from any of their branded stores. This apparently included something called a Virgin Game store, and they chose to word the coupon thusly: Coupons, man.
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Sep 4, 2017 09:59
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Cop Porn Popper posted:I honestly can't figure out how people manage to be so loving dumb and still able to own and work on cars. This thought occurs to me often. How did you even get here to be this dumb. You managed to get dressed and drive here, and I'm honestly amazed at that.
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Sep 4, 2017 14:08
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Garrand posted:Happy labor day all you Americans! How are you celebrating? Why, me, you ask? Well I'm celebrating it by working my 7th day of my 15 day work week as well as 50 hours in 5 days but that sweet time and a half!
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Sep 4, 2017 15:51
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You know, radios would be a lot better if they were used for communication instead of helicopter management.  CSM: "Nerd, can you open?" "Sure, whatever. Coming."Less than a minute later, the store manager pipes up in my ear. "Nerd? Are you coming? Nerd? Where are you?" Now, I work with perishables. I can't just drop everything and come right up there. Every time I am pulled away from my work, I have to push my stuff to the back of the store ( where the freezer is ), then walk all the way back up front. It takes time. I decide not to answer on the basis that it's a stupid question that pisses me off, walk up front, and open a til. An hour later, the same poo poo. CSM: "Nerd, can you open?" "It'll be a minute."Store Manager: "Nerd, are you coming? Nerd?"What do you think? "No, actually, I changed my mind since I last responded ten seconds ago. I've built a yurt out of paper towels and bamboo barbecue skewers, nestled in the bountiful valley of the meat department. Here I will search for a wife, raise my children, and one day my tribe shall rule all that lay north of the cereal aisle."
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Sep 4, 2017 20:06
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SaberToothedPie posted:but that sweet time and a half! Double time for a relatively slower day, hospitals are rad. Or triple pay, and I just spend a paid leave day. Of which I have somewhere close to a month accrued.
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Sep 5, 2017 04:53
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SaberToothedPie posted:but that sweet time and a half! I don't think I get time and a half today... I don't work for Wal-mart anymore but I think when they went to $10 an hour they dropped the number of days you get time and a half to like 4. Same for the garbage Gas Station I worked for. Anyone else just not getting 15 minute breaks? I don't think I've gotten on at the last 3 jobs I've had.
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Sep 5, 2017 08:41
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Anora posted:I don't think I get time and a half today... I don't work for Wal-mart anymore but I think when they went to $10 an hour they dropped the number of days you get time and a half to like 4. Same for the garbage Gas Station I worked for. We only are "allowed" one 30 minute break and we don't clock out for it so if it any point you're needed up front you have to cut it short but since I'm on night shift and we're not that busy at that time my supervisor doesnt mind if we step out every so often for a smoke break or if we go in the break room to eat or use our phones as long as we're not swamped with orders. no one on my shift takes their designated break we all just take mini ones. Pentaghastly fucked around with this message at 09:00 on Sep 5, 2017 |
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Sep 5, 2017 08:55
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We don't have any shorter breaks, but we do have a mandatory hour long lunch break that you will be crucified for trying to work during if you work 8 hours or more in a day. Otoh, we also don't care if you want to step out to make a phone call or smoke a cig when its slow up front, so long as you're not back there every 15 seconds and someone is up front to cover a customer walking in or the phone ringing.
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Sep 5, 2017 09:10
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I just looked at my schedule for today and noticed that I'm scheduled half of the day on the service desk. I'm not trained for nor am I interested in training for it. If that's not just a "we ran out of hours in your department" situation then today is going to be interesting.
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Sep 5, 2017 10:06
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We get paid "breaks" but as there is only one person on site for all of my shifts it's really not one at all. It's really really annoying if it's busy and you need to take a piss. 10 hours is a long time to not stop. [ASK] me about our terrible union.
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Sep 5, 2017 11:23
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Break schedule where I work is: Shifts less than four hours: no break Shifts 4 hours to 7.25 hours: 15 minute paid break Shifts 7.5 hours or greater: Unpaid 30 minute lunch, no 15 minute paid break And why yes, it IS common to be scheduled 7.25 hour shifts. Daniel Bryan fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Sep 5, 2017 |
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Sep 5, 2017 13:14
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Daniel Bryan posted:Break schedule where I work is: Just pretend your break is at the end of your shift! 
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Sep 5, 2017 13:37
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Corporate is going insane currently. I can't lock doors anymore and now we have to put carts in front of all the closed lanes at night, lest some one make off with, I dunno, whatever. Also, we lock every door but one at 19:00, again because MUH THEFT! The store manager is never around, but when he is, he's bitching and holed up in his office glaring at security camera screens all loving day. Most of the salary AssMans are idiots who support idiot policies. Also, one of the AssMans has locked people in the store after closing on two separate occasions, which is funny as poo poo. gently caress this job, I need out.
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Sep 5, 2017 13:57
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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:"No, actually, I changed my mind since I last responded ten seconds ago. I've built a yurt out of paper towels and bamboo barbecue skewers, nestled in the bountiful valley of the meat department. Here I will search for a wife, raise my children, and one day my tribe shall rule all that lay north of the cereal aisle."
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Sep 5, 2017 18:07
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I got hit in the face with a fidget spinner today, it was thrown autistic child throwing a fit The mother was extremely apologetic
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Sep 5, 2017 22:46
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Kilonum posted:I got hit in the face with a fidget spinner today, it was a thrown autistic child throwing a fit She should be, where does she get off throwing around autistic kids?
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Sep 6, 2017 00:02
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KiteAuraan posted:Corporate is going insane currently. I can't lock doors anymore and now we have to put carts in front of all the closed lanes at night, lest some one make off with, I dunno, whatever. Also, we lock every door but one at 19:00, again because MUH THEFT! The store manager is never around, but when he is, he's bitching and holed up in his office glaring at security camera screens all loving day. Most of the salary AssMans are idiots who support idiot policies. This cracks me up, as when I worked at Wal-mart the AP guys would follow a guy around for an hour, but when a worker was stealing left and right they just ignored it.
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