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Duckman2008 posted:I mean, I totally get and agree with what you are saying, but keep in mind whatever job you do that has higher pay also gives you higher leverage. As in, it’s easier to blackball someone in a lower income job, they’re more replaceable than you are, even with the current decent economy. It's more than that though, it's bottom workers exploiting the bottom worker among them who they've realized cannot bring herself to say 'no' to people.
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I answer the phone just to tell them no, and then listen to the disappointment in their voice for half a second before they immediately switch back to being chipper.
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Nov 3, 2018 21:38
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Yeah I don't mind answering the phone for my job since they rarely actually push me to come in, with the exception of an actual emergency. If you're gonna answer the phone just say you can't because you're busy. Don't give them something to argue about. Also I don't respond to group texts, and very few of my coworkers have my phone number
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Nov 3, 2018 22:46
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I'm pretty lucky though, because I work at a place with around a hundred employees in our department alone, and pretty much all the managers have no problems with hopping on to help with rushes if we have to.
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Nov 3, 2018 22:53
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I was getting calls from my front end supervisor to come in to cover people but then I found their masterlist of employee phone numbers and blacked mine out with a marker. They can still find it in my employee record or whatever but i don't think the FES has access to that.
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Nov 4, 2018 00:04
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Coworker: If we get a certain semi-rough task done, the boss said we get a pizza party! Same Coworker: Proceeds to sabotage every attempt at doing said task to the point of getting written up, then has a nervous break down because of it.
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Nov 4, 2018 05:52
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I'm thinking said employee was promised their own private pizza party if they made everyone else fail. I hope you took that as an excuse to say the best line. "This is why we can't have nice things." While gesturing to your coworker.
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Nov 4, 2018 23:02
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Pizza parties are how they pay you less loving money.
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areyoucontagious posted:Pizza parties are how they pay you less loving money. And its always loving little caesars
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I do not want the pizza party, I can buy my own pizza, that, and living and plastic garbage that fills the hole in my soul. I just find it hilarious that the person who wants it the most, is the one keeping us from getting it. Finding it less hilarious that the same co-worker is claiming I told her and her claims to be ex-military, ex-con (for murder), member of a violent white supremist that I "have a crush on her," and apparently he wants me to get fired so he can attack me. I have called HR, but I really do not want to go into work anymore.
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Nov 5, 2018 08:49
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The store manager that's been at my store for three years went on maternity leave last month. Her interim replacement is doing an amazing job at getting people quit. So far three team leads who have been at this store for six years have quit because she's on this trip about how she needs proof that she can trust everyone in the store to do their job. Hello November retail!
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Nov 5, 2018 18:37
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It's amazing how consistently managers use their authority in stupid ways that ends up creating more work for themselves.
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Nov 5, 2018 19:13
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Just got my schedule for Thanksgiving week I'm off on Black Friday.
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Kilonum posted:Just got my schedule for Thanksgiving week Wow! How'd you get a schedule this early?
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Kilonum posted:Just got my schedule for Thanksgiving week Hey, killing that goat and offering it to the Blood God paid off!
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Kilonum posted:Just got my schedule for Thanksgiving week Please do us all a favor, pretty pretty please, and don't answer your loving phone that entire week. 
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Nov 6, 2018 01:43
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I work at an auto parts store. Black friday basically doesn't exist for us. 
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dovetaile posted:Wow! How'd you get a schedule this early? Boss posts them every Monday, 2 weeks out. I also know why I have it off. As I mentioned before, I'm limited on the number of hours I can work in a week (20). So my boss gives me straight up 3 6.5 hour shifts. I am also the only one available to close on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and one of only 2 people available to close on Saturdays. Our standard complement in my department on Saturdays is an opener (8-4 for a 9am open), Mid (generally 11-6), and a closer (3-10, 9pm is store close). So my boss had to choose: have literally one person have Black Friday off (in a department that sees practically no action that day other than as the online order pickup), or be a person short on Saturday (as the only other person available for Saturday close normally works the mid that day), when all the online christmas card orders come flooding in. Eric the Mauve posted:Please do us all a favor, pretty pretty please, and don't answer your loving phone that entire week. More than likely I'm going to be at my aunt's in NH for thanksgiving and if so, taking a 1pm train back on Friday. So even if they call me in on Friday, earliest I can get there is... 5:30pm (as I have to transfer to a commuter train in Boston and then walk 2 miles from the nearest train station) Kilonum fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Nov 6, 2018 |
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Elmnt80 posted:I work at an auto parts store. Black friday basically doesn't exist for us. Whatever you say, bloodbag.
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Had an old man follow me into the back of the store today. Just... followed me in. Deep in, too, like thirty feet deep. He actually startled me when I turned around and found him there, not talking. Waiting. Looming. He was tall, but withered, looking kinda like a green bean left out in the sun. No hello or anything. Just straight into, "Do you have any southwest style eggbeaters?" I took a moment to process. I had thrown away a lot of them the night previous, but I couldn't recall having ever seen any. I said, "If there aren't any on the shelf, we probably don't have them..." but I'd been wrong about things like this before. So I went out, and he followed, silently. And I looked at the shelf. Not even a tag for them. "No, ah, we don't any on the shelf. Not even a space for them. We don't sell those." "Well, maybe in the back..." Ah, yeah, of course, the back, where we keep all the poo poo we don't sell at this store.
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Nov 7, 2018 06:53
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MC Hawking posted:Whatever you say, bloodbag. We run a weekend long sale, its still slow as balls. I'll take it every time over the experience I had working at a retail electronics store on black friday.
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Nov 7, 2018 08:36
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My store manager just got back from two weeks leave and is trying to crack the whip on a bunch of stuff, even though we've already been working flat out the entire time he's been gone. He also told me with a straight face that next week he's going to give a bunch of extra hours to nightfill 'to help me out' (instead of offering me any extra hours). Joke's on him though, because the startup business I've been working on did incredibly well last month, so I'm probably going to invest my energy in that and not into cleaning up the mess his hand-picked team of slackers is creating. Should have given me the extra hours I wanted so I didn't have time to invest them elsewhere 
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My saga continues Department sup is starting his paternity leave earlier than expected (tomorrow, depending on medical stuff labor is being induced tomorrow or Monday) Meanwhile, the sup who is coming in from another store to cover for him won't be available to cover for him Friday, so my Saturday closing shift is getting changed to a Friday mid. Good news is, I put in my time off request for PAX East yesterday. Two weeks paid vacation.
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love to get yelled at on the phone until I start shaking because some loving lady deleted all her emails and lost her receipt and is incapable of navigating a website and that's somehow our fault she spent $300 and wants a full refund and then have my manager be like 'sure! we'll give you a refund!' love to get called in because two other people including the other supervisor called out love to get paid less than the perpetually late/not-showing-up supervisor nothing ruins my day more than lovely awful people treating me like poo poo because of their own stupid bullshit this is why I'm not taking a manager position. I can't handle dealing with people like this. e: yes I know that's how retail is and I 'need to grow a thicker skin' whatever
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Nov 7, 2018 20:50
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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:Ah, yeah, of course, the back, where we keep all the poo poo we don't sell at this store.
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Nov 7, 2018 20:53
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Just found out my store manager got poached by another company and is leaving in two weeks 
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The Snoo posted:e: yes I know that's how retail is and I 'need to grow a thicker skin' whatever Nope. People need to not be so lovely to people helping them. Being numb definitely helps though. Also helpful is treating lovely customers as poorly as you can get away with lol
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Just remember, those corporate mandates of upselling and stuff? Customers hate it, so be sure to do it and give them your biggest poo poo eating grin possible. Remember, it isn't following corporate, its being spiteful.
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Leal posted:Just remember, those corporate mandates of upselling and stuff? Customers hate it, so be sure to do it and give them your biggest poo poo eating grin possible. Remember, it isn't following corporate, its being spiteful. You will basically never get in trouble for trying too hard to sell something.
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Like, five managers all left in the middle of work because they all play Pokemon Go and a Giratina showed up in the hotel. I'm not even mad, that's just hilarious to me.
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Roth posted:Like, five managers all left in the middle of work because they all play Pokemon Go and a Giratina showed up in the hotel. 
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therobit posted:You will basically never get in trouble for trying too hard to sell something. I got a zero on a survey for upselling.
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Zenithe posted:I got a zero on a survey for upselling. The perfect Catch 22 with that one. Ask your manager if he would prefer you didn't upsell I guess. Back when I worked in a rental car place, I had customers yell at me and walk out because they did not like that I was hard selling them on rental car insurance, and my manager was like "You can never sell too hard. If anything you should have gone harder."
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I'm saving that post for the next time someone asks me if they should buy rental car insurance
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We've installed gates leading to the back and side of the store. For some reason people love to go around the back of the building, the only difference is turning left later then usual, there is no reason to drive around the store. Today I had 2 people try to drive around the back, like a minute apart. One gate was opened, but the other was closed so they had to flip a U turn and go the right way. The gates have signs saying "no trespassing". The second guy didn't appreciate it and gave me the finger as he drove back out. Another coworker told me someone actually stopped their vehicle and peeked into our loading bay and tried to get someone to unlock the other gate for her. And called him a rude mother fucker when he refused and told her the signs say no trespassing, and it'd be pointless to have the gates there if we just opened them for people to use the back of the store as a bypass.
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Zenithe posted:I got a zero on a survey for upselling. I get this from time to time. Management really can’t complain about it so I never hear about it.
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I managed to get black friday and that saturday off  edit: and i get paid that friday so I'm gonna be sitting snugly on my couch, curtains drawn. online shopping, babes Pentaghastly fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Nov 9, 2018 |
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Nov 9, 2018 05:41
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Don't have to deal with the boyfriend of my coworker anymore, turns out he's now on the run from the cops for beating someone up with a crowbar, which they found in my coworker's car. Also, I don't have to deal with it, because I'm night crew, but my store is open earlier on Thanksgiving.
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Pentaghastly posted:I managed to get black friday and that saturday off I really sincerely hope I’m wrong and you don’t answer your phone this time because you deserve a holiday weekend off... but it seems like smart money to bet that you will end up working that Friday and Saturday anyway. I mean you KNOW people are going to call off, right?
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