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Rhyno posted:You would be. Retail is a wasteland. It's only tolerable if you're a really good salesman on commission. Or once my reforms to the retail sector are allowed where retail employees are allowed: One murder a year (does not roll over) One assault a month (rolls over) Unlimited verbal abuse 25 dollar minimum wage You can tell your boss to get hosed once a shift Two can't be arsed showing up days a month.
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I dare to dream. The frequency that I see other customers standing up for a retail worker being abused by a Karen has increased significantly. More power to the workforce would be great.
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Rhyno posted:I dare to dream. I have been fired from two jobs for telling a customer to gently caress off and suck my dick from behind and I regret nothing. The look on rich people's faces when you show that not all minimum waged people are their personal slaves is worth eating rice and beans for a month or two imo
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big dong wanter posted:Or once my reforms to the retail sector are allowed where retail employees are allowed: Working in a bar gets you the last four, potentially the assault too depending on where you work. Don’t work in a bar
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slothrop posted:Working in a bar gets you the last four, potentially the assault too depending on where you work. Can confirm.
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slothrop posted:Working in a bar gets you the last four, potentially the assault too depending on where you work. Working behind the bar can be pretty drat lucrative tho. Anywhere else around the bar tho forget it.
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Krakkles posted:Mr. Saturn! Yup. I wonder what became of that Corvair.
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Working behind the bar can be pretty drat lucrative tho. Back in the day I was 'Promotions Manager' of a club that pretty much meant I got paid $10 an hour plus free drinks. Pretty much went around starting drinking games and encouraging terrible binge drinking. The best bit was having a little RF remote for the Nightlife system used for music when the DJ was passed out/not at the decks. $10 could buy a punter a push on the next track button. But drugs and competition bribes were where the money was really at.
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I've already been on the lookout for a new job - either within the same company (preferably, since my benefits are awesome), but looking outside too (any Austin goons know of any tech jobs hiring that can handle outdated skillsets/fast learners? I know this is essentially going into entry level all over again..). Last week I got slapped with 5 attendance warnings and 1 writeup, all because I left early after finding out GF was in an accident on her way to work (carpooling with a coworker; she's fine, coworker that was driving has a broken collarbone and arm). Apparently the store manager lost his poo poo and made my boss sift through every "excused" absence over the past year (I've called out a few times for migraines, which are documented in my file with work, and supposed to be excused), though not directly because of me - supposedly the entire produce department opening team called out sick that day. Supposedly. I plan to ask the store manager about that; he's not very approachable unless he knows you already, luckily we know each other. I've noticed one particular overnight manager has become extremely passive aggressive since I got back, finally started taking my aisles and giving me 3-4 difficult ones (I had 15 pallets of drinks last night across 4 aisles, which is a shitload for 2 people, drat near impossible for one, and really impossible for someone who has knee/hip issues), told me "if you have to have doctor's appointments, I expect you to drop down to part time, I can't have you leaving on time - you have to stay until we're ALL done, no matter what" (which resulted in me going to my boss, who went to HR with me, which resulted in the hostility becoming more open). Time to move on. My body is giving out anyway, I can't do the physical part of this job anymore. But I'm gonna drag him down kicking and screaming with me with plenty of HR chats, and since TX is a one party consent state (plus signs all over the store about recording in progress), I'm recording every interaction. Just gonna leave my phone recording anytime I see him. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Jul 30, 2021 |
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^^ That sucks man. Hope you land on your feet somewhere you're happy.Rhyno posted:I had the temp for 2 weeks, the permanent was in for a day and kept hitting my upper teeth in one high spot. I even said it felt wrong when they put it in but the dentist said it would probably take a week to get used to. But the high spot was hitting so much I was worried it would chip my teeth. Ah, OK. Without a temp your teeth will definitely move a bit, even after only a couple days. Does sound like a questionable crown hopefully everything lines up for you and it gets better. Pulling a tooth when it is fine is almost never a good idea. I'd take a crown over an implant any day of the week. I have one implant and properly taking care of it, IE: Getting under it on all sides when you floss is a bit of a pain. Not the end of the world but I'm hoping I don't need to get more as time goes on.
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I mean, I really really like the company. The benefits are OUTSTANDING, by far the best I've ever had, and my pay is.... okay. But holy poo poo, this place is full of middle aged drama queens. I thought adults grew out of that poo poo? The saying "people don't quit jobs, they quit managers" doesn't quite directly apply in this case - my department manager is generally fantastic (the manager I described dealing with during an HR meeting is his co-manager... equal in rank, but I get along with him well). It's the loving drama queens on the overnight manglement team that I'm quitting. And the bottle of ibuprofin a week habit. One unintended consequence of driving a P71 with rubber flooring - the cats sit right under the foot wells, so my feet get nice and toasty if I let it idle. Helps so much with foot pain if I let the car idle a bit before driving home... randomidiot fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Jul 30, 2021 |
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STR posted:middle aged drama queens Oh, I have bad news about the tech workforce. I have feeling the hive mind here should be able to help you hunt down something. The job market is insane these days, and (at least in my world) hiring managers are happy to find someone interested and motivated and willing to learn, even if they don’t have direct experience. How are your soft skills and what is your interest level in corporate governance from an information security perspective? It’s a great place to be if you’ve got a technical background (of any age, the principles haven’t really changed since Grace Hopper was bug hunting) and the ability to deal with the technical and business sides of things at the same time.
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STR posted:But holy poo poo, this place is full of middle aged drama queens. I thought adults grew out of that poo poo? Everywhere is, the higher you go the more drama there is. The manager you are having issues with will have more Real Politik jackasses above him all the way to the top. Humanity likes to think it is collaborative but really it is crabs in a bucket but with the self awareness and "intelligence".
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Best job in retail I ever had was getting myself into the accounting office at Walmart. I'll never handle as much cash in my entire life as I did in that position. It was like in all those drug dealer movies with the bill flippy counter and stacks and stacks of cash. They had a system that weighed the bills and coins and automatically entered it into the system. Security was insane if you tried to steal anything you'd get caught immediately so many checks and balances.
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RIP Paul Walker posted:How are your soft skills and what is your interest level in corporate governance from an information security perspective? It’s a great place to be if you’ve got a technical background (of any age, the principles haven’t really changed since Grace Hopper was bug hunting) and the ability to deal with the technical and business sides of things at the same time. My tech knowledge is pretty drat out of date - the last REAL tech support job I had that wasn't just "reset your modem" or "so this is how outlook works" was in the late 90s, supporting credit card machines and.... fuel pump CRIND (Gilbarco pumps, the earliest pump-based point of sale). But I'm willing to learn, I know how to bend Google's search engine to my will, and I know my way around Windows 95/98/NT 4.0/2000/XP/7/8/8.1/10, along with DOS. Used to know CLI Linux and OS/2 2.11 through 4.x (was even a beta tester for OS/2 at one point). I can fix drat near anything so long as I know what I'm looking for. Hell we're doing in-store advertisements for our warehouses... the closest one is an hour and a half away. $1500 sign-on bonus, $17.50/hr to start. If you "make rate" you make WAY more - "make rate" means beating the timer on how long it takes you to pick your assignment and build up the pallets, they'll assign you more after. From what I understand, most people in good shape can make rate within a few months, it turns into $25/hr pretty quick when you're making rate. I'm fine with governance, I'm pretty anal about security in general. Thumposaurus posted:Best job in retail I ever had was getting myself into the accounting office at Walmart. I know someone who's the "region expert" for accounting for Lowe's (they still make less than me, despite two decades in the job - really sad what Lowe's pays someone after that long). Lowe's is trying to eliminate accounting positions entirely and shift it all over to Brinks + head cashier (they've also cut back on store pickups/dropoffs by a large amount, I assume to save money) - but you need somebody who knows how to tickle the nether regions of their in-house point of sale when, say, someone does a $15,000 chargeback - you gotta pull camera footage, transaction logs, signatures, etc. That used to be a store manager + LP + accounting 3 way, but now it's head cashier + Brinks + corporate LP (with 7 days of remote camera retention vs the former 90 days of on-site + 14 days off-site retention they used to have) They don't even put a ceiling on their cash offices except for the newest stores, all you need is a tall ladder to drop in. Of course you're not getting near the office without someone noticing you, but they got rid of on-site LP too, so there's nobody really watching their cameras 24/7 (unlike Walmart). Most retail cash offices for any decent size chain have that kind of scale setup. Walmart takes security to the far extreme though, I'm pretty sure they spend more on LP than any other retailer; Kohl's and Target would be really close. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Jul 30, 2021 |
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I worked at a Dairy Queen when I was 15 and everyone was stealing like mad. I only stole M&Ms.
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Rhyno posted:I worked at a Dairy Queen when I was 15 and everyone was stealing like mad. Once we got a delivery of whole Reeces Pieces instead of crushed. I took a 32oz cup of them home. And sometimes we would dip baby cones and throw them on the wall of the business next door to see how high we could get it to stick. Maybe one time I came in the back and dropped a big handful of chicken strips in the fryer.
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I would stuff my face while working. Our m&ms came whole so yeah, I'd grab 32 Oz cups of those weekly. Good times!
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Our local Dairy Queen franchisee starts at $15/hr WITH FULL BENEFITS for burger flippers. .... I'm really tempted to see what they pay assholes(managers)-in-training. And I wouldn't give a poo poo about some kids getting a sugar high off of reeses cups so long as the wholesale cost wasn't insane. If it was, I might make them pay for a cup of ice or something that was close to the wholesale cost. 
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STR posted:Our local Dairy Queen franchisee starts at $15/hr WITH FULL BENEFITS for burger flippers. Fast food is on the upswing here too. I hear Costco is raising wages shortly as well.
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Costco is somewhat selective. Dairy Queen is offering a $500-2000 sign-on bonus depending on position.  Might go flip burgers for a few months! randomidiot fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Jul 30, 2021 |
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Before the credit card systems went all digital if we got a charge back at the store we'd have to go to the back store room where all the physical charge slips that got printed out when a card was used and dig thru a stack of boxes to find that slip. There'd be charge backs from 4-5 years previous and we'd have to find that one slip for that one card and photocopy it and fax it to the CC company. Once it switched over we could just search by date print it out and fax it.
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Lowe's is a mix of all of that. They keep on-site records for several years, but need the printed copy for whatever reason. Digital records aren't kept long at all.  So I just made the mistake of putting my resume online on Linkedin, and holy gently caress my phone blew up within a minute. EVERY SINGLE FUCKER was asking "do you HAVE to put in a 2 weeks notice at your current job?" "I respect my current manager too much to hang him out to dry, so yes, I need to pu*click* Hello?" They also ALL asked how much I currently make, which was always countered with "what is the pay range for the position?" "Well that depends on what you currently make" (wow dude, really? you got big balls asking me how much I make before you'll even give me a basic range of what the position MIGHT pay, and I'm coming from a completely unrelated field, but have lots of experience in your field) I said $25/hr to a few of them (which several people on my team DO make, but I don't - the cap for my position is around $28/hr), "oh perfect, that's within the pay range for this <really entry level job at some company I've never heard of!>" randomidiot fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Jul 30, 2021 |
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Figure out what you want to make, then add 20%, then multiply by 2000 to make yourself salaried.
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STR posted:Our local Dairy Queen franchisee starts at $15/hr WITH FULL BENEFITS for burger flippers. Management in retail is just a way to give a "title" to some poor sucker and not have to pay them for all their overtime and dealing with bullshit in return.
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Sounds like you’re going to be in good shape STR! Good luck.
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I’m on a work trip to San Antonio, where should I eat? Already been to Rudy’s (mediocre), Chacho’s (takeout only,but good), and Saltgrass because it’s a block from my hotel on the Riverwalk.
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I used to be a regional manager/one of the nationwide top 5 store managers of a chain of an urban-themed youth shoe stores back in their startup days, (late 90's) There's probably not much in retail better than some rear end in a top hat asking to see the manager over some decision I made on the floor about their bullshit return attempt on some shoes they wore to the club for a weekend and saying "ok let me get him" and walking in one side of the back room, and then out the other, and saying "Hi, I'm the regional manager, what's the issue"
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I miss being able to pull the I AM THE MANAGER line.  slidebite posted:My guess is hardly anything extra. I've actually talked to managers within that particular DQ franchise before, back when I did food delivery full time - they said they were "very well taken care of" and that the franchisee runs a very solid operation. I didn't ask WHAT they made, I just asked if they were taken care of and mentioned what Papa John's had paid me as an assistant manglemer. Their burger flippers make more than what I made. I've been in food service manglement before. I don't WANT to go back to it, but hey, if a shift manager position will give me pay similar to what I get now...
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STR posted:I miss being able to pull the I AM THE MANAGER line. If I ever win the lottery, I'm opening a bar solely for the opportunities to be able to go I AM THE MANAGER to drunk Karens.
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I decided to get out of retail back in ‘06 when I was the manager of a Sears Auto that was attached to a standard retail store. One day the manager of the retail store, who was my boss as well because we were an attached unit, asked me to set up a tire and wheel display in the tool dept. to draw cross-traffic. I did it per her request and by the book as far as signage and location etc. A couple of days later the regional manager comes by for a visit and says he doesn’t like the display so I immediately get thrown under the bus and she starts asking why I did that without her permission, and how could I even think about putting a display up like that all ugly and out of place. It was the last straw in dealing with her insanity and the general public’s stupidity. My resignation was on her desk the next week. God bless retail workers, seriously. My brain can’t handle it. I deal with surgeons now and that’s sometimes akin to dealing with children, but it’s not thousands of them a day.
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Kazinsal posted:If I ever win the lottery, I'm opening a bar solely for the opportunities to be able to go I AM THE MANAGER to drunk Karens. Same, but have a sign with 'No Karens' with the stereotypical Karen haircut silhouette on it. Then wait until the complaints roll in. Also a 'Masks mandatory' sticker - and when they bitch about it I say 'this is a fetish bar, move along' jsut to get them jimmys rustled.
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Kazinsal posted:If I ever win the lottery, I'm opening a bar solely for the opportunities to be able to go I AM THE MANAGER to drunk Karens. A long time ago I was having trouble getting folk out of the bar. It was an hour past our licence closing time and people just would not leave. Lights up, music off, rudely (as I dared) collecting glasses. It had been a real long day and I just wanted to get outta there. One table was I swear to god the Fratellis from The Goonies. Mum and the two lovely sons. At some point I heard one of them swear at me and I lost it. “Don’t you loving swear at me” (I am aware of the irony) My boss was sitting at the end of the bar and he just patted my arm and told me to sit down and grab a beer, he would deal with it. He wandered over to the table and as politely as possible informed these chumps that it was an hour past closing time, they needed to leave. Mama Fratelli loses her poo poo. She explodes, “you can’t treat us this way, we know the owner!” So at this point, everyone in the bar is watching what is happening. Everyone in the bar also knows that my boss IS the owner of the bar. He plays along for a while, complaining about how the owner is such an rear end in a top hat, treats him so poorly and he can’t wait to get fired so he can go work at McDonalds. The Fratellis are eating this poo poo up and giving him everything. Eventually he turns around and says, “let me introduce myself, I’m **** and that’s my name above the door. I’m the owner and licence holder.” One of the most cathartic moments of my life. Anywho, that’s my long rear end story about making sure you know who you’re talking too 
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wallaka posted:I’m on a work trip to San Antonio, where should I eat? Already been to Rudy’s (mediocre), Chacho’s (takeout only,but good), and Saltgrass because it’s a block from my hotel on the Riverwalk. Mi Tierra Cafe y Panaderia
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Humphreys posted:I've found a place an acceptable drive away that is giving out Pfizer to whoever/whatever age wants it, and they have a weekly shipment schedule. I'm too late for this week, but going next week for sure! This post pissed me off. I'm in Ohio, midwest United States. The local supermarkets have signs up saying "Next Vaccine Clinic Scheduled For:" with a space for a date. The ones around me haven't been changed in weeks and say "Today." We can walk in, get a jab, and walk out. There is no cost. And half of our stupid population refuses to do it because they are absolute idiotic morons. The Right has been on an anti-intellectualism tear since the 1990s (at least), and here's the fruit of their labor. Meanwhile, in more developed parts of the world, there are weeks-long waits for jabs.
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meatpimp posted:This post pissed me off. I live in a part of Queensland that isn't 'The Great South East' which is what all the politicians care about. I have been on the register for vaccine for as long as there was a way to sign up. I do/did NDIS care on the side, am only family within decent distance of my Grandma in a home. Also my bio-father is on deaths door so I HAVE TO BE HEALTHY to see him for one last thing with his compromised immune system. It's kinda really hosed up that our governments are playing loving marketing games. Give me jabs, give them to me now and be accountable for side effects.
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