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My biggest retail problem right now is that my take-home, working full time and getting insurance through work, is $13k a year. That's.. bad. Depressing. And I get yelled at for not being motivated to work harder than I do. Where is the incentive? Yeah, it's a job.. but goddamn, $13k who can get by on that living on their own?
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TShields posted:but goddamn, $13k who can get by on that living on their own? Can you figure out a way to move to rural Alabama? $200 a month for a one bedroom.
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Jan 25, 2011 16:05
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Central NC is southern enough for me, thanks.
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Jan 25, 2011 16:58
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TShields posted:My current DM is a moron, so I don't give a poo poo what he thinks. With the hours he has cut us down to, I think he expects us to have to work off the clock to get everything done that needs to be done.. I wonder what would happen if you printed out the aforementioned lawsuit against Best Buy for making an employee work off-hours, and showed it to him/her if they tried to make you do the same. In a similar vein, when I was in the Marines, a guy I knew kept the haircut/uniform regulations on a card in his pocket. When higher-ups gave him poo poo about his shave/moustache/haircut/whatever, he'd whip it out and ask "show me where it says that." TShields posted:My biggest retail problem right now is that my take-home, working full time and getting insurance through work, is $13k a year. That's.. bad. Depressing. And I get yelled at for not being motivated to work harder than I do. Where is the incentive? Yeah, it's a job.. but goddamn, $13k who can get by on that living on their own? Isn't the poverty line at $16k? When I was in the military, even as a boot private, my year's pay after taxes was $19k, with full medical, dental and eye benefits. red19fire fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Jan 25, 2011 |
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Jan 25, 2011 17:03
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TShields posted:My biggest retail problem right now is that my take-home, working full time and getting insurance through work, is $13k a year. That's.. bad. Depressing. And I get yelled at for not being motivated to work harder than I do. Where is the incentive? Yeah, it's a job.. but goddamn, $13k who can get by on that living on their own? Use the job to help you get by while applying to other jobs. It sucks, its harder than I am making it sound, but you are the only one who will get yourself out of the hole.
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red19fire posted:I wonder what would happen if you printed out the aforementioned lawsuit against Best Buy for making an employee work off-hours, and showed it to him/her if they tried to make you do the same. Probably would get Hell and treated like poo poo -_- Yay for DMs. Just a few annoying things from work recently. Of course there's a lot more but... 1) I forget them because there are so many... and 2) There is no reason to make like a 5 page post about little things. Anyway, on Friday last week a lady came up to me while I was in cookware looking up some item for a customer. She walks up and goes: "I want to check out." As I was about to say the registers were right behind her she goes: "But you guys only have 1 register open, and there are a lot of people in it." (There were 3 people at the register at customer service) "Can you just open a register and check me out right now so I don't have to wait? So... I'm busy. Why should I drop what I'm doing so that she alone could check out before people who were waiting longer than her? Would be best if I agreed to open my register, but said I had to check out the next person in line... not her. So she would have to wait in line behind 1 or 2 people before she got to go. Instead I pointed at the register 10 feet away from her and said: "Well I don't know why everyone else is lining up at the other one, there's a register with an employee at it right next to you that has no one checking out at it." Speaking of registers being open and no one being in line however... I'm really really tired of how many people will see me on register and ask if I'm open. Usually I'm not on register all day, I'll just be up front for backup. Often they will ask me if I'm on register when I'm about to leave due to no lines. This is fine. However, many times they'll walk up as soon as someone leaves my register with their bags and I say, "Have a nice day." And they look at me and go: "EXCUSE ME! Is your register open?" How can you not loving tell when you are watching someone walk away with their bags of merchandise? I suppose they could think maybe it was a friend I was talking to while standing behind the counter of a closed register with no sign saying it was closed.... but.... I just get sick of being asked that all the time. Though it's even better the number of times I'll have someone come up and ask me if I'm open while I'm in the middle of checking someone out. And then they ask me if I can check them out, and seem disatisfied that I have to check out the people in my line instead of the person on the other side of my register / peering over the wall in front of my register. --- I also get annoyed by the number of people that come to my store (Bed, Bath, and Beyond) and ask for products that we wouldn't carry. I guess in some cases maybe it makes sense since we are a store with "Bed," in the title.. but I had someone come up recently saying: "Uh yeah, I have this bed with a footboard. Do you have the bolt that goes to it to hold it together?" Why would we...? Or the number of people that ask if we have pulleys for the insides of vacuums. I've had someone ask if we had a door hinge before too. Maybe it's because I'm too familiar w/ our stock, but these things just seem weird to me. -- And another really odd thing recently... I had a lady come up to me asking about our Christmas merchandise. She holds some item up and goes: "Is this 1/2 off and not marked?" Me: "All of the Christmas items but storage items are 75% off actually." Lady: Stands there for about 15 seconds in silence. "What should I do?" ....Huh?
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I was in your store last Saturday with my fiancee to sign up for a wedding registry. The woman at the area that said "Wedding Registries" told us to go to customer service. Ooooo-Kay...... We wait for 3 people to do their transactions, and finally the girl at the counter tells us she'll have to page someone (Mike, IIRC) and he comes over after a few moments. He seems visibly distraught that we're trying to sign up, and even though you have signs up that say that no one available and we'll need to wait around 45 minutes. We decide to wander around and start checking out the merchandise, and while we're doing this we realize what is taking so long: there is an associate walking people through every section, trying to get them put everything in the store on their registry. We finally decide we've waited enough (no one was available when we stopped by at the prescribed time) and went home. We went online and had an Amazon registry set up within 30 seconds, and at better prices.
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Are there any good blogs or whatever about retail bitching that don't have every story boil down to "insane customer walks in, retail worker delivers stunningly witty and biting comment, customer is deeply shamed and walks away?" I'm as big a fan as the next person of retail horror stories but if I wanted fanfiction I'd just write it myself.
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Jan 26, 2011 00:08
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Ugh, the way people act around in this area really makes me hate my job sometimes. I have a co-worker who is also a neighbor who my dad worked with for several years. This guy is so racist it makes me sick to my stomach. He asked me what I did besides the job and I told him I was a student pilot, so he proceeds to tell me that he could never be a pilot because "if someone with dark glasses and a moustache and dark skin was trying to get on my plane, one of us wouldn't be flying that day". He's also said numerous things about the kindest black customers and a few of the customers who don't speak English. I feel like I can't say anything to the manager about it because the tiniest thing sets this guy off into a blind rage complete with cursing and kicking doors and whatever. There's also another guy up there who's just.. he's so full of himself I want to hit him in the face. And every time he bags for me, he's so so slow because he's busy talking. If I happen to not have any customers, he takes it as the best time to bring up how great God is and how much time he spends at church and being a Mason and whatever. We had this magazine on sale a few weeks ago that was all about the "mysteries of the Bible" for like $20. He bragged about how much money he spent on it because he just "wanted to learn more about our amazing God". From the training we took, verbal harassment is considered a conversation in which one of the parties does not consent to what is being said or what the other person is speaking about. However I can't report this dude either because pretty much everyone here attends church and is completely in love with God!!!111` and I'm in the minority for .. well, not. Siiiighhh..
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Jan 26, 2011 00:46
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Duckman2008 posted:Use the job to help you get by while applying to other jobs. It sucks, its harder than I am making it sound, but you are the only one who will get yourself out of the hole. Oh believe me, I'm working on it! As I said last page, I'm applying to low level state government jobs. My uncle works for the NC Department of Administration and handles land deals for state use. He's done that for decades and has connections, not sure why I didn't think of it sooner. I'm not going for that particular line of work, but something working for the state would be nice change! Technically, I make $9.25 an hour.. so that times 40 hours a week is $370. Well, I don't make 40 hours a week because they've cut back so much, and anything over 30 is "full time", and you have to factor our the mandatory 30 minute breaks for anything worked over 6 hours (they're dicks and put cashiers on for 5.5 hours so they don't have to take a break...). So really, it's more like 34 hours a week, so around $315 a week in pay.. well, then taxes come out, then insurance.. My job pays every week instead of every other week (which is actually kinda cool), so I get about $240 take home a week. 52 weeks in a year, that's $12,480. 
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Jan 26, 2011 02:17
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I work for a certain national chain of travel stops. For some reason the powers that be have decided that we cannot put out of order signs on things that are broken. As in, if someone from corporate stops by and they see one there's going to be poo poo. The cappuccino machine breaks down constantly. When this happens I get told about it by customers ten times a night. Usually they're nice about it, but sometimes they spend several minutes trying to get it to work before realizing it's broken and come up to me demanding to know "WHAT THE gently caress IS WRONG WITH THE CAPPUCCINO?!?!?" It's not that big of deal and not even close to being the worst thing about my job, but it sticks out because the combination of senseless company policy and customers getting angry over petty bullshit perfectly encapsulates most of what sucks about the job.
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ChirpChirpCheep posted:Are there any good blogs or whatever about retail bitching that don't have every story boil down to "insane customer walks in, retail worker delivers stunningly witty and biting comment, customer is deeply shamed and walks away?" I'm as big a fan as the next person of retail horror stories but if I wanted fanfiction I'd just write it myself. Depending on whose story is posted, https://www.retailhellunderground.com is alright. I like the format of https://www.notalwaysright.com better because it cuts to the chase, but some of that is likely also made up. Still entertaining, I think. Sunday at work a customer asked me to try and find something for her kid, which it turned out we didn't have. While I'm telling her this her kid starts to puke and is doing a lovely job of catching it in his hands. The mom actually cleaned it up herself, using paper towels and a garbage can I provided. Of course, when I picked up the garbage can the kid had gotten puke all over the bag and thus my hand. Nothing says "great day" like handling cold kid puke.
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Another fun day at Gamestop, ringing up a middle-aged woman's order, with her silent 8-10 year old kid next to her. : Okay, do you have your Power Up Rewards discount card today? : I guess so. Hold on, hold on... *fishes through purse for about ten seconds* : If you don't have your card on you, I can look it up by phone number, no problem! : No. Hold on, hold on *keeps going for twenty more seconds* : *feeling awkward* It's no trouble at all, If I could just get your phone num- : Don't be in such a HURRY! I'm SORRY, alright?!? : I-I apologize! : *keeps going, eventually finds it.* HERE! : Th-thank you. *beep* That'll be 13.59. : *gets out wallet* I'll go as FAST as I CAN. I know you want me OUT of here. : I apologized to you ma'am. I'm sorry.As I was getting her games, she said "Don't go to QUICKLY in your RUSH now! I want the right ones!" : Here you are ma'am. Have a nice d- : SIIIIIIIGGGH. *turns and leaves without a word* : (What in the hell was her problem? Dear God!)I was nothing but warm and smiling and polite to this woman, like I try to be with most everybody. I'm not quite sure what happened. Of course, as I got back from my break later in the day, my manager tells me that I had gotten a complaint filed by a customer, saying I was extremely rude and that I was practically shooing her out of the store in my obvious mad rush to clear the store of customers so I could laze about. Lady, you can project whatever insane delusions you want onto me, but this lowers my chances of the promotion I was gunning for. Thanks, you mean bitch.
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Jan 26, 2011 05:06
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Normalman posted:mean lady story. I hated stuff like that (no longer employed in retail). My mechanism for dealing with attitudes like that is humor, so I would normally try to smooth things over with a joke which, of course, would always go over the customer's head.
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Jan 26, 2011 05:22
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I now work in retail for the first time in my life and so far it's not too bad all things considered. I get treated well for being the new guy and my co workers are nice and hard working. The management seems to like me and is always polite customers are so far fairly good. Until today, I spent two hours getting harassed by a customer for not being able to understand him at all he spoke in whispers and mumbled with minced words. What should have taken less than 30 minutes ended up taking far longer due to this. Also it's impossible to diagnose a computer problem when someone uses their own made up terms. No, I don't know what docking Norton with Microsoft update means. So damned aggravating!
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Jan 26, 2011 06:42
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Saberjackal posted:No, I don't know what docking Norton with Microsoft update means. Microsoft update stopped Norton Anti-V from loading/updating would be my assumption. e. not picking on you or anything, that was just the first thing that came to mind. ladyweapon fucked around with this message at 07:17 on Jan 26, 2011 |
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Jan 26, 2011 07:14
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Dodgeball posted:I hated stuff like that (no longer employed in retail). My mechanism for dealing with attitudes like that is humor, so I would normally try to smooth things over with a joke which, of course, would always go over the customer's head.
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Jan 26, 2011 07:31
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SpartanIV posted:So did you get a better job or were you fired or did you quit? Holiday temp. They had to let me go, but I knew that accepting the job. Looking for another job, presently. Might have to move out if I can't find one, which I'm not too thrilled about.
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Jan 26, 2011 07:47
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Nocheez posted:Ah.. yeah. Sorry, Saturday sucked I think we had 16 registries go through on that day. I was the only person on hardside for about 6 hours straight due to the other one being with bridals the whole time.I know they sort of ask the bridals if they want them to go through the store with them... but it is really lovely how they want them to do it. Basically every bridal registry is supposed to have a certain number of items on it. If you don't have that number of items the company tells you that you're a worthless piece of poo poo. There was a point where they basically were going all out nuts about it and we started seeing complaints on theknot.com so they kind of backed off... but now it's prime bridal season and pretty much any of those things no longer exist. I understand escorting through the store and explaining some things... but I hate how a lot of the consultants do it. It's pretty much like: "Ok, cookware. So Calphalon is good, you should get this. And then you should also get this. And this.." etc. Stella (probably the lady who told you to go to customer service) is the person who is supposed to be in charge of training and bridal.. and she seems really pushy about things. While there is also this girl Tara who basically just spends as much time talking as she can. She spends hours talking to customers, bridal couples, whatever. And all she does is complain or brag about herself. (Also I remember another bridal consultant who is fairly new to the company was supposed to be out at 3PM... ended up being there until 6:30PM for bridal stuff instead) I really do hate how the company does stuff with bridals though. You're pretty much reprimanded heavily if you don't get fine china, luggage, and/or 250+ items on the registry. Preferably at least 2 of those 3 things. So yeah, sorry things sucked there. I do really hate the store and so badly want to get out. I felt like "200lbs of birdshit" that night. ---------- Edit: Oh yes, about Mike.. He was pretty stressed out and aggravated that day. I think he gets some of the worst treatment from the company. I like working with him, but hope he gets to retire soon and move down to FL w/ his wife. I think he was just getting over a cold and.... Friday: Worked 12PM-11:30PM Saturday: Had to come in at 7:30AM for the bridal consultant and manager meeting Saturday: Had to work 1PM-11:30PM. Also he lives about an hour and a half away. So he probably got home Friday night sometime around 1AM and had to leave at 6AM... not to mention needing an hour to shower, eat, and get ready... Then had to work until near midnight.. which would get him back home again around 1AM. And on top of him being sick... I mean... he's what... in his late 50's? 60's? (They also like to work him Sundays, giving him a shift like 9AM-9PM with no other keyholders (and often no front end supervisor), so he pretty much can't take a break all day) MaxDuo fucked around with this message at 08:05 on Jan 26, 2011 |
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gently caress YEAH, GIFT REGISTRY! I got "coached" in our bi-weekly conference call today because our store is down in everything. Honest to god, I can't help it when clients won't come back to shop with us after their baby or wedding! Or that they go shopping in the States because it's so much cheaper there than it is here. God damnit I'm glad I'm not the only store down but I hate being called out when I'm trying to do my best with what I have to work with.
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Byrum posted:I work for a certain national chain of travel stops. For some reason the powers that be have decided that we cannot put out of order signs on things that are broken. As in, if someone from corporate stops by and they see one there's going to be poo poo. At my Sprint kiosk in the mall we usually work just one person at a time, no need for more people, but yet we are not allowed to put up a "be back in 5 minutes" sign for when we go to the bathroom, get food or whatever.
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MaxDuo posted:Ah.. yeah. Sorry, Saturday sucked I didn't mean to bag on Mike, he actually seemed to care but I could tell that the store policies and procedures are making this a nightmare. I thought that they'd just hand us a scanner and tell us to go nuts in the store.
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Nocheez posted:I thought that they'd just hand us a scanner and tell us to go nuts in the store. Were they actually out of scanners? Or was it just that we had no consultants available? I'm assuming we were out of scan guns in addition to consultants? I don't know how many we have but I'd not be surprised by "not enough." It's like how we currently have I think ... 6 working walky talkies. In addition to barely having enough walkies to give everyone but 1 or 2 people a walky talky on a weeknight... One of them had it's button broke off so it is now pressed with a piece of something... mayb erasor.. held down by tape.. There is a walky with the antenna broken off and taped back on... and 2 or 3 of them have had the volume knob broken off so you have to turn it by spinning the metal knob on the inside with your fingernail. Also there are 2 that are stuck at like... 80-90% volume no matter where you turn the dial -_- The funny thing is we've put in many orders for more walkies and they just tell us no and turn them down. Then one day they bitched at us that the cashiers were having to call out over the system too much.... ummm... what are they supposed to do when we have say... 8-9 people working and 5-6 walkies?
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I have no idea. We never got that far, no one was willing to actually explain anything other than telling us to wait longer.
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Jan 26, 2011 21:06
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NarwhalParty posted:Do you all get breaks? I've always wondered if that was unique to my store. The front end people get breaks but we basically either don't eat or cram it it when we can because we're always short staffed and busy. I don't always get breaks, but our store is kind of a unique understaffed snowflake. Tomorrow is the one day of the week the (now ex-) supervising pharmacist is working and I'm the only tech at night. It's a four hour shift, but I'm expecting to not have time to use the bathroom until its over, and to come home completely exhausted. I don't think that pharmacist always gets a chance to use the bathroom from like two o' clock to close on Thursdays (which he gets pissed about, no pun intended).
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Today, after well over a year at my store, we received the notice that lunch breaks are going to be mandatory starting next week. Which one of you tipped them off?  On Tuesday our computers were down from opening until noon so all we did was sit around and turn away angry customers. It sucked, but we managed to fill over 200 scripts within an hour and a half, which is pretty amazing.
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So, I'm kind of in a semi-moral dilemma (while we're playing The Dilemma  ) about a theoretical situation that could very well happen soon. The really, really dumb new guy I mentioned who constantly farts out these aborted attempts at derisive comments against me caught wind of my orientation (I honestly don't care if people know, but it only came up in a conversation with some other employees who are generally nice); I know this because, within earshot of me, he was murmuring with some other guys (naturally while I was actually doing real work) about how "Yeah, I know he's gay! Hurhurhurhurhur!". And now people have been telling me about dumb rumors they've been hearing about me, almost positively coming from him.The point of this is to ask: when does it become morally acceptable to report another employee for harassment of this type, i.e. playing the orientation card? Obviously I'm going to do it if he goes does something really dumb and says something blatantly hateful against me, but considering the guy is an obviously lazy, obnoxious slob, I'm kind of wondering if it'd be worth pointing out this behavior now. I don't want to be the guy who might have gotten someone fired, but I also don't want to deal with this immature high school bullshit when I'm just trying to get through the day as best I can. In any case, am I overreacting about the whole thing? Also, I remembered an old story back around the beginning of last year, when I was still constantly searching for jobs. I got into a second interview with a Sears, and I didn't care how bad the job was, I just wanted the job, so this was as big an opportunity as I'd gotten for quite a while. The first interview was with a fairly agreeable woman who I seemed to have gotten off well with. But goddamn, the second one was with most likely the general manager, who was everything I dreaded in an authority figure, he could have been played by Mike Judge and you wouldn't have been able to tell the difference. Even though I was doing my best and trying to feed him as much ridiculously-optimistic bullshit as possible, about halfway through he stops me and says "I noticed you haven't been smiling very much during this interview, and I always know that someone who doesn't smile during the interview won't smile when they're working!  ". If I could actually remember the guys' face, I'd walk into that store and punch him in the loving face for being such a condescending dick. From what I've heard in this thread, it's a drat good thing I didn't get the job though.
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miscellaneous14 posted:So, I'm kind of in a semi-moral dilemma (while we're playing The Dilemma Yes report him immediately to corporate HR because unless you know your manager well he'll just as likely as not gently caress you over legally for causing him trouble. His behavior doesn't belong in polite society, which a public facing employee is certainly in.
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Here's a fun one. I work two part-time, retail jobs (because neither will do full-time - yay!). I rolled my ankle at the gym yesterday, but I had to go get groceries today. So I'm gimping around the store, and finally pull up to the self-check out. I hate dealing with people, and I'm in pain, so I just want to get out. There's an old man standing next to the open self-check out, not doing anything. So I point out to him: Hey, that register's open. I don't know how to use it!Well then, why did you come up to the self-check out, you dumb rear end in a top hat? I then assume he's just confused about how to look up produce on it. It's not like there's a button that says, "Look up item" or anything. Whatever, old people hate computers. So he waits for the one woman minding the self-check out lanes to come back from a price check. She scans the bunch of bananas he's holding, and then he proceeds to have her go through his cart and ring out his entire purchase. So the one woman who is supposed to check ID for alcohol, monitor self-scanning, apply coupons, and check receipts and whatnot for the entire set of self-help registers, and she has to be his personal cashier. Instead of, you know, him going ten feet down to the actual check out lanes. When I've got one leg and a shopping cart and you're holding me up, you've got some pretty big loving problems. He then goes out to his handicapped space right in front of the store and almost hits me.
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Jan 27, 2011 20:15
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bartlebee posted:Well then, why did you come up to the self-check out, you dumb rear end in a top hat? Because getting her to check that stuff out for him was obviously faster! Honestly, that's around the time I'd think it'd be appropriate for her to take his stuff to a proper check stand. And gently caress people who almost hit you with their cars. You are not allowed to believe you are the only one in the universe while driving a several-ton death machine. It happens all the time to me since my store is located at a mall and I bus in. The other day I was nearly hit by a guy who was speeding down a hill while I was using the cross walk correctly. No excuse not to have seen me. I saw him parked (poorly) at the mall at the bottom of the hill. gently caress you, guy. I've never had such a strong urge to key someone's car. And I see this guy's car all the time, increasing my rage.
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Jan 27, 2011 20:37
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bartlebee posted:Here's a fun one. I work two part-time, retail jobs (because neither will do full-time - yay!). I rolled my ankle at the gym yesterday, but I had to go get groceries today. So I'm gimping around the store, and finally pull up to the self-check out. I hate dealing with people, and I'm in pain, so I just want to get out. There's an old man standing next to the open self-check out, not doing anything. So I point out to him: If you've ever been to the east coast and to a Wegmans, this is why Wegmans refuses to have self checkouts, and to its credit the store usually will go as far as having more people than necessary. Wegmans is always in the top 10 places to work at in the US, and from personal experience they overall always earn it through little things like that. I miss Wegmans.
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Jan 27, 2011 20:53
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Good news: Awesome customers today. Bad news: I appear to be hated by two employees in other departments. One back office department is closing down (announced quite a long time ago, so they've had time to prepare for this) and another is moving in to the soon to be vacated office so the staff are closer to the shop floor. I was asked to go along with a colleague to measure up the office for the move. I know many people in the department that is leaving, a few of them turned up early today and were very pleasant. They said hello and held a friendly conversation while I got to work. One staff member I haven't met arrived, and persisted to bother me about the insensitivity of measuring up the office. You were told about this in advance, the others appear to be ok with this (or at the least, being very civil about the situation). The head of the department knows about what we're doing, he was the one who told us to come at this time. Its happening, make your peace with it and carry on. Nope, said staff member continued to pester us, insisting we finish in five minutes time. "We'll we're trying to do it but you keep holding us up. We're almost finished and then we'll be out of your way." Shouldn't have said that, we then got a brief lecture about the insensitivity of the situation and were told to introduce ourselves to the staff who were there. Right, one I already know them all, you're the only face I haven't spoken to here. Two, if anything that would be insensitive. Imagine walking up to someone's desk with a tape measure and plans and happily saying, "Hi there! I'm the guy who's taking over your office. Don't mind me while I just plan out where my stuff will go!" Three, don't tell us your the manager when we know who he is, and had spoken to him just before turning up. Definitely don't do that when he's approaching us and can hear everything you say. (That was interesting) Oh and the best part. The person who's supposed to be organising this move? Hates my guts. Has done since they started the job a few months ago. Why? Because I applied for the same job. I don't get why they started off hating me, because they got the job and I didn't, I dealt with it and moved on (and actually prefer the department I'm in now). I can understand a month later, because the manager who hired her left and the replacement manager saw very quickly how incompetent this person is and frequently commented on why I wasn't hired. I know him from outside of this job, and he's aware of my main source of income (not retail) and qualifications having done work for him outside of the retail world in the past. The girl who hates me? Apparently I'd, "done something to rattle her cage" today. I'm guessing its turning up for the planning this morning (this person wasn't aware, and becomes visibly uncomfortable when I'm around "they're territory") then sending a note back to them with the revised plans and a note stating that next time it'd be a good idea to actually take measurements of the entire area rather than doing one small section and doing a cut and paste job, assuming it'll all fit. So if you think everything's peachy on the other side of retail, sometimes it really is better being on the shop floor.
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Jan 27, 2011 21:01
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For those bitching about working 30-40 hours and it not being enough, I am the ONLY unsalaried person in my company (about 160 shops) on a 30 hour contract. All other supervisors are on a 20 hr. The average for staff is 16 hours a week, and since we are in the January slump, everyone is on contracted hours, no extra.
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Jan 27, 2011 21:56
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Anyone notice a large amount of old people in their stores? I swear, this past week it's been a Matlock convention.
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Jan 28, 2011 01:39
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I got another job! Gave notice at my lovely retail hellhole and this time next week it'll be my last day. Would have preferred to take a week off but I felt sorry for the manager leaving him with three staff. It feels awesome. This week I'm going to refuse to take poo poo from anyone and answer questions with brutal honesty.
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Jan 28, 2011 02:03
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BeardedFerret posted:I got another job! Gave notice at my lovely retail hellhole and this time next week it'll be my last day. Would have preferred to take a week off but I felt sorry for the manager leaving him with three staff. Promise me you'll answer a dumb question with "Because gently caress you, that's why".
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Jan 28, 2011 05:32
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Thursday nights, when I can be off work, is my Dungeons and Dragons night with some buddies. After we game for a while, we usually retire to the couch and just shoot the poo poo.. Well, my friends today kinda staged an intervention for me because they've noticed how depressed I've been lately, which all stems from my job and lack of funds. I thought that was really nice of them, but I was also kinda shocked. They were all worried that I was going to go home and kill myself or something (which I have no intention of doing- I plan to have a robot body some day- but I am more depressed now than I ever have been in my entire loving life). Man, have I gotten that bad? Then they talked about all their jobs where they get paid to sit in an office and browse the internet for most of the day. I get paid next to nothing to bust my rear end all day to keep a job, and they get paid five times as much to sit in an office doing gently caress-all? Maybe I should go jump in front of a bus or something...
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Jan 28, 2011 07:58
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TShields posted:Oh believe me, I'm working on it! As I said last page, I'm applying to low level state government jobs. My uncle works for the NC Department of Administration and handles land deals for state use. He's done that for decades and has connections, not sure why I didn't think of it sooner. I'm not going for that particular line of work, but something working for the state would be nice change! I'm not going to give you some bullshit like "There are always decent paying jobs for hard working people!" because that's a crock of poo poo in this economy, but if you keep trying, practicing your smarmy sales and interview skills, you will eventually get something that's guaranteed 40 hrs a week for at least 11-12 bucks an hour. Hopefully with your $370/wk ( ) you can afford to survive while you're doing so. Just I can actually contribute something, have you looked at any food, cosmetics, or supplement manufacturers in your area? I know my company constantly hires people on a temp-to-hire to sample raw materials, pull stuff from pallets, move samples between warehouse/qc lab/shipping, unload trucks, hose down machinery etc. It's total bitch work obviously, pretty much just moving objects. But most of them make at the very least 12 bucks/hr, guaranteed 40 hrs a week, benefits & 401K, tuition reimbursement, etc. Also you don't have to deal with bitchy customers, be forced to upsell products at no benefit to you, or clean poo poo off the bathroom walls. There is pretty high turnover mainly from people leaving for better jobs so there is always at least a couple of these positions open at any plant. You have to go through a temp service to get get any manufacturing job though, even on the production line (Manpower, etc.) Just an idea but from your posts it sounds like you need to gtfo of retail before you go nuts. $13,000/yr is not a living wage.
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Jan 28, 2011 08:00
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TShields posted:and they get paid five times as much to sit in an office doing gently caress-all? While I don't get paid 5x minimum wage, my non-retail job just told me to "stop working so hard"* and that I "need to relax, work is always going to be there, don't stress." There are 'better' things out there, you'll get to them. *I'm one of those people who work entirely too hard for nothing. I don't like it when we're behind and we're perpetually behind because my coworkers ensure they don't 'work too hard' so now neither do I. I do chair dips and static stretching in my down time now. Which is a lot of the time. \/ I really wish I would have taken better advantage of my last shift before I quit. ladyweapon fucked around with this message at 09:01 on Jan 28, 2011 |
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BigDave posted:Promise me you'll answer a dumb question with "Because gently caress you, that's why". This time next week I aim to have good news for you. I've already pointed out to one idiot that getting their PUK code wrong ten straight times and killing their SIM was a but dumb and told another that it's not her phone's fault she managed to subscribe to Babe Video of the Week. I'm also having a major crackdown on swearing and racism, it's really fun.
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