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TShields posted:You obviously know what you're doing- far more than me- so I'm going to take whatever you produce, gleefully pass it off as my own, and buy you an upgrade if and when I ever land a new job. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&...uthkey=CJX00-AM Attached to an e-mail too. Google docs is weird - the actual version is only one page, with better spacing and margins. Do the "download original" option. Font is Myriad Pro, because I'm a sucker for it, and the blue is Pantone 3005/#0084C9 Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help. \/ Go for it. Regex fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Mar 4, 2011 |
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That's an interesting and eye-catching resume design. I like that it feels modern but without excessive flash or trying-too-hard syndrome. I may steal it in the future if that's ok.
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Regex posted:https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&...uthkey=CJX00-AM I just got it. I had to do a little bit of fiddling with the boxes around Profile/Experience to get everything to fit, and I had to shrink the text by 1 point to keep Education from wrapping down to the next page. (Edit: Fixed my blank page problem, had to type on it to delete the imaginary contents..) I'm thrilled, though- thanks again! Cicero posted:That's an interesting and eye-catching resume design. I like that it feels modern but without excessive flash or trying-too-hard syndrome. I may steal it in the future if that's ok. If you land a job using my credentials, I'm going to be pissed..  (Just kidding, I know what you mean..) TShields fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Mar 4, 2011 |
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I went to the local grocer to pick up food tonight and the first customer I saw decided this is how you ask a stocker where something is: Guess I'm not coming here any more!! Pardon? Guess I'm not coming here any more if you don't have what I'm looking for! What are you looking for? Frozen hamburger patties! And you don't have any, I looked at all the shelves and all you have is pizzas because all the college kids come here to buy pizzas! I'll go find them for you.Sure enough they were in the frozen meats section as always. Sorry retail workers, I worked at a wal-mart for five months and my blood pressure goes up every time I see someone act like this  Speaking of which, please don't leave an entire slab of ribs hiding in the candy shelf where the cashier can't see it because you didn't want them.
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Had some high school girl come in today. Do you have any actual Justin Beiber CD's? Yes we do, we have My World 2.0 right here No not this one, his actual CD. *after a good 3 seconds of silence* what? This CD only has 7 tracks! It doesn't even have BABY! Well we also have this Justin Beiber remix album over here No this isn't his actual CD! Well we also carry the My World album but we're out of it at the moment. well that must be the one I'm looking for. Okay buy
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SpartanIV posted:Had some high school girl come in today. so she wanted My World 1.0 and you didn't have it, she just didn't know its name, this doesn't seem like a bad encounter
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Raere posted:so she wanted My World 1.0 and you didn't have it, she just didn't know its name, this doesn't seem like a bad encounter Seems to me that if you get confused/angry and just repeat "No, no, his ACTUAL CD!" a few times that you're a retard.
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I think that's a pretty tame encounter though she's dumb and impolite nonetheless.
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Why do people insist on muttering when there's around 15 people in the shop, all talking loudly, and then get irate when I ask them to repeat what they said? Do people not know how to level their voice in comparison to their surrounding? Edit: I feel I should clarify. The shop is tiny, by the way. There's about four square metres for customers to stand in. Luquos fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Mar 6, 2011 |
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A customer today blew my mind. He was a man in a mobility scooter with a large canopy. I have seen him around town before because on the back of his scooted he has taped a sign which says 'I HAVE ROAD TAX ON THIS SCOOTER. PLEASE STOP BEEPING YOUR HORNS AT ME' which I always thought was funny. So he motors into the store but as it is Sunday it is pretty crammed and there is not much room. He spends a little while driving up and down the lacquered floor at the front trying to look for a way in amongst the laptop-browsers but doesn't ask anyone to move and no one notices him. So what's the solution? Suddenly I hear the horn of this thing go off as he starts to reverse. He parks up against our brand new computer repair counter, completely blocking it, the canopy so high that the repair crew can't even see over it. Then he gets out, with a big black shaggy dog that I didn't even see in the scooter, and proceeds to start quite happily walking around the store. My manager's face just dropped and he asked the security guards to pull this guy up. He threw a disgruntled hissy fit about not being able to walk and how the centre doesn't have any disabled help at all (it does if you require it). The security guards kicked him out on having his dog in the store when they are banned and then told us that he had just been going from shop to shop doing exactly the same thing - parking somewhere ridiculous and getting out to walk around the store with his dog.
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Operation Juicebox posted:A customer today blew my mind. He was a man in a mobility scooter with a large canopy. I have seen him around town before because on the back of his scooted he has taped a sign which says 'I HAVE ROAD TAX ON THIS SCOOTER. PLEASE STOP BEEPING YOUR HORNS AT ME' which I always thought was funny. I've seen that guy around! I always thought his sign was funny too, although I admit it did always fill me with the urge to walk behind him making beeping noises. I'm a terrible person. I didn't know he was a bit of a prat though, so that makes me feel better.
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Mar 6, 2011 20:02
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Wow, not even a week with this company and they gave me 2 days of work already and I'm due for a ~2 week worktrip tomorrow. When I brought it to attention to my coworkers on my other 2 days about how the place is an hour away and I wouldn't be making much money traveling that, they said I would be getting a hotel room. Blew my mind, with the other company they would say with a straight face that they expect you to drive from the bay area down to San Diego. And then back. Everyday. This is the company that requesting a hotel would get the response of "Oh sure, whats a hotel room and per diem everyday on top of your wages?" then drop you from the project. Good luck getting on another one after that. I'll happily forsake the other company for this one, hours AND they treat me like a human?
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Robzor McFabulous posted:I've seen that guy around! I always thought his sign was funny too, although I admit it did always fill me with the urge to walk behind him making beeping noises. I'm a terrible person. I didn't know he was a bit of a prat though, so that makes me feel better. Funnily enough I have never seen him on the actual roads, always in town or motoring along a pavement.
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Operation Juicebox posted:Funnily enough I have never seen him on the actual roads, always in town or motoring along a pavement. Yeah, this is true. I can't believe they're allowed on any kind of proper road on those things anyway, his sign must be purely for joke purposes. Which, thinking about it, only makes it more tempting to beep at him. Oh dear. This has reminded me of when I worked at an Iceland store during one Uni summer break. It's only a small store, usually fairly quiet so only one or two of the three checkouts tended to be manned at once. As it happened one day the only checkout open was the one with only a little bit of space in front of it, and a woman in a mobility scooter kicked up a huge fuss because she had to unload her basket, then drive her scooter through one of the wider lanes to get to the other side to bag her stuff up. This was unacceptable apparently, and we should always have one of the wide lane checkouts open at all times. The assistant manager tried to explain that people were logged into one checkout all shift so it couldn't be helped, very sorry, can we help with your packing or anything, but she was determined to make a scene. She hauled her huge rear end out of the scooter and demanded that the manager sit in it so he could see "what it's like". See what, I thought, the hassle of driving past the back of the checkout instead of the front? Yeah, must be a real nightmare. I just stifled a snigger as he sat on it, said something like "Yes of course, I totally see what you mean" before diving back off. I've got absolutely nothing against disabled people of any shape or form, but the ones who bitch and moan about the most pointless little things really annoy me. We had another regular at that store, a guy with only one hand. He'd always refuse any help with a smile and managed perfectly well on his own. I had a lot of respect for that dude, and would've loved to have seen his reaction to the woman who couldn't bear to have to drive round the back of her checkout.
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Mar 7, 2011 16:20
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So now that I have an awesome new resume, I haven't found one goddamn thing worth applying to. A couple weeks ago, I could put out 3-4 apps a day! I think I've run the well dry. 
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Mar 7, 2011 20:18
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The worst thing about the job hunt is that you have no idea when it's going to end. If you're cleaning a massive filthy house, you can count down the rooms that are left and feel like you're making progress even if it takes days and days. With the job search you just have to keep your head down and keep doing it and know that you're getting closer. One day it finally happens and the search is over and the stress is gone. You'll make it!
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greazeball posted:The worst thing about the job hunt is that you have no idea when it's going to end. If you're cleaning a massive filthy house, you can count down the rooms that are left and feel like you're making progress even if it takes days and days. With the job search you just have to keep your head down and keep doing it and know that you're getting closer. One day it finally happens and the search is over and the stress is gone. You'll make it! And the last two times I finally got a job, I found myself with the urge to continue looking for more jobs because that's just what I've been doing with my time.
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Since November, my store has been doing some remodeling work. It's only in the past few weeks they've actually moved things around but since November, customers have been complaining that they "can't find anything" because we "changed the ENTIRE STORE AROUND!" ... when all we did, up until a few weeks ago, was paint and change some displays. Tomorrow night they're resetting the entire store, which means everything WILL be moved and now everyone will complain about 100x as much, and there isn't jack poo poo I can do about it since I won't know where anything is either. I can see how it will go... Me: "Hi, how are you today?" Them: *ignores question* "CAN I HAVE PAPER PLEASE???" Me: "Did you find everything ok?" Them: *dramatic, angry sigh* "as a matter of fact, no! I couldn't find the (thing that isn't that big of a deal and is full of fat and sugar and you shouldn't be eating it anyway)!!!!" Me: "Oh I'm sorry sir, would you like me to ask someone about that for you?" From there it goes two ways: they either want me to ask, which is actually a huge deal because it means I have to leave the register and leave them and everyone else waiting. Most of the time, as in 8 times out of 10, I can't find someone to ask and that makes the customer have to wait even longer. If it takes more than like 10 seconds, they get angry with me when it's not my fault and end up complaining to the manager about me for something I couldn't help. OR, they throw a hissy fit about some stupid item and then decide no, it's not that big of a deal I DON'T WANT YOUR HELP SO _NO_ DON'T ASK SOMEONE!! And they stay angry. I lose either way. I hate this job. To make matters worse, I still haven't fully recovered from my surgery last Tuesday and I feel like poo poo because I haven't fully recovered and they said it would only take 3-4 days until I felt better. It's a week later and, while I don't feel as bad as I did, I still feel terrible, not quite 100%. I had to leave work after only 2 hours on Saturday and then on Sunday, I had to run to the bathroom because I was feeling sick. Someone said something to the manager about it and he hovered around me for about 30 minutes. I kept waiting for him to say something to me so I could just scream "I JUST HAD SURGERY!", because I was feeling so bad and in so much pain, I wasn't putting up with any bullshit. At least I didn't have to work a very long shift. I don't know what's up but 3-4 people on Sunday had 10-13 hour shifts. That NEVER happens for cashiers, like ever.
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Drink and Fight posted:TS, have you looked at temp agencies? Bit late to this, but temp agencies, at least around Nashville, have absolutely sucked. I set myself up with 3 of them, one calls back 6 months later saying they have an opening to move boxes in a toy store.
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Duckman2008 posted:Bit late to this, but temp agencies, at least around Nashville, have absolutely sucked. I set myself up with 3 of them, one calls back 6 months later saying they have an opening to move boxes in a toy store.
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If any of you got hired by a certain retail store in the past 2 weeks and haven't been able to fill out your W-4 form, my bad!
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Mar 8, 2011 21:09
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One of my favourite jobs came from a temp place. I miss you car door handle factory
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I did not witness this personally, but it was all over the store in about six seconds. Couple nights ago we were uncharacteristically busy, and the guy working CS kept having to leave the desk and back up the cashiers. He was never off the desk for more than a couple of minutes, he and the other cashiers would page floor staff to CS if there were customers waiting, and so forth. Not a big deal, everything is humming along like it's supposed to. At some point, a customer came to the CS desk while CS guy was on cash. Somebody pages for backup, and about fifteen seconds later Brian C appears. Brian is the sweetest guy in the whole world. He got behind the desk, apologized for the wait and asked how he could help the customer. Then he noticed that the customer was not only trembling, red-in-the-face furious, he had also begun to weep with rage. "I DON'T DESERVE TO BE TREATED THIS WAY!" the customer blubbered through brave tears. "I WILL NOT STAND FOR IT!" And he actually stamped his foot. This was a man in his forties who appeared sane and sober. Had something terrible happened to him at the hands of another employee, perhaps? Or was he reporting on something totally unrelated to our store? Nope. He was angry to the point of practically sobbing because he had been forced to wait at the CS desk. Which is right in front of the front doors. He literally was in the store for under a minute. It was completely bizarre. And as it turned out, the customer's request was laughably trivial. Where do these people come from?
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spite house posted:He was angry to the point of practically sobbing because he had been forced to wait at the CS desk. Which is right in front of the front doors. He literally was in the store for under a minute. I would've loved to have pretended to answer the phone at the CS desk, asking him to give me a minute, gotta take this etc just to see if he actually exploded.
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Welp, had a retail experience while not being on the job! I got off at 4:30 today and went across town to the Verizon store to look at new phones. While I was going through the parking lot of the Arby's to get to it, some woman comes flying out of the drive through and almost hits me. Scared me, but whatever, it happens. So I continue on and park in the Verizon store parking lot and start to go in when she drives up in front of me with her window down and her passenger yells "WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING!" in the most over the top "I'm talking down to you" voice you could imagine. After working for 8 hours I wasn't putting up with this poo poo and I just said "gently caress off!" and walked around their car into the store to look at phones while keeping an eye on her to make sure she didn't key my car or something. Then she parks 2 spots down from me and after a minute or two of sulking comes into the store and comes up to me while I'm conversing with some of the store employees and she demands to know "Do you work here?!" I say "nope!" all smugly because she is the total embodiment of every horrible customer I have ever had and I can finally just brush her off without having to kiss her rear end and she can't do poo poo. So then she starts off how I shouldn't have been so rude to her and I respond that she provoked it by being rude first. "That wasn't me, that was my passenger" "Well I was saying it to her then" "You're just lucky you don't work here!!!" She storms off, writes down my license plate I think and drives off. I apologized to the employees and went back to my shopping. It felt really good
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spite house posted:I did not witness this personally, but it was all over the store in about six seconds. Sometimes I wonder if these kinds of people are actually mystery shoppers who are judging how well we react to an extremely off-the-wall situation.
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silversiren posted:Sometimes I wonder if these kinds of people are actually mystery shoppers who are judging how well we react to an extremely off-the-wall situation. Insanity is far more likely.
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So I had a phone interview with a furniture store today, and they want me to come in for an in-person interview next week. After the interview was over, though, I hopped online to research the company. Apparently this company sells really lovely furniture and has suspect customer service practices. It's panned across a bunch of different review sites and consumer complaint boards, however... The pay is really good. I mean REALLY good for entry-level. It's a $2000 base + whatever sales you make that month.   What would you do? Would you swallow your pride for that amount of money, or look for a job with more integrity?
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Pretend every person you help is a customer from the stories in this thread. They can return it if they realize it's lovely.
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ProfessorDandypants posted:What would you do? Would you swallow your pride for that amount of money, or look for a job with more integrity? I'm not saying you have to forget your morals when you get into sales, but it sure helps.
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ProfessorDandypants posted:So I had a phone interview with a furniture store today, and they want me to come in for an in-person interview next week. After the interview was over, though, I hopped online to research the company. Apparently this company sells really lovely furniture and has suspect customer service practices. It's panned across a bunch of different review sites and consumer complaint boards, however... Typically when you see this type of deal, you have enormous pressure to sell and you will be let go the instant you have bad sales numbers. Salesmen don't get to have a conscience if they want to live well.
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silversiren posted:Sometimes I wonder if these kinds of people are actually mystery shoppers who are judging how well we react to an extremely off-the-wall situation. I want to market this service now. "Owners! Managers! Sure, you can hire a mystery shopper service to learn how your employees react to mundane requests. But wouldn't you like to know how your employees really behave when the heat is on? Through our service, you'll find out what happens when a customer: - Attempts to return a meatball sub to an electronics store! - Falls asleep on his mobility scooter in the checkout lane, then suffers a crippling attack of night terrors! - Refuses to hand over currency to a cashier until it can be proven to him she has no Belgian ancestry whatsoever! - Runs through your business fighting off a swarm of invisible bees! Sign up for our platinum service, and we'll send our expert team of shoppers to your store. One speaks only Tagalog, the other only Navajo, and they'll attempt to return clearly damaged merchandise with the help of a Swahili to Esperanto phrasebook!" kazmeyer fucked around with this message at 09:56 on Mar 9, 2011 |
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kazmeyer posted:I want to market this service now. This post made my morning, I'd love to do that for a living. "What shall we go for today... How about I'M ON FIRE, CAN'T YOU SEE I'M ON FIRE??... Yes, that will do!"
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Got a call the other day from this lady who asked if this Josie Maran product we had was manufactured in China or she absolutely would not buy it. I said the bottle, printing, refining, or cardstock of this product probbly had something from China, but no it says Van Nuys California on the package. She was in the next day. Holy poo poo if you really care about this kind of thing go pull a walden or something.
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Good loving lord, I got written up because an auditor found 1- ONE- out of date product- peanuts expired by less than 24 hours. Apparently I'm personally responsible for every out of date product now out of the hundreds of thousands of packages we have in the store at every given moment.
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Mar 9, 2011 14:19
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I'm going to be very disappointed if you don't have an epic prank when you leave. EPIC.
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Putting LSD in all the tylenol would be fun.
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for sale posted:Got a call the other day from this lady who asked if this Josie Maran product we had was manufactured in China or she absolutely would not buy it. I said the bottle, printing, refining, or cardstock of this product probbly had something from China, but no it says Van Nuys California on the package. She was in the next day. Holy poo poo if you really care about this kind of thing go pull a walden or something. Once got a call from a guy who asked if we had any brands of paint that weren't made in the United States. He specifically asked for Canadian, but when I told him all our paint was manufactured either in China or England he seemed satisfied with that. Not exactly a bad experience though; I got to waste time looking at paint labels for some nationalist/paranoid nutter instead of actually working!
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