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Meow Cadet posted:Now if there was a homemade "Tamale Lady" I'd be all over that for my husbands sake. The hospital my mother used to work at had one of these; Started out making tamales as favors for friends, then started charging for 'em. They were drat good tamales, too; Nice and hot without turning your tongue into a scorched twig. I miss them sometimes.
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Volcano posted:Today the dodgy addict guy who comes in regularly to blag free samples decided he'd pay us back for all the freebies. He did this by circling the street outside the shop, cornering passers-by, and shouting, "Go in and try some! I had an orgasm on the spot! An orgasm! On the spot!" What precisely do you sell?
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The Lord Bude posted:What precisely do you sell? Orgasms, apparently. And they seem to be priced to sell...
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Volcano posted:Today the dodgy addict guy who comes in regularly to blag free samples decided he'd pay us back for all the freebies. He did this by circling the street outside the shop, cornering passers-by, and shouting, "Go in and try some! I had an orgasm on the spot! An orgasm! On the spot!" Do you guys do mail-order? Because drat, if that's what the *samples* can do... D34THROW posted:Also, there's the lady we all know as "Crazy Meat Lady". She insists on coming in and trying to get customers and employees alike to visit her meat website and buy bulk mail-order beef and poultry from her and her husband. Never mind her ridiculous habit of asking people "Are you a Christian?" and high-fiving those who answer in the affirmative. I have yet to see someone say they're Jewish or an atheist, and I can't loving wait for that day. "I am a follower of the Old Gods, ancient before Man first crept down from the trees..."
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Worked in an understaffed shipping store that was also one of the top 5 busiest of the country. I was scheduled 8:30 to 5:30. The other front counter person was scheduled 10:00-6:30. We were slow in the mornings and ramped up until about 4:00 then died off. This bitch would take off for lunch immediately when the rush hit. 10:30? Time for an hour and a half lunch. She also called in once or twice a week for emotional days, or would just leave if we got too busy and it stressed her out. I always asked for numbers proving I was the busiest clerk in the country but they'd just laugh it off. I swear she had to be blowing the manager.
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Jul 12, 2012 08:18
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Welp the person with "stress" issues just called in and quit/medical leave and guess whose happy go lucky life hating person hating rear end who every moment of their lifes wishes for a clean and fast death while away from work got called in. If you said Fred, then you won a prize! Another soul sucking day in retail as your mind slowly turns into goo. I swear if this town did not have a volunteer fire department only I think I would burn the place down.
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The Lord Bude posted:What precisely do you sell? We're a sweet shop. Taking the sugar rush to a new level, I guess.
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A regular just told me I am management material I have never been so depressed in my life. God I hope it never comes down to that.
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Darth Freddy posted:A regular just told me I am management material I have never been so depressed in my life. God I hope it never comes down to that. Don't worry, corporate/management will gently caress you out of any promotions anyway.
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Jul 12, 2012 20:11
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This week has been surprisingly great at my job. Our GM was on vacation so one of our other managers took over doing the schedule and running the store. This week has been the smoothest and best week at this job since I've started. The best part? The owners of the store approved the schedule our manager made, so that means we have set in stone schedules that our GM can't change when he gets back. Not on topic, but wanted to share that good things can happen in retail.
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Darth Freddy posted:A regular just told me I am management material I have never been so depressed in my life. God I hope it never comes down to that. "Management material" in retail just means that your brain functions to a degree where you don't need some guy with a 4th grade education to tell you what to do next. If that depresses you, I don't even know what to say.
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Jul 13, 2012 01:38
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So do places normally make you call your replacement by yourself if you find the need to go home early? P did this to me yesterday and they have never said anything about that before. Possibly trying to pressure me into staying or something? I left only 3 hours early due to being in so much pain from my pelvic issues. It started out as a 6/10 when I got up and ended up getting to 10+ as the day wore on. I feel like I shouldn't have a job until I can get every little thing sorted out. I am having two surgeries for it soon, though..
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I've never had to leave early personally, but when other people do at my place of work, management is responsible for finding a replacement. Same with calls off. I know when it comes to retail there is always more and it's always worse, but it still kind of blows my mind that there's places where managers don't take care of that stuff - to me it seems like one of the most basic functions of a manager would be to make sure their departments are staffed properly, and if necessary fill in the gaps themselves.
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So! My lovely parent corporation (a number-one Canadian employer) issued a document stating that you can now be fired for badmouthing the company on social media. In other news, we're hiring a bunch of new cashiers at a quarter over minimum wage, so everyone's hours are going down by a third! Plus, one of our new cashiers neither speaks nor reads English or French and yet they trained her as a cashier instead of some other position that doesn't involve working with customers, so working with her is going to be exciting.
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silversiren posted:So do places normally make you call your replacement by yourself if you find the need to go home early? P did this to me yesterday and they have never said anything about that before. Possibly trying to pressure me into staying or something? At my job the employee has to find their replacement if they call out or leave early. Otherwise you could get written up for a no-call-no-show. Though I still get phone calls from the manager saying "So-and-So didn't show, can you come in?" It's happened several times and that person still has a job. I always feel like if I needed to call out and couldn't find a replacement, I'd be in real trouble. 
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Jul 13, 2012 15:04
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Look people, the longer you stand there and stare at whatever it is you want will not make the price go down or the stock refill. Prices are non-negotiable and I don't poo poo buttons. We're not hiding buttons in back. Standing there and staring at ME or repeating the price will not make me want to give you a discount or a "bonus".
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Jul 13, 2012 22:52
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Piggybacking onto that, I really hate it when customers complain about prices to me. Yeah I agree it sucks that things cost more money than you would like to pay and they keep getting more expensive. I have as much control over it as you do! All I can do is awkwardly agree, or just give them some token acknowledgement, because pretty much any way the conversation could go is just going to be a waste of time and probably frustrating, so the best thing is just to try not to let it keep going.
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Jul 13, 2012 23:28
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Buggiezor posted:At my job the employee has to find their replacement if they call out or leave early. Otherwise you could get written up for a no-call-no-show. Though I still get phone calls from the manager saying "So-and-So didn't show, can you come in?" It's happened several times and that person still has a job. I always feel like if I needed to call out and couldn't find a replacement, I'd be in real trouble. Really the only way I can remember ever being able to go home is if it was a medical emergency or my presence actively contaminated the environment. And if I wanted to go home regardless, I would have to call a replacement to come in or the next person to come in early. I had to call for my own replacements as well if I couldn't come in at all and had to show a doctor's note if I had to go to the doctor. If your managers are doing their jobs and scheduling correctly and people are always showing up for their shifts, silversiren, then they should look at dismissing you for the day as an chance to save on labor.
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Y'know, I know it sounds like every other upselling speech out there, but at LEAST let me get through my spiel for Operation Homefront. You never know! You might want to loving donate a box of pencils or a package of highlighters when I finish my loving question instead of interrupting me before I even get halfway through the sentence. gently caress.
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Jul 14, 2012 05:43
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Nearly got in a fight at the McDonalds at my job today. I'm standing in line and the last in front of me is taking forever to order with her kid. I've only got fifteen minute s to get my drink and smoke so I'm antsy already. The way the line is (and has been every time I've been there) everyone stands in one line, and you go up to the next open register. Kind of like a bank. Well I'm standing there and this woman with a basket comes edging up next to me. The second cashier comes up to his register, looks over at me because he knows I've already been standing there, and goes "Next in line." So I walk up, swipe my card, and get my cup. This literally takes less than five seconds as all I'm getting is a dollar drink. Whereupon Basket Lady starts flipping her poo poo and screaming about how she was in line and who the gently caress am I to walk in front of her and so on and actually uses her basket to loving bump me. I look at her and go "Ma'am, it's one line, and I've been here." This of course does nothing and she's still flipping a poo poo about how no it's not and she was IN LINE, MOTHER FUCKER. I just rolled my eyes and went "Ok ma'am" exchanged a look with the cashier who was trying not to laugh, and went to get my coke. Then the soda machine was broken and I had to drink tea instead. 
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spixxor posted:Nearly got in a fight at the McDonalds at my job today. I'm standing in line and the last in front of me is taking forever to order with her kid. I've only got fifteen minute s to get my drink and smoke so I'm antsy already. The way the line is (and has been every time I've been there) everyone stands in one line, and you go up to the next open register. Kind of like a bank. Well I'm standing there and this woman with a basket comes edging up next to me. The second cashier comes up to his register, looks over at me because he knows I've already been standing there, and goes "Next in line." So I walk up, swipe my card, and get my cup. This literally takes less than five seconds as all I'm getting is a dollar drink. Whereupon Basket Lady starts flipping her poo poo and screaming about how she was in line and who the gently caress am I to walk in front of her and so on and actually uses her basket to loving bump me. I look at her and go "Ma'am, it's one line, and I've been here." This of course does nothing and she's still flipping a poo poo about how no it's not and she was IN LINE, MOTHER FUCKER. I just rolled my eyes and went "Ok ma'am" exchanged a look with the cashier who was trying not to laugh, and went to get my coke. If you work at the place I'm thinking of (because I have a certain supercenter nearby with a McDonald's in it), it's really not surprising that the clientele are cuntfucks. If you had your nametag or work uniform on, she might have thought CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT I GO FIRST gently caress YOU AND WAIT 
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D34THROW posted:Y'know, I know it sounds like every other upselling speech out there, but at LEAST let me get through my spiel for Operation Homefront. You never know! You might want to loving donate a box of pencils or a package of highlighters when I finish my loving question instead of interrupting me before I even get halfway through the sentence. gently caress. This. My store is currently asking for donations from Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation. For those who don't know, it's a foundation that was created in honor of a young girl named Alex who made a lemonade stand to "raise money to help find a cure for all children with cancer." After she passed, people carried on her stand and it became a Cancer Research Foundation. I understand this Foundation is not as well known as March of Dimes or something else, but that doesn't mean you have to act like a moron and an rear end in a top hat. They don't even let me finish saying "Would you like to donate a dollar to Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation?" before they start asking stupid questions or just saying "No!" I get a lot of "Is the Lemonade sugar-free?" "How much Lemonade do I get?"  Maybe it's unreasonable for me to think people will know it's not a REAL lemonade stand, maybe it's a bad name choice for the Foundation, but either way it causes me a lot of frustration. I'd be more than happy to explain if people would just wait until the end of my question and politely ask. But don't interrupt with stupid questions about lemonade. 
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Buggiezor posted:Maybe it's unreasonable for me to think people will know it's not a REAL lemonade stand, maybe it's a bad name choice for the Foundation, but either way it causes me a lot of frustration. I'd be more than happy to explain if people would just wait until the end of my question and politely ask. But don't interrupt with stupid questions about lemonade. I'd probably just start calling it "Alex's Cancer Research Foundation" to save myself some hassle. If they were interested enough to ask who Alex is you can explain about the lemonade stand, otherwise they'll probably be more likely to know if they want to donate to cancer research.
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I nearly yelled at a lady at Staples yesterday and I don't even work at Staples. I was using their paper cutter while a lady came up with her family to use the fax machine. She read the instructions and attempted to follow them. Then she just kinda stood there, glaring at the workers behind the counter. "Look at them, they're not even doing anything. Why aren't they helping me? I swear this is the wost Staples in the city. The people here are just so loving rude." The workers were not just "standing there", they were talking to customers and I didn't once see this lady attempt to ask one of them for help. She just expected them to rush to her aid because she was standing at the fax machine. After she left, someone else had a question about the fax machine, He asked one of the girls who was free and she came and helped him, simple as that. I really should have yelled at that lady.
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Since I've been back in retail I've just been waiting to run into someone being lovely to a retail worker so I can vent all my frustration on them without getting fired for it. It's going to be so fun.
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Buggiezor posted:"How much Lemonade do I get?"  to anyone that asks anything like that. You get NOTHING, you herpes-infested oval office! That's why they call it a loving donation!People get confused with how we do it. They think they can just donate a dollar, when in reality we cut out the middleman and either they pick or I pick something out of our back-to-school items for them to purchase and donate. More people than not appreciate the simplicity of it in the long run. Sure, it's an extra 6 cents, but at least they know it's going directly to a military brat.
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Jul 14, 2012 21:53
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Today at P.. Little kid: Do you guys still have coloring books? Me: Yes, would you like one and some crayons? Little kid: No thank you. Not sure why but it just struck me as  .
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This isn't exactly me working for a place, but I think it fits. This just happened to me. At a drive through: Cashier: "Will that complete your order? Okay, would you like to donate one dollar to the Jimmy Fund to help children in their fight against cancer?" Middle aged guy in big truck ordering $40 worth of food: "No thanks, the Jimmy Fund supports the Red Sox, so blah blah blah" Cashier says the same thing to me Me: "Yes I would, because I care more about fighting cancer than I do about sports team affiliations." Stay classy, Yankees fans Now the mere fact that it's anti-Red Sox is fine by me, that's not the issue. But not giving because of that and not another reason is crazy. Any of these would be better: -I hate children -I'm a cheap prick -I don't trust that particular charity
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So...part of me wants to keep a shotgun under the counter in case we get robbed, because we may have been close to it the other night. 20 minutes to close, female AM on duty, female cashier, female recover...er. Three people walk in. One is very fat and has a towel on his head and pants at his knees. One is high as a motherfuckin' kite. The other is...strange. All three employees are uncomfortable and the manager makes the announcement for close. The customers ignore her and when she makes the ten minute announcement, they come up and start cussing out the employees, going so far as to call them "motherfuckers". The sense was very strong among the three of them that we were getting robbed that night. Even L, who usually doesn't take backtalk from customers and will outright tell them to gently caress off (nicely, of course), kept her mouth shut and didn't kick them out. Behavior like that makes me extremely nervous. Then there were the two kids that came in tonight. One is fat and has a hat on (straight bill on it of course, gotta look like a G) and the other is tall, skinny, backwards hat, tank top. Kids made me nervous, so I watched 'em. Wouldn't be surprised if they intended to steal something. And then, of course, the guy with no shirt on that laughs derisively as he hands me the sweatiest money I've ever handled.  On the plus side, I picked up an extra 7 hours this coming week because I'm being moved off the register onto the floor. 
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So I worked about 13 and a half hours this pay period. I'll be lucky if my paycheck breaks $100. The real kicker is that next week I work EVEN LESS. Too bad there is literally no work in my town but retail poo poo exactly like this.
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Pretty sure we nearly got robbed a while back too. Some guy came in wearing a huge puffy ski jacket and a beanie and paced nervously back and forth in front of the check cashing counter with his hand inside the jacket for about ten minutes before abruptly leaving. It was about 97 degrees outside that day. Scary poo poo.
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Ahhh, crap. I think I just accidentally hosed over one of our new hires. She was a cashier with a line and she had to clock out, so I tag-teamed her and took over. Then she bought some stuff, through my line, while I was still logged in as her. Oops. I alerted management as soon as I realized what I did and wrote a note for the morning, but "technically" ringing up yourself is a very big no-no. She better not get in trouble for it, it's totally my fault. Also I'm really tired of working 7+ days in a row and 32+ hours a week for a part-time job. I'm one of the few here that actually want less hours, not more. I like my job, but I don't want to spend all my life at it. I'm getting a little fed up.
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Welp. Monday morning we do inventory on all of our meats, well we almost finish and all we have left to count is our frozen stuff. I go to weigh them and find that our freezer broke and almost everything was completely defrosted.
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creatine posted:Welp. My parents once returned from a 2 week holiday to find that a circuit breaker had tripped and the freezer had been off for about 10 days. The smell was... unpleasant. The liquid seeping out of it was worse.  I hope for your sake it wasn't that bad.
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Moneyball posted:Stay classy, Yankees fans Not to turn this in to the Red Sox vs. Yankees thread, but every time I see someone wearing a Yankees hat, I make a little joke (something like "Oh, you put on the wrong hat today" or something, just a little friendly jab). Three times out of ten, the person will laugh, then start ranting about how Boston fans take poo poo too seriously and blah blah blah you can't walk around the Back Bay with a Yankees hat but you can walk around the Bronx in a Red Sox hat just fine and blah blah blah Boston fans are terrible. This coming from a place where I was specifically told if I wore a Red Sox hat, I'd probably get in a fight. From fans who spent the last twenty years chanting "Nine-teen-eight-teen!" at every loving game until we finally shut them up in '03. Get hosed, classless Yankees fans.
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Ok, retail thread. Serious question time. There is this older guy at work who has been commenting on my appearance lately. It's one thing to say I look attractive (even if that makes me uncomfortable) but it's quite another thing to say I'm sexy. I just kind of give an awkward chuckle and thank him but I don't appreciate it in the least. A lot of the girls I work with feel the same way about him, uncomfortable and have a general dislike for him, while to others his basically a "golden child". He does the same to female customers that are attractive but normally they're older so they don't seem to be as bothered by it. I'm considering saying something to my manager about it but the thing is, like I said earlier, he is a "golden child", untouchable and never does wrong. The managers don't like me too well so I'm afraid this might come back and bite me in the rear end. The man also lives in my neighborhood and is good friends with my dad. There is an HR hotline to call .. I'm assuming. I had a coworker call for something different one time but she lost the number. It's not available anywhere online and is not posted anywhere in the store. Asking someone for the number is usually greeted by a "are you sure you want the number?" and then shot down. I really want to say something because it's making it hard to focus on doing my job when I have to worry about this man but I'm absolutely terrified that it's going to end up hurting me than it will him. Please give me some guidance.
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"Friend of my Dad" I'm a Dad, and if I had a daughter (instead of a son) and she told me my friend needs to lay off, the friend/coworker would lay off. That's assuming your Dad is good enough of a friend with this guy to have that conversation.
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silversiren posted:There is an HR hotline to call .. I'm assuming. I had a coworker call for something different one time but she lost the number. It's not available anywhere online and is not posted anywhere in the store. Asking someone for the number is usually greeted by a "are you sure you want the number?" and then shot down. Whoa, that can't be right. At my store there's a phone number posted in the breakroom for a hotline where you can anonymously report things like this. At the three different retail jobs I've worked, they've all had pretty much the same policy that if a co-worker is making you uncomfortable then you report it to your direct supervisor, and if for some reason you are not comfortable reporting to them then move higher up the chain. It sounds like you fear reprisal if you report the situation to anyone in your store, so you should have to right to go to the district manager or corporate HR or whatever. Perhaps my state has better laws about this, but I would think most places these days would treat sexual harassment as a serious issue. I say get that number if you can, and don't let anyone know why you want it. I disagree with Coffee Wolf and probably wouldn't tell your father if you seriously intend to report the co-worker's behavior to HR. He might realize it was you who reported him, and you come back to the potential problem of facing reprisal at work. Depends on what your father is like, though, and if you really think he could work things out amicably with this friend of his.
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silversiren posted:Ok, retail thread. Serious question time. You should absolutely say something, and if nothing gets done, ask for the HR number until you get it. I'm fairly sure once you got it, you could also report your managers for failing to give you the HR care line number. If you say something, and no action is taken, the company opens itself up to a lawsuit for failing to prevent sexual harassment, and the guy could have one filed against him too. Not only by you, but your other co-workers. All things said, were it me and I was a customer and it was visually making you uncomfortable, I'd punch the creep in the face after the fourth or fifth time I saw his bullshit.
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