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"If you buy all the onions I'll throw in the box for free."
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^^^^^^^also good  ^^^^^Mill Village posted:The box customers at my work are a huge pain in the rear end, but at least they don’t try taking boxes that already have product in them. What did she expect you to do? Just dump it out? That’s insane. i was torn between slashing the bottom out, cutting the handles must of the way, or just dumping the onions on the floor and handing the drat thing to her and ask her if she's happy with herself. i think she expected me to just dump them in a random crate, which i probably would have if i had any, but then she went and whined about it and now I'm going to gently caress with her to the best of my ability and the limits of my pettiness and spite 
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Jul 25, 2021 22:44
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if my shopping habit eccentricities forced me to use a box instead of a bag, to the point where i would voluntarily spend my own time combing through the back of a store looking for a box rather than shrugging my shoulders and using a bag, i would just keep some spare boxes in my car just in case and based on my current bag hoarding tendencies, i would also have floor to ceiling stacks of boxes in my stair closets, as an extra level of unnecessary precaution
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Jul 26, 2021 01:16
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Can't wait to hear about her next rant and exclaiming she'll never shop there again. You'll breathe a sigh of relief only to witness her back in the next day.
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Jul 26, 2021 03:51
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"I'm sorry we don't offer boxes, we're required to crush them so that we can get money back from the recycling"
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Jul 27, 2021 06:11
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Facility needs some people to pack on the heaviest line during break. Not a big deal, happens semi-regularly. So the assistant manager sends a bunch of people to an early break so they come back while the rest of the department goes to break. He sends the indirects. The problem solvers digging though the databases to find missing/late shipments. The SLAM operators who manage the printer machines. The waterspiders that get supplies. You know: the people with some sort of responsibility that you can trust to do stuff. Five minutes into break he starts calling out on the radio for anyone to respond. Radios, you know, those things we primarily give to people who have earned a position that requires them and proven they some level of responsibility?
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Jul 27, 2021 11:58
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The Lord Bude posted:"I'm sorry we don't offer boxes, we're required to crush them so that we can get money back from the recycling" People that ask you hold boxes and then never come to pick them up. You have one day to pick up your boxes. You have thirty minutes to pick up your boxes. You have five minutes to pick up your boxes. Your boxes have been baled into a cube. You have one day to pick up your cube.
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I've had some interactions with people at least midlevel in policy at Amazon. What I've found incredible is that the crush, the uncertainty, the lack of match between expectations and reality, the detailed and yet ineffective planning, the turnover and exhaustion, somehow seems to go all the way up the ladder, frequently to no benefit.Star Man posted:Also, I've thought about writing up an effort post on how to get a job in the United States Postal Service and what the different crafts are for anyone curious about it. Maybe tomorrow evening. I would be extremely interested in reading about this. I also cannot recommend the federal jobs thread in BFC enough. IRS is often hiring, if you're in the right area!
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Discendo Vox posted:I've had some interactions with people at least midlevel in policy at Amazon. What I've found incredible is that the crush, the uncertainty, the lack of match between expectations and reality, the detailed and yet ineffective planning, the turnover and exhaustion, somehow seems to go all the way up the ladder, frequently to no benefit. The agency that is currently intentionally being starved of resources doesn't seem like a great career move.
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Jul 28, 2021 20:21
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Volmarias posted:The agency that is currently intentionally being starved of resources doesn't seem like a great career move. seems like a lateral move from retail, at least
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hail savings
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Midjack posted:hail savings 
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Volmarias posted:The agency that is currently intentionally being starved of resources doesn't seem like a great career move. lol sure ok
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Volmarias posted:The agency that is currently intentionally being starved of resources doesn't seem like a great career move. they're set to get a huge funding boost if the dem package goes through, and more generally they have a lot of low-level openings with all the tenure and benefits that federal service entails.
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Midjack posted:hail savings Yes. Star Man posted:lol sure ok He's not wrong that it's being constantly hosed with and the Dems aren't doing a great job of unfucking it atm.
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My province is changing our Covid status to green in a couple days. This means basically no restrictions since we're at like 85% first dose / 70% second dose. Hooray! My company has decided that since vaccinated people can still transfer the virus, we're not going to lift any of our restrictions at all. So we're still wearing masks in 35 degree humidity in a warehouse with no actual ventilation system while moving tires and appliances among other things. gently caress.
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Jul 29, 2021 17:00
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In the week or so that I've been gone my job has tried and failed to fill my position with two different people. I wonder how many months it'll be before its close to being under control.
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JackSplater posted:My province is changing our Covid status to green in a couple days. This means basically no restrictions since we're at like 85% first dose / 70% second dose. Hooray! Ooof, try to get permission to at least wear a face shield instead. It provides some protection and while the misting-over of the face shield and it getting blurry as it accumulates stains and whatever can be annoying, I would by far rather wear that than a face mask while working.
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Jul 29, 2021 18:25
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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:In the week or so that I've been gone my job has tried and failed to fill my position with two different people. I wonder how many months it'll be before its close to being under control. Oh poo poo I missed it, did you quit ? Hopefully a newer or better gig ?
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I could not imagine wearing a face shield in a warehouse environment. I'd be smacking it against things and smushing it against my face dozens of times a day. By the end of every shift it would be so smeared and scratched it would have to be thrown away, and even the cheapest ones are $5 apiece so that would add up fast.
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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:In the week or so that I've been gone my job has tried and failed to fill my position with two different people. I wonder how many months it'll be before its close to being under control. When I quit my position went to this poor machine of a worker that was happy to start 1pm Fridays and finish 11am Saturdays to keep it under check. It still went out the window and they had unworked pallets just chilling out in the carpark for a bit because it wouldn't fit in the dock but it was pretty disappointing that through sheer exploitation of a salary position by not paying him for 60% of his extra work they got back on task and within budget. Honestly it's my own fault for being surprised.
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Eric the Mauve posted:I could not imagine wearing a face shield in a warehouse environment. I'd be smacking it against things and smushing it against my face dozens of times a day. By the end of every shift it would be so smeared and scratched it would have to be thrown away, and even the cheapest ones are $5 apiece so that would add up fast. Well, when we were masked up earlier this year, in a warehouse setting, I did wear a face shield. I think generally it lasted about two months before I needed a replacement. The only thing I hated is that any time it was warm, the sponge under the head band would just soak up endless amounts of forehead sweat and get super gross. So I cleaned the whole thing with ethanol at least once every shift.
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Jul 30, 2021 10:57
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I am now a certified postal cash register jockey (I had to do six days of training and take a test)
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Star Man posted:I am now a certified postal cash register jockey (I had to do six days of training and take a test) It is okay to steal just a little bit? T/F
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Devor posted:It is okay to steal just a little bit? T/F Only if I want a visit from the United States Postal Inspection Service. But for real, take everything you know about retail except for cash handling and basic customer service, and delete it from your memory. I would not be surprised if being a sales and services associate with USPS has more in common with being a bank teller than a cashier at a place like Target. I get to now deal with things like filling out customs forms for international parcels, money orders, and Bank Secrecy Act compliance. If I gently caress up badly enough, I can get the USPIS sent after me and try to hide behind my union, but they can only do so much. Failure to comply with the BSA can get me a fine of $50,000 per incident. While going through the undeliverable bulk business mail, if I pocket a sheet of coupons to Subway, it's considered stealing the mail. I will be fired over it because that's breaking postal law. It does not matter that it's junk mail that can't be delivered for whatever reason and is being sent to a sorting and distribution center for destruction. If I purposely let endorsed bulk mail or first-class mail get put in with the UBBM, it's destruction of mail.
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Oh cool, a USPS goon! So long story short my company credit card # got stolen and there were some fraudulent charges, so we've been trying to replace it, but twice now the replacement card has been returned to sender rather than delivered to our billing address. Credit card company thought that was odd so they shut down all the cards on the account (business owner, GM, and the manager of our other store). Any idea why a properly addressed item like a credit card would just fail to deliver and get returned to sender?
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Jul 30, 2021 19:46
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Star Man posted:Only if I want a visit from the United States Postal Inspection Service. No one wants a visit from Jack Danger.
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Inspector 34 posted:Oh cool, a USPS goon! So long story short my company credit card # got stolen and there were some fraudulent charges, so we've been trying to replace it, but twice now the replacement card has been returned to sender rather than delivered to our billing address. Credit card company thought that was odd so they shut down all the cards on the account (business owner, GM, and the manager of our other store). Any idea why a properly addressed item like a credit card would just fail to deliver and get returned to sender? Isn't there usually some kind of fail code attached, like Not Deliverable As Addressed, Attempted Not Known, Wrong Number, etc?
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Inspector 34 posted:Oh cool, a USPS goon! So long story short my company credit card # got stolen and there were some fraudulent charges, so we've been trying to replace it, but twice now the replacement card has been returned to sender rather than delivered to our billing address. Credit card company thought that was odd so they shut down all the cards on the account (business owner, GM, and the manager of our other store). Any idea why a properly addressed item like a credit card would just fail to deliver and get returned to sender? I don't know. If it was reaching the destination office, then a carrier (or clerk if it was going to a PO box) would have to endorse that mail as undeliverable for whatever reason. Someone at your company needs to call their office and provide whatever information they have, because I can't answer that question. It's also not my job to help random goons out with their problems with their mail. I'm just here to gripe about my retail-adjacent job.
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Sorry, didn't mean to poo poo up the thread. Definitely not my intention to bring work into a thread about bitching about work. Didn't really think that one through.
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I just have to put my foot down on it right away because people really do start to ask me questions I can't even answer. It's nothing personal.
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Totally get it. If you wanted to answer questions you'd probably just start a thread for it in A/T or something.
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Star Man posted:I just have to put my foot down on it right away because people really do start to ask me questions I can't even answer. It's nothing personal. Why is the line so slow? <  >
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The Lord Bude posted:"I'm sorry we don't offer boxes, we're required to crush them so that we can get money back from the recycling" "Also, here are the ones we sell."
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Star Man posted:Only if I want a visit from the United States Postal Inspection Service. I visited D.C. once and the postal museum guards were the only museum guards packing heat. Huge rear end revolvers none the less.
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I know we are understaffed but getting asked to stay over every day gets so old. Today was the first day I actually got off at the right time. It felt amazing. I don't mind staying 30 minutes late because that covers my unpaid lunch. But an hour over is just dumb. And even an hour late could be acceptable if I got any loving thanks for it.
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Cowslips Warren posted:
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Every single day when one of my staff members leaves for the day I say goodbye and thank them for all the work they put in that day. Every single person. It’s basic courtesy and it’s pretty disgusting that so many don’t bother at all it would seem. Hell if they actually significantly inconvenienced themselves by staying back I’ll usually buy them a box of chocolates.
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