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If you guys wanna know, the banner ad to the thread worked.  Nothing much of interest has happened to me since the last thread (except the guy who asked if he could return month-old pants because "the cuffs wore out  "... I got a promotion last week - more pay and more hours, same Sears. But right when I signed the offer, I got told we're pretty much the worst store for my new department. Then my manager smiled at me expectantly. I'm going to die, I just know it.  haruspex posted:I'm a delivery driver. I was a delivery driver. I wish interesting poo poo had happened to me like this. I live in BC and people didn't even give me any loving weed as a tip on 4/20. Assholes.
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spankmeister posted:It's funny how people think "The Back" is some kind of magical huge warehouse just filled to the brim with everything they need that day. The Back is a magical place I like to go when someone asks me a really retarded question and I need a break for five minutes.
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Dog Blogs Man posted:The only good thing about retail for me is the decent-ish money and benefits. $22/hr normally or $30 on Sundays to bag groceries, and not have to think about it after I leave. What loving moon world do you live on that pays you $22/hr to bag groceries? 
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I hate you. I just started working Wedding registry for $9.50 CAD. Which is a RAISE from what I was getting earlier. I... i need to move to Australia. I hate you. Chicken Doodle fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Nov 4, 2010 |
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Meow Cadet posted:If only it would pay more, it would be great. And this is why it loving sucks. We get paid absolute poo poo to deal with the worst of people. Stores like mine will pay you as little as possible, and claim that you can get a higher wage by selling other things to the customers, like memberships or credit cards. But what if you do something that you can't add on to? I just got transferred to the gift registry department of my store from a year and a half on a register and my god I am starting to hate everything in the world. I got a 5% raise for a quadrupling of my work. I'm supposed to cover administrative things as well as sell on the floor, and now I have almost no opportunity to make this extra money. I'm trying to clean up my department and do my job but I'm always being pulled away to do something else, so I fall behind. I need to get out. I really, really need to get out.
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Nov 25, 2010 07:46
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I'm being a personal shopper until Christmas. Fine. It gets me off my arse and I get to help people everywhere in the store. But I swear to god if my manager doesn't stop talking to me like a four year old I am going to snap and go loving kill someone. I was never angry after work until I took this new job. Now I'm angry every day. I don't think it's just Christmas, either. 
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Dec 6, 2010 04:43
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I have found the root of my problem! I still had a lovely day today, but the manager wasn't in, so I came home smiling instead of wanting to kill everyone around me. Has anyone come across the deaf card scammers before? I first saw them in California during a vacation and they seem to have spread up here. I was helping a woman find a Justin Bieber shirt (thankfully for a 12 year old granddaughter) and this woman comes out of nowhere and hands me and her a card. It basically said "I'm deaf, please buy this card for $1" or something sad like that. She must have not realized I was staff there 'cause when I pulled out my phone to call security she suddenly turned and walked out. Oh and they're never deaf, you can insult their mother while you hide your mouth and they'll always glare at you.
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Yuncemil posted:Before I post, I just want to check whether what I am doing counts. I am currently working in warehouses/distribution centres for retail. Close enough? Obviously no customer stories but one or two about the work and management. there really isn't another work bitching thread around, so it's usually okay. I can't bitch lately because work's actually been good since I blew up and told them i wanted to loving quit. Today I helped two other guys use a crowbar to damage an unsellable. Oh the release of tension. 
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AlmightyBob posted:There are now 2 birds in the back I call that a good night!  At my job for the last month, I've been working as a personal shopper. It's been a really rough ride because of management loving it up and I won't do it again next year, but I get an hourly wage plus commission if I make over my 'goal', which is already impossible to make. But the big kicker came today, when the other girl doing this job stole a loving sale from me, and pretty much admitted she did. Did I mention we get commission? So she basically stole that from me? She's been pissing people off all this month in one way or another, but now she's lied to management and stolen from me. This should be a fun couple of days coming up. 
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^^^ This kind of power is the only thing that puts a smile on my face. A couple today wanted to return a kettle saying it was broken and wouldn't work. Normally that's okay, we can exchange it or return it if it's defective. I looked at their receipt, and the drat thing was bought in 2009. Me: Uhhhh, I can't take this back, it's way out of our return policy. Them: But it's broken! It has a two year warranty on it! IT STOPPED WORKING! I look at the box and god drat it, it says "limited two year warranty" on it. What's worse is it's a store brand so they might actually be able to get something. But they're getting shouty now, so I do what I do best and dump them on a manager. Then when I'm trying to do my REAL job (registry, woo), the manager comes up and says "I think they keep coming back every two years for kettles. Their last receipt they had it for 18 months... this one they've had for 19." God... drat it. I can't believe people like that actually exist. I'm pretty sure they didn't get their loving kettle, either, though i wouldn't be surprised considering what people can get away with at my store.
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Jan 4, 2011 10:04
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miscellaneous14 posted:Instead of leaving the visible price on the menu as it was with a little sign indicating the discount, they just changed the price and had a little sign indicating the discount. Even if that guy was a dick, I think he was right. The wording of the sign should've been "take an extra dollar off with your AMC card" or something like that. Unless you're missing out the detail like the sign describing the discount already. If I walked up to something and saw "$1 off / $2 with card" it's natural to assume it's off the marked price.
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Jan 18, 2011 20:31
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TShields posted:
If you do not know how old they are and have ANY doubt in your mind you need to a) call your manager and b) call the police. The police will take care of it for you. \/\/\/\/ It doesn't matter. Any media of someone who is under the age of majority constitutes child pornography. This is why teenagers can get into trouble for having a nude pic of their also-teenage partner. Chicken Doodle fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Jan 23, 2011 |
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Jan 23, 2011 04:20
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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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Jan 26, 2011 09:00
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I loving hate those prepaid Mastercards. They mostly go to idiots who are too dumb to own a real one, which makes them angry when I tell them I can't ring their stupid purchase up with one because the total of the purchase is greater than the sum of their card. Since they tell our machines they're Mastercards, they think the car is over its limit and just won't accept it at all. Then it's a whole song and dance canceling the purchase and finding out how much is on the card so I can put it on a gift card and  And they're great for fraud, too. I caught a guy trying to buy four $200 Mastercards. Who the gently caress does that who ISN'T shady as all hell?
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Jan 30, 2011 10:24
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SisterFister posted:There is a lot of unbelievable poo poo in this thread but this takes the cake. There is no way you aren't exaggerating your rear end off at best. Have you ever set foot in a game store? Or encountered a misogynist? Or, you know, someone who just generally thinks all retail people are stupid and couldn't possibly know anything because only IDIOTS work retail? Seriously, are you for real? 
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Feb 2, 2011 03:37
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Meow Cadet posted:I don't understand this at all. Is Chapters a sister-store to H&M or something? Why did using a gift card make you all warm and fuzzy? They pretended to use the card to make the kid think they did something awesome. How is that hard to see?
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Mar 15, 2011 06:23
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spankmeister posted:Or explaining to people why they still have black bars even with their new widescreen TV. A new version of this cropped up during the world cup. I was passing by Electronics where a guy was angrily demanding a return on his TV. When asked why, he said he was trying to watch the World Cup but all he could hear was this horrible buzzing noise. No, we didn't take it back.
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Mar 21, 2011 10:12
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spankmeister posted:Is that a joke or are you being serious because that's pretty 100% serious. Heard it with my own ears. Had to run back to my department so I could laugh. If it's one thing retail teaches you it's that people are DUMB.
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Mar 21, 2011 11:12
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Ornamented Death posted:Literally everyone bitching in this thread works in the private sector I'd threaten to cancel at this point. Maybe they'd stop loving you around if you said you wanted all your money back and went somewhere else. I know that usually works at my store. Be prepared to go through with it though because there are tons of places who would be glad to have your money and business instead.
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miscellaneous14 posted:Oh yeah, another reason I'm glad I didn't get hired at Sears: those bullshit credit card signups that you have to do or they won't give you your bonus (which is something like around an extra dollar an hour, WOWZA!), and will eventually fire you if you don't do it at all. I'm so glad I'm not a cashier or technically floor anymore, so these don't count in my yearly reviews. But apparently telling someone what the last sale price was on an item two days ago is like telling them a sale price from the future! Not that they could go pick up an old flier and see the price for themselves, noooo, it's MY fault because I told them a magic number from the PAST which somehow contravenes good business practices! God drat it if I hadn't gotten stomach flu this last week I would've used my 2.5 days off and canvassed the gently caress out of places with my resume. I need OUT.
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Apocalypse Please posted:One of my most loyal coworkers and brown-nosers to the bosses (he has a senior position) just got a 15 cent raise for the year. Good luck ever getting him to go above and beyond again! That's the killer right there. I was trying to improve the department I was transferred into by making multiple suggestions on how to improve business. I'm the only one with the best computer skills and even my boss said I was the best of all the staff there. But when I asked for a competitive wage increase, not to be equal to them (they're more senior) but to be CLOSER, they said no. Even after all the praise and hinting. And now I don't give a gently caress. I just honestly don't care. I'm not going to put that effort in because they don't care either. I really need to go back to school, or SOMETHING!
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Well this is loving weird as heck. The store manager (great guy) called all the assistant managers and leads into the office today. even ones that weren't scheduled to work at all today. And they've all come out tight lipped and looking depressed - even the one who usually lets us know what's going on said she couldn't tell us anything. We did manage to get one to talk. All she said was there's going to be an 'announcement' tomorrow morning. poo poo. This is going to be iiinteresting.
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May 19, 2011 02:09
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silversiren posted:Any tips on how to deal with crippling back pain, neck pain, and shoulder pain gained from standing in an upright position for hours on end? Shoes. Really, really good shoes. I had to pay $150 for some top quality foam ones but the difference paid off almost right away. Especially since I have back/leg problems even when I'm NOT standing up for hours at a time.
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I swear to god, I nearly had a breakdown last night. All because a friend of mine gave me a lead on a job at a call center he works at for a full time gig, I submitted my resume and cover letter, and then I realized afterward it was the one I was using BEFORE I tried basing mine around T-Shields' example one because it was well organized. This job is loving getting to me when I'm freaking out about formatting
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Darth Freddy posted:Does any one here have any experience with Aarons, a type of rent a center? You might want to read Stories from Rent-to-Own before you go any further with that... Just saying. At the very least it's amusing as gently caress.
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Jun 9, 2011 03:13
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Meow Cadet posted:Would corporate really call a low level employee and tell them to give a cash refund to "someone" that walked in? If I answered the phone, I'd immediately transfer them to my manager, and my manager is awesome (I guess I'm lucky in that respect) and she'd tell them to go to hell. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_prank_call_scam It gets worse than just giving money away. I remember this SVU episode, mostly because it had Robin Williams in it, and it's so hosed up. Sorry, this just totally reminded me of that whole thing. I'm glad she got at least some compensation for this thing and he got jail time, cause god drat.
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redheadgeek posted:The package was delivered the next morning just before noon. About forty hours after he placed the order. The email I received from him? We had made mistakes on everything regarding shipping his package, we had taken almost a month for him to get his order, we had been unwilling to help him and refused to talk to him.... If I were you I'd get him the extra special delivery service next time, where you squash the box down so that it can be slipped under his door next time he isn't home to get his package.  What a shitheel.
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MAO TSE-TUNGACUNT posted:I think I've gotten to that point where my current job is sucking my soul out and is detrimental to my mental health. I think I got there yesterday, because I've been contacted by a recruiter with a bank call centre who I can't get back to until Monday cause she called in sick at her own job today, and the idea of going back to work in that drat store while I'm waiting for her to finally call me back is loving killing me and making me seriously depressed. \/\/\/ according to that then I should start doing lines of coke. Chicken Doodle fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Jun 25, 2011 |
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I've just spent the last two days in a flurry of tests and phone/in person interviews for a credit card call centre (inbound, thank god) while sneaking to my retail job in the afternoons. This plus a cold from hell and no sleep meant I completely passed out for a few seconds at work today, left early, slept for an hour, then went to my final interview. And now I get to go on vacation while the possibility of my leaving retail finally is decided. How exciting.
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CUMGUARD posted:So you never updated the thread man, what happened that one time when all the managers got called into the office and came out looking all depressed and there was supposed to be an announcement of some kind the next day or some poo poo? Oh man, I didn't? Sorry, life's been so hectic after that I totally thought I had. Actually it was fantastic news for myself and the floor peons. The assistant store manager who'd been making everyone's lives a living hell, and didn't know a loving thing about my registry yet constantly micromanaged me and an assortment of other poo poo got transferred to another store. She was the only one, too. Then a few managers got moved to other departments and I got the coolest guy ever, who's been nothing but supportive to us as we improve. So it got so much better and I don't dread going there to work anymore. But if I get this job I won't feel bad leaving for the money. 
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Chicken Doodle posted:I've just spent the last two days in a flurry of tests and phone/in person interviews for a credit card call centre (inbound, thank god) while sneaking to my retail job in the afternoons. This plus a cold from hell and no sleep meant I completely passed out for a few seconds at work today, left early, slept for an hour, then went to my final interview. I got the phone call today, got offered the job, and started crying from happiness right in the middle of the Rodeo at the Calgary Stampede. Best birthday ever. 
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-Troika- posted:Hey pizza delivery guys: is it considered acceptable to fork up a cold beer in lieu of a tip during summer? I loving wish I could've gotten something like this. I didn't even get pot on 4/20 even though every place I went to REEKED of the poo poo. Just keep in mind we won't be able to enjoy it until afterward - I could've stored mine in our fridge but some people can't.
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Now that I can taste freedom from my retail job, I realize just how insufferable it is. I had to restrain myself from punching the rear end in a top hat who started blaming our floor staff for his mistake, but only because I've got three more work days left there and I wanted to save it up. But then I found out from my new boss that our hours in my former department have been completely slashed to ribbons, and if I'd stay, I'd go from 20 hours a week to around 13. Looks like I jumped ship at the perfect time. (In a cost cutting measure they've also decided to close our cafe on SUNDAYS. When all the seniors come in to eat. This place is going under and I'm so glad I'm getting the gently caress out of here!)
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alreadybeen posted:I am a manager and need someone to pick up a few more hours and my choices are between Peter, Paul and Mary. Mary is great at her job, but has a loving medical condition which makes it impossible for her to work whenever it arises. She has documentation as required by her employer and always makes up for her absenteeism. It developed during her employment and isn't a pre-existing condition. Yet it's all her fault she became sick. As someone who was once in and out of the ER for three months 4 times a week and had her life impacted by it permanently,
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NickBlasta posted:Nah, it's legit. Just not for debit cards. I think what he's talking about is different. What's not right is slapping a different price on a product just because they're using a credit card. Like if I bought somthin for $10 with debit, but they jack it up to $12 because I'm using a credit card. It's not minimum purchase, it's altering the price based on payment.
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drat Bananas posted:What if they give a discount for using cash? Liquor stores I've been in always seem to give a discount for using cash. So charging $10 for cash or $12 for credit, seems like one of those "six of one, half a dozen of the other" situations. That's tricky... Say the product, vodka, is $20. If you pay $20 in cash and get a discount, that's iffy and seems to me to be the same kind of dishonesty, but might be fair. If you pay Visa and the bottle goes up to $22 based solely on that fact you're paying with Visa, that's a breach of the contract the merchant has with Visa/Mastercard.If they display the Visa/Mastercard Accepted sign they must abide by their rules. You shouldn't be penalized for paying with a CC. (sorry, I just learned all this in my new job's training) Erm, sorry about the derail. It's been weird getting out of retail. I have noticed that I'm really a lot calmer when I shop though, heh. A girl at Staples helped me find a poster board that looked like it was sold out, and I got her name and told her Manager she saved the sale. It's sad that he (and other employees) looked genuinely stunned that someone would give an employee praise. Chicken Doodle fucked around with this message at 07:19 on Aug 28, 2011 |
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cobalt impurity posted:How is it the liquor store's fault you dropped it, and why should they now be burdened with your mistake? If the bottle had a manufacture flaw that caused it to explode in your hands and the store associates could see that, then it's perfectly reasonable to replace it, but if it's your fault, why should they give you a new bottle? Because you may be a good customer and they feel sorry for you, and they're doing something nice as a one time gesture? Seriously what the hell is the deal with going up and apologizing and asking if something can be done? If you can't, oh well, but if you can, hooray! Not every bloody person is out to get a freebie all the time. I've been a klutz and sometimes a nice vendor's replaced my item and sometimes they haven't. There's no harm in asking.
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baquerd posted:What ever happened to "you break it, you buy it?" That's not what's being talked about. We're talking about "You bought it, you break it, you go back to the retailer and explain the situation, retailer decided whether or not to reimburse you or refuse to". I had people accidentally break things all the time in Sears. We didn't charge them for it; all we did was discount the item by whatever portion was broken. So if 1 of 4 glasses was broken, we'd discount 25% plus any sale that was on. poo poo is so cheap these days that it's better to just let the customer go than to force them to pay and possibly make them not want to come back. It literally just comes down to what you break and where you break it and WHEN you break it.
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