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I would never touch a customer's phone. Usually they come up to ask about a product and have a screenshot or photo of it. If I grab that phone off them there's a 99% I'll accidentally swipe to their next photo which is guaranteed going to be a shot of their junk.
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I used to do that all the time. Rock up for 5 hours and end up staying for 12-13 hours. Can't be hosed doing that anymore; nothing worse than it. Always got asked to hang back as I'm about to go clock off. It's just not enough time to psyche yourself back up.
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Jan 8, 2021 03:11
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I live in Victoria and my store still has 15 pallets of TP out the back from the last panic buying. It's been sitting there for 6months and will probably continue to sit there. People are loving idiots. I hope everyone that hoards poo poo in the hopes of scalping it off to people in need get hosed over like they almost always do when the panic rush subsides.
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Jan 8, 2021 08:16
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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:
Back then I was still interested in management so I had an alert for nightfill positions. Got one for the store we were working and and alerted him they'd already put his job up for applications. He thought he'd be fine and that they'd see how hard he works to get the job done. Was awful to see and made me sick to my stomach. Made me realise retail might not be for me. My store manager absolutely loved me and was keen to move me up but I knew as soon as I hit that position and being utterly incapable of running things any different with no money it would change pretty quick.
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Jan 11, 2021 02:20
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Gripweed posted:When you're applying to work at a big box retail chain like target or HEB, do you gain anything from applying for multiple positions at the same store? I was looking at this one Target location, they have three positions open, I applied for the first one. But the application included a lot of "Would you also be willing to work in literally any other position?' questions, so I'm wondering if I'd gain anything from applying to the other two Might not do anything but they won't get pissed if you apply multiple times. With starting positions you're basically just hoping you put yours in near the top of the pile because I'm confident they don't view all the applications. But yeah if you chuck down you're available for anything and you're free weekends they'll be thirsty for that.
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Jan 28, 2021 02:29
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Cowslips Warren posted:Company: We are a family!
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Feb 5, 2021 15:09
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I just use sweatblock and order them online. I'm a sweaty mess most shifts so I found they helped heaps. They work like 5-7 days so you just reapply once a week, or more often at the start if you need to. Then I combo it with some cologne depending on what I'm feeling. Nothing worse than going through a shift stinking of BO.
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Feb 6, 2021 18:14
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How the gently caress is that not an instant termination? Has he been instructed by a supervisor to use it before or something? That's the only way I could see him not getting burnt on that move.
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Feb 15, 2021 04:53
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Leal posted:I'm always amazed whenever someone at work knows what I'm talking about when I ask for "do its" After googling it seems like a universal term. ErKeL fucked around with this message at 05:45 on Mar 12, 2021 |
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Mar 12, 2021 05:42
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That's absolutely hosed. I wouldn't want to go near that.
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May 30, 2021 02:32
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Kilonum posted:Newbie coworker: How did you get that scar on your arm?  This is my best retail scar though not nearly as old. Was helping the fill leader throw these old metal fixtures into the skip out back at the start of the year when this heavy metal table bounced back and a corner somehow landed on top of my hand. Really outdid myself for this one. Got stitches and came out none the worse but part of me poo poo myself later on when I realised I could've damaged the tendons in my hand working some absolutely trash minimum wage work.
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May 30, 2021 10:30
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Perfect swing. gently caress that guy. His mate behind her holding her back while he rams his trolley into her should also cop it. Hope that greeter doesn't get punished. ErKeL fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Jun 4, 2021 |
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Jun 4, 2021 01:12
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Had the exact same thing with the AC at my store. Turned out it was endemic to the company as well because every store I've worked at was like stepping into a sauna when outside is still freezing cold and raining somehow. It's been heaps better recently because they had 1 team member and 2 different customers collapse in the same week so they finally got their poo poo together.
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Jun 7, 2021 04:05
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Leal posted:You know how some countries will require enlistment after graduation? They should do that but you have to work retail for 2 years.
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Jun 13, 2021 06:33
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Eric the Mauve posted:Have you tried not giving a poo poo? It's awesome. I spent loving ages thinking I'm loving up somewhere I can't get everything done satisfactorily and that while I don't see it, the morning crew with the SM must be putting out their own fires all the time. Eventually I got rotated to mornings and discovered the truth. All the department managers would clock on before their teams and spend an hour wandering the store and poo poo talking night fill. Then after that hour long walk it was 30minute standup meeting with the team. The morning meeting is done and they'd retire to the office to have a managers' meeting, which basically was just poo poo talking night fill before they'd break for lunch. Meanwhile they've got me in on all these meets because they want to train me up but I'm only on a 5 hour shift and I'm 4 hours in without doing anything. It was pretty eye opening. Now I work a real job where I accomplish half as much, get paid double and still have time on the side to work casual retail once a week so I never get nostalgic.
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Jun 14, 2021 14:19
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Just left there? I've never witnessed anything that rough. Only thing similar I've seen is my own fuckup eating with my manager and we got pulled off our break to put out some fires and left a whole chicken on the bench for like 6 hours.
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Jun 15, 2021 14:38
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Call centres would be a mixed bag. High turnover rates but let's not lie, retail's the same. Had a mate do a few months for a large company and he said it actually paid heaps compared to retail(this probably isn't true for the US in standard fashion).
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Jun 16, 2021 03:31
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Duckman2008 posted:Plus, as is occasionally talked about here, retail employees can get overlooked for non retail jobs despite having a lot more qualifications than they’re given credit for. A call center job is both different but also is about the same qualifications as what one views for retail, so it could be an easier stepping stone out of retail. It's a SL, 2ic and 2 Full timers. I used to manage a fill/recovery team of 30+ casuals, plus do end of days for a department store that had that many staff and more on site at all times and somehow that doesn't count. It frustrates me because compared to retail nothing at my current gig ever stresses me. Something will break, everyone will panic and there'll be me, "Yeah this sucks but isn't as bad as the time I had to evacuate a large department store as the chief fire warden despite none of us ever getting drilled, with zero first aid reps because it costs money to train staff and the SM barking down the phone to go back in and lock up the cash."
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Jun 16, 2021 15:08
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Banned from working at Walmart. More than worth it. That customer hopefully learnt a powerful life lesson.
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Jun 20, 2021 13:35
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Surely he wouldn't actually get anything from that. The man wasn't employed by Walmart anyway. Just some bullshit where he's subcontracted out so they probably washed their hands of the whole situation.
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Jun 20, 2021 14:02
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Mill Village posted:My work has turned down the AC and some days are just miserable for me. I’m very sensitive to heat so this means I spend part of my shifts sick in the bathroom. All my manager said was “well you’re hot because you’re working.” Sure. It's genuinely frustrating when this happens because my company is always like, "yeah AC's broken we'll get contractors out to work on it" but it's always been that way since like 2017 when I started. Did my orientation day in sweltering heat on an incredibly mild day and wondered what the gently caress is going on. Turns out it's just always that hot.
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Jul 19, 2021 05:57
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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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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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Jul 30, 2021 08:18
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I'd take the nail out. "Hrmm must've fallen out while I was driving"
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Aug 26, 2021 10:08
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My only experience is having a new driver jack-knife his truck in front of our loading dock because it's a busy shopping centre and if you're not experienced to it then it can be kind of a poo poo show. ASM came down to chew us out because dispatch had been bitching that we had left the driver there for 45minutes without accepting the delivery. "Ready to receive as soon as he unfucks himself and backs it up to us mate"
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Aug 27, 2021 14:48
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Cleaning up dog poo poo sounds a lot less stressful than those hosed up days in retail where you end up cleaning people poo poo.
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Oct 1, 2021 20:53
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shortspecialbus posted:We switched to Microsoft Teams for everyone a few years ago and I'd prefer almost anything else. It's a slow piece of garbage. I keep the process killed until I have to communicate with someone else from the company and then regretfully have to fire it up and kill all my other tasks.
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Oct 9, 2021 05:30
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That's a poo poo move, especially to drop you off the group chat. I went to a social once for a team and noticed the manager only invited half the team and none of the girls. Was a pretty awkward experience and haven't been out since.
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Oct 19, 2021 06:09
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Cowslips Warren posted:Just got an email from one of the high up major district managers, letting us know that everyone who works 40 hours or more a week after Thanksgiving through December 20th, will get an extra $50 peak bonus a week.
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Nov 1, 2021 22:58
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Cowslips Warren posted:I remember reading a study about why kids, ranging from toddlers to teens, act out when they get home from school/daycare: after a full day of being as good as possible, they snap and need to vent, and for kids, that usually is a tantrum or being short and snappy. Yeah 100% When I did this full time I just felt mentally exhausted and needed to chill at home listening to tunes or something. I remember every shift would just play out in my mind on repeat on the way home where I'd fantasise about saying what I wanted to say instead of being polite to my store manager.
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Dec 3, 2021 05:48
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I love that side-eye glance the customer gives you as you spot them walking into the store to pickup some things. Always after raging out the day before, "I'm never shopping here again" .They say it as a threat but you feel nothing but a wave of relief. It's short lived because you know like everything they've said before it they're full of poo poo.
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Dec 4, 2021 03:38
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PurpleXVI posted:Whenever a customer was completely impossible to get rid of because they wouldn't accept that we didn't have the special part they needed, I'd always tell them a store ten minutes away almost certainly had it. I eventually got some of my coworkers to start doing the same thing, too. I bet that store loving hated us. "You can see the stock count for every local store in the area. Just because everyone is on 0 or -1 and I have 1 does not mean I actually have it. It would've been stolen long ago"
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Dec 6, 2021 19:29
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PurpleXVI posted:Oh no, I mean, other franchises entirely. If it's another store in the chain I always called and checked if they actually had the item before I sent the customer on, especially if it's a long drive.
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Dec 7, 2021 19:47
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I had a department manager that was completely useless and got done for stealing phones and clothing. Idiot would grab other team members' symbols and stock adjust them down when she did it. Like mate, don't loving do that. Just take the whole box and inventory will assume DC hosed up.
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Jan 6, 2022 11:42
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I'm no thief but if I were I feel like hitting the dollar tree store wouldn't cross my mind. That just sounds like all risk and literally no reward? What's the point? Or do they secretly make bank and keep it stored on site?
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Jan 9, 2022 09:16
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My Store manager tried to chase this dude down that was stealing stuff and running out the front (think a 65" TV or some wild poo poo like that). Unfortunately he was well aware how hard they tell us to never do exactly that so he chased this guy for a bit only to stop and run back to the store when he remembered he'd get fired if he grabbed him. I always picture it like Manny in Black Books when someone tries to be a hero out the front door. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcE9ppYolK8
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Jan 17, 2022 15:14
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Cowslips Warren posted:As a delivery driver who does not drive a semi, I would like to extend a full gently caress You to the people who design parking lots without deliveries in mind. So many places I go to, small little parking lots without any place to park anything larger than a Prius.
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Jan 22, 2022 19:06
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Alkydere posted:Fair enough. The only worker near me I could have asked anyways was someone I'd seen be interrupted twice while I did the whole "Wait this section is empty...is the thing I want out? Yup. Are their alternatives I want? Nope. Do a quick look-around to make sure corporate hasn't had the store shift poo poo about just to make it harder to find." Sequence. Day during the store though I didn't give a poo poo. I wasn't getting anything done anyway and unless your manager is a piece of poo poo(this is a big IF) they'll understand you had customers all day. I work a department store and there usually is stock out the back, but it's unlisted and impossible to find. Last time I was in we had over 100 pallets of stock from DC unsplit and unworked.
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My store is massive and we always frothed ordering one box of pallet wrap at a time. The ASM would insist we write on the board when we were running low and we'd just write it up as soon as we received a new box because we'd burn through it in at most 2 days. He continued to ignore us. Eventually the fill leader started doing some hella dodgies and writing off big rolls of glad wrap to use instead and I absolutely poo poo myself when some poor fool flew a 2.2metre tall pallet of cleaning products into the racking barely held together with glad. This thing was heavy enough the fork almost couldn't lift it and it turns out glad wrap doesn't hold quite the same measure of strength as pallet wrap does.
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Leal posted:Is there a fast food parallel to this thread? Finished my first day and uh... Apparently I was hired as a shift lead, complete with a manager code.
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