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We have this dumb sale on chuck shoulders for a month. I only work part time because of college but that means every day I come in I get the pleasure of cutting 8-10 cases of shoulder clods. I'm so sick of them
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Nov 6, 2015 01:24
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Well today I got that other job I was hoping for, what with my current job shutting down next week. Along with my completely dead 3rd party rep job (I basically go once a month to check out the gopro display at the target and walmart in town and that is it cause I live out in the sticks) that means I have 3 jobs! Living the American dream right here  Things should get better at this new job, I'm making 50 cents more an hour and sundays are time and a half days, holidays are double time, and after probation I can get medical and dental.
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Nov 6, 2015 05:20
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I hope the new job works out better for you, Leal. I'm so very close to quitting my retail job straight-up without actually having another job to fall back on. The other day I went outside with a friend/coworker to take a quick break and enjoy the last of the fall sunshine and I kept thinking it would be so nice just to walk right to the car, get in, and drive away... never to return. My keys were in my locker, though. So I would've had to go back inside anyway.
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Nov 6, 2015 11:14
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Duck_King posted:No joke, the other day I felt a sudden feeling of apprehension when I realized the holidays were upon us, and then remembered I haven't worked retail in years. Any time I step into a shop playing christmas music I shiver a little, because I remember the two solid months of hearing the same tape over and over and over again on a loop.
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Nov 6, 2015 13:11
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Inco posted:Tell her that, for her own safety, she is not allowed to go through because the floor is wet and there's shards of glass everywhere. If she asks for a manager, AbrahamLincolnLog posted:Yep, that is the kind of customer that any reasonable retail store would allow you to tell to basically gently caress off. Customer safety is the only thing most stores will put above customer satisfaction due to lawsuits. Someone that marches through beer and glass for a case of bottled water isn't going to be a reasonable person. Everything about her made me think she'd start an argument if I tried to stop her. It was easier to clean up after her than to risk a headache inducing argument. The store manager takes safety very seriously. He even has a specific way he wants me to mop floors, and I abide by it. He wants me to do everything reasonably possible to avoid a customer slipping. He wasn't there that day. The manager directly below him was. This guy hates wet floor signs. If I leave one down for longer than a minute, chances are he'll grab it and spirit it away off to the back without even checking the floor. The other janitor ( Fucker ) doesn't even use wet floor signs, and he'll mop massive sections of floor with a dripping mop. One day he slathered the floor around the u-scan podium with his mop, and took off. A minute later one of the front end managers came back, slid on the floor, and did a near-perfect split.
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Black Ops 3 came out last night and with it brought the biggest jackass customer I've ever had to deal with. The guy was with his girlfriend or wife and was so extremely pissed that he didn't get preferential treatment because he preordered the game. Apparently what happened was he showed up earlier in the day and talked to the electronics associate who said that the games would be up behind the register for the midnight release and this loving idiot took that as there being a box with his name on it and he could go directly to the front of the line to get it. So he was throwing a fit because he would have to physically pick up the game box from the shipper we were standing around and wait in line to buy it. He was the rudest motherfucker too, demanding to see the manager and then screaming at her because we weren't rolling out the red carpet for him to buy his piece of poo poo game and telling us we need to "learn how the preorder agreement works". The best part was at the beginning his wife or girlfriend had grabbed a copy of the game and was holding it the entire time he was pissing and moaning, so that was 25 minutes wasted for no reason, and by the time this dude showed up the line had dissipated so he wouldn't have had to wait anyway. Sometimes I think people just like to start poo poo for no reason.
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Nov 6, 2015 15:28
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Not fun: accidentally falling and spraining your ankle at work at night on day 2 of 5 on Peanuts/Spectre kids-have-no-school-Thurs-Fri-because-teacher-convention and the first day you can go see a doctor because you're working at least 10 hours Fri-Sat-Sun is Monday. Kinda better: GM letting you sit in a folding chair to rip tickets and giving you a box to prop your leg up on. My ankle hurts like hell but man this weekend got a lot more tolerable.
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Nov 6, 2015 21:31
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Fil5000 posted:Any time I step into a shop playing christmas music I shiver a little, because I remember the two solid months of hearing the same tape over and over and over again on a loop. My store won't even start until after Hanukkah this year 
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Nov 7, 2015 05:35
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Kilonum posted:My store won't even start until after Hanukkah this year My Assistant Manager says she never got the Christmas CD, while one of the Area Managers says she knows that the AM did indeed get it, since she herself handed it off. My Assistant Manager is pretty cool
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Nov 7, 2015 07:44
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Butyraceous posted:My Assistant Manager says she never got the Christmas CD, while one of the Area Managers says she knows that the AM did indeed get it, since she herself handed it off. Once I was an assistant manager I did this too. Tape remained hidden until December actually started.
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Nov 7, 2015 12:49
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Fil5000 posted:Once I was an assistant manager I did this too. Tape remained hidden until December actually started. It's funny because the Area Manager could probably raise a stink since it isn't ~protocol~ but literally no one wants to hear christmas music right now.
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Nov 7, 2015 18:49
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Traditional Christmas music isn't so bad when it's played at a decent volume. It's no worse than the mediocre 80s music and no-name country singers I normally hear at work. On the other hand, the new versions of the old songs are the worst kind of garbage. You either get 'cute' remakes of songs with some gimmick, or you get someone wailing out every other word so a 3 minute song now lasts half an hour.
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Nov 8, 2015 02:04
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So working my new job I learned that its not just people in a store that is shutting down that are slobs, its that my entire loving town is full of slobs. Now you can say "well thats retail blah blah" except I've been in all kinds of retail stores as a merchandiser all over California and I have not seen people so apt to grab an item, walk down 3 aisles then just throw it onto the shelf, or even the floor. There is apparently so little to do in my town its become a past time to just trash stores. As an aside, don't do a full shift at one store an a half shift at another in one day. My body hurts so much...
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Nov 8, 2015 07:38
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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:Traditional Christmas music isn't so bad when it's played at a decent volume. It's no worse than the mediocre 80s music and no-name country singers I normally hear at work. You're right, traditional Christmas songs are fine. When heard a few times a day - not the dozens you wind up hearing them if you're stuck behind a till for eight to ten hours.
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Nov 8, 2015 08:13
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Bookselling is exciting in the holiday season; people go through intense indecision and doubt when they try to buy books for other people. They also often have no idea what they want, and go through some five-stages-of-grief poo poo while they try and figure it out. Some places I found books today: Shoved behind other books, making them a bitch to get off the shelf Balanced precariously on top of displays Piled (a big pile, about 12 high) next to a chair Behind porn mags On the floor in the middle of the aisle People are getting better at hiding them. 
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Nov 8, 2015 09:47
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Like seriously, why the gently caress do people put poo poo where it doesn't go, especially when where they ended up putting it is harder to manage than where it belongs? How the gently caress did the human race get to the point where we are now when people apparently don't know how to put clothes on a hanger and then how to hang a hanger. ung ung i guess deese pant go over rack???? I just don't get the thought process, are they seriously that lazy that the extra second is just too much to ask? Bomrek posted:People are getting better at hiding them. And this, why the gently caress do people hide it? Obviously there is some inner turmoil going on in their heads, "oh I shouldn't be a lazy fucker" and "I'm a lazy fucker" so they hide it to avoid the appearance of a lazy fucker. I don't get why this behavior has been encouraged by corporations rather than shunned. If people weren't so nasty and could be kicked out of the store for disrespecting it, then they wouldn't have to hire people that have to clean up after them. Instead, I have to clean up behind and nicely talk to the retard who has been throwing poo poo all over the store and letting their kids break poo poo the entire time they've been there instead of doing my actual job. That is another thing, what ever happened to 'You break it, you buy it'? I will see people break poo poo and whenever I tell my manager they just tell me to throw it in the marked out of stock bin. Ugh.
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Nov 8, 2015 17:47
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My favorite is when people just shove stuff in the candy racks at the checkout lane, less than 5 feet from a live human being who can put it back for you requiring no extra effort on your part.
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Nov 8, 2015 22:53
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Aquatic Giraffe posted:My favorite is when people just shove stuff in the candy racks at the checkout lane, less than 5 feet from a live human being who can put it back for you requiring no extra effort on your part. That too, holy christ. I even asked someone to hand it to me instead of putting it there and they said "Oh no, it's okay!" like they were doing me a favor?
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Nov 9, 2015 00:37
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We often have our stuffed animals perfectly lined up, facing forward, neatly organized by animal type. Someone will pick up a zebra, walk two feet, and then shove it upside down and backwards in some tigers. Just put it back in the hole you made facing forward sitting nicely! Or they knock over a bucket of stuffies onto the floor, turn around, look at it, then walk away. We also have a tall display of jewelry in calm-shell boxes, and kids will close all the lids for fun, until their parents step in and stop them, telling them they need to be left open so people can see the item. But then they'll take their kid away and leave them all closed. They obviously know it's wrong, and their kid did it, I have a line-up and can't go out and fix it myself. Common courtesy just doesn't exist anymore. I take a lot of pride in a perfectly clean and organized store, it's disappointing that other people see fit to just ruin it because they're lazy/unobservant/stupid/assholes/all of the above.
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Butyraceous posted:Like seriously, why the gently caress do people put poo poo where it doesn't go, especially when where they ended up putting it is harder to manage than where it belongs? The same reason people will take a sample cup from the bakery and just leave it on some shelf, or in their cart, or wherever. They're lazy. The whole drat store is littered with little white cups, tooth picks, those little cart-wipes, etc. I clean them up all day every day, but they never stop coming. I was shocked when a little kid came through one of the checkouts today and asked a cashier if she could please throw away the sample cup she was done with. It was like seeing a unicorn.
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Nov 9, 2015 04:48
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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:Traditional Christmas music isn't so bad when it's played at a decent volume. It's no worse than the mediocre 80s music and no-name country singers I normally hear at work. Last year my GM switched to this station on our music player that was all classic Christmas songs with just instruments and no vocals and it was loving AWESOME. It lasted one single loving day and the next day it was all "last Christmas I gave you my heart" (why are there 20 versions of that awful loving song?) and awful Xmas pop stuff. When I asked if we could switch back he just said no with no other reason, so I'm assuming it was a corporate thing.
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Nov 9, 2015 07:21
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I've always liked traditional (say, 1st half of the 20th century or earlier) Christmas songs, but newer stuff is mostly poo poo, as is fancy reinterpretations of traditional stuff. Also Feliz Navidad makes me want to jam a knife in my ear.
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Nov 9, 2015 10:40
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Some months ago, my store decided to do a promotion that involved Italian stuff. As part of that, someone decided to pipe in Italian music over the store speakers. Opera music. I loved every moment of it. Aside from one decent rendition of Ave Maria, the music wasn't very good. But the reactions? Those were priceless. The customers were confused and frightened. People would walk in, make it to the shopping carts, then they'd stop and eyeball the ceiling. The staff was on the verge of rioting after the first six hours. After just one day, the music was gone, never to return.
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Nov 9, 2015 14:33
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Over the course of my tenure in retail, I have heard every cover of "Let it snow" known to man.
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Nov 9, 2015 16:44
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Aww, you guys are making me glad my store pipes in the same hour-long commercial from corporate every day. At least it's only half desperate marketing! The rest is movie trailers!! I've seen the new Star Wars trailer 800 times now!!! ... 
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Nov 9, 2015 16:50
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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:Some months ago, my store decided to do a promotion that involved Italian stuff. As part of that, someone decided to pipe in Italian music over the store speakers. Opera music. Bring in copies of Trans-Siberian Orchestra. 
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Nov 9, 2015 17:41
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When I still worked at GameStop, I used to play music from my phone into a little speaker setup we had behind the counter. When the holidays rolled around, I played the work safe tracks from the goon Christmas album as a passive aggressive way of getting back at the wild eyed hordes of shoppers. My boss had to stifle so much laughter the first couple days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHwhKwJypE4
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Nov 9, 2015 18:11
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Duck_King posted:When I still worked at GameStop, I used to play music from my phone into a little speaker setup we had behind the counter. When the holidays rolled around, I played the work safe tracks from the goon Christmas album as a passive aggressive way of getting back at the wild eyed hordes of shoppers. My boss had to stifle so much laughter the first couple days. Holy poo poo I'm jealous.
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Nov 9, 2015 18:15
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At least those of us in Grocery don't have to deal with the Black Friday hordes. Pray for us on the Saturday previous, though.
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Nov 9, 2015 19:08
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I worked Boxing Day at my gift shop the past two years (Canadian Black Friday, December 26) and everyone would ask WHAT ARE YOUR SALES. We didn't have any. We responded with "We're a zoo, not a mall." If they paid to get into a zoo looking for deals on gift shop merchandise I really don't know what to say.
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Duck_King posted:When I still worked at GameStop, I used to play music from my phone into a little speaker setup we had behind the counter. When the holidays rolled around, I played the work safe tracks from the goon Christmas album as a passive aggressive way of getting back at the wild eyed hordes of shoppers. My boss had to stifle so much laughter the first couple days. I aspire to work a way for us to play "alternatives" to the corporate holiday station as much as possible this year, because the more times I have to listen to "It's a Marshmallow World" the more I want to shove icicles into my brain via my ears. Actually, our store hasn't turned the holiday music on yet and I'm cautiously optimistic that it won't start until Black Friday...
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Picnic Princess posted:I worked Boxing Day at my gift shop the past two years (Canadian Black Friday, December 26) and everyone would ask WHAT ARE YOUR SALES. We didn't have any. We responded with "We're a zoo, not a mall." If they paid to get into a zoo looking for deals on gift shop merchandise I really don't know what to say. Same as when I worked at a pet store. It was funny to see people lined up around the block, clutching the newsprints that read poo poo like $2 neon tetras!!! And that was the normal price. I saw the Target Black Friday Ad today. Lots of things but one made me crack the gently caress up: they have Monster High dolls on BF Sale for $14! And in tiny print, normal price is $14.99. Wow. By Grabthar's hammer, what a savings.
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Nov 10, 2015 11:18
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Kilonum posted:At least those of us in Grocery don't have to deal with the Black Friday hordes. We got absolutely slammed on the weekend, Saturday and Sunday. All ten registers open and we still had lines four deep. For hours. We ran out of carts multiple times. When it finally let up, the assistant store manager said 'Jesus, it was like Christmas day'. It never occurred to me that people would wait until the last minute to do their holiday meal shopping. Given all the prep time in making such large dinners, it seems like a tremendously stupid idea. We were slammed yesterday, but I wasn't working. Today it's 40 degrees out and pissing down rain, but once more we're knee deep in customers ( SENIOR DAY ) and two people are out sick. If anyone doesn't show up or calls in it's going to be a hell of a day. 
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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:
AHAHAHAHA As a butcher for seven years people will always try to get poo poo at the last possible moment. I've had people come in 30 minutes before close the day before thanksgiving trying to buy a turkey. At that time the only turkeys we ever have are thr super small ones for like 2 people or the mega turkeys for a family of 10. They always are mad and like "I thought you guys would have a bunch." Yeah gently caress face we did at the start of the day, we order enough for our orders and a bit of walk ins. We don't want to sit on turkeys for months
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In British news, Asda (owned by Walmart these days), who brought the stupid Black Friday poo poo here in the first place, have announced that they're having nothing to do with it this year after the terribly unBritish non-queueing behaviour of last year. Result! That poo poo can gently caress off back to where it came. And I don't even work retail. Meanwhile, people continue to make cashier lives a misery over the mandatory 5p charge for Single Use Carrier Bags..
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Nov 10, 2015 23:49
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Pumpy Dumper posted:AHAHAHAHA At the jewelry store I worked at, we made fuckin bank off of last minute shoppers because we'd stay open when the rest of the mall was closed, making us the only place to go. I loved working December there because my bonus cheque from exceeding my sales quota would usually be the same amount as a regular paycheque. I insisted on working Christmas Eve every year just for that reason.
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Last-minute shoppers are the worst, though. I would have paid 3/4 of the last-minute holiday shoppers we got last year to turn around at the door because we were sold out of the dozen items they NEEDED anyway... I swear to god last year some lady came in THREE TIMES looking for a "special buy" christmas tree which she claimed she had missed the year before as well... she couldn't manage to just come shopping earlier with the knowledge that she'd been too late to get one the last time, but she sure could whine and moan and blame us for selling out again because how dare we not read her mind and set one aside for her, and ask me to call EVERY OTHER STORE to triple-check that they didn't have any more, oh yes indeed! 
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This year marks the third Thanksgiving Day I worked in a row in a grocery store. I love it though because it's the easiest day of the year for me + get paid 1.5x. I'm by myself in our department which doesn't see much business at all. I need to be there to hand out a few fresh turkeys people ordered and cut a rib roast or two, but other than that, I spend most of my time just cleaning up holiday crap and preparing for normal business. I'll get some dimwits wanting a last minute fresh turkey, but for the most part they come in knowing that they are the ones who hosed up and don't give me too much crap for it.
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I loving hate parents. This week, I've had two rear end in a top hat complain about me--one was the parent of a hellion who was running through the store alone, yanking on dresses, who I told was welcome to look at the pretty dresses, but she had to come in with a grown up. The other came in with a fidgety kid to book a wedding, and the kid kept messing with the catalogues and grabbing things off the counter, and after the third time the mother told her to stop touching things, I smiled and said, "Better listen to your mama, sweetie!" Apparently this was completely out of line and I had no business talking to her child like that. I'm at the point where I may start ignoring kids completely unless their parents have brought them for a tux fitting and calling security on any unattended ones.
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