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I've been working as a part time bag boy for the last three months which I know isn't a long time in the grand scheme of things, but I was just wondering if there was an easier way to simply transfer to another department such as the deli or the bakery without having to send in another official job application and what not. I realize that this is a question specifically suited for a manager to answer, but I was kind of embarrassed to ask since I haven't been working long to begin with.
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AbrahamLincolnLog posted:It depends on the store. Everywhere I've worked pretty much locks you in for your first 90 days, then you're free to transfer. Big box retail didn't require me to submit applications to change departments, but the hardware store did, for every position I even tried for. It's a Kroger Ralphs, and trying to google "how to transfer departments in ralphs" just links me to "Ralphs Transfer" which is something else lol.
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Sep 20, 2015 05:01
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ooh ooh, after three months on the job, I finally encountered something that I could post here: was on cart duty so I'm outside pulling in carts. We have the regular sized carts you find everywhere and also these weird small carts with two baskets on top of each other. The two cart types are very clearly incompatible with one another in terms of being able to be stacked in together, so we have a clearly designated space next to the regular cart deposit. Unfortunately some snot nosed boy scouts had set up camp in that area to sell popcorn and chips a la girl scout cookie style (what the gently caress, when did boy scouts start getting in on this money fleecing business too?) So while I'm pulling out a stack of the small carts in the regular cart area, this one guy comes out the store and idles right behind me. Right after I pull out the carts and put them in another clearly visible area nearby, he pushes his used small cart right back into the area I pulled them out of, smiles at me to acknowledge that he has done a good deed and walks away. Thanks dude, you're a real swell guy.
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Sep 29, 2015 08:13
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AbrahamLincolnLog posted:Customers today have been a nightmare. I don't know what's going on. Today's favorite: This honestly sounds kind of complicated the way you typed it out. So am I imagining this right, saying you can't add Base C to Base A/B is because there's just more paint volume in those two compared to C? Or are the volumes all uniform, just that C has less "stuff" floating around in it so you could jam a bit more color material into it and bump it up to A/B? If it's the former, what's stopping the business from just altering the ratios so that it is possible to add more paint to each container? If the latter, then I can sort of understand why she wasn't getting you since all you said to her asking why was basically "because it wouldn't" (based off of your post). Also idk, maybe she was going to paint a mural outside or something. It's kinda snobbish to scoff at using the "wrong" kind of paint for art (lovely customers notwithstanding).
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Oct 8, 2015 18:11
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I figured out who AbrahamLincolnLog's customer was: [link]
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Oct 9, 2015 07:31
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DLTN posted:my store just got a new manager who just decreed that all part timers are to get no more than 10 hours per week. i just got sent home after a 1.5 hour shift. this is too much. more time to shitpost on somethingawful imo
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Oct 11, 2015 01:07
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On a related note, I've managed to "promote" from courtesy clerk up to cheese monger, I'm going to monger all the cheeses
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Oct 25, 2015 04:57
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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:This time it didn't have to! The lack of any details on maggots or bugs thereof surprises me. e: I guess my own experience is clouding my judgment. Since we only have a regular sized grocery store, we have dumpsters outside in the back. Today I was called in because apparently a bunch of people were neglecting to actually put their trash in the dumpster and they told me to take care of it. Most of the bags were nowhere near what Nerdy had to deal with, but near the end I'm pretty sure the sacks that came from the meat department weighed more in maggots than actual refuse. There was actually one bag that basically had a Castlevania Legion sphere of maggots all writhing in some ungodly unison. Futaba Anzu fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Nov 2, 2015 |
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Nov 2, 2015 06:01
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Pumpy Dumper posted:At my work every delivery driver has to sign in before they're even allowed to start unloading the truck My store requires a staff supervising the unloaders at all times, and this is honestly the one job I'm going to miss after I graduate from courtesy clerk because it was literally a two hour chunk of time where you stood around doing nothing but shooting the shits with the other truck drivers.
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Nov 3, 2015 21:01
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The Lord Bude posted:I don't use public toilets. (Okay maybe once or twice when I've literally had food poisoning). I don't even use the staff toilets at work. I can quite comfortably go 10 or so hours without using the bathroom, and I drink ~5 litres of water a day. I just have an intense disliking of public toilets. Generally, I'll pee when I get up, then not again till the evening after work, when I'll pee several times between getting home and bed. I generally take one crap a day, late in the evening. It's just a matter of training your body so that you need the bathroom at the same time each day, much like what you do with a pet dog. Same except years of hourlong classes in school has trained me to have to pee literally every hour between 10am-4pm and working during that time is total agony 
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Nov 4, 2015 05:16
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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:Running out of food items? Psh. Amateur hour. For a real good time, run out of shopping bags. The last week I worked as a courtesy clerk, we ran out of all paper, plastic, and reusable tote bags for four days. We had to costco it up with boxes and just weather through the customers who bitched at us for being unprepared.
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Nov 24, 2015 21:13
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Simsmagic posted:I work in the front end of a grocery store, and management decided to schedule a skeleton crew for today because it's black friday, why would anyone want to go shopping for food? i'm excited for work in an hour
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Nov 27, 2015 20:15
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Murphys Law posted:And pretty much anytime I go grocery shopping I'll see something somewhere that it doesn't belong. Once I saw something in a freezer that wasn't frozen food. Why? one genius last week left a raw chicken on top of a bunch of our specialty cheeses and of course it started leaking
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Dec 2, 2015 21:44
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what's wrong with putting bread in with the pumpkin? by whole pumpkin, do you mean like an actual big jack-o-lanternable pumpkin? if then, why even put that in a bag to begin with?
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Dec 8, 2015 09:22
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The only sort of drama I've gone through recently is that a coworker always greets me with "*Name*, my Asian brother, ching ching walla walla bing bang!" And this one crazy lady who vehemently refused to accept the managers offer to help her find some warm toasted walnuts (???) because "this poo poo nosed kid is the one I asked to help me."
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Dec 19, 2015 07:12
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grimcreaper posted:Today was a fun day. This has been one of those Christmases that you hear about but never see. "Retail... retail never changes."
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Dec 24, 2015 09:55
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Picnic Princess posted:It's super cool customers were nice tonight, wishing us Merry Christmas, and expressing sympathy that we were open until 9, but if they could have just put items back where they found them, it would have been nice. As friendly as they are, it's frustrating when they just make a huge mess out of laziness or stupidity or complete lack of awareness of how much it annoys others. my day was going really good (busy, but actually good), until 2 minutes before I shifted out of closing and one crone walked up and quite literally threw off all the parchment paper covering the olive bar and yell asked me how she was supposed to get some olives without spoons.
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Dec 25, 2015 09:34
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