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I wish all you escapees the best of luck.  I don't mind my job right now. Most of the people I work with do their jobs and don't actively make things loving harder for the people around them. If it wasn't for ~retail things~ I'd be pretty content overall. Kid me: "Oh man there are so many cool things I could be or study in college." Adult me: "Man, life would be sweet if I had health insurance. Just imagine how much more money I could put into savings if I made two more dollars an hour..."
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Oct 26, 2017 03:02
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This is a verbatim quote from our stores recent set of goals: "Selling less of higher price items is smarter trading"
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Oct 26, 2017 13:06
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Zenithe posted:This is a verbatim quote from our stores recent set of goals: I dont even know how to respond to that.
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Oct 27, 2017 00:44
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Zombie frappucino tastes disgusting (would have been better with caramel instead of mocha drizzle) and I'm so sick of making them but I imagine it could be a lot worse.
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Oct 27, 2017 01:24
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I left early Tuesday because I was vomiting. Checked in with the assistant kitchen manager, searched the store for my boss, pages my boss twice, searched for her again, let my underling know what was going on, checked out with the assistant, texted my boss, and left. Forty minutes later, my boss texted me saying I needed to check with her before leaving. Today I got written up for it. Friendly reminder I was vomiting and I work with food.
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Oct 27, 2017 23:26
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Did you invite your boss to go gently caress herself sideways with a poleaxe? Genuinely interested in how you responded to being written up for failure to stroke her fragile ego
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Oct 28, 2017 00:17
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Kickshaw posted:Friendly reminder I was vomiting and I work with food. Tell her the CDC and FDA both say she can go gently caress herself, and you did the right thing. Hell, you should have rolled out probably 20 minutes earlier than you did. https://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/RetailFoodProtection/IndustryandRegulatoryAssistanceandTrainingResources/ucm113827.htm
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Oct 28, 2017 04:21
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Got told today that my department doesn't deserve a digital thermometer because one person doesn't calibrate them regularly. This is from my department's lead, too. She's extremely angry that the department is falling apart, morale is low, and nothing's being done about it. People keep quitting, and there's lots of in-fighting. I wonder why.
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Jyrraeth posted:Got told today that my department doesn't deserve a digital thermometer because one person doesn't calibrate them regularly. This is from my department's lead, too. She's extremely angry that the department is falling apart, morale is low, and nothing's being done about it. Clearly your department manager doesnt deserve a good department.
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Oct 28, 2017 07:44
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"We only do a crosshatch caramel drizzle on macchiatos" on what planet does it loving matter
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Customer: Walks in, grabs cart: "Where is your powdered laundry detergent." Me: "Through the Christmas aisle, if you don't see it in the next row, it's in the next Aisle over from that." Customer: Gets past the register, turns a corner: "Can you show me, I Me: "Oh.. kay." Shows her where it is. Customer: Gets her powder and walks up front, stands in view of the Milk cooler. "Where's your Milk?" Me: in the middle of a transaction with another customer, "Right behind you." (The other employee walked up front at this time) Customer: "Where?" Both of us point at the milk, "Right there." Customer: "OOOOHHH, there it is!" Gets the milk and comes back, buys the milk and powdered laundry detergent. "Oh, do you guys have Gel pens? That's what I came in here for!" The other employee goes and grabs some gel pens, while the lady gets distracted by some clearance stuff. "Oh, actually I don't want the gel pens." Bitch, go look for your own poo poo, and make a list. If you want all your poo poo and don't want to shop, order on-line.
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Oct 29, 2017 06:38
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Anora posted:Customer: Walks in, grabs cart: "Where is your powdered laundry detergent." When I get a customer this unashamedly stupid, I assume I'm getting mystery shopped. Like today, a guy walks past the meat counter to ask me where the meat counter is. I didn't walk him to it and ask him about his day and thank him for shopping with us, so I'll probably hear about that fail next time the store director sees me. gently caress it, I'm union
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Mystery shoppers in my company are employees who get given a $15 budget to go and do them at other stores. So imagine all of the stupid poo poo that goes with mystery shoppers and then add a nice helping of class traitor to it. cephalopods posted:When I get a customer this unashamedly stupid, I assume I'm getting mystery shopped. Alternatively, one of their friends is stealing things. Zenithe fucked around with this message at 08:23 on Oct 29, 2017 |
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I was training a new girl on drive thru, which is weird because I'm not 100% at that area but all the shifts were busy training others, and oh my god it was awful. Every customer was an rear end in a top hat in a hurry and wanted to reload their cards or do some other weird poo poo. That stuff can be done quickly, but when you have someone new at the window who only has a vague idea of what to do and they obviously did something but it didn't work so now theyre explaining to me what they did and now I have a headache trying to figure it out and talk down the customer raising their voice at the same time which ends with me calling the shift over and telling them to handle it. When she went on her break she told me she was so tempted to just leave and I told her its a weekend and its cold out so everyone wants coffee and its gonna be hard but you'll get the hang of things so dont you dare leave! Also all of those customers were total dicks, it was nothing you did. Edit: we comped a lot of orders yesterday due to drive thru wait times sometimes being up to 8 minutes. But two people paid for the peoples order behind them so that was nice, not everyone was an rear end in a top hat.
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Oct 29, 2017 18:16
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The sales sign that corporate mails out all say things like Regular Price: 15.99. You Pay 10.00! or whatever. Of course, all the signs also have print on them talking about taxes where applicable but whatever. I had a customer throw a hissy fit because when he brought up his item it wasn't actually 10.00, it was 10.00 + tax and that it was rude and deceptive.
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Oct 29, 2017 18:48
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Was he a recent immigrant or something? How can anyone above age 5 exist in America (or whatever) without knowing sales tax
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Oct 29, 2017 18:55
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cephalopods posted:Was he a recent immigrant or something? How can anyone above age 5 exist in America (or whatever) without knowing sales tax could be from montana
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Oct 29, 2017 18:56
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cephalopods posted:Was he a recent immigrant or something? How can anyone above age 5 exist in America (or whatever) without knowing sales tax He had a little bit of an accent (not sure from where though) but his English was impeccable so I assume he's been here a not insignificant amount of time.
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Garrand posted:I had a customer throw a hissy fit because when he brought up his item it wasn't actually 10.00, it was 10.00 + tax and that it was rude and deceptive. People are weird. About a year after the government stopped minting pennies, I had a guy straight up screaming about how the total was $XX.98 or something and that he wants those two cents and how we're stealing from him or some poo poo. We didn't even have any pennies in the store to give him because we can't buy pennies and no one pays with pennies. Some people.
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Oct 29, 2017 19:50
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Inco posted:People are weird. About a year after the government stopped minting pennies, I had a guy straight up screaming about how the total was $XX.98 or something and that he wants those two cents and how we're stealing from him or some poo poo. We didn't even have any pennies in the store to give him because we can't buy pennies and no one pays with pennies. Some people. I saw an old man scream that he wanted a cashier fired because was shorted a penny. I was strongly tempted to just give him a quarter and tell him to leave it be but that probably would have made things worse.
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Volmarias posted:I saw an old man scream that he wanted a cashier fired because was shorted a penny. I was strongly tempted to just give him a quarter and tell him to leave it be but that probably would have made things worse. "It's the principle of the matter!"
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Volmarias posted:I saw an old man scream that he wanted a cashier fired because was shorted a penny. I was strongly tempted to just give him a quarter and tell him to leave it be but that probably would have made things worse. That feeling when you're making more money resolving a dispute than whatever petty pocket change someone's wasting their time over. I made two dollars while you pointlessly fought me over a loving fifteen cent coupon, great job.
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Oct 29, 2017 20:51
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cephalopods posted:Was he a recent immigrant or something? How can anyone above age 5 exist in America (or whatever) without knowing sales tax They know perfectly well what sales tax is, it's just they had lousy parents who trained them from an early age to believe that throwing hissy fits is the way to get what you want, no matter how minor.
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Oct 29, 2017 21:45
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Tunicate posted:could be from montana sometimes I remember sales tax is a thing that exists for most of the country and then I am so glad that yes I do in fact live in Montana (I mean, it comes out of my paycheck instead, but that's besides the point)
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Oct 29, 2017 22:11
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Eric the Mauve posted:they had lousy parents who trained them from an early age to believe that throwing hissy fits is the way to get what you want, no matter how minor. So, customers
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Oct 30, 2017 02:23
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The company I work for has a (very very small) sister company that does retail. We just had a guy quit because his list of demands weren't met, which included wanting like $20/hr, wanting a ridiculous commission on top of that, and getting to set his schedule to whatever he wanted week by week.  In what universe do you get any of those as an entry-level retail drone?
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A cool one? I mean, I think commission is dumb, but fair wages on a schedule that works for you would be pretty nice, if not entirely realistic in the current scheme of things. Helter Skelter fucked around with this message at 18:34 on Oct 30, 2017 |
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Oct 30, 2017 18:31
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Helter Skelter posted:I think commission is dumb When it's a sole method of earning, yes, but otherwise why is it dumb? I make 1% commission on retail sales and .7% on service installations, plus a bonus between $2.50 and $10.00 for every job that comes back paid in full same day.
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Oct 30, 2017 19:44
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Many moons ago I had a non-commission salesdrone job at a department store and walked out when I was ordered to fill in for a call-off in a commission sales department without commission. gently caress that poo poo. As for the $20 an hour dude, sounds like he'd made his mind up to quit anyway and just decided what the hell.
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Oct 30, 2017 20:42
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Eric the Mauve posted:As for the $20 an hour dude, sounds like he'd made his mind up to quit anyway and just decided what the hell. Helter Skelter posted:A cool one?
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I wanted my job to fire me so i could get unemployment but i also couldn't bring myself to be enough of a dumbass and/or rear end in a top hat to be bad enough to actually be fired so I ended up having to quit after i reached some arbitrary cutoff I set for myself. I got "warned" several times about my low sales averages and that they were gonna fire me if I didn't fix it, but nothing ever came of it, and they fired my friend with 2 kids to support and my other friend who needed to save up to get a surgery instead dumb bad job edit: We were talking about commission though. We didnt get paid commission, but it was funny to deal with customers who thought we did and got weirdly condescending about it. "Ugh sorry  I just don't want to buy Whatever Product, I know you get commission but I just don't want to spend that kind of money" "Uh actually buy whatever you want it doesn't affect me" *person stares blankly with no understanding*
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Oct 31, 2017 02:08
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D34THROW posted:When it's a sole method of earning, yes, but otherwise why is it dumb? I make 1% commission on retail sales and .7% on service installations, plus a bonus between $2.50 and $10.00 for every job that comes back paid in full same day. Doesn't stop this being kind of hilarious: Yawgmoth posted:They do get commission (it's a lovely amount but it's there) but he wanted it to be based on his hours worked instead of a flat rate per thing sold, which is... not how it works. You also don't generally get to tell your boss "here's what I'm working next week, everyone else can work around me" without getting laughed out of the store.
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I had a guy try to buy a Nintendo Switch a few days ago and completely forgot he’d have to pay tax on it. It was kind of amusing really. Me: Okay your total is three hundred and whatever dollars Him: why is it so much? Me: Well it’s $299.99 plus tax which is whatever dollars Him: oh I forgot about tax I can’t afford this I just don’t even know what wavelength he was on. Seemed like a normal functioning adult otherwise.
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Helter Skelter posted:A cool one? Someone who I did not hire came back from leave recently and has handed me a schedule with her availability (basically making her own schedule with an option of opening or closing on 1-2 days) while simultaneously telling me and all of her colleagues "I did not go for college for this" virtually every shift. Please do not be that employee.
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What kind of job is it? I'm guessing not the kind that requires tertiary education?
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Zenithe posted:What kind of job is it? I'm guessing not the kind that requires tertiary education? Shift manager at a pharmacy. She is making around ~$15, which while not great, for retail is pretty good.
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Oct 31, 2017 06:10
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Daniel Bryan posted:I had a guy try to buy a Nintendo Switch a few days ago and completely forgot he’d have to pay tax on it. It was kind of amusing really. A friend of mine moved here from Oregon a few years ago and to this day its like a 50/50 if he remembers the sales tax.
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Daniel Bryan posted:I had a guy try to buy a Nintendo Switch a few days ago and completely forgot he’d have to pay tax on it. It was kind of amusing really. Both times I've moved back from Europe I've forgotten about sales tax for the first little while, it happens. That and I forgot that you tip at a bar when you order a beer, which wasn't the best idea on the south side of Chicago.
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Daniel Bryan posted:I had a guy try to buy a Nintendo Switch a few days ago and completely forgot he’d have to pay tax on it. It was kind of amusing really. The only unbelievable part of this is the guy apparently calmly accepting that sales tax exists
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