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I always volunteered to work Christmas Eve / Day in retail because I was 6 hours away from family. All I was going to do was play video games and get drunk so I had no problem taking the shift so people with kids and families nearby could have the time off.
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The company I work for has a small retail store as a sort of sister company and we've been trying to hire someone for at least the holiday season for several months now. 90% of people don't even show up for the interview.  Like I get it, it's retail and it sucks, but if you ask for an interview and get one scheduled (and in a couple cases get it rescheduled) wouldn't you at least show up?
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Dec 14, 2017 18:03
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Like I wouldn't mind having that Friday and Saturday off and could use those days to go see family but my boyfriend doesnt have any PTO to use to take that Friday off and I cant just leave him up here. We have two cars but the one he drives is trustworthy on the interstate, mine is not. Yeah maybe it could be done but goddamnit its christmas can I just have one less thing to worry about? Ill figure something out. That something may be taking a xanax and chilling through the workday like "family? what family" being berated by customers and having 14 drink orders for a whole car and then polishing a bottle of wine in the tub that night but whatever works I guess.
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Dec 14, 2017 18:10
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SpacePig posted:One thing I'll say for the 24 hour convenience store I used to work for, if you signed up for either Christmas or Christmas Eve hours, you were guaranteed the other day off. There was some competition for the hours, but once you were signed up, you wouldn't get scheduled for any unfilled shifts. The way I did it this year (first as a manager) was volunteers first, but then let everybody know of the remaining shifts everyone will have to take turns. But then lots of people volunteered.
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Dec 14, 2017 18:27
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Yawgmoth posted:The company I work for has a small retail store as a sort of sister company and we've been trying to hire someone for at least the holiday season for several months now. 90% of people don't even show up for the interview. No idea what your jurisdiction is like but there are some U.S. states that require people to apply to X jobs per month to remain eligible for unemployment/welfare benefits. Predictable result is a lot of no-shows or waste of time interviews for lovely retail jobs.
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Dec 14, 2017 22:17
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Or it could be people that did not realize it was seasonal. It's always a pain in the rear end to hire / retain seasonal. Most bail right before Christmas when they realize they will absolutely be working Christmas Eve and in some cases Christmas days. About half of my seasonal employees had no call no shows by the 23rd or 26th.
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Dec 14, 2017 22:39
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Eric the Mauve posted:No idea what your jurisdiction is like but there are some U.S. states that require people to apply to X jobs per month to remain eligible for unemployment/welfare benefits. Predictable result is a lot of no-shows or waste of time interviews for lovely retail jobs. My homeless shelter required job applications, but there would also be no way we'd get hired because everyone knew that we were from the homeless shelter. So we just applied and hosed off.
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Dec 15, 2017 00:09
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I think that's what our leadership was trying to address when they froze hiring except through service (aside from deli, which is an ongoing disaster). The plan was that all those cashiers that would have been holiday temps were gonna be moved to other departments in January. What's actually happening is there's still as much turnover throughout the store as ever, but service couldn't give up any manpower even if they wanted to because none of those new cashiers last more than a week.
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Dec 15, 2017 00:15
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Beastie posted:Or it could be people that did not realize it was seasonal. It's always a pain in the rear end to hire / retain seasonal. Eric the Mauve posted:No idea what your jurisdiction is like but there are some U.S. states that require people to apply to X jobs per month to remain eligible for unemployment/welfare benefits. Predictable result is a lot of no-shows or waste of time interviews for lovely retail jobs.
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Dec 15, 2017 16:34
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After 8 years of working at an Olive garden. I got an IT position working at a warehouse that sells commercial and industrial electronic appliances. Pay is higher, will work around my school schedule, and once my 90 day period is up I am expected to get paid 4 more an hour. I am putting in my two weeks on monday and I could not be happier.
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Dec 15, 2017 22:51
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It appears I'm working 3PM to midnight on new years eve  
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On the plus side, you get to shout HAPPY NEW YEAR I'M GOING HOME
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Zenithe posted:It appears I'm working 3PM to midnight on new years eve "IT'S TOO BAD THEY MAKE YOU WORK TODAY HAW HAW"
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Dec 16, 2017 14:34
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The grocery store that has their poo poo cranked to "springtime for hitler" from the producers and I couldn't tell if they were being ironic or not.
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Dec 16, 2017 19:24
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I dislike ice cream. Eating it is fine, working with it is a pain. Why? For starters, it's bulky. The typical ice cream containers come six to a pack, wrapped in plastic binding. The moment you cut the bands, that's it- you've got six loose containers and no box to put back stock in. Both these things severely limit how much you can take to the floor at one time. Another reason I dislike it is that unlike regular frozen foods, ice cream builds up a layer of condensation or something on the outside. If you wear gloves, they get soaked, and become useless. If you don't, you're sticking bare, wet hands in a freezer for a few hours. There are ways around this, but they're varying degrees of a pain in my rear end. Most of the time, I don't have to work ice cream. The truck it's delivered on arrives in the evening, usually when I'm off. It is very much Not My Problem, but when it is, it forces me to take limited time away from my department. A few days ago, the co-manager of the store informed me that corporate sent them a memo. Frozen food would no longer be arriving on the perishable truck with produce and dairy. Frozen food would now be shipped with ice cream. This means that: 1) My schedule will probably change. How?  Nobody knows yet.2) Ice cream is now my thing. 3) My responsibilities will likely increase, but my pay remains the same. 4) The average ice cream pallet is somewhere between 40-80 cases. On an average frozen food load, I deal with about 110 cases. 140-160 cases would be considered 'a loving lot'. I could realistically be seeing 200+ case trucks not uncommonly. In closing, 
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Dec 16, 2017 20:38
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Have you tried wearing a big pair of rubber dishwashing gloves over your normal gloves? Would still work and the rubber gloves tend to be kinda grippy. Eats tactile sensation a little but so does having cold wet hands.
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Dec 16, 2017 22:13
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I'd ask why frozen food wasn't already shipping in a freezer truck, but I suspect all anyone knows is "corporate said so, lmao"
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Dec 16, 2017 22:49
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Grognan posted:The grocery store that has their poo poo cranked to "springtime for hitler" from the producers and I couldn't tell if they were being ironic or not. Our retail mix has the Hamilton Mixtape version of "It's Quiet Uptown". Ah yes, there's no music I like better for shopping for pet supplies than a mournful song about dealing with grief over the loss of a child. (Also for a while for a week straight when I opened the one song i heard literally every day was Avril lavigne's "Complicated".)
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Dec 17, 2017 03:16
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My store still hasn't started Christmas music. The owner hates it as much as we do and I'm wondering at this point if she will turn it on at all.
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Dec 17, 2017 04:06
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Garrand posted:My store still hasn't started Christmas music. The owner hates it as much as we do and I'm wondering at this point if she will turn it on at all. I don't know anyone, customers included who likes Christmas music. If it wasn't so obnoxious I would probably mind less, but they keep deciding to play poo poo like this. Between that and the customer who left his lights on the carwash and bricked his battery today was great.
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Dec 17, 2017 04:50
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I like traditional, classic christmas carols. Things like Little Drummer Boy; Hark the Herald Angels sing; O come all ye faithful...that sort of stuff. When they start playing some of the more modern ones, or modern 'interpretations' of traditional ones, then they can get annoying.
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Zenithe posted:Between that and the customer who left his lights on the carwash and bricked his battery today was great. The gently caress? That so near impossible, I want to argue about it, but I also know customers are dumb as gently caress and will gently caress poo poo up in the stupidest way possible, so I have no choice but to accept it.
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Dec 17, 2017 06:24
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He said he left his lights on, I was only there for the part where we pushed him over the speedbump to get him out of the way. Either way, his battery decided to die while he was in the carwash.
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Dec 17, 2017 06:38
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A battery doesn't just die like that though. But like I said, customers are loving stupid, so I believe it somehow happened, but damned if I could actually explain how they did that.  Edit: Actually, thinking about it, the only thing that makes sense is if they left the car running in the car wash with no undertrays protecting it while getting the underside of the car sprayed, shorting out the main charging circuit and blowing out the 100ish amp maxi fuse between the battery and the rest of the car. Or shorted something else out somehow. 
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Dec 17, 2017 06:44
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So I got fired from a certain store recently for "Being rude." Just found out the manager that fired me was fired, as well as like most of the management staff, for basically sleeping around with each other. Kind of wondering if I should find a lawyer who works in wrongful termination.
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cephalopods posted:I'd ask why frozen food wasn't already shipping in a freezer truck, but I suspect all anyone knows is "corporate said so, lmao" Comes on a freezer truck, but it was being delivered by a contractor. Now it's going to be delivered by our own distribution chain. Why wasn't it like this before? I found out more today, including the fact that my truck is supposed to arrive 'between 7AM and 8PM', depending on how corporate decides to plan the distribution. This, of course, assumes that the truck actually arrives whenever the hell it is supposed to arrive. They commonly do not. I also found out that I won't be working ice cream alone ( yay ), but that I'll be splitting hours with someone who also multi-tasks ( boo ), and we'll be fighting for time out of the same labor pool. Given that we both already average a hair under thirty hours a week... yeesh. We're meeting sales and making money, but cutting hours, going into one of the busiest weeks of the year. 
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I'm gonna be honest, this morning my local classical music station was doing 1930s brass section jazz covers of the top twenty carols and they were genuinely good. All I want really though for every grocery store is to run heavy metal bagpipe versions of that poo poo only on the day of christmas eve to really get the blood pumping for the battle royale over $20 prepaid gift cards. If I can craft swords and shields out of broken down banana boxes and pit Produce against Dairy against Cashiers in some grand orgy of violence my job on this good green earth will be complete.
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Cop Porn Popper posted:A battery doesn't just die like that though. But like I said, customers are loving stupid, so I believe it somehow happened, but damned if I could actually explain how they did that. I wouldn't put it past our standard clientele to try and start it in park ( or neutral? I haven't driven an auto in over a decade) or something and not realise. That actually happened once before  MC Hawking posted:I'm gonna be honest, this morning my local classical music station was doing 1930s brass section jazz covers of the top twenty carols and they were genuinely good. That would be rad. We have a few crooners schmultzing along and that works. Zenithe fucked around with this message at 10:18 on Dec 17, 2017 |
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Anora posted:So I got fired from a certain store recently for "Being rude." Unless you have specific evidence that they were out to get you in a legally protected way, it's an uphill battle at best.
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Work called. "So the dairy guy called out, do you want to come in and work a seven hour shift?" That's what the message on my machine says, anyways. They cut my schedule by five hours for this week, so by going in I wouldn't be making any extra money- I'd just be making what I usually make. Plus two hours. And I work the next five days in a row. How about I get trashed on Wild Turkey and play Metal Gear instead
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Anora posted:So I got fired from a certain store recently for "Being rude." You can but I doubt it will go anywhere. I was put on the Do Not Rehire list at a print chain because I quit (even gave two weeks) but the manager put down that I left for another higher paying job, which instantly puts you on that no rehire list. Come to find out she was fired for stealing a poo poo ton of money and a bunch of other illegal poo poo....but corporate won't dare look at anything else she did in case there could be more dirt?
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Cowslips Warren posted:You can but I doubt it will go anywhere. Wait, "got a higher paying job" puts you on the do not rehire list? That's bizarre. I mean, corporate is different of course but when I left my last job my boss asked why and I said "20% payrise" and he shook my hand and wished me well. It's stupid to refuse to employ someone again because they improved their lives.
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To be fair I am fairly certain most 'do not rehire' lists must have some kinda sundown clause because I have gotten rehired at places where 18 year old me didn't go to work one day because sleep good work bad. But yeah, that's pretty stupid. I love how some corporations hate when their workers act like capitalism dictates they should.
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There are still people who legitimately believe you should be loyal to a corporation just because they hired you and that leaving it is a betrayal.
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Sankis posted:There are still people who legitimately believe you should be loyal to a corporation just because they hired you and that leaving it is a betrayal. Yes, these are the people who genuinely regard you, the Employee, as something more akin to a draft animal than a human.
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We're dying. I'm on combo customer support/bar support because we're understaffed as always on weekends and busy as gently caress and we're out of heavy cream and we have three whips left in the fridge and our manager isnt answering his phone and we need the credit card to go buy more heavy creams.
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Pentaghastly posted:We're dying. I'm on combo customer support/bar support because we're understaffed as always on weekends and busy as gently caress and we're out of heavy cream and we have three whips left in the fridge and our manager isnt answering his phone and we need the credit card to go buy more heavy creams. You do realize that when the manager finally DOES answer their phone, this is all going to be your fault.
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Fil5000 posted:Wait, "got a higher paying job" puts you on the do not rehire list? That's bizarre. I mean, corporate is different of course but when I left my last job my boss asked why and I said "20% payrise" and he shook my hand and wished me well. It's stupid to refuse to employ someone again because they improved their lives. If someone left because they're moving up in the world, and then they came back to their lovely old job, why?
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Eric the Mauve posted:You do realize that when the manager finally DOES answer their phone, this is all going to be your fault. it couldnt be that whoever did the milk order didnt order enough heavy cream or we just happened to be using a lot since the shipment came, you guys must just be wasting whipped cream! maybe so but since only four people know how to make them correctly for some reason i always have to do a test shoot into the sink otherwise 1) unwhipped cream comes out or 2) i get a big shot of air forced into the drink im making and it goes everywhere. I learned that the hard way. Lots of bad whip goes down the drain
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I recently switched departments, and for the first fortnight I'm covering the role normally filled by my coworker, who is on a full time contract. Problem is, I am only part time, so I can't cover her full hours without hitting OT. Another problem is our breaks are different. She takes 30min paid+60min unpaid over each 9 hour shift, but I have a work rule in place that means I only take 30min paid+30min unpaid. So for every 9hr shift we're rostered, she does 8, but I do 8.5. So I am currently rostered to work 42.5 paid hours/wk for the next two weeks, even though I can only actually work 36 if those without hitting OT. And, as mentioned earlier, Our Store Doesn't Do OT. So this will be an interesting problem for them to solve. I'm currently planning on working my hours as rostered and hoping I can get a day in lieu out of it if no one notices in time, because gently caress spending an extra 30min at work every day without pay. It would be fine if I could start late/leave early, but they specifically need me on the floor 10am-12pm and 6pm-7pm, so that's not an option. Also, apparently I got paid 2hrs OT last paycheck somehow, which is super weird because I didn't think I was anywhere close to the threshold for it. Looking forward to the extra $15 or whatever. Not sure why it really merits the regional manager calling up my line manager to scream at her but whatever
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