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Beastie posted:Take it, work it, bank some money and use it as an opportunity to get out after a while. Full team means a slightly or totally more consistent schedule. Honestly I'd love it for a lot of reasons. I'd love getting out no later than 8 every night instead of 10, because then I'd stay up late less often. I'd love the 300-400 extra dollars a month. I'd love not having to hold my hands in loving freezers all day every day. I'd love being in a department that was critical enough that I was guaranteed help or extra hands if I went on vacation. I'd love a chance to learn new tasks and break up the routine. I'd love to run the gently caress away from dairy and all assorted dairy headaches. I'll know one way or another within the next six days. If I'm lucky, I get moved before loving inventory and I will be laughing my balls off if I get to parachute out of my department ahead of that trainwreck.
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Good luck. Getting full-time on a fixed shift was the best thing that ever happened to me (within the confines of working retail)
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Mar 7, 2018 06:09
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Mar 7, 2018 19:31
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No matter which way it cuts, it'll tell me something about my managers. So will the way our staff pinballs around to fill the new voids. The only outcome that'll piss me off is if our store manager is dumb enough to give a full-time slot to someone outside the store. That's grounds for a goddamn mutiny. You don't take money from your own people, not unless you think they're all so lovely you can't trust any of them. In store there are only two people I know of that could beat me out for sure, and neither of them seem to want it. The third also has no experience in this department. If I had to guess, I'd win out over him, but he'd be on the very short list of replacements for frozen food. If I do land it, I'll be doing produce. That'll give me experience in every department except the deli. Funny thing is, if it was a position in the deli, I'm sure I would get it. I know the deli manager's favorite beer, the one he buys every day before he walks out the door. If I see we're about to run out, I hide a few cans so he won't have to stop on his way home. He likes me.
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Mar 7, 2018 19:45
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We have a new drink called the hazelnut mocha coconut milk macchiato and its a mouthful and I get tongue tied every time I call it out. "grande hazelnut cocoa mocha-ato for Laura!" "mocha-nut milk macchiato" "Coconut mochal nut macchiato" "mocha coconut hazelnut" "ICED HATCHI MATCHI FOR JOHN"
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Mar 8, 2018 22:22
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I'd be way more inclined to order a hazelnut macchiato if it were genuinely called a Hachi Machi, though, so maybe stick with that.
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Mar 8, 2018 22:30
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Pentaghastly posted:We have a new drink called the hazelnut mocha coconut milk macchiato and its a mouthful and I get tongue tied every time I call it out. It's also loving stupid because now we have the coconut milk mocha macchiato AND the hazelnut mocha coconut milk macchiato. Two different drinks, almost entirely the same names.
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Mar 8, 2018 22:36
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gamingCaffeinator posted:It's also loving stupid because now we have the coconut milk mocha macchiato AND the hazelnut mocha coconut milk macchiato. Two different drinks, almost entirely the same names. I know hazelnut and mocha go together, but why coconut milk? Its just a ploy to get customers to buy our least used components. Never in my time here has someone had to buy coconut milk from the grocery store because we didnt order enough. Hazelnut syrup going fast too. Now if we could just get some promotion going for butterscotch or make it a loving syrup instead of what looks like melted Werthers originals and bacon grease so I dont have to dump out a two week old container of that sludge ever again.
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Mar 8, 2018 23:38
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"Hey boss, I need Monday off so I can go do things. Don't schedule me." My boss: "Yeah sure." Also my boss: "How about I do, anyway~" I can't even blame her directly because there's like four different people who write the schedule and nobody talks to each other.
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Mar 9, 2018 06:27
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Near as I can tell that sugary poo poo that Charbucks is serving up does not bear any relation to an actual macchiato, which is a shot of espresso with a dash of steamed milk foam.
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Mar 9, 2018 06:37
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therobit posted:Near as I can tell that sugary poo poo that Charbucks is serving up does not bear any relation to an actual macchiato, which is a shot of espresso with a dash of steamed milk foam. its sweet and it makes customers feel classy and cultured when they order a "macchiato" sometimes I wish I was an actual barista and then wonder if it'd be a totally different level of hell. I also wish I didn't have to cover up my latte dick art with whipped cream
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Mar 9, 2018 06:49
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Pentaghastly posted:I also wish I didn't have to cover up my latte dick art with whipped cream So someone finally opened up a"banana hammock barista" coffee stand for the ladies?
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Mar 9, 2018 06:54
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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:"Hey boss, I need Monday off so I can go do things. Don't schedule me." Do you work for a corporation? Most name corporations have moved all requests to digital , so once it’s approved, it’s a done and sealed deal. I know the answer is “lol retail,” but it amazes me if your place of work doesn’t have something like that.
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Mar 9, 2018 11:12
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New corporate policy is that full time employees must be available for the entirety of operating hours. Got kids? gently caress you. Second job? gently caress you. One car household? gently caress you. Just want a single consistent day off for life maintenance stuff? Double gently caress you. Everyone's availability was erased, and we're going to be rotating shifts!
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Mar 9, 2018 13:14
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I assume the managerial chair-warmers are, of course, completely and coincidentally exempt from this fuckery 
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Mar 9, 2018 13:59
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Malachite_Dragon posted:I assume the managerial chair-warmers are, of course, completely and coincidentally exempt from this fuckery They’re “available” but of course their shifts arent needed on weekends so why would they work nights or weekends?
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Mar 9, 2018 14:09
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Malachite_Dragon posted:I assume the managerial chair-warmers are, of course, completely and coincidentally exempt from this fuckery The managers who actually work in stores aren't. The corporate fucks? They won't even answer an email unless it's M-F, 8 am to 4 pm.
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Mar 9, 2018 15:30
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Kickshaw posted:New corporate policy is that full time employees must be available for the entirety of operating hours. Got kids? gently caress you. Second job? gently caress you. One car household? gently caress you. Just want a single consistent day off for life maintenance stuff? Double gently caress you. Everyone's availability was erased, and we're going to be rotating shifts! And corporations continue to move away from tacitly treating their employees like slaves and openly telling them "you are slaves."
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Mar 9, 2018 15:43
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Pentaghastly posted:its sweet and it makes customers feel classy and cultured when they order a "macchiato" Everytime I order a real macchiato from a real coffee shop, they always double check to make sure I want a real macchiato and not a milkshake from starbucks. I'm sure they get a lot of folks trying to order off the starbucks menu and getting pissed off when they get real coffee.
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Mar 9, 2018 16:13
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Kickshaw posted:New corporate policy is that full time employees must be available for the entirety of operating hours. Got kids? gently caress you. Second job? gently caress you. One car household? gently caress you. Just want a single consistent day off for life maintenance stuff? Double gently caress you. Everyone's availability was erased, and we're going to be rotating shifts! This is one reason I am fairly confident I'll get my dumb promotion to full time. I have no life. I have no wife. I live around the corner. I also live in a small town and really, who wants to live in or commute to a tiny pisshole of a town? Really though, I love the idea of being on-call like I'm a heart surgeon or something. "Sorry, I have to go- an eighty year old needs the freshest bananas."
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Mar 9, 2018 16:27
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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:This is one reason I am fairly confident I'll get my dumb promotion to full time. That’s how I feel when they give me overtime. “It’s so important they pay me time and a half to get screamed at by middle aged women about our return policy!”
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Mar 9, 2018 16:29
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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:"Sorry, I have to go- an eighty year old needs the freshest bananas." That reminds me, the higher ups are pushing order-to-floor (or whatever the hell it's called) again. Basically "never, under any circumstance, have any back stock". Now, if the warehouse never sends us ripe bananas, and we're not supposed to hold the green ones overnight, how do we get yellow bananas? 
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Mar 9, 2018 17:29
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Armacham posted:Everytime I order a real macchiato from a real coffee shop, they always double check to make sure I want a real macchiato and not a milkshake from starbucks. I'm sure they get a lot of folks trying to order off the starbucks menu and getting pissed off when they get real coffee. Not actually, at least where I worked. Most of us were actually into coffee, so would jump at the chance to evangelize someone and make them realize that the brown sludge underlying their milkshakes can actually taste good when done right. And no hiding our latte dicks.
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Mar 9, 2018 17:36
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cephalopods posted:That reminds me, the higher ups are pushing order-to-floor (or whatever the hell it's called) again. Basically "never, under any circumstance, have any back stock". Sounds like that stupid rear end thing Whole Foods was doing that is currently deep-dicking their stores day and night. Produce and dairy need tight management of their backstock, but if you're at a busy store you're going to have some backstock for obvious reasons, and if you're at a slow store you'll have it for different reasons. I really want to be the guy who only orders "enough" cotton candy grapes because of a bad corporate policy so people complain at me all day. Every day I hate corporate a little more.
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JohnCompany posted:Not actually, at least where I worked. Most of us were actually into coffee, so would jump at the chance to evangelize someone and make them realize that the brown sludge underlying their milkshakes can actually taste good when done right. I've learned that some people don't like coffee, but want the "status" of carrying a starbucks cup or any branded coffee cup or what the gently caress ever. "Can I get that with five extra pumps of syrup and one less shot of espresso?" Just admit you dont like coffee and save yourself $5, Brenda. Better yet, take an excedrin migraine and get lit from the caffeine in that like I do "Gotta have my coffee in the morning!" *orders java chip frappucino* (This is also a self-drag)
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Mar 9, 2018 17:49
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It's me, I'm the guy who walks around secretly sipping water from a Starbucks cup for the massive street cred
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Mar 9, 2018 17:51
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Eric the Mauve posted:It's me, I'm the guy who walks around secretly sipping water from a Starbucks cup for the massive street cred Ok but we have like...really good water. I get the "secret menu barista only" Trenta size water during my shift
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Mar 9, 2018 17:57
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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:Sounds like that stupid rear end thing Whole Foods was doing that is currently deep-dicking their stores day and night. Yep! And they only started pushing it on us after the Whole Foods Stock Nightmare stories blew up, so I really hope some exec loses his bonus over this.
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Mar 9, 2018 18:21
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cephalopods posted:so I really hope some exec loses his bonus over this. Lol at this actually happening.
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cephalopods posted:That reminds me, the higher ups are pushing order-to-floor (or whatever the hell it's called) again. Basically "never, under any circumstance, have any back stock". 
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Mar 9, 2018 19:15
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I guess someone straight up didn't show up to open one of our stores this morning? I need this gossip Straight into my veins
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Mar 9, 2018 19:52
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Starbucks should totally sell their branded water. Imagine the profit margins on Starbucks water...also imagine the infusion of caffiene and sugar that would go into it. I'll have a Grande Acqua whip with three shots please.
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Mar 9, 2018 20:48
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I wonder how much money companies have invested in making those caps look almost identical to the finished, dried product only for people to ignore them and spray random shelves to see for themselves.
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Mar 9, 2018 21:45
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Sankis posted:I wonder how much money companies have invested in making those caps look almost identical to the finished, dried product only for people to ignore them and spray random shelves to see for themselves. Probably the same amount as they pay installing a lock up for the cans for a customer to ask an employee for one to "buy" and then the customer sprays the shelves and sets it down when it isn't the color that they wanted.
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Somehow in 3 years, nobody has spray painted our shelves on the paint aisle. The only time I caught someone about to do it, I told them to hold on and I'd get them a piece of cardboard out of the back to test on. It was the color they were looking for and they bought it. Of course now that I've said that, someones going to spraypaint a dick in the middle of the aisle tomorrow night. 
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Elmnt80 posted:Somehow in 3 years, nobody has spray painted our shelves on the paint aisle. The only time I caught someone about to do it, I told them to hold on and I'd get them a piece of cardboard out of the back to test on. It was the color they were looking for and they bought it. And that someone was you
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Mar 10, 2018 14:36
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People would spray paint the floor at my Michaels. Like, what the gently caress?
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Mar 10, 2018 15:10
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Ahaha, put in my two weeks today! gently caress you for giving me a "final" warning when the first two were verbal, gently caress you for telling me "value my experience" but never giving more than 20 hours or loving listening to me about any of the animals!
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Mar 10, 2018 21:44
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Not to undermine how good it feels to give the finger to your boss, but if they've been giving you warnings then this is the result they wanted.
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Eric the Mauve posted:Not to undermine how good it feels to give the finger to your boss, but if they've been giving you warnings then this is the result they wanted. Oh it's been what they've wanted for a while now regardless of any warnings they gave (verbal warnings don't count and that's all they gave me).
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