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Also "Hurt" is such a strange song to play in a Starbucks.
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silvergoose posted:Yeah but maybe not just one single song. I love 80s music. But not a certain 4 hour trend of them just because I hear it all the drat time at work, and I'm subconsciously connecting those songs with work. Hell, I stopped playing music on my bike ride to work because I was starting to hate Sublime cause I'm associating it with biking at 2:30 am in the winter.
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Pentaghastly posted:Also "Hurt" is such a strange song to play in a Starbucks. have you tasted the coffee?
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Pentaghastly posted:Also "Hurt" is such a strange song to play in a Starbucks. A friend of mine's brother OD'd on heroin and died in a Starbucks bathroom back in the 90s. So in that context maybe not!
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Feb 13, 2019 18:44
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sneakyfrog posted:have you tasted the coffee? Also this.
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Pentaghastly posted:Also "Hurt" is such a strange song to play in a Starbucks. Schultz selected it as the theme song for his campaign.
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Feb 13, 2019 18:45
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All I can think of when it plays now is "Logan" lol
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Pentaghastly posted:Thought I'd play a little prank on the openers. I deleted every song off the our "store favorites" playlist except for Hurt by Johnny Cash. Put it on repeat. Tested out the volume to find a good spot. I may have given him a thumb drive with A Very Scary Solstice and An Even Scarier Solstice on it to replace the typical christmas music.
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Feb 13, 2019 21:13
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Should have gone with The Night Santa Went Crazy
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Feb 14, 2019 02:24
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Our music thing (I dunno what it is, exactly, a manager called it a CD though) has started randomly stopping, like when we use the intercom/page someone multiple times a day. It is irritating as hell. (I am also grumbly because despite me checking the schedule Sunday at least twice when I worked, they changed it without telling me resulting in a phone call Monday night from the MOD near 9 pm asking where I was for my 7 pm shift.)
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Eric the Mauve posted:Should have gone with The Night Santa Went Crazy Which version?
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Eric the Mauve posted:Should have gone with The Night Santa Went Crazy I would have gone with "If it has to be Christmas" from Payday 2's Christmas album, A Merry Payday Christmas. If it has to be Christmas for you to be nice You're an rear end in a top hat If you think the season is the reason You're a piece of poo poo If someone has to dress up like Santa or you won't back a fund raise Then you're a low-life loving twat "I've been a Bad Boy" is also pretty good, but "If it Has to be Christmas" sounds so very normal and holiday-ish even as they start swearing. And I imagine every single retail worker would get a kick at the store PA's music calling their rear end in a top hat customers on their poo poo.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUFfeTjuPeg
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Yawgmoth posted:I may have given him a thumb drive with A Very Scary Solstice and An Even Scarier Solstice on it to replace the typical christmas music. I have Scary Solstice and it's a legitimately good christmas DVD that just happens to be about eldritch horrors. I'm sure if you played it over store speaker, no one would even notice what it really was.
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Feb 14, 2019 17:10
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I have Scary Solstice and it's a legitimately good christmas DVD that just happens to be about eldritch horrors.
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Feb 14, 2019 20:48
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Got a new manager, yay. Now he needs to hire an assistant. I was tempted to go for the spot, it's a little over $18 an hour....but it's 50-60 hours a week. Two days driving, one day office work, two days training people or doing ride checks. Since all drivers have different schedules, those two days could be 7-3 or 12-8 or any time, and oh, all the drivers are based about 40-50 miles apart. I don't think I will be applying. The manager insisted most of the difference between 50 and 60 was drive time to the stores, but....that is a LOT of drive time through rush hour.
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Feb 15, 2019 00:58
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50-60 hours, overtime exempt? gently caress that.
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What I was expecting from retail: Customers who have unreasonably high expectations about customer service. What I did not expect: Customers who have unreasonably low expectations about customer service, or basic hygienic concern. I work at a understaffed dollar store with a management team that really only cares about speed. Because of this, I have developed a pretty good pace when scanning and bagging items. This usually works out fine, as most of what we sell is cheap plastic knickknacks, or canned food and it doesn't really matter if you manhandle the product when moving it. Unfortunately, there are exceptions. For example, one day i scanning a decently sized order of mostly food. I was moving quickly through the order until I get to a plastic bag of beans. Unbeknownst to me, this bag had a rip. I picked it up with my usual force and suddenly beans are flying all of over my counter. The bag has lost a good 1/4th of its bean contents. I am incredibly embarrassed. Me: I'm so sorry! I'll go get you a replacement bag! Customer: No, it's okay. I just take that bag. Me: Are you sure? There's no line. I can just quickly run over to the aisle and get you another one. Customer: It's okay. It's okay. That bag is fine. Not only was she okay with buying an open bag. She was also okay with buying something that has clearly lost a good portion of its contents. Didn't even ask to get a discount. On one hand, it was kind of nice of her to be so cool about it. On the other hand, I really could have just have gotten her another bag. I've also had to stop people from buying clearly opened bottles of soda (that they themselves did not open). CourtFundedPoster fucked around with this message at 11:25 on Feb 15, 2019 |
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Feb 15, 2019 08:11
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Why did I let them talk me into coming in at 8 am during my closing shift last night? All I did was switch my 4-12 to 8-4. Why did I agree to a clopen? Why? Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?
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Feb 15, 2019 15:51
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I like having other people's job dumped on me because the person responsible refuse to learn to do but I can't complain because I'm asst manager. I also enjoy being on call every day because I get excitement from the anticipation of when someone calls in sick or things break. Whatever new job I find is going to pay significantly less than this, but I feel miserable everyday and just want to get out of it before something snaps in me.
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Feb 15, 2019 19:04
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Yesterday, I was going to stack up my pallets. I dragged them all the way to the back, and I was about to put them on the pile when I saw the grocery crew had put down one wooden pallet, one plastic pallet, and eight wooden pallets on top of that. Looked at it for a minute, decided it wasn't my problem, put my pallets in a new stack, and left.
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Feb 15, 2019 19:08
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I'm scheduled 9 days in a row  Edit: and they're all closing shifts!
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Feb 15, 2019 22:32
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Jesus christ, everyone lined up for the corporate pigs from Salt Lake to suck up to and they were here for maybe 90 minutes. And by the look of how they dressed, they probably only make mid five figures.
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Feb 15, 2019 23:09
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why would you folks even bother? If anything folks that take too much effort in kissing my rear end at the office make me loving hate them for being goddamn tools of the first order.
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Feb 15, 2019 23:12
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Pentaghastly posted:I'm scheduled 9 days in a row If it makes you feel better, this is the 3rd clopen shift I've scheduled myself on since I started making my stores schedule.
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I took a full time second shift position, knowingly obliterating any time outside work for socializing or errand running, forcing me into working more days per week than I actually want, purely because it gave me a stable schedule with no possibility of clopening. Or even just opening. I consider it a victory. Abrupt routine changes make me wish I was dead.
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I learned today that when Kenny Kimball visits a Smith's store, it's usually around Christmas time and he has all of the employees that are there walk around the store singing Christmas songs.
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Star Man posted:I learned today that when Kenny Kimball visits a Smith's store, it's usually around Christmas time and he has all of the employees that are there walk around the store singing Christmas songs. you don't even need any context to immediately understand he does this only because it's illegal these days to make them get on their knees and suck his dick in worshipful gratitude for allowing them to work for his company
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Feb 16, 2019 14:45
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Eric the Mauve posted:you don't even need any context to immediately understand he does this only because it's illegal these days to make them get on their knees and suck his dick in worshipful gratitude for allowing them to work for his company It's not even his company! It's just one of the many arms of Kroger!
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Feb 16, 2019 15:11
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Try saying that to his face. 
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Star Man posted:I learned today that when Kenny Kimball visits a Smith's store, it's usually around Christmas time and he has all of the employees that are there walk around the store singing Christmas songs. Immediate resignation and/or assault.
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Feb 16, 2019 16:18
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I've done closing shifts exclusively for about 5 years now. It suits me because I detest having to get up before midday; and we've started getting time and a quarter after 6pm as of a month ago, which is nice.
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Feb 16, 2019 17:49
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God what I would give to have those sweet sweet mids every day. 11 to 5. Too bad its not good weekly hours and my coworker who mainly works that shift has a kid she needs to pick up from daycare so I'd feel bad kicking her to closes. I guess I'll either continue to have the sleep schedule of a depressed college student or start waking up before the rear end crack of dawn to deal with the busiest part of the day.
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The Lord Bude posted:I've done closing shifts exclusively for about 5 years now. It suits me because I detest having to get up before midday; and we've started getting time and a quarter after 6pm as of a month ago, which is nice. Approaching basic award rates any day now! 
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Feb 16, 2019 21:15
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I like opening every day. Sure, I'm up by 3:50 am and in bed by 8 pm, but I actually get poo poo done. When I closed every night, I'd sleep late and never got important things done because when I was awake, nothing else (doctor's office, for example) was.
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Zenithe posted:Approaching basic award rates any day now! Nah the new award is better than general retail. Especially for me, since as an employee that predates the new award I get both my old, higher hourly rate from the old award and the new penalty rates from the new award.
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gamingCaffeinator posted:When I closed every night, I'd sleep late and never got important things done because when I was awake, nothing else (doctor's office, for example) was. I view this as a problem with society, not a problem with closing shifts
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A leadership opportunity has popped up at another one of our bookstores. I immediately thought of this thread. While I certainly enjoy working at this particular store more than my home store, I doubt taking on a management role to get 35 hour weeks would be worth my sanity. Thankfully a number of opportunities have cropped up in my field of study, so if all goes well I could break out of retail sooner than I expected.
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 my boss frogot to do an order yesterday so today we got like 1.5 pallets of product instead of 10, and it was all packaged salads. We don't get another load until tuesday
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drat the more I think about it the worse I feel for my boss. He's very high anxiety, does not like working here because he does not get along with anyone, and is very... emotionally fragile? I guess. He's probably going to cry. 
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