kyat posted:

Write ups are such bullshit.

A coworker of mine got a write up because a customer complained that he didn't know the metric system. (clearly not a common thing to know in the united states.)

spankmeister posted:

Sure bro. They shoot Star Trek on location.

ChirpChirpCheep posted:

Dear Customers: I know that you think you are in a Starbucks. Perhaps it was the Starbucks menu that made you think this- or the fact that we are wearing Starbucks hats and aprons- or maybe it was the million signs up around the cafe that proudly display the Starbucks logo. We even sell Starbucks coffee! Yet, legally, we are not actually a Starbucks. We serve Starbucks coffee. So what? Well, when you come in here and order your Starbucks brand drinks in your Starbucks brand sizes, just like you would at your Starbucks, we are totally on board. But when you pull out your Starbucks gift card, as you inevitably will, HOLD THE PHONE. You see, we cannot honor those. We are not a Starbucks. What's that you say? You are confused by this? You are perhaps angered? You feel as if I am patronizing you by telling you that, against all reason, we are a [store name here] cafe that PROUDLY SERVES Starbucks coffee as opposed to a Starbucks? Sir or Madam, I am on your side here in agreeing with you that it is totally bogus. And I sympathize with your plight utterly. But I can assure you that your glares and your huffy noises and your frowns directed at me, as they are by literally every other person in the line you are standing in will not change the strange chimerical reality of the not-Starbucks you find yourselves trapped in. I promise you this.

Dodgeball posted:

From what I gathered from the manual I had to read and videos I had to watch, "Can I help you find something?" is retail for "Hi, I've seen your face and I can I.D. you if you shoplift."

spankmeister posted:

Haha owned.

Easy, 10% plus half that.

So 23.74 + 11.87 = 35.61 (kids these days... )

_{And no, I didn't cheat.}

MaxDuo posted:

Soy Sauce Beast posted:

I was told that if you call in on Black Friday at my work, you're fired. No exceptions.

Sonic Dude posted:

This is sort of retail-ish.

We had a customer come in to pick up her computer from repair yesterday. She refused to pay. Why? Because she thought "someone else" should take care of it for her. I asked who would be paying then, and she said she didn't care, and that I should pick.

So, I was supposed to hand her the fixed computer for free, and tell some other random person "hey, you owe us $180 because we fixed some dumb whore's computer." And she was loving serious; she left the computer there and said she'd be back Friday. I was too stunned to respond.

Where the gently caress does she go that a plan like the would even come close to working?

And the joke's on her, because we're closed until Monday.

froglet posted:

(I also think if this new law was introduced while I was in highschool, my employer would have been making me work 5pm-9pm every school night, then fired me when I objected that I'd never get any schoolwork done during the week)

Bobnumerotres posted:

I closed my store on Wednesday (thursday the store is closed for thanksgiving, so this was prepping for Black Friday). I worked a 16 hour shift. I started at 2pm and left the store at six in the morning. We also do this lovely thing on BF where we just keep selling until we're out of stock and the store doesn't close.

So, I close tonight again. I come in at 2 (hour and 20 from now) and I'm pretty confident I'm either going to hit overtime or they're going to boot me out before I can and I'll have the whole weekend off. I am dreading this. I am afraid of what I'm going to see when I come in. I'm afraid of how long I'm going to be there.

Megera posted:

Also I lost a lot of sales because all but one of the people I was working with(against?) could speak Spanish, and when I'd ask Spanish speakers if they needed help, they'd say "No, just looking" and I'd leave them alone, but when my coworkers would ask them immediately afterward in Spanish if they needed help, they would immediately start telling them what they wanted right away because "Hey, we speak the same language and this must mean you are better", and, in turn, give the sale to the full-time person.

gently caress, I hate that bullshit policy.

Ulysses S. Grant posted:

My district manager visited today and demanded that I sell a post-paid cell phone during the hour and a half he was there or I would be written up. I sold an 84 year old woman a 2 year contract at $40 a month when she'll probably barely use it. I hope she returns it.

I asked the DM, "What happens, then, if no customers walk in the door in the next hour and a half? It's happened before in this store."

His response? "Doesn't matter. Sell a postpaid while I'm here or you're getting written up."

Thank gently caress I have a job interview next week to work IT at a school district.

rolleyes posted:

I imagine they assumed she'd seen it seeing as it was bigger than the shelving unit she was ranting about and literally right next to it. Maybe she didn't want the fresh stuff because it doesn't keep as long (because it's not full of nasty chemicals) or something, but she must have seen it.

Soy Sauce Beast posted:

And that right there, combined with the tone of your previous posts, makes me think you're an insufferable rear end in a top hat. Go gently caress yourself, duder.

AlmightyBob posted:

Tonight I am constructing parts of a trap I will use tomorrow to catch a bird that has been stuck in our back room for 3 weeks now.

Royale with Cheese posted:

Well folks, I left the retail world (previously worked at Chick-fil-A, Papa Johns in multiple locations, and Petco) and am starting a third shift full-time job in under an hour. Solid schedule, decent pay, paid time off, annual raises and bonuses. For overnight baking. Should be a solid job either way, no loving customers

Dodgeball posted:

Thankfully, an escalator can never be broken, it can only become stairs.

The Robins Taley posted:

Reason I hate retail? I was scheduled for 39.75 hours this week, including an 8 hour shift on Christmas beginning at 8am.

Soy Sauce Beast posted:

None of the places I've ever worked have done this.

spankmeister posted:

8 months = new guy.

spankmeister posted:

Letting a possible paedophile walk to cover his own rear end, nice.

three posted:

Your morals/ethics are worth $7.00/hr?

three posted:

There is no way you would be fired for reporting a pedophile.

Do it, hope you get fired, then sue for millions.

BeardedFerret posted:

So today we have two floor staff today from a potential group of four thanks to everyone else being clever and quitting. Two managers two, one of whom knows absolutely nothing about we're doing. We're supposed to have eight staff total. We are SO hosed.

Sonic Dude posted:

"Cthulhu line 2, Cthulhu call on line 2."

Nerobro posted:

I'm not sure what to tell you. I sounds like you were just astonishingly bad as a ticket taker. Half of your complaints would be the same for any job that doesn't include a cubicle.