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AlmightyBob posted:Yesterday someone ordered 10 bottles of prune juice, 3 enemas, toilet paper, and an air freshener. My first day at Rite Aid someone bought an enema kit, two things of mineral water for it, and hemorrhoid suppositories Also, is this where I talk about my semi-brief stint working night shift in an "internet cafe" that really was for playing slots in rural NC? Because that was a hoot and a half. At least towards the end business plummeted and I got to spend eight hours watching TV Land instead of busting my rear end dealing with drunks. The absolute worst though was the morning that I got a call at 6:55 from my manager, telling me the girl who came in after me had quit, so I had to find someone else to come in or work both shifts, after I had already been up for a solid day. BENGHAZI 2 fucked around with this message at 01:08 on Oct 3, 2010 |
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spankmeister posted:That is such a dick move. HE is the manager, HE should find someone else. On the other hand, he had been running around for two days (going on three) because his mom had had a stroke and was in the hospital and wasn't doing well, so I didn't get too pissed at him. I just told him if I couldn't get a replacement I was locking the door and taking the keys across the street (we were owned by a gas station company, and were literally across the street from a station) e: Nosaj posted:They are either people who work late every day so lets say they work like 4-12pm or 3-11pm and they come in thats like them coming home from work grabbing a shower or some food and deciding they wanna sratch some tickets before going to bed or whatever. Funny you say this, both groups made up a very generous portion of my customer base at the "casino". A lot of people coming home late, and a hell of a lot of people drunk/on drugs. You know you're hosed when your cigarette burns not just to the filter, but the filter itself actually catches on fire...and you don't notice it and keep holding on. BENGHAZI 2 fucked around with this message at 02:04 on Oct 24, 2010 |
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UndergroundHero posted:The grocery store I work for just went under a huge change where tons of product was moved to different aisles and sections of the store. The store is located right across the street from a massive retirement community, so we get tons of old folks in our store I feel your pain. My old Rite Aid was in front of a low-income housing area that was full of kids who liked to try to steal poo poo, and across the street from a church that was attended mostly by old people. SO MANY OLD PEOPLE ON SUNDAYS WHY DID I WORK EVERY SUNDAY Beastie posted:"The store will be closing in five minutes" announcement does not mean run into the fitting room to try on that mountain of clothes in your cart. It means get your fat rear end to the register to buy your poo poo and leave. It's a saturday night and I have somewhere to be! By the same token, it doesn't mean "continue slowly perusing the aisles like you own the store until AND AFTER I make the 'hey we're closed' announcement." This happened. I got to make the best "reminder" announcement that night, thanks to the greatest manager I ever had. BENGHAZI 2 fucked around with this message at 02:22 on Oct 24, 2010 |
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Oct 24, 2010 01:52
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By the way, if any of you reading this are hard up for a job, and you're in NC? Don't apply at Great Stops (gas station chain). I know the people who run it. Just...don't. Trust me.
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Oct 25, 2010 02:52
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Dodgeball posted:They don't let us keep more than 100 bucks in twenties in the register (though I break this rule all the time). This was a big thing for me at the "casino" You were only allowed to keep X amount in your drawer at a time, I think it was $1200, and after that you had to drop $200 in the safe. If you had a busy night with no payouts, you went over that quickly, and seeing as I was working nights with no way to get my drawer refilled other than calling the manager and getting them to drive over and open the safe, I'd usually let it go for either A) A couple hundred extra or B) until it was almost shift change, depending on how far over I was, because I had had more than one experience with dropping two hundred and then someone hit a 4-500 dollar payout and cleaned my drawer out in one swoop.
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Oct 25, 2010 21:09
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Found this post in the last thread: quote:You should have replied, "No, everything in the store is display only, none of it is actually for sale." I would have, and be damned the consequences. I've done this. I swear, I have done this, in full sight of my favorite manager ever, and he just laughed. I was working at an Eckerds right when it was bought by Rite Aid, and we were being remodeled. As soon as you came in the unlocked doors there was a sign in the middle of the floor. Dead center in front of you. Can't miss the drat thing. What does it say? "We're open during remodeling!" in huge loving letters. I had no sympathy for that person. It's 2 PM on a Saturday and the doors opened and there's a sign proclaiming our status as "open". gently caress you.
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Oct 29, 2010 03:16
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RottenWomb posted:That seems about right as I'm from upstate New York. Nail, head, etc I'm in Syracuse and Utica (live in one, school in the other), and it's just lovely. I had way better luck the year I was in NC, when most people didn't pass the required background and/or credit checks because I was in a redneck scumfuck town. Lucky me, I got to work at the "casino" 
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OMG JC a Bomb! posted:Walked into a department store today. It's November the loving 9th, and one of the fifteen billion swing-band renditions of Winter Wonderland was playing over the PA. This was the worst part of retail Motherfucking Winter Wonderland, Frosty, and Rudolph for two months. Just those three songs, and Jingle Bells. I legitimately hate Christmas after that. On the flip side, every so often somebody hijacked the music that played in our Rite Aid and we'd get something awesome, like the Ramones' Merry Christmas, which kinda made the shift
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Nov 26, 2010 16:24
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SlaveToTheGrinds posted:Overnights are a bitch. There are days where I legitimately forget or can't figure out what day it is after I wake up. It really blows when you don't have regular days off and do month or more stretches, the sleeping all the time thing gets really old after a while. But, my other option is work 2-10 and basically never see my family. So yeah that. I need to get out of food service so bad. Uggh whine whine whine. When I worked 3-4 nights in a row, while still going to school during the day, my Thursday-Monday stretch was just a giant blur where I never knew what "yesterday" really meant. gently caress night shift.
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I work at a locally owned business, specifically a comic slash board game shop I should be allowed to murder people who ask if we price match Amazon
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Faerunner posted:So, RGIS hired a bunch of new people and sent them to our store for inventory. RGIS is easily one of the worst jobs i've ever had, gently caress that company
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Sep 12, 2016 17:22
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Screenshotted my dm because I don't want to retype it I'm not exaggerating when I say the whole store is about to quit
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Apr 1, 2018 04:34
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I should add bc I dunno if it's in there that I literally am working at a gas station on weekends to make some extra cash A gas station Who the gently caress upsells at a gas station Especially where there's no carrot, just a stick
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Apr 1, 2018 05:12
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Yeah that happens here too, but it's usually just like scan a card when you buy your coffee, get x amount off per gallon. The one I work at has a partnership with a grocery store chain too where you earn cash back with it buying groceries there That's lovely and dumb but it's miles better than this Also I got paid the same 10/hr I always get. Just like when I worked on Christmas.
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Apr 1, 2018 05:47
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USA number one baby don't get poo poo ever but give your soul to the company
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Apr 1, 2018 06:15
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My main job is working at a comic store and stonewalling parents who get mad that I wouldn't let their child run around unsupervised is The Best I'm not even joking I love it because they get saltier and saltier and then I threaten to call.mall security and they leave One time I kept prodding a guy because he was mad at us for not knowing about a board game until he was so mad that he pushed a computer over at me, just so I could call security and have him escorted out of the mall It ruled
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Apr 1, 2018 08:34
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At the gas station, I'm also about to have it out with a coworker because she doesn't like that I have a deal with management where my shift starts fifteen minutes later than normal because my other job gets out at 930 and if I'm closing there it's hard to make it from there to the gas station and change and eat something in half an hour, and my store manager is cool and went yeah dickeye you can eat a sandwich between jobs Now she's doing the thing where she closes her drawer as soon as she sees me pull in, before I'm even in the door, so I hit the ground running before I even get to ask if there's anything I need to know because she's out the door before I count a drawer in, and leaving me a bunch of her work on top of it Her friend, who also works with us, got all scared when I said that because she's pregnant (like six weeks) and but her boyfriend will say something and a) her boyfriend doesn't work here and I can just call the sheriff and have him escorted off the premises if he wants to swing his ding dong at me and b) I'm the guy who got fired from a job without being told over some bullshit and responded by telling the manager he was a "bitch rear end" until he gave me my job back Ask me if I care about some dipshit twenty year old gently caress I hate this store
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Kill the VP imo
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