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Found this thread thanks to the banner, got a few stories of my own. I merchandise stores, so while I'm not dealing with customers all the time I get a few that bug me (thankfully a majority of the stores I work on let me tell them I don't work there.) However when I was working at CVS when they bought out Longs, I never got to hear the end of every elderly person coming up to me and bitching about putting longs out of business and how they can no longer can find what they want cause we moved everything and how the CVS extra care card is all a scam. One poor cashier got yelled at by someone as she wanted a number so she can complain about the conversion. And coworkers... Well don't get me wrong I love my coworkers, but there are a few nutballs out there. One was a woman who had her mom, husband and dad all work for the company, and would poo poo talk everyone in Spanish. Well she and her mom decided to poo poo talk one of the CVS crew coordinators in Spanish around two other CVS employees who understood Spanish. The crew coordinator and the CVS employees in question were black. Can you guess what they were saying in Spanish? Sadly none of them got fired but they got booted out of the CVS conversions, and we had a big talk outside about racism. Another coworker, this was when I joined our travel team and I flew out to Florida, so besides 3 others from California I didn't know any of my coworkers. The travel team was split into teams of 4 across three shifts. So there was two people who were also traveling that was on my shift, and were close to my hotel room. One of them... dear God where do I start. On day one I knew she was trouble. We had to flip the candy aisle around, so I told her to work in sync with me, the chocolate and gum were literally just being flipped, so if we pulled everything at the same time it would be quick, easy and clean. But nope, she insisted I had to help her move everything, throw the gum onto a temporary aisle to move the chocolates over, have me lift all the shelving and put down the price tags, basically have me do all the work while she would tell me what I should do as I argue back about how we should do things till I got fed up with it and didn't bother arguing anymore. After I tell my team leader about this thankfully I never had to work in the same aisle as her again. But it wasn't just me having problems with her, each day she would work with a new person and they would say they can't stand her and the team lead would move her again. Then it wasn't just people working the same aisles as her, she would walk around the store and take cleaning supplies and clean shelves from people when they weren't looking. I heard someone yelling at her for taking all of his shelving. Oh but it doesn't end in the workplace, as I said she was near my room. Me, my roommate, her roommate and her would go out and get food together, or go shopping, the beaches whatever together. Her roomie would tell me and my roomie horror stories about her, like she has never showered the entire month we were there. And it showed, sweat stains on her armpits, greasy hair, it was gross. She was extremely obnoxious too, interrupting conversations with her own "witty" comments, as well as arguing about everything. We went to a best buy once and were stuck for about 30 minutes trying to find her as she wasn't near where she said she would be. As we were in Clearwater, our hotel was right next to the original hooters so me and my team lead thought it would be great to see it, and of course we took the others with us. We ordered, we ate, after it you know what she does? Says she can't pay her part of the bill and asks if we can spot her  I was never more relieved to come back to California.
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I've actually done this a few times, but I always quickly correct myself and apologize. Sadly I do this while I'm the employee as well, but most people I've done that to just laugh it off.
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My company has finally given me some work to do next week, auditing stores to ensure they all have their stuff up to date. Considering I never shop unless its for food I completely blanked out yesterday was black Friday. I'm gonna call all my stores Monday and give them a heads up I'll be coming Wednesday so they have time to clean up after BF 
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Nov 27, 2010 22:36
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Well then, I sent an email to my boss to confirm all my stores, and guess what I get as a reply?quote:I was able to get someone to do the whole East Bay bundle. I can't loving believe this, and its all because I wont drive off to Oakland or San Fransisco cause A: I'll only be making 11 bucks at each place and B: They wont pay me for traveling, so I'm not gonna drive out there and lose money for gas. Now lets assume I didn't check in, lets assume tomorrow I just got up, started driving around and auditing stores, signed off my paperwork and turned it in. Would they tell me "Oh we took you off, so we can't pay you for this"? Would they feel like a bunch of assholes and tell this other person "Don't go to these stores cause we're morons and didn't tell the guy beforehand he was off the list cause someone else would like to lose money while they worked and he went on to do the job we told him he could do"? I would love to send in my two week if any places would loving hire me.
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Nov 30, 2010 23:02
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Kaninrail posted:I'm sure lots of places would hire you To be honest, I wouldn't care if I have to do even more retail, if at the very least my hours are more secure then "Whenever we want" (Out of this year, I worked a grand total of 30 days). I'd happily work 10 hours a week as long as I'm getting some form of income. Hm I should have another story, about crazy women in the workplace and why you shouldn't even get close to them. Last year during the Longs to CVS remodel, CVS had my company and another company help them out. One day during break a girl from the other company came over and asked me about my company, our pay and whatnot. So we bullshitted during the week, and in store the CVS team lead would try to put her on my aisles but she would do that "Haha no no" laugh and try to get away. At the end of the week I finally asked her for her number (I just moved to the Bay Area, so I didn't know anyone. Might as well get a few numbers right?). The next month we would text and call each other, till we ended up being in the same store again. At this point I'll come clean and say my mom and her husband also work for my company, and incidentally were both my team lead and second lead. Anyway at the store when she first saw me as I was literally bending over to lift off a shelf she hugs me. She would always hug me when we see each other. I went into the back to print out tags and she stopped me in front of the door and said I couldn't go in until I hugged her. At first I thought why not, its non threatening. Then while we were talking on the phone I hear a kid talking, and she says its her kid. A three year old. She's 19. I'm 18. Instantly I'm not interested in being anymore then friends, cause I'm way too young to deal with a kid and I pretty much raised my little brother since I was 10 (I still am practically), so ya gently caress that I'm not gonna deal with another kid. However, that wouldn't mean I would ignore her or refuse her hugs. But then my team leads (once again, my parents so I hear this poo poo at home as well) tell me to stop hugging at work or I'm gonna be fired. So I tell her "Even though we are in different companies, we are working in the same store, we can not show any affection to each other and that includes hugs. My mom and her husband can't even call each other dear during work". She didn't like this, at all. She kept texting me during work and getting me in trouble, so I told her to knock her poo poo off and stop being a bitch about it. She told me I was a rude fucker, never talk to her again. Next week I'm under investigation for sexual harassment 
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Name tags: Generally I clip my name tag on my belt, but when a customer refuses to acknowledge I don't work for the store and as such wont know anything about sales, even after I pull my badge out and tell them "Look, does this say 'Rite Aid/CVS/Walgreens/Insert store here'?". Then they want to see the store manager, who just shrugs and says "He doesn't work here, he wont know about X" Outside of that no one looks at it. They all call me young man cause I'm the youngest guy in any given work crew by a good 20 years 
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spankmeister posted:I don't get it, you spend time at a store looking like you work there but you don't work there? I remodel stores. I work in the store, just not for the store. Move shelves around, put product up and the tags, give the managers a heads up on whats moving where. Changing security on the shelves, switching out signs. Stuff like that companies are willing to pay for instead of getting their own workers to do it.
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Amazingly I'm in Arizona now, once again on the clock after like 8 months of inactivity. Remodeling Staples, and so far I haven't had too much of a problem. Most people are pretty chill and understand when I say I can't help them with certain things. However while moving the printers around, its near the end of the day, I'm sweaty, I'm tired from hauling like 20 odd live display printers and then 2 to 3 times as much boxes for them. So of course a live (unboxed) printer kinda... slips out of my grip.  Me (Indian) Customer Staple coworker. 30 dollars. Excuse me? 30 dollars for that printer. *looks at then points at price tag* No ma'am this says 90 dollars. No that one, you dropped it so its damaged. I want it cheaper. Um.. just a minute *goes to get a staple's coworker* Yes? This is damaged, I want it for 30 dollars. Oh well you see thats just a display product, its not for sell. It just lets us demo the product. But its on the shelf, so it must be for sell! And this one is damaged I want it for 30 dollars! .... .... *throws the printer on the shelf* WHAT ARE YOU DOING I'M GOING TO BUY THAT! Let me get a managerLike 10 minutes later I hear the same woman screaming before being escorted out. On a high note, while moving shelves one slipped out of my grip, and in my fumbled attempt to catch it I slammed a corner of the shelf into my shin. While nursing off the pain leaning against a beam a little girl came up to me and gave me a bag of ice and asked if I was ok 
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Alright its my third day during my trip, tomorrow is my last day at my current store. I am told that I'm not on the list for the next store planned. It seems that my company made me drive from the bay area in Cali, to Arizona for a 4 day work trip. 26 hours round trip for 4 days of work.... I'm praying tomorrow I'll get an email with my next hotel info and not "Go home". Just when I got used to the constant moving and lifting too  Alright to contribute my story today, have any of you had one of those coworkers? You know, the ones who are being trained to be higher up in the crew and has self entitlement problems? In the first few hours: We use a "popper", to pop out push pins, and the set I was on required me to have one as I needed to take off backing from various sets. A coworker loaned me his, so I was good. Then this woman freaks out when hers goes missing. Take note, her set and in fact the entire section didn't require the use of a popper. Then she thinks I took it, and when I said I was given it by a coworker she hounds him down accusing him of taking hers. Then for like 30 minutes she goes walking around the store trying to find it. Where was it? Under her loving coat on her loving set she would of noticed if she just continued her loving job. Doesn't end there though. Another coworker of mine was moving her product from one side of the store to the other (literally, one wall to the other), and once again this woman says "Since you moved your product, and since I can't use the shelves you left behind you have to move all these shelves for me so I can put up the pegs". My coworker also told me that she wanted my coworker to get me to help her move the shelving. gently caress that. Then at the end of the day I do a walk around to see our aisles cleaned up, and on her part of the store? Complete filth. Earlier that day me and another coworker set up the laptop bags and speakers. When I walked by them? I see signage, I see shelving, I see trash all over our sets. I immediately booked it to my manager and told him "We didn't make this mess, I'm not gonna clean it up.". If there is some small amount of trash or misplaced stuff I'd happily move it. But at this amount I wasn't gonna help at all. If she just put her loving trash in a bag or immediately put her shelving and signage away as she took them down the mess wouldn't of been so bad. On the upside: I got a few hours of OT. I love making overtime, more money.
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Alright well I'm back in California. They made me drive 26 hours to work 4 days. And they want me to drive to Nevada on the 21rst for all I know, another 4 days of work. I'm back to hating my job
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Well today I went to a Target and while waiting to see if my brother could fit into a mens small (He's 9 but he wanted this one Mario tshirt so I went to see if it wouldn't be to ridiculous on him), I was hanging out outside the room and heard a lady arguing with one of the target people. I wasn't really paying attention till I hear the words "Try on underwear" Crazy lady Me: HOW CAN I TELL IF THESE WILL FIT ME IF I CAN'T TRY ON UNDERWEAR?! THIS IS WHY I HATE TARGET!: I'm sorry but I wouldn't ever buy underwear from a store that lets people try them on. You never know what they have down there, like crabs or something.: THIS ISN'T ANY OF YOUR loving BUSINESS! And she just storms away. Who would ever think that's that a good idea? loving nasty.
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Jan 16, 2011 02:02
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TShields posted:The other reason I hate my job just walked through the door. There is this dumpy redneck ashtray-smelling motherfucker in his 60's who comes in with the nastiest, skankiest, most STD-ridden girls you can imagine. He apparently takes pictures of these girls in their underwear or less and then comes to my store to print the pictures. Hundreds at a time. And since it's technically not illegal to do what he does, I can't say poo poo. But I don't want him here! He is a paying customer though.. When I was working at a Walgreens, the photo dude called me and a few colleges over during break and was showing us pictures this one women brought in the day before. The first few of are her kids and family... in middle there is a woman (not the one who dropped off the camera), full frontal, 'using' a bottle. Dear consumers: We see those pictures, all of them. And we all gossip about it. I wouldn't be surprised if a few people make copies of your photos. Keep it digital. Anyways today I had a customer hound me down for not helping her but helping someone else. Generally my job we can tell customers we don't work and aren't obligated to help them out, however if the customer is a decent sort I'll happily go out of my way to find a product for them or the proper employees. If they are rude about it or just seem like a smug type, I don't. : YOU SAID YOU DON'T WORK HERE WHY DIDN'T YOU HELP ME FIND THIS PRODUCT?!: Sorry ma'am I don't have to help a customer, but this young lady was kind and asked nicely so I showed her the right way. You were rude to me demanding I help you: THATS DISCRIMINATION! (note me and her are both caucasian): Um... right *turns to finish helping the other customer and walks away* *some sort of gibberish I ignored while I walked away*When I was leaving for the night the cashier told me the lady was insulting the way I walked. Thats not fair my feet didn't heal right when I was a few months old after being broken and I take that very seriously. I buy myself new shoes often and tried using arch supports to make it not so obvious  EDIT: Typo Leal fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Jan 23, 2011 |
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And I'm not a prude or anything. I'm a red-blooded American male and I look at porn on a regular basis, but I find what this guy does appalling. I feel like he has taken advantage of these girls somehow, and I honestly can't figure out the purpose of the photos or how he compensates them.
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spankmeister posted:I find it very odd that people generally don't know the difference between racism and discrimination. When I hear that word I automatically think the race card since its the average American's favorite thing to pull. I guess the lady I did help was younger but I like the Staples manager at this store, he let me have like 30 feet of bubble wrap that was in a MP3 player lock box. However, tomorrow we are having like a 4 hour day cause we just about ran out of things to do. Getting out early is nice and all but that means I don't get paid a full 8 hours
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Jan 24, 2011 02:32
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BigDave posted:Which Staples do you work at? I'm up in Minnesota myself. Well I don't work for staples, I work in staples. I just finished up a remodel (in the loosest sense, we didn't have anything new to put it, it was more of a move around) in Lake Tahoe, hopefully next week I'm going to another one down in the valley in CA. Re: Racists. A coworker told me about how a customer was talking to him (a 'fellow' white) about how disgusted he was with our latin and black coworkers. While he was bashing them my coworker says: "Completely right sir, we all regret bringing the blacks to America and teaching the Mexicans our language." And the guy got a look of bewilderment and walked off.
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I wish stealing was that easy when I was younger, one time I got caught stealing a can of soda (~75 cents). Next week I go in to buy some food, the manager, at the checkout line, puts a hand on my shoulder and tells me only after I buy something I can shove it down my pants. Related story though, when I was working at what I call the Wal Mart of CVS (A gigantic CVS with its own clothing line even), I saw a woman on the ground, next to those black pants that seem to show more then they cover up, putting on a pair. I high tail it to a security guard and tell him, point him out to the lady, and even ask if they got a camera nearby so he can look at it. What does he tell me? "Don't worry about it" Then walks away. Irritated me I wasted my time like that.
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Well today I was at target and was returning a pair of shoes I literally just bought, but didn't notice there was this... something. I don't know if it was dirt or worse that was all over one of the shoes (and since I had my brother try on just one shoe I didn't notice). Besides this alone putting me in disgust cause someone did this, tried on a shoe with their dirty loving feet that smeared.. gunk all over it but they just tossed it back like it was nothing. But this isn't about that, this is about what I saw while I was in line. This lady was returning a t.v., and I didn't pay too much attention but the lady said she didn't want store credit for it cause she doesn't shop there much, and if they do 'this' to her she will never shop there again. The 'this' she is talking about? Putting the t.v. back into her car As far as I was understanding it, the shopkeep said they couldn't put the t.v. back up on the shelves, so I'm assuming they were giving the lady the t.v. back AND the store credit, she basically was getting a free loving t.v. That she didn't want cause she didn't want to carry it back to her car Then me and someone from target were bull slinging while we tried to find another pair of shoes that would fit my brother about how much customers suck and how we don't make messes in stores cause we know how it feels when a customer causes trouble.
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Well after a complete blue balling of being told we were bidding for a contract in Hawaii, then decided against it cause it would cost to much to pay for traveling; this is the company that flies people to Japan, and recently had me drive to Arizona for 4 days, then had me go back to California while they paid for another coworker to drive up to Arizona from California, including renting her a car instead of just letting me stay in Arizona and driving 30 miles to the next hotel. I flooded every retail company I can google with applications. Finally I got a response, Monday I'm getting an interview. Hopefully this company will give me more hours, unlike my current company which gave me one month working last year and so far 8 days working this year. Another coworker of mine who went to that company said I'll probably not get paid as much per hour, and the per diem is lower but I don't care, as long as I'm getting a solid 40 hours a week at least 3 weeks out of every month.
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froglet posted:Couldn't this be construed as some sort of labour violation? Ya like, if she gets injured can't the owner be smacked with a giant lawsuit?
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Feb 28, 2011 04:40
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Today I got myself another job with another traveling retail company. Comparatively speaking, I'll be making 1.25 less an hour and 7 dollars less a day for per diem, but at least they'll be giving me work. Here's hoping to be able to work more then one month out of the year 
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Mar 1, 2011 18:25
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Wow, not even a week with this company and they gave me 2 days of work already and I'm due for a ~2 week worktrip tomorrow. When I brought it to attention to my coworkers on my other 2 days about how the place is an hour away and I wouldn't be making much money traveling that, they said I would be getting a hotel room. Blew my mind, with the other company they would say with a straight face that they expect you to drive from the bay area down to San Diego. And then back. Everyday. This is the company that requesting a hotel would get the response of "Oh sure, whats a hotel room and per diem everyday on top of your wages?" then drop you from the project. Good luck getting on another one after that. I'll happily forsake the other company for this one, hours AND they treat me like a human?
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Mar 6, 2011 22:26
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Back from a worktrip, nothing really special happened but I have to say to customers who speak Spanish: While I may flub up and not say "I don't speak Spanish" and "I don't work here" properly in Spanish, I've been insulted enough in Spanish to know when you are poo poo talking me cause I'm not bilingual 
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Mar 19, 2011 05:38
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So I'm about week 4 into this other company, and ugh... Fellow Coworkers: I like you on two separate levels: Personally and Professionally. Professionally cause I'd like us to not have any bickering at work, and generally the day will go better if, at work, we act like best buds. However that doesn't roll onto how I like your personally. Ya, we all go to the same hotel after work, and generally I'm tired and stressed and as such I don't really want to go out. While how you treat me personally might make me like you better professionally, it isn't the same the other way around. What you do at work is work, I wont like you more personally cause you gave me the right shelves or rails. That's our job, its supposed to be done. However if you decide to stiff me somewhere, like give me the wrong sized shelves or planogram, you bet that'll make me hate you personally cause now thats effecting MY performance. In general I'll tolerate you on a professional level, even if you do stiff me but thats cause I hope throwing you under the bus will get you off the team. Once we clock out and I don't like you, don't expect me to be willing to spend my 6 hours of off time with you. I only bring this up cause this one particular coworker just.. really irritates me. I'll be doing my set and she'll walk on by and shout "DO YOU HAVE THIS? HOW DOES THAT WORK? HAVE YOU SEEN THIS?". Uh sorry, I've been working on my set for the past 2 hours, I haven't seen YOUR stuff. Or I would be in the back condensing the overstock and she'll just barge into the already tight space and say "WHERE DOES THIS GO?!" Lady, I'm the new guy. Unless its something that belongs on the 4 sets I've done I don't know where your crap is. Hell I hardly know what I'm already DOING. Not only that but I don't know half the time if she is talking to me. I was doing some quality control on some sets and I can just hear her complaining... and when I don't respond she gets louder. It honestly makes me wonder if she just starts saying poo poo when she's all alone. Besides her, something that I dislike so far is that.. I don't really get told what to do. Literally we walk in, and the team lead tells us to clear off endcaps then... thats it. And I feel like I'm pestering her when I come to her every 10 minutes asking what I'm supposed to be doing cause I finished the last thing she told me to do. Next thing I know I'm kinda walking around trying to find other people doing stuff and jump on and help them, or she'll tell me "Ok go over to Lubricant and put rail 3 on the blah blah" and I'm just looking at her going "The gently caress does that mean in English?" So I go to that section, try and figure out what to do, before finding a more experienced co worker to show me the ropes. I wouldn't mind except she's written me off as not being self sufficient, and not being motivated on my performance reports and has given me a score between the 50-60% range. I would be all that if you showed me how to do things! Instead I've been winging it and just getting lucky. Oh and at this one store in a town of like a 95% Hispanic population, one of my coworkers complained about how these other guys were playing Mexican music. She then goes to the project manager and tells him "Can you tell those guys to turn off their Mexican music? That's rude, this isn't Mexico" I could never look at the project manager again cause jesus christ that makes us look bad.
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Mar 31, 2011 21:58
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I dunno if its the heat here but I've had a headache and a constant feeling of anger all day after a phonecall from work. When I talked to the people and applied, I applied to be on the traveling crew. I have yet to loving leave California. Not only that, they said "All you have to do is worry about getting to the airport", which is like a 30 minute drive that my parents wouldn't mind driving to. I don't have a license, which is why I applied for TRAVELING and not LOCAL. I sent them a STATE ID, not a DRIVERS LICENSE. And yet last week I saw on my schedule they set me for 3 different stores, all with 'drive daily' written on them, and I spent like 4 days trying to get a hold of someone to say "Check my record, I clearly didn't write down my insurance or send a picture of my license cause I don't have them." Hell, the last few times they actually sent me to an airport to be picked up, first time the other two guys didn't show up. Second time I had to fuss around with calling the office for 2 hours cause the person who was supposed to pick me up didn't know she was supposed to pick me up, and the other 3 guys took their own cars without letting me know. Third time I called and said "Just letting you know you need to pick me up an hour earlier, cause the project is starting earlier." The response? "We are picking you up?" For fucks sakes guys, how hard is it to realize "Guy has no license, guy gets parents to drive him to airport, we send our company van to pick up guy"? But the call today, the guy asks me "Can you drive your own car to work?" for this trip coming Sunday. I had to try so hard to not answer in the most smartass, passive aggressive rear end in a top hat way and say "I... don't have a car. In fact, I don't even have a license. My parents aren't gonna drive me 80 miles away for work, cause they gotta drive 80 miles back. And repeat to pick me up" Queue him being quiet, then asking if I can go on amtrack. I despise public transportation. In fact I've never been on the amtrack, so I gotta hope someone there will be willing to hold my hand and get me on the right train and all that stuff. This loving heat and inexcusable stupidity makes my stress skyrocket.
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Apr 1, 2011 06:48
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You need a good car to take the driving test. My cars are crappy, they got cracks on the windshields, tires are bare, breaks are squeaky, a few other things that the DMV will deny me to drive for in the test. I've recently moved to this area so I don't have any friends who will loan me their car to take the test with And as such, I can't afford to fix these problems. The jobs I get, provided they pay well for my lifestyle, aren't a constant 8 hours a day, 5 days a week jobs. Like this week I didn't work at all, so the money I do get I save up and that let me buy food and pay my phone/internet bills last year when I only worked one month.
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Apr 2, 2011 21:14
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A few days ago a customer bitched to me and a few other coworkers, saying that there is like 20 people standing around and not one of us will help her. The look on her face when we said we aren't working for the store and just remodeling was priceless. Also I think I'm losing my kind personality when I sighed at a customer and said "I'm wearing a blue vest. The gently caress do the cashiers wear? A green shirt. Does my vest even SAY Kragens on it?" after being bitched at for the nth time. Thankfully the worst that can happen to me when a customer complains is a stern talking to by the store manager, which I can just ignore cause he isn't my boss.
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Apr 11, 2011 17:03
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Well I think I may get fired from company B, as I accepted a trip from company A, which I just noticed fell on a week company B had me working. So I called company B and left a message, and the guy who called me back was very.. hostile. I mean its like another 3 weeks before said trip happens, so I would think that was enough time to find a replacement. But he said that they had me on this other store for a few weeks, that the week in question is the busiest week of the year. Then he said something about my pockets (if its cash in my pockets, I make significantly more with company A. Like $2/hr more, plus an extra $7/day for food.), said he was getting a request for.. something then hung up on me. I'm still on the store before that week, but still just the hostility from this guy leaves me worried... And besides I haven't heard anything from company B for the past 2 weeks, and my next store is in another week or two. Reason I have 2 jobs is cause of inactivity, and generally I'll go with who asks for me first, I just didn't realize company B had me on a store. Company A was just fine when I told them I couldn't work cause company B had me doing something, why can't it go both ways
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ijii posted:sounds like to me your boss is pissed because you're putting his company on the back burner whenever is convenient for you. Whoa hey now, I don't go to the other job if its convenient, cause that would definitely get me fired. I go off who calls me first just so they don't think I'm favoring one. So far each time company B has called me in, they literally called my phone to tell me, so I assumed if I was on the schedule they would of called me like they've been doing so far. I wasn't gonna call company A and say "Oh it turns out I was on something with company B, sorry you gotta take me back off" Yes, that company knows I'm with a second company. On the phone interview the guy asked "You do realize this job doesn't have work all the time and there may be times when you don't work for weeks at a time" and I responded with "Ya, I understand. I have another job just like this that has a lot of downtime, thats why I applied here." If that doesn't scream "I have a second company that also has me on call", I fear for the company's future cause there are more complicated things then that in the world.
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Apr 27, 2011 16:32
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Well hell, looks like that was all for naught, since company A canceled the trip, then offered to have me go to Kansas for 3 weeks (which is a shock, I signed up for traveling and so far I've only left California once), which I declined cause I have something with company B in that time frame. I can't believe I turned down a trip that would of netted me over a grand compared to the next 3 weeks hoping that company B will fill in the gaps, since the only store in that time frame is 3 days. And I'll feel like such an rear end in a top hat calling them back and either A: Asking to be put back on the store I just told them to take me off, or B: Ask them to take me off *another* store. Gonna have to drop one, now I need to decide if I want to go with the one that I'm told has more secure hours, or the one that pays me a fuckload more money when I do actually work.
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Apr 28, 2011 00:36
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Well today me and 3 others are back into a store to fix up mistakes the last crew made here. While working under a cashier I found a 5 dollar bill, and handed it off the nearest O'rielly person. As much as I would of loved to take that money, I know someone else would of gotten poo poo for it. Also customers are assholes. Someone took the cap off diesel oil, poked a hole in the safety seal, then put it back up on the shelf. So when a coworker slides it over to me and I grab it, suddenly a stream of oil comes shooting out all over me. I went through the rest of the day smelling like oil, my eyes were all watery and the fumes.. dear god the fumes! As an aside, I guess I'm backwards. Cashiers are afraid to say no to customers, yet I'm afraid to bother cashiers or any store staff when I'm shopping around
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May 10, 2011 02:19
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Well today we shoved over the entire express center for O'rielly, we sprayed WD40 to make it easier to move. We then moved the battery rack in the now opened space and were putting batteries away, and I knelt down to slide a battery in and noticed a wet spot, but I thought it was the WD40 so I didn't really pay attention when I set my arm on it. Immediately I felt my arm burning and ran to the bathroom, and I accidentally bumped into a customer. When I cleaned off what I assume was battery acid and walked back, I apologized to the man. He was ok and said something like "Us old people are used to being shoved around." Nice to meet a customer that can make a joke over accidents. However, this store had to be the most disorganized store I have ever seen. Its like the manager just went  and decided to shove everything up onto the shelves. Not a single thing was set to plano, oil filters were all hosed up. TM421 being put on the spot where PS421 is supposed to be, like they just looked at the numbers and threw them up. Which drove me insane when I was shifting all that poo poo, cause I wanted to make it nice and have things set in the right place, but with the way they did it wasn't possible without having me stay there for another day to get things in the right place and get certain oil filters put away.The part of me that takes pride in making a store look better when I leave it cried that day.
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May 12, 2011 08:06
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I was recently doing a CVS remodel, and for a few nights (mostly the nights we had to move the alcohol or tobacco products) we had a security guard in the store. However one night a guy grabbed some alcohol and ran out the store, and the guard did nothing. He said he's only to be a visual deterrent and an eye witness, California law disallows him from chasing that fucker down and tackling his rear end. Please tell me this is a California only law, besides me wanting to be a guard to get some extra cash, I plan on getting out of this state (saving up to move out plus college to be a cop... which in a state who's current answer to debt is CUT POLICE FUNDING...ya) and I don't want to be paid to just be an eye witness. On paper it'd be nice to stand around and tell the police the color shirt of the shoplifter, I'm sure its incredibly boring in practice.
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Aug 13, 2011 11:41
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So I've gotten back into the job I was posting about far, FAR earlier in this thread. Merchandising, I make stores pretty. Though this company does something new that I didn't do in my old company, they throw a bunch of stores my way, say "these need to be done by this day" and let me do whatever, as long as its all done by the due date. So having no life I pretty much work 12 hours and finish everything ASAP. So while its cool that I can kinda work my own pace, as long as its within the times given to me my god the managers I need to speak with. Some people get irrationally hostile that a third party vendor has defiled their store. I've had moments where I've been intentionally ignored by a manager, making me stay in a store 2 hours longer then I was supposed to be in. Whatever rear end in a top hat, I'm still getting paid for that, and putting down "manager wouldn't see me" goes on your rear end. Also YOUR company pays my wages, along with the usual administrative costs that my company takes, so don't think you're being a passive aggressive dick to the unholy third party by hiding in your office and playing angry birds. What really pissed me off though is what happened tonight. I started at 8, did a few stores in my immediate area, drove 30 miles to another town to do a few stores there, then drive back 30 miles to my area, then continue driving another 20 miles to do work in another town up in the hills, then had to drive back to my area cause my company is full of tightwads that want to minimize expenses for mileage so I don't get paid to my first store or coming home from the last store, so I intentionally do a nearby store first, and another one nearby last so I'm not screwed 40+ miles and almost an hour of drive time, so THATS WHY I'M HERE SO LATE All I had to do today was make sure a headphone display was working fine, the headphones turned on, the volume button worked, the TV showing the right content, trouble shoot any problems, ensure the display isn't damaged, and I also installed a graphic that was missing for almost a month that was sent to my place. I call for a manager to sign off on my sheet just to be questioned ITS VERY ODD THAT A VENDOR IS HERE THIS LATE, WHAT DID YOU DO?! THATS IT?! THATS ALL YOU DID?! YOU CAME IN LATE JUST TO DO THIS, WHY DO YOU WANT ME TO SIGN THIS SHEET?! *throws hands in the air* By jove you got me my lady! I am the enigma known as "display fixer"! I go around to random stores and fix their poo poo for no reason other then kicks! Yes this is what I do! Your company loving hires third party people to make sure poo poo is working! They want to make sure that for Christmas customers can see how these headphones work and not have the headphones be broken! They want to ensure those demos have the right price tag next to them! Yes I have in fact seen stores that had the wrong price tag, customers just look at the numbers and seeing how this pair of headphones at your store is supposedly $299 while everywhere else its only $99 is a very bad thing! So yeah, this rant brought to you by a manager that wanted to not sign my sheet cause she can't wrap her head around companies hiring people to ensure displays and the like are up to date and functional.
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Dec 3, 2013 08:02
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BrainToad posted:Also bless you display fixer person, you are my favorite people because if you do that my company doesn't send me random display poo poo to put up with vague instructions. Also all the merchandising third party vendors I've met have been the chillest people and great to shoot the poo poo with about how awful the store we're in is. Actualyl last night I was doing some work in the DI department of a store, and the guy who was there said I was like an angel sent from upon high for getting the entire DI department 100% secured. It was a great feel good moment 
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Dec 6, 2013 06:14
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So I got a story about one manager that really seems to hate third party vendors. I went into her store to audit a GoPro display, make sure only GoPro product is on the display, that everything works and to call in and order stuff if something is damaged. When I came in and explained what I'm going to do the lady asks if I was sent to fix the display, I said no but I'll see what I can do and try fixing it if I can do it. The issue was the TV wasn't showing any images, the reason being that the HDMI cable was knocked out and the thing wont properly "lock" into the port. I went to tell her about it and suggest just using some tape to keep the cable there cause the slightest jostle will knock the cable back out. She cut me off and went on this  rant about how they had the display for a whole year and nothing was wrong with it and then MY PEOPLE came in to switch out the SD card and now the TV wont work and how we must of damaged it.... even though the loving thing is clearly playing content on the TV as she is ranting to me. Then she writes on my sign off sheet that no, the TV was not playing content. Thankfully I am required to provide photos for each project so I proved that yes, I did get the TV working.Yes lady, my company came in (I'm pretty sure it was another company that did the SD card thing, cause I'm the default rep in the area and I didn't do it) and intentionally sabotaged your display just so we could come back a few weeks later to fix it up. I was going to come into the store anyways regardless if the display was malfunctioning or not cause they specifically hire third party people to check up and maintain their displays. On the upside lately after fixing up security in various camera departments managers are warming up to me 
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Dec 14, 2013 19:23
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BrainToad posted:I'm not traditional retail, I'm a vendor rep.  I guess there is no reps for my company in northern california and my boss set me up with a hotel to drive 4 hours to do 90 minutes of work then drive 4 hours back. Some months you can get some really good hours, other times you get nothing. Second pay period of November for example got me 1,500 after taxes. My paycheck for the last week of december and the first week of january? 270 dollars.
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Jan 20, 2014 18:33
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While signing the vendor log I overheard some employees talking about a woman who brought in a receipt and a box of shoes... into a best buy. "Ma'am, this is Best Buy" "So?" "... We are an electronics store" "So?" ".......We don't sell shoes" "Oh I should go to REI instead  "
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Feb 23, 2014 20:00
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D34THROW posted:Goddammit. Our parent company's "money guy", I guess the primary investor, is coming in for a visit today, along with the CFO and CEO. His last name is Schwartzman and I have to go all loving day in the same building as this guy without making a Spaceballs joke. Make one, maybe he's a fan of Spaceballs and that'll get you some brownie points Edit: Huh I did already say that story. Well I recently had a problematic manager. I was sent into a walmart (oh my god its like an entirely different world there) and was to ensure that my client's products were on display. When I asked the manager about this empty section that had the price tag of the product, she said that they had some new system or something so they can't have those products out right now or something like that, it really seemed like she was making an excuse cause she didn't want to go to the back of the store and get them out. So I asked her to write that down on the sign off sheet, and she just replied with "I don't have to do that" and walked off. I called it in and I was told my people will contact Walmart about it. Also walmart customers are the worst, for the first time ever I actually had a punk try and grab my tool bag when I turned around. He was stooping and reaching down to it when I looked back and a "Hey!" made him straighten up and suddenly start walking faster. Leal fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Feb 28, 2014 |
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Feb 28, 2014 23:30
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So since November I've been hired by a company to go to various stores and annoy the employees into going onto my client's website that trains people in their products (funnily enough, I personally cannot sign up for this website as I am not an employee of any retail store... yet they want me to tell employees the benefits and whatnot and not actually tell me what these things are). And my god have they gotten aggressive. First few months I just handed off a flyer. Then they started having me hand off 2 flyers, and really the second flyer was redundant so I just kept going with the 1 flyer. Then they demanded I hand out these plastic... tabs that just have the link to the website and nothing else on it. So now I have to hand off 2 flyers, both flyers have the link to the website and then a tab that is just the link to the website. Today I got a package. Check the manifest, it just says "<product> kit". I look inside... and there has to be over 100 pens with the link on them inside  This must be what it felt like to be an AOL employee in the 90's.
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Mar 8, 2014 03:09
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Today I was in a store to train the employees on my client's products. In a fit of sleep deprivation I didn't phase on how terribly worded one of the questions on my survey was and played it straight. It was "Ask the associates that you are comfortable with how they feel about the Washer" So I did. Me: I am comfortable with how you feel about this washer? Employee: I'm sure they think I was high at the time. I called my boss to ask what the hell, and if "The employee stared at me with a raised eyebrow" was a valid answer. It isn't but hell if I don't put it on my call report.
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Mar 26, 2014 04:57
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I got an email that I have a new manager, this greatly worries me cause I had a good relationship with my last manager and she would always push extra things to me, basically what makes working an otherwise very unsteady job actually viable to live on. I don't know if he'll keep me on my usual route, if he'll decide I cover too wide an area and take me off a few stores. Guess I should update my resume just in case
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Mar 28, 2014 00:24
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