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My horrible horrible department head is finally getting transferred. It's been 3 long years of bullshit attempts at emotional abuse specifically targeted at me, and my biggest regret is not blowing the whistle on him for working off the clock when I first started. Also we are still carrying cherries until our warehouse runs out and, as is custom for the rich old people who live in the area, cherry pits are left everywhere and anywhere. It seems like their favorite spot is within loving arms reach of a goddamn trashcan. I don't know if it's biological inclination or a conspiracy or what, but every day I spend with these people I'm like, "What in the hell is wrong with your brains?" goddamn
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Just found out that after my two days off this weekend I get to work 11 days straight until my next day off. I guess somewhere in the world people have it worse so thank god for unions 
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Aug 25, 2018 03:30
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Anora posted:Forgot my store was doing a three day clearance sale today... ugggggh. Not everything is on sale you twats, just the clearance stuff. I hate it when customers do the same thing but I don't have to work that poo poo and even the people that do don't have to do it while alone. God drat, that sucks.
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Aug 25, 2018 18:10
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Markdowns fish on leaf lettuce is the most masterful execution of not giving a poo poo I have personally witnessed. Oh and sanitizer wipes from the cart bays on fresh produce is another favorite. Like, not only is it lazy, it's just blind loving spite.
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Aug 26, 2018 00:31
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I get so loving tired of babysitting my co-workers. Drive-by messes in the breakroom, blocking fire exits with flatbeds of product (why would you do this!?) Just, ugh.
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Aug 30, 2018 19:31
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Aug 30, 2018 22:05
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So I've got 30 minutes left in my shift and I'm doing some last minute scanning for our order. I see these two kids hanging out by the bakery, a sister and a younger brother. She's covering up cake tags and telling her brother to guess what kind of cake it is. Wholesome stuff. Next time I see them, they're with their parents. The mom is picking out produce, and the dad is barking out orders and berating his kids for... something? I don't know. He was telling them not to misbehave, basically. But if they were doing anything wrong, it was so innocuous that it probably wasn't even worth mentioning. The mother and kids head up front, leaving the dad to peruse some bakery stuff. A customer bumps into him and then apologizes, claiming it was an accident. And the dad just loses it. He starts telling this skinny old guy who bumped into him to watch the gently caress out and to gently caress off and that he was going to gently caress him up. I walked up hoping to separate them and avoid a scene, but after hearing that last part I skipped straight to telling him to leave. He was like "and who's going to throw me out, you?" He got in my face and I kept stepping into his space, until he found himself shouting and trying to puff up his chest while walking backwards. A sales manager arrived and this loving guy (this loving guy!) looks to the sales manager like he's going to back him up or something. He says "He's telling me to get out!" and the manager says "so am I lol." We escort him out, with him shouting the whole way about how we're nobodies and he's been here for 30 years. His family leaves their cart of stuff at the register, heads hung in shame. All I can think though is that the guy was just emasculated, gained nothing, and I hope he doesn't treat his family like poo poo. Rainbow Knight fucked around with this message at 06:55 on Sep 11, 2018 |
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Sep 11, 2018 06:43
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Eric the Mauve posted:Yeah, and I hope I trip over a briefcase stuffed full of $100 bills on my way to my car this morning. Right? Before I edited my post, the part that you quoted had an assertion that he was 100% going to abuse his family in some way after they got home. I thought it was an unfair assumption. After having thought about it for a while though, I feel like it's more likely than not  Yawgmoth posted:Please please tell me your manager actually said lol. in my version of the story, yes he does
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Sep 12, 2018 03:35
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I like when customers take coupons for stuff that they don't need and put them next to the product for others to enjoy. It's nice 
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Sep 18, 2018 21:32
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Sep 19, 2018 02:27
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Anora posted:When I showed up when scheduled instead of 2 hours earlier, she pulled me off the schedule for the rest of the week (yay, hurt yourself to hurt me). Wait so someone can just take your scheduled hours away? What loving bullshit is this? Is this a Right-to-Work thing?
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Sep 20, 2018 02:27
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MC Hawking posted:Of all the ridiculous stuff posted in this thread over the last six years, this is what makes you react with indignant outrage? When someone posts something that can be refined down to having one's livelihood dangled over them like it's a loving dog treat boils my blood. Customers are horrible by default and coworkers are like idiot gonk droids who might fall onto their dumb square faces if you don't corral them towards the proper junk pile, but lovely bosses are The Worst.
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Sep 20, 2018 17:30
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E: oops repeat
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Oct 5, 2018 18:53
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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:The corporate suits are worthless assholes who, for the most part, have never worked the floor or did it so long ago that they have no idea how it's changed. I almost feel bad for corporate because I know that someone above them is doing the exact same thing.
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Oct 21, 2018 07:23
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Like I said, "almost."
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Oct 21, 2018 18:53
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Rhythmancer posted:One time I caught a dude using his own rewards card account to ring up customers and told him to knock it off because people get fired for that. A few days later we got a call from the regional LP guy and the petty bureaucratic little poo poo actually got mad at me for warning him. Turns out LP had noticed his shenanigans too and was calling to tell us to fire him but they couldn't once they heard the dude had already been talked to about it. What a contemptible human being your LP guy is. Holy poo poo lol
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Oct 30, 2018 19:28
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Telephones posted:I loving hate my retail job. At the end of my shift last night I was pulled into a room where three managers really let me have it. They brought up a big list of things that I'm doing wrong - a number of the things they want me to be doing are contradictory - and they're acting as is anything less than 100% maximal efficiency is me being an rear end in a top hat. Like if my stocking cart isn't 100% absolutely full every time, then I'm basically wasting their money - BUT I can't put the volumes of trash that accumulate in a little bin out of the way, it has to go back on top of the fully stocked cart which I'm supposed to be working from?? Like, these are produce boxes with lots of papers and plastics and separators in them, how am I supposed to keep the compost separate from the recycling separate from the trash like they want me to? gently caress! They said that my work has been in continual decline and that they were really excited to hire me but that I've just been a disappointment and they looked like they meant it, like I had really let them down and hurt their feelings. This is after I was literally lying completely on the ground to clean under their tables and shelves, after we got so much done literally everyone was walking around looking for poo poo to do. The fact that you care about what they say says plenty about your work ethic. Your managers are the failures, and they're just projecting that feeling onto you.
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Oct 31, 2018 03:26
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I'm Never Going In On My Day Off Ever Again and i'm serious this time guys
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Nov 2, 2018 18:33
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The retail gods are cruel this day
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Nov 3, 2018 02:33
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The Snoo posted:e: yes I know that's how retail is and I 'need to grow a thicker skin' whatever Nope. People need to not be so lovely to people helping them. Being numb definitely helps though. Also helpful is treating lovely customers as poorly as you can get away with lol
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Nov 7, 2018 23:03
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Eric the Mauve posted:The other angle on this, from management’s perspective, is that if you pay a little bit more than your competitors, it buys you a lot of ability to actually demand high performance from your staff and fire those who don’t perform. Every retail employee in your area will want to work for you. And doubly so once word gets around that you don’t force your good people to do three jobs while the bad people do gently caress-all; the bad people actually get fired. Your increased sales and customer loyalty would more than pay for the pay increases. If the people who ruin everything around them for their own worthless pile of money aren't stupid then who is? Rainbow Knight fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Nov 10, 2018 |
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Nov 10, 2018 19:13
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No, I don't have avocados that are "more ripe" in The Back, I really loving don't.
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Dec 3, 2018 22:57
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Leal posted:Been working produce nearly 3 years, welcome to my hell Oh yeah, it's either a rock or a water balloon. totalnewbie posted:I asked the spice guy at my local grocery if they had any MSG. He took me to a couple shelves but didn't see it. I mean, it wouldn't irritate me if someone was asking for something that we didn't have on the sales floor, but when they're asking for older product than what we have out, as if we keep it hidden away for the next King of the Britons or whatever, I have to feel like maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaybe they're not really thinking their request through.
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Dec 4, 2018 03:50
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cephalopods posted:On the other hand I'm growing really frustrated with my company's "no backstock, ever! ONLY the freshest produce!!!" policy leading to us only ever carrying extremely green bananas and avocados. How long until they start complaining that you never have enough backstock and are always waiting on a truck?
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Dec 4, 2018 03:54
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Stop dialing the extension for produce to ask about ice cream. Stop doing it. For gently caress's sake, it's the last extension repeated before (right before) "or stay on the line for our customer service desk." You'll call, I'll transfer you, you'll get irritated being on hold for at least 600 seconds or forever because my coworkers at the front desk will not pick up, and no amount of ice cream will make it better. It's a game no one wins. Please... 
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Jan 5, 2019 21:43
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Had a customer looking for hollandaise sauce. I don't know where every single one of our 5 thousand items are, so I said I didn't know for sure. Before I could complete my sentence with "but I will go find someone who knows," she just shot at me with a snide "Well it's a good thing you work here." Like, it says "Produce" on my name badge. Do you think I catalog everything in the store between stacking fruit? Working in an area surrounded by rich retirees really reinforces the idea that the previous generations suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. ijii posted:Our department is the last extension, and for whatever gently caress reason if the customer doesn't press an extension, the call gets sent to our department. Our pharmacies for some reason have a separate phone number from the store number, so a lot of times people will call the store number waiting for a pharmacy extension to which there are none, so we have to tell them they have to dial an entirely different number. Grocery department some reason doesn't have their own extension, so again we end up getting their questions too. Sorry lady, I just stock meat, call back and press extension 0 for customer service. Yeah I thought "press 0 for customer service" was common knowledge but I guess it's not!
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Jan 6, 2019 18:48
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Leal posted:My company has changed who we're getting our produce from. And I think I know why we changed, this new company is cheaper and it shows because they're loving trash. Like below the bottom of the barrel. They're so loving awful I'm not convinced this company isn't some frat party boy and his friends who have Class B licenses and inherited a warehouse. Their labor for packing the pallets is taking any left over cans of beer that weren't finished and gathering a bunch of homeless people, and telling them whoever does the worst job at packing the pallets gets a half empty can of flat beer. drat you guys sell a lot of iceberg lettuce. We've sold that brand of iceberg before with no real problems, but the Western Gold stuff often comes in rotten. Once, they sent us organic lemons that reeked of pesticide. Rainbow Knight fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Jan 14, 2019 |
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Jan 14, 2019 03:56
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So my company's new protocol for dealing with a gunman is "Go for the eyes!" Thanks, guys.
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Jan 18, 2019 05:10
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Oh and a good customer comment a couple of days ago reads,"HIRE MORE WHITE AMERICAN WORKERS!" Thanks, guys.
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Jan 18, 2019 05:12
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Arcsquad12 posted:Is Minsc in charge of workplace safety? Jim Cummings better make time to read my eulogy.
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Jan 18, 2019 16:20
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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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Feb 18, 2019 02:47
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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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Feb 18, 2019 03:03
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ijii posted:Better tell your boss to look for another job outside of retail, because this feeling of anxiety is going to come back many times. Every location that he can get transferred to is going to have employees with the damnedest problems, which is usually the source of department drama. There's no escaping it. I had many years to develop thick skin for this poo poo, but now these days with the added bonus of harsh micromanagement policies, I'm done with this poo poo. I mean, he's very high anxiety. I don't feel comfortable speculating whether or not he has any kind of diagnosed problem, but he's in his 40s, throws tantrums upon encountering the slightest resistance, came into the dept and proceeded to wreck any organization we had to better suit his method, argues about everything, and has actually cried during an argument with his assistant and also after our ASM gave him simple tasks. He's not going to thrive no matter where he is imo. Revalis Enai posted:Why does he not get along with others? This is something I fear the most, especially after now becoming a manager. He's got his issues, and he isn't very socially graceful. If you're worried about your relationship with your crew, if found that being supportive is the best way to do things. I looked at my job as, most importantly, growing future managers. I've tried the mean approach and I know for a fact it's worthless. If you're mean, in addition to demoralizing your people, they aren't going to work unless you make them. It's going to hamstring you right away. Sorry if that all sound a little cheesy E: I honestly have a lot I could say on the subject, but I'm trying to refine it to as few word as possible or else there would be a 50000000000 word that would be impossible to parse. Rainbow Knight fucked around with this message at 03:11 on Feb 19, 2019 |
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Feb 19, 2019 02:53
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Star Man posted:It's my birthday and I should be allowed
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Feb 19, 2019 19:51
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Yeah that's some bullshit. When my boss does that I usually respond by telling him that it's his call, or that I'm the only one in my department, or that I might not be able to get to everything. It's their call, so it's their problem if things go to poo poo. Never give more than 100% unless you feel like it, imo.
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Feb 21, 2019 20:35
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Alternatively, therobit posted:drink. THEN work
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Feb 21, 2019 20:37
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you goons and your fancy uptown fireplaces
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Mar 6, 2019 04:28
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Cowslips Warren posted:So THAT's what happened at Kroger/Frys. I wondered why it went from a decent place to absolute poo poo. I heard they are struggling now with profits because who knew decreasing your stock and certain foods meant people went elsewhere? I went into a Fry's once a few years ago while visiting a relative in AZ and it's pretty bleak, yeah. I think around that time Kroger started remodeling a lot of chains to be more like their mid-west stores, which I guess have a sort of streamlined sterility to them or something. They tried to do it here in CA and it did not go well. Customers were so unhappy that they just scrapped the whole thing on this side of the Colorado River, I guess. Kroger as a whole seems to be doing fine with profits according to sales figures. I work for a Kroger chain and it's really not horrible for the most part. Out of the major grocers in the area, everyone else seems to be suffering more than we are. We've closed some stores that weren't making money, but that has more to do with our company absorbing nearby competitors years ago, turning them into our stores, and then having too many stores in close proximity to each other. If we can't beat someone on prices, we can (usually) beat them on service, and if we can't beat them on quality, we can beat them on prices (usually).
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Mar 12, 2019 17:10
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It really is 100% the managers fault though. They have to keep people on task. They have to make sure work is evenly distributed. Locations aren't going to have a team of Kobes, and they have to be able to handle that. If day or night crew is slacking, they have to fix it. Also gently caress the day crew, those treacherous cockroaches 
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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:Probably because retail employees comprise most of the people they deal with for twelve hours a day and retail employees are the only ones even vaguely impressed by "retail manager" as a title. It's more the close proximity thing. It presents an opportunity to develop a relationship, and sometimes that relationship turns into very loudly having sex with the book keeper in her office and god drat it Joe you are a loving weirdo gently caress
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