• Grocery Store Employees
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I am a bagger at Harris Teeter part time which is not all that bad but cleaning bathrooms still suck ass. Hopefully I stop being a lazy fuck and apply at my local computer repair store and get a job I feel like doing after school instead of having to feel like shit going to work knowing I am going to have to clean up someones else's shit on the side of the toilet because some idiots don't know how to fucking sit on one properly. But I might lose my job also since I just missed 4 days of work because of a school test and stomach flu. Reason being is when I called they didn't really seemed happy nore felt bad that I was shitting my brains out.
So this freshmen comes into kroger while I'm bagging. He tries to buy cigarettes (obviously they dont sell them to him) so he runs around screaming FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK over and over again. Then proceeds to go outside and flip off the cameras.
[QUOTE=MedicWine;28041706]So this freshmen comes into kroger while I'm bagging. He tries to buy cigarettes (obviously they dont sell them to him) so he runs around screaming FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK over and over again. Then proceeds to go outside and flip off the cameras.[/QUOTE] We had a guy try and grab a box of Marlboro Red 100's off of our shelf once. Our managers ended up chasing him down. It was hilarious seeing those two men go after him.
[QUOTE=AmericanInfantry;28039462]My dad's a manager at any Giant Eagle store he gets moved to. [img_thumb]http://moneysavingmom.com/store_deals/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/gianteaglelogo.jpg[/img_thumb] Chain started in Pittsburgh, moved to places in western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and Virginia. And, if anyone cares, Giant Eagle will be my first job, like most other people around here.[/QUOTE] Nice. Being a manager of a grocery store is a bitch of a job though, it's really tough sometimes. I work at a grocery store called Piggly Wiggly, they crossed-trained me to be a Cashier and a Stocker/Bag Boy (What the OP referred to as a courtesy clerk.) Here, they're both considered the same job.
[QUOTE=GodKing;28039014]There should be a group that suddenly swoops in from all directions, quickly and quietly pulls people like this out of view, then executes them.[/QUOTE] [img]http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00419/Colonal_Hans_Landa_419088a.jpg[/img]
Over the summer, I worked in a Sam's Club. A grocery store/electronics store/home furniture/whatever else on steroids to the people who don't know what it is (kind of like a BJs or a Costcos, buy shit in bulk). I got in because of a friend of a friend of my father and also because I was not black. Yep, the store hired me because I was white to it could be more racially diverse. I was a sales associate who worked two different departments, usually by myself with only one or two more people. Now imagine working a department the size of an entire grocery store, by yourself for 8 hours and you got my job. Yep, I worked basically liked that for the entire summer having to deal with at least a few hundred customers personally out of several thousand a day (by myself) for the entire summer. It wasn't bad at all for my first legit summer job. All the people there were awesome to work with, even if I worked with an Eastern European and a guy from Jamaica who both could barely speak English, it just made it more fun and a much better experience. Unfortunately, I lived with living stereotypes of Indians and Asians (they are the majority where I live in New Jersey) who were cheap as fuck. I remember this one mid-40s Asian women who purposely broke a coffee machine by taking it off a shelf and just dropping it in front of me and a manager, and asked if she could get it for half-off. Word to the wise, be nice to the sales associate or anyone who works in a grocery store, we will help you if you are nice and we will remember that.
i want to become a cashier
[QUOTE=Hexxeh;28040109]Unexpected item in the bagging area. 'nuff said.[/QUOTE] The one's at my store can be set off by a dime, and the weights aren't always right too. Though it's a home depot so yeah. People with tool boxes full of tools erryday.
[QUOTE=dcalde78;28038020] You can have disciplinary action against you, or even [B]get fired[/B] for deleting a work colleague off of your Facebook friends list. .[/QUOTE] im pretty sure thats illegall and you could sue
[QUOTE=gerbile5;28045148]im pretty sure thats illegall and you could sue[/QUOTE] ^
I don't work in grocery but I always use the self-scan machines and never have a problem.. they're piss easy to use.. scan put in bagging area then scan the next one.. what's so hard?
whats so hard? when the machine is retarded and doesnt detect you put the item in and its like oh well you wanna just check out well fuck you im calling the supervisor!!!!!!!!!!
I have never worked in a grocery store, but if I ever stand in like to use a self-check-out I just watch people do retarded things. I think it's hilarious
[QUOTE=Averice;28045332]I don't work in grocery but I always use the self-scan machines and never have a problem.. they're piss easy to use.. scan put in bagging area then scan the next one.. what's so hard?[/QUOTE] Your talking to the wrong group, you need to ask that to the technology illiterate. Most of facepunch is gonna have no problem once they work out the quirks with the machine (Like how you can't take an item off the bagging area till its been paid for or it shits itself) and can avoid them.
I used to work at safeway as a cashier, I had the best coworkers ever. Sadly the store got shut down shortly after I found a new job.
I work for the Co-operative. I'm [I]essentially[/I] a floor supervisor for the produce department, in that everything is left for me when my line manager is out and I'm responsible for people that have the same job as me and making sure everything is done, but I don't get paid for it. As far as they're concerned, I'm a CSA like everyone else. Little frustrating in all honesty. Especially when it's my ass that gets kicked when the other guys fuck up their work.
[QUOTE=Bad)-(and;28046789]I work for the Co-operative. I'm [I]essentially[/I] a floor supervisor for the produce department, in that everything is left for me when my line manager is out and I'm responsible for people that have the same job as me and making sure everything is done, but I don't get paid for it. As far as they're concerned, I'm a CSA like everyone else. Little frustrating in all honesty. Especially when it's my ass that gets kicked when the other guys fuck up their work.[/QUOTE] I work for the Co-operative as well, have you guys had the title change meeting yet?
[QUOTE=dcalde78;28038020]Onto another point. During my just over a year of employment with the company, I have been off 3 times, resulting in about 15 hours worth of lost shifts on my part. This is fair enough. However, these 3 absences were over a period of 56 weeks. When our absence goes above a percentage, we are to have a meeting with managers. I have had this meeting, because apparently, 3 absences in 56 weeks is more than the 3% absence rate we are allowed. If I miss one more day of work in the next [B]half a year[/B], I get disciplinary action against me.[/quote] That's just company policy, you'll just have a meeting where they tell you that you've had too many days off and to be careful. They'll leave it at that. [QUOTE=dcalde78;28038020]You can have disciplinary action against you, or even [B]get fired[/B] for deleting a work colleague off of your Facebook friends list.[/QUOTE] This is complete bullshit, if you [i]were[/i] fired for deleting someone off facebook you'd be able to take it to a unfair dismissal tribunal. [editline]14th February 2011[/editline] I work at a Tesco, but it's not a food shop. I work on the shop floor as an assistant and putting stock out. The jobs not bad, and the pay is actually pretty good (£7.20/hour I think it is at the moment). There are a few people employed who are dicks but you learn how to deal with them.
I just love trolling my co-workers in the supermarket I work at, and my manager is doing it aswell. I remember when I first worked there the manager would sometimes whine I didn't finished my work earlier. And it annoyed me so much. Soon I found it that it didn't matter what time I finished, it always should be 30 min earlier. So I have been doing this with my co-workers "Lol finished only just now? You could have been done 1 hour earlier easily". And then just walk off before they can say anything :smug:
Im the guy who stands at the self checkout area and puts in the password in every time they fail at the machine.
[QUOTE=M24;28047216]I work for the Co-operative as well, have you guys had the title change meeting yet?[/QUOTE] Yeah. On my day off aswell. Waste of a perfectly good hour
I work at a Store in the UK called Farmfoods. its basically the same as iceland just cheaper. i started in 2008 as a "retail assitant" which means you stack shelves, work the checkouts and clean and tidy the shop. All at the same time. in our store the ranking goes retail assitant > supervisor > assistant manger > manager. last august i was promoted from retail assitant straight to assistant manager and we even had a supervisor who went for the job as well which i was dead chuffed about. so i know get payed monthly and about £15,000 a year which isnt alot i will admit but considering a live at home and i still go to college twice a week and am only 19 it pays the bills. soon i hope to go into some sort of IT technician job though.
I work at a Subway inside a Walmart. Though that's not technically working inside a big store like all of you, I've had incidents. For one, I can't stand it when people order a bunch of sandwiches, then when they get to the register, try to pay with a Walmart Gift card. ....just because we're inside Walmart doesn't mean we're part of Walmart. Yet this can't be comprehended by some.
The other day I had a woman bring back in two packs of cat food that were supposed to be two for a dollar. Instead, she had paid .60 cents for each packet (which she was very quick to point out and give me a pouty face for it). I had to do a shitload of paperwork and register procedures just so this woman could get her damn 20 cents back. Not the first time, either.
I work once a week at this tiny grocery store. There's rarely more than 3 people at work at a time. It's boring as shit but the pay is decent, and soon I'll be in charge of closing the shop etc. on my shifts. [editline]14th February 2011[/editline] also "could you go see if you have any more {insert what they're asking for} in the back" "sure" go out in the back, sit and stare for a couple of minutes go back to customer "sorry, we're out. We might get some next {insert random week day}"
I used to work at a Kroger... [editline]14th February 2011[/editline] Asses didn't let me have the vacation days that I asked for a month off in advance. I didnt have a choice either so I quit. Now I work at a sandwhich shop and it is so much better.
Woman: Oh my goodness, I seem to have forgot something, would you mind waiting real quick? My coworker: Ma'am, there are a lot of people waiting in line, you can just simply pay for everything right now, take your things, then go back to the section where your missing item is, take it, and then go line up again. That or you can get it at a different store Woman: Oh uh, okay the rest of the day he was a smug badass
I work for a company in Denmark called Superbrugsen. I am usually behind the cash register at the bakery.
[QUOTE=PILLS HERE!;28049012]Woman: Oh my goodness, I seem to have forgot something, would you mind waiting real quick? My coworker: Ma'am, there are a lot of people waiting in line, you can just simply pay for everything right now, take your things, then go back to the section where your missing item is, take it, and then go line up again. That or you can get it at a different store Woman: Oh uh, okay the rest of the day he was a smug badass[/QUOTE] You can't pause the transactions where you work?
I used to work at a store. I don't anymore, and for this I am most thankful.
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