[QUOTE=bak_to_basix;28060706]Heh, fuck grocery stores, I work at starbucks bitches!
there are Sarbucks in safeway grocery stores, in Canada.
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[QUOTE=bak_to_basix;28060706]Heh, fuck grocery stores, I work at starbucks bitches!
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What's it like serving a bunch of hipster twats during lunch time?
[QUOTE=xeonmuffin;28069184]What's it like serving a bunch of hipster twats during lunch time?[/QUOTE]
If you get an employee discount that levels your horribly overpriced coffee into the territory of a reasonable priced coffee then working at Starbucks wouldn't be too bad.
[QUOTE=bak_to_basix;28060706]Heh, fuck grocery stores, I work at starbucks bitches!
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Wow that's way worse than working at a store bro
Among the (I imagine) even shittier customers, ridiculous uniform hats, and standing behind the counter all day, I don't think i would ever touch a job in fast food.
Just an observation here but it seems that starbucks is a sought after job for gay people where I live. I mean literally, a lot of gay people work here. What's up with that?
[QUOTE=.Cheezy.;28074611]Wow that's way worse than working at a store bro
Among the (I imagine) even shittier customers, ridiculous uniform hats, and standing behind the counter all day, I don't think i would ever touch a job in fast food.
Just an observation here but it seems that starbucks is a sought after job for gay people where I live. I mean literally, a lot of gay people work here. What's up with that?[/QUOTE]
I'd hate working in Fast Food. One of the big things I love about my job is the work oriented goals. For example raising my ELMS score as a cashier. As a bagger I was able to move around; but having to just stand behind a counter all day sounds awful.
Bros. There was this pedophile one time at my Publix. I know him to be a pedo because I noticed him trying very hard to get these two 14-yead-old-looking girls attention by walking next to them and repeatedly saying "Hi. Hi! Hiiii. Hello!" I only noticed this 2 days AFTER my encounter with him.
Anyways, I was waiting near the back time clock to punch in, and I see this guy walk over to get a drink from the water fountain. He gets a drink, then turns around and starts to walk away. He looks me straight in the eye, so I say "Hello, sir. How are you this evening?" (Big mistake).
He walked straight over to me, stopped, and stood about 2 feet from me, and started asking me questions like how old I was and where I was from. I was thinking "Who the fuck is this guy??" I told him that I was from "around here". He didn't seem to acknowledge me, and went on asking if I wanted to hear some jokes. I thought "oh, shit, here we go..." Here's where it gets interesting.
He insisted on doing impressions for me. Who was I to stop him? He did 2 or 3 impressions of actors, which looked NOTHING like the actors he was trying to impersonate. He contorted, twisted, and pulled his face, which was like rubber. I faked some laughs, in fear that this guy is bat shit crazy; crazy enough to stab me for no reason. Then, out of nowhere, he tells me that he's the devil.
What. The. Fuck.
I ask him why he's the devil, and he gave me some story about how God said to him one day, "hey buddy... you look like schmuck (he really did look like schmuck). I'm makin you the devil."
I asked him how that was workin out for him. He said he liked being the devil cuz someone's got to do it.
And to top it all off, he was popping his dentures in and out of his mouth the whole time he was talking to me.
I punched in and walked away.
The end.
[editline]15th February 2011[/editline]
And when I say punch in, I mean I used the time clock to start my shift. I didn't punch the guy.
Though I wish someone would.
I start at my new store tomorrow. Wish me luck guys.
My friend was working, and there's someone who looks a little :downs: trying to play the claw game, and hes getting SUPER pissed because he cant get it. My friend walks by and the guy goes "dude please can you help me get this"
He's worried about his job so he asks his manager first, and his manager told to him it was cool or whatever, he goes back and tries to help the guy win something. Obviously he doesnt win because those machines are shit, but he wasted that guys dollar.
Imagine if that guy just raged and threw a fit because my friend wasted his dollar. How do you explain that off?:
[QUOTE=nerdygamer;28041663] ...shit on the side of the toilet because some idiots don't know how to fucking sit on one properly.
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Same idea at taco bell, went inside and found shit on the toilet seat, glad I just needed to pee.
[QUOTE=Jarrod;28083159]Same idea at taco bell, went inside and found shit on the toilet seat, glad I just needed to pee.[/QUOTE]
...lifting up the plunger, only to find a 3 month old turd chillin' underneath it.
Happened to me.
Also, this was my worst clean up job. This guy had a colostomy, things got out of hand for him...
Shit was everywhere. Me and this other dude cleaned it up. [i]*Shudder*[/i] Fuckin' emptied a whole can of Oust air freshener in the restroom and it [b]still[/b] smelled like shit.
I also found a turd in the urinal.
I became hazard trained at a kroger owned store so that I could do in store housekeeping (Janitorial when I wasn't pushing carts). Only problem after that was that every other day I would be at lunch and they would call the lunch room to tell me that there was a giant poop explosion in the womens restroom. This happened all the fucking time, worst yet I'm not the only one in that entire store that's hazard trained. PIC's and managers have to be trained as well. So to tell me that no one in the entire store is able to clean up a bunch of shit off of a toilet for an entire hour is fucking full of themselves.
I work over in the grocery section of our store now, only twice have they asked me to clean the restrooms and didn't even have to. The lady who made me do it claimed that she wasn't hazard trained... She was a fucking manager.
I worked at Kroger for almost 3 years. First as a "Courtesy Clerk", then I got promoted to the produce department. It was the worst job I've ever had. So much so that I even regret the time it took to type this short paragraph about such a shitty company.
I worked hard, and I received no recognition while everyone around me slacked and were the "best employees evaarrrr".
[QUOTE=cyber_cam34;28067366]I once saw somebody walking around the store where I work with a nametag with a big logo saying she was there to compare prices, I laughed, it was just funny that they didn't even try to hide it.[/QUOTE]
There's no need to hide it, most stores do it so if one starts kicking people out their guys won't be allowed anywhere else.
huh weird I just applied to work in stocking (or "courtesy clerk") for krogers recently.
just right after the time three stockers quit which I did not know beforehand.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;28084174]There's no need to hide it, most stores do it so if one starts kicking people out their guys won't be allowed anywhere else.[/QUOTE]
I know, its just funny that they make it so blatantly obvious that there to undercut the store.
[QUOTE=Moreto;28049518]You can't pause the transactions where you work?[/QUOTE]
Actually we could, but there were a lot of people in line
I work at Kroger as well. I work back in the Dairy department though, not up front. I dont like it, but I clock in put my headphones in ignore customers, get my work done, and clock out. So its not too bad
I used to do night shift stocking at Wal-Mart. The job was crap but the pay was alright.
I have many stories of the chaos that ensued from 2AM trips to the A&W for $15 5 patty burgers to doughnuts in the parking lot.
I was the guy who bailed cardboard when I was not stocking the junk food aisle. The bailer is in receiving across from the dock so in the morning things get hectic. One day we had an exceptionally large order of 2% milk come off the truch which was a little higher than me. The guy with the PowerJack training came in to drag it out to the floor he went into the skid too fast and the momentum snapped two of the plastic bindings on the back and the whole skid tipped over in the direction of me and the bailer.
There was milk everywhere and it STANK of rotten milk back there for a few weeks until they cleared out the receiving floor to wash the place down.
Then of course, there was this.
[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/000_0172.jpg[/IMG]
No comment.
I'd love to get promoted to produce or dairy but you have to go through a general merchandising(GM) position before that. Night crew is out of the question with shool and fuck working in the bakery or floral departments. Stuck as a courtesy clerk for now.
[QUOTE=69105;28038318]I work at a Meijer in the electronics/photo department and it is absolutely the BEST minimum-wage part-time job of all time.
I've been there about a year and am now working full time with some ballin pay raises. The atmosphere is great, too.
[editline]13th February 2011[/editline]
I went there and was grateful that I had a job and sure there's its downsides but so many people complain about petty things in their jobs and even though they are petty, they are problems that I simply don't have.
If you smile and treat the customer like you would want to be treated, then you will rarely get in to a problematic situation. Luckily my job revolves around mostly regular customers, so you get to know a lot of people relatively quickly and they all put in good word for you. :)[/QUOTE]
Wish i had a job like that...
I work at a retail/grocery outlet called QD Stores (QD = Quality Discount) it's like the US retail outlet Mardens (Is that the cheap ass place?) we just sell lots and lots of shit including food for cheap prices. I'm assigned to the grocery department, night fill work is fun as hell, just putting stock out and throwing bags of sugar at each other :v:
[QUOTE=sphinxa279;28105440]I work at a retail/grocery outlet called QD Stores (QD = Quality Discount) it's like the US retail outlet Mardens (Is that the cheap ass place?) we just sell lots and lots of shit including food for cheap prices. I'm assigned to the grocery department, night fill work is fun as hell, just putting stock out and throwing bags of sugar at each other :v:[/QUOTE]
Sounds like one of these
[img]http://71.227.200.152/img/FP/1-Grocery-Outlet-Main.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=I Fail At Lua;28060865]It does, especially when you have a horrible manager. One time during the summer when it was really hot, my manager [B]came[/B] outside and put a shit load of salt in my water so when I drank it, it would taste like shit. The boss of the store saw what happed and just laughed. I was pissed.[/QUOTE]
Did you remember to clean it up?
First day went well, but it definitely wasn't what I was used to or the family I loved. I do like how this store has their express lanes set up though.
I was a merchandiser at Future Shop for a few months, it was ok I guess but I would have preferred to have been a salesperson.
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Before the Army, best job I ever had! The only time it ever got to be a serious pain in the ass was holidays. Because that when all the flatlanders come up. New Years, Labor Day, 4th of July, and even deer hunting season. (Yes, I count that as a holiday, because you will never see so much orange in your entire life!)
I did it all. I loved it.
There's a new Kroger down the road from me, I really should apply, but I don't have the time with school kicking my ass right now :saddowns:
when i did a butcher cashier job. if you didnt get an avg of sales per person end the day. BANG your fired.
I work at Coles, a grocery store in Australia.
I went for a job there to work in the deli, ended up with one as a cashier in one of the lanes where you can take the whole big trolley stuff off food to. Now I received cigarette training and am working 12 items or less.
One time this guy came into the store, a little girl was apparently being video taped by him. With her parents not far away. Police were called. Video tapes exchanged.
Where was I during this? At my car worrying about the cars I had locked inside.
One time these 2 guys came to my register and asked me about vibrating condoms. They couldn't have been older than 15. I just shrugged my shoulder and said 'How would I know?'
They went off whispering under their breaths.
My store doesn't have self-serve registers, and most likely never will. The area is full of old people.
This one girl keeps going to the registers with a watermelon and asking how much it costs. When we have no way of knowing apart from by scanning it and having to call the manager over to delete the transaction.
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I had a terrible fat fuck of a manager. Half the time he would be watching the security cameras, not for security purposes, but for checking out ladies(he even kept some of the tapes home).
He takes work very seriously with an oath. Once, two armed robbers got into the store and our manager refused to open the vault that stored the money we got by the end of the day. Eventually, they realized that he wasn't even given the combination because the owner thought he was too incompetent.
There was also whiny smart-ass that did nothing but complain his mother(who is sort of a bitch, I have to admit). But seriously, he was just a total asshole to work with. Half the time, I do all the work and HE got credit just because his GPA was higher than mine. He is a fucking genius, but he is so delusional with himself. His mom always holds some sort of mutiny whenever things don't go her way, and the manager doesn't do jack shit because he jacks off to her on his tapes. There was just too much drama that was going on there. Grocery stores have too much politics.
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