I work at Chuck E. Cheese (unfortunately) and got a 40% tip from a guy yesterday at work. Really cheered me up from the shitty day.
Some Asian lady came into my place of work and went off about how we ("we" being my entire staff on that day, all white) all looked the same.
My boss gave me weird looks for laughing like a faggot for ages afterwards
I also serve the same old man every Saturday, who buys like 5 cold pies, and he has no objection to me calling him "Old cold pie guy"
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;32478587]I don't agree.
Generally there's a rule or something in your employee contract that says no co-worker relationships or something, so you'd be surrounded by temptation and unable to act upon it.
I'd rather my coworkers be guys that I can relate to and hang out with than a bunch of hot girls I'd love to have sex with but can't.[/QUOTE]
Sucks to be you guys. We have a few inter-colleague relationships where I work. Everyone knows about them, even the 2 store managers.
[QUOTE=notrabies;32484084]In conclusion, I make $3 an hour without tips which would be impossible for anyone in America to survive on.[/QUOTE]
Hell, it's difficult to survive on $8 an hour. I've been working 30 hours a week consistently and I'm bringing home about $400 every paycheck. $800 a month isn't much to work with.
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;32487373]Hell, it's difficult to survive on $8 an hour. I've been working 30 hours a week consistently and I'm bringing home about $400 every paycheck. $800 a month isn't much to work with.[/QUOTE]
Amen to that brother.
7.31/hr here not counting the rare commission I get when I sell a phone ($30 for a new activation/add a line, $8 for an upgrade) even though I'm getting between 36 and 39 hours a week I can barely afford rent and other such things.
I work like 12 hours a week and I get paid at least $200 a week....$15 an hour.... And I'm 19...
Including my 1.5x rates on Sunday
18, Electronics retailer in Australia, $15/hr weekdays + $22/hr sundays.
Extra comission on things like warranties and attachments, such as HDMI cables with televisions, etc.
[QUOTE=Hana-San;32487522]I work like 12 hours a week and I get paid at least $200 a week....$15 an hour.... And I'm 19...
Including my 1.5x rates on Sunday[/QUOTE]
...
Screw you
[editline]26th September 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Superwafflez;32487633]18, Electronics retailer in Australia, $15/hr weekdays + $22/hr sundays.
Extra comission on things like warranties and attachments, such as HDMI cables with televisions, etc.[/QUOTE]
What the fuck that's horse shit.
I work at an American electronics retailer I get minimum fucking wage.
I just want you all to know Target is currently overstock on Piggies.
All our End-Caps are full and we've got like eight boxes worth of Piggies in the back with more coming everyday.
It's Piggie Mid-Night Madness at Target.
What the fuck are piggies
[QUOTE=Hana-San;32487522]I work like 12 hours a week and I get paid at least $200 a week....$15 an hour.... And I'm 19...
Including my 1.5x rates on Sunday[/QUOTE]
You guys are bastards :v:
I'd have to work twice as much as you to get paid exactly the same.
These are Australian wages, and in comparison to the US - roughly has the same buying power. All our goods etc are priced far above yours, and our rentals are insane.
[QUOTE=Superwafflez;32488068]These are Australian wages, and in comparison to the US - roughly has the same buying power. All our goods etc are priced far above yours, and our rentals are insane.[/QUOTE]
Ah, alright. I don't feel so jealous now.
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;32488012]You guys are bastards :v:
I'd have to work twice as much as you to get paid exactly the same.[/QUOTE]
I was getting paid $12 an hour, but then I turned 19 and then they changed an agreement which gave me a raise. To $15, then $18 on Sundays.
Once I'm 21 I get like $25 an hour or something like that.
Isn't this the stories of the underpaid thread, not the wages of the overpaid thread?
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;32487887]What the fuck are piggies[/QUOTE]
[t]http://filesmelt.com/dl/IMG_01272.JPG[/t]
Pumpkin Piggies, Surgeon Piggies, Girl Piggies, Gold Piggies [b][i]MORE PIGGIES THAN YOU CAN HANDLE[/b][/i]
[QUOTE=commandhat;32488108]Isn't this the stories of the underpaid thread, not the wages of the overpaid thread?[/QUOTE]
Australian dollars bro.
[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;32488112][t]http://filesmelt.com/dl/IMG_01272.JPG[/t]
Pumpkin Piggies, Surgeon Piggies, Girl Piggies, Gold Piggies [b][i]MORE PIGGIES THAN YOU CAN HANDLE[/b][/i][/QUOTE]
But what are they
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;32488211]But what are they[/QUOTE]
It's not enough that they're just piggies but now they have to [i]be[/i] something?
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;32488211]But what are they[/QUOTE]
they have a slot on top, probably piggy bank
Hi I'm a hambeast that wants a cheap phone of quality construction and im going to corner you hear so you cant leave and your prices are too high call another store and DESCRIBE this thing to them to see if they have it because they aren't busy at all and now I'm going to get this one and not go to the store you called oh no I'm nit I'm going to Sears but lets look at this phone here's a story if it life you don't care about ok I'm leaving now wait what's that oh its a toy what's it do oh okay bye wait what's that thing oh what's a weather cube it just tells the weather huh okay what's your name alright I'll be back to use my coupon bye bye now.
FUCK YOU HAMBEAST
five bucks hambeast was a mouthbreather too
Have worked at a (now bankrupt) Electronics retail chain for 5 years.
[B]Good start:[/B]
At first i worked at a location which was in a nice city and the only things happening where funny electronic illiterate people asking for bluetooth cable's, harddicks drives and a tv with lots of pikkels.
[B]No im not racist:[/B]
After a while I got transferred to the bad side of town where all the marrokans ect who barely speak dutch live.
[B]Family fun:[/B]
Its in their culture to haggle, but on a laptop with a 10% profit margin you just cant do shit.
They always take their whole family with them and they will always try to smooth talk you like:
Ey boy we have buy al our stuff here , so you make a good price yes? We come her all the time so you make good price! (Though they have to ask where everything is)
You can explain to them that you cant and they will keep trying the same thing for half an hour, their whole family takes turns into trying to get something off the price.
Half an hour later when you still havnt gotten anywhere, they change tactics and start to insult and threathen us. Making us call security *again* to kick them out, at which they make a hughe scene shouting and being generally agressive.
[B]So drugs dealer or flat broke?[/B]
Once you have sold them something they almost always either pay in 50€ bills, or want a loan. This loan requires alot of questions about their income being put into a computer that calculates if they are qualified or not. Since they are usually on social benefits pay (no job) or are blacklisted, they wont get it and proceed to shout at me, the store and the manager about how we are all friggin nazi's and wont give him a loan because hes not dutch etc etc. Totally disregarding that they still havnt payed for that brand new BMW they parked in front of the store and he just told me he didnt have a job.
[B]Finally.... oops to soon.[/B]
Once you have succeeded in picking an item, at the correct price, paid for and left the store, you have to deal with them comming back for warranty.
They want it replaced and they want it now, and dont you dare telling them that we dont cover laptops that look like they have been thrown around the room or tv's with a Wii mote mark still in the glass, because they have warranty and they will do annything to get it.
My manager got punched in the face on 2 seperate occasions to the point management went asking around and put an employee who knows kickboxing inside the store. (And we actually had him physically kick people out once)
[B]Great security[/B]
Currently work at a high quality electronics store that sells annything from musical instruments to 10k tv's and hifi. We have alot of very expensive stuff in a massive store (old parking garage). Which is being secured by a few blurry camera's that record onto a vhs tape that gets wiped every 7 days. There is no security measures whatsoever exept for small stuff hanging on a flimsy steel cable.
So we have some professional audio equipment worth thousands of euro's and the store owner(Who is incredibly rich) just tells us we have to keep an eye out.
[B]Free shopping[/B]
Over this summer alone we filled police reports for 30k worth of stolen stuff from just this department of the store.
So the manager gets down and rages to the floor manager about this. How it was possible for someone to dismantle the whole security cable system, evade camera's and get the item off the shelf without annyone of us noticing. Failing to notice there are 40 costumers and just 8 of us in the massive store.
The floor manager proceeds to walk to the closest dj mixer (6k item) and rips it and the security cable from the wall in one firm tug, he hands it to the store owner and just says: "Like this" and walks away.
[B]Solutions:[/B]'
His solution to this problem is to close all the exits and entrances to the store exept for the one next to the cash register. This way everyone has to take their big ass tv's and refrigerators trough one small crowded lane, resulting in all sorts of traffic jams and annoyances.
[B]Pointless[/B]
Seriously we are known to be easy to steal from by now. We have people stealing all kinds of stupid stuff like 1 centre speaker from a 5.1 set or in store promotion dvd's. You cant do shit with those.
/Rant
/Happy when im done with college next year and I can get out of this place.
Holy shit, I want a Surgeon Piggy.
Speaking of theft we had someone steal our (fake) display Motorola Photon once. Just a plastic case that looks like the phone filled with lead.
Wtf
Speaking of stealing some people tried to break into my place of work. they smashed three doors that had to be replaced, and we had another door on the office, that was for a fire/security door.
Tried to set the alarm to leave, but it wouldn't set because the sensor wasn't showing the fire/security door as being shut, and as no one bothered to reattach it, me and my manager had to stay for ages to try and reattach it, we did and poorly, then we couldn't set the alarm because the office door got replaced and was totally fucked from being hit with something like a sledgehammer, so we had to ring out security company to override it, so I had to stay an entire hour late. :(
I work at a Target and this woman and her daughter asked me if we carried the snuggie. "The blanket thing?" I asked. "Yeah, that." I told them no but we do carry other types of blankets. They weren't interested but they asked if i knew where they could find a snuggie. I just told them to order one off T.V. Who the fuck wants a snuggie?
Just a short bit about my day at ~Party City.~
So, the store had been closed for a good twenty minutes, when the phone rang. Two of my coworkers and I were at the front of the store doing go-backs, so we were like "Fuck it. The store is closed. We're not answering."
The phone stops ringing, so we figured that they had hung up, but a few seconds later, our manager came over the radio and said "Would someone go and check how big the fake money in the Pimp section is and tell the woman on the phone before I fucking choke her?"
Made my night.
[QUOTE=-GTFMiika-;32498897]"Would someone go and check how big the fake money in the Pimp section is and tell the woman on the phone before I fucking choke her?"[/QUOTE]The most random fucking sentence ever uttered by a manager.
You haven't worked with my manager then.
(While mocking a customer to me)
"Excuse me, do you have any batteries? I think I need a battery. I used to have a battery but it stopped acting like a battery which makes me think that I really need a battery."
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