[QUOTE=Mort and Charon;32475346]15-20% seems a hell of a lot here in Europe. I've been to most western European countries and 10% really seems the standard, but I think waiters get payed a better wage here (especially in mainland Europe), and the food is more expensive. I mean in an average restaurant, 4 people eating, 2-3 courses and alcohol, it's probably going to come to [I]at least[/I] £100-£130. So about $150-$200. Is that a lot over there?[/QUOTE]
I've always found the price differences to be almost hilarious. Here, a dinner for three with drinks, food and dessert costs about 35-40$ in a moderate restaurant. Tips are usually either 1-2$ or whatever the change is (i.e. your food costs 37.45$ and you leave the difference to 40$ as a tip). I'm not exactly sure how much a waiter makes though.
Just read through this whole thread, took me a long time haha.
I can't wait to get some money in my pockets but it's hard as fuck to find a job round here
Answering our phone:
Me: thank you for calling radioshack this is jesse how can I help you
Customer: hi do you have any droid 2s in stock? Not the droid x2 it the incredible 2 and most certainly not the fucking droid 3.
M: let me check... no sorry we don't carry the droid 2
C: click
[editline]27th September 2011[/editline]
Wut
Droid 2 was shit anyway, poor guy.
Dear customer: stop fucking trying to hand me your credit card. The card reader is RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU
Oh, another one of my Dad's stories: At the garage, a customer is paying, the cost is like £15.54 or something. He actually said to my dad "Do you want the 54p?" My dads response: "Well yes, I kind of do otherwise that'd just be £15 and £15 isn't enough. Idiot".
Peter Kay gag.
[QUOTE=Slowbro;32512282]Peter Kay gag.[/QUOTE]
Thought I could get away with that one haha.
You did in my eyes, your dad is a great man
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;32511298]Dear customer: stop fucking trying to hand me your credit card. The card reader is RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU[/QUOTE]
I hate this. It's right in front of you. And when people swipe it to soon and get annoyed at me, when the machine hasn't said please insert/swipe your card.
I do believe who ever thought of inserting the card was a male.
[QUOTE=Hana-San;32521673]I hate this. It's right in front of you. And when people swipe it to soon and get annoyed at me, when the machine hasn't said please insert/swipe your card.
I do believe who ever thought of inserting the card was a male.[/QUOTE]
It's because of that fucking pre-swipe system. I don't know about Coles, but at Woolworths while the cashiers are doing shit, the machine says, "please swipe/insert your card now".
Unfortunately because of when it shows up and when people stop handing shit to the me, I almost always end up finishing scanning and going to the pay screen before they are finished doing all the shit, meaning that it gets cancelled, it takes up time and everyone involved looks like a jackass.
Also, you can't explain this to the customer because it takes too fucking long to do so and they'd probably just say, "So why does it even tell me to do that?"
[b]Because people who design equipment for supermarkets [i]do not[/i] work in them[/b]. Just like those fucking holders for the plastic bag rolls in the produce department. Half the time if I want to lift out a crate from the display to swap it around and shit, I've gotta fuck around with the plastic bag holder because the fucktard who designed it put it right in the way.
[editline]29th September 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;32487705]...
Screw you
[editline]26th September 2011[/editline]
What the fuck that's horse shit.
I work at an American electronics retailer I get minimum fucking wage.[/QUOTE]
I'm 15 and I make $9.80 an hour. That's part time rates. Casual is like $10.75.
This is working at a supermarket.
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;32511298]Dear customer: stop fucking trying to hand me your credit card. The card reader is RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU[/QUOTE]I do that when I'm not paying attention. I can see how that would get really annoying especially when several customers do it every day.
It doesn't help though that some places don't have card readers for the customer but others do. The majority of places I go, you give the card to the cashier.
Only place I've seen doing that is Subway.
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;32511298]Dear customer: stop fucking trying to hand me your credit card. The card reader is RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU[/QUOTE]
when i sometimes go into automatic mode and not concentrate, i take their card off them and then realise it's not money and make a fool of myself.
I hate when customers argue about shit that they think is too expensive, or try to say a system error is your fault.
Okay, It's not about people coming into bother me, It's about my old boss.
I was bring buckets of water out to the buffet line for the dinner that night, i spilled a bucket of water and my boss goes "What happened" i went "I spilled a small amount of water, I'll clean it up". So i go into the kitchen get the mop and mop bucket and i cleaned up the mess, I was having a very bad day due to Fraud Charges on my Debit Card, and that set me angry for the rest of the day, So while i'm done with that, I'm back in the kitchen, cleaning up dishes like my job is supposed to, My boss comes in and rages at me saying "You should just take the rest of the week off, I call you if i need you, I don't need you harassing my employees, and just fucking shit up for me!" at this point i'm redfaced pissed off because i don't understand what i did. I asked him and he didn't explain shit to me and went back to his office. At this point i was working with my co-worker and i stated "If that asshole does that again, I'm seriously going to hurt him" <---- That was my fault, My co-worker, Whom i thought was good friends with went to the boss and told him what said, 3 weeks later, haven't worked in 3 weeks i finally get told that i'm fired. But the place was a shithole. So i'm glad i got fired from that place.
[QUOTE=Faren;32522173]It's because of that fucking pre-swipe system. I don't know about Coles, but at Woolworths while the cashiers are doing shit, the machine says, "please swipe/insert your card now".
Unfortunately because of when it shows up and when people stop handing shit to the me, I almost always end up finishing scanning and going to the pay screen before they are finished doing all the shit, meaning that it gets cancelled, it takes up time and everyone involved looks like a jackass.
Also, you can't explain this to the customer because it takes too fucking long to do so and they'd probably just say, "So why does it even tell me to do that?"
[/QUOTE]
We don't have that. It just says "ready", but the amount of people who ask if you can swipe it when I'm still scanning items pisses me off.
Then with this new system we've got for paying where $35 or less and you don't need to sign or pin for credit cards. And I get every man and his dog complaining. And I have to go, It's not my problem, I didn't put this in place when they complain.
And someone did call their bank and tried to get it stopped. But you can't. So I tell people that.
They get all annoyed anyway.
I reassure them by saying, at least it's not $100 like some places.
They still bitch and moan.
[QUOTE=Hana-San;32523727]We don't have that. It just says "ready", but the amount of people who ask if you can swipe it when I'm still scanning items pisses me off.
Then with this new system we've got for paying where $35 or less and you don't need to sign or pin for credit cards. And I get every man and his dog complaining. And I have to go, It's not my problem, I didn't put this in place when they complain.
And someone did call their bank and tried to get it stopped. But you can't. So I tell people that.
They get all annoyed anyway.
I reassure them by saying, at least it's not $100 like some places.
They still bitch and moan.[/QUOTE]
We had one like that in my store but it was $50 or under, it lasted a week, maybe two at best with all the complaints the company got.
[QUOTE=Faren;32522244]Only place I've seen doing that is Subway.[/QUOTE]Burger King and Taco Bell do it as well (I know for a fact Taco Bell does at least).
Also our local computer shop.
I remember one day at work we had a cardboard cutout of John Cena that we got from the FYE store when they were closing down, so we took it, put an apron and a company hat on it, and marched it out to the front and left it at the register.
A few people walked up like they wanted to order from Mr. Cena...then didn't know what to do and left.
[editline]28th September 2011[/editline]
If i can find a picture of it, i will post one. I'm pretty sure one of us took a picture of John Cena guarding the register.
So, this happened yesterday...
Me: Thank you for calling Party City of Newnan where nobody has more Halloween for less. This is Molly, how may I help you?
Caller: Hello?
Me: Hi, how may I help you?
Caller: Who is this?
Me: My name is Molly, ma'am. Can I help you?
Caller: Yeah, hi. Can you tell me who is working tomorrow?
Me: I'm sorry, ma'am, but we're not allowed to give out shift information to customers. Is there anyone in particular you'd like to speak with?
Caller: Oh. Well, could you just tell me how much a yard of y'all's fabric is?
Me: We don't carry fabric, ma'am.
Caller: Oh, alright. Well, you you just tell Howard that Gina called for him?
Me: Howard? No one by-
Caller: You're welcome. -hangs up-
No one named Howard works at our store. I have never been so confused
I recently found out that the company (apparently) has a rule that says keyholders (which I am) cannot be friends with anyone they work with. No socializing, no non-work related communication, nothing.
The reaction in the store was almost unanimously "The fuck is that bullshit?"
[QUOTE=Demache;32524868]Burger King and Taco Bell do it as well (I know for a fact Taco Bell does at least).
Also our local computer shop.[/QUOTE]
Neither of those exist in my country :buddy:
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;32532785]I recently found out that the company (apparently) has a rule that says keyholders (which I am) cannot be friends with anyone they work with. No socializing, no non-work related communication, nothing.
The reaction in the store was almost unanimously "The fuck is that bullshit?"[/QUOTE]
My store has a similar policy, salaried managers can't be friends with hourly workers.
[QUOTE=Superwafflez;32488068]These are Australian wages, and in comparison to the US - roughly has the same buying power.[/QUOTE]
Unless we buy from the US over online, then it's like "wow, $60 for a game? what a bargain!"
Also $13.20 working at McDonald's here at 16
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;32532785]I recently found out that the company (apparently) has a rule that says keyholders (which I am) cannot be friends with anyone they work with. No socializing, no non-work related communication, nothing.
The reaction in the store was almost unanimously "The fuck is that bullshit?"[/QUOTE]
Yeah fuck that you can't tell someone who they can/can't be friends with.
[editline]29th September 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Moreto;32534052]My store has a similar policy, salaried managers can't be friends with hourly workers.[/QUOTE]
That's dumb.
My manager and I are bros. I think. It's hard to tell sometimes.
[editline]29th September 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Sniping Robot;32534133]Unless we buy from the US over online, then it's like "wow, $60 for a game? what a bargain!"
Also $13.20 working at McDonald's here at 16[/QUOTE]
$7.31 working at Radioshack in the states at 19.
[QUOTE=Moreto;32534052]My store has a similar policy, salaried managers can't be friends with hourly workers.[/QUOTE]Which is crap for two reasons:
1) I'm not salaried; I'm still an hourly worker.
2) Who the fuck is the company to tell me who I can and can't be friends with?
I worked at subway for a few years. The best costumers were these two black ladies that had those like 5 inch pink fingernails, they would tap on the protective glass when choosing what shit they wanted on their sandwich. Best was that they asked for the provolone, "Gimmie some o dat Mooon Cheese" tap-tap-tap or when they asked for lettuce, "Throw some salad on dat!" tap-tap-tap and then finished with like a liter of mayo.
:pageking:
Reading this thread makes me feel like I'm being judged whenever I go into anywhere retail.
The three assistant managers, the human resources and the store manager are all salaried as far as I know.
The whole reason behind that rule as far as I can tell is to try and avoid favoritism.
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