[QUOTE=Clunj;32689806]This thread is hilarious. I'm laughing more at the posters than I am the posts though. Some people need to get a grip.[/QUOTE]
Prove to me you aren't 12. Please
There's nothing to fear. You'll become hardened to customers in no time at all. Mistakes can easily be fixed. Always ask if you aren't sure, you can't know everything on day 1 and won't know everything for a while.
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;32755249]We don't want you in our store wandering about, because then we [i]have to watch you to make sure you're not stealing shit[/i]
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That's your stores fault for having shitty policies that don't allow you to have any faith in humankind.
Finishing Uni in the next few weeks. Have to ask for more work during my holidays.
To cure 4 months of nothing during the day.
Working at subway. Lots of stoners and the like come in all the time. So its 9:30. Really stoned looking comes in.
Guy: "Hey mann... could I have a... uhmm... sub please?"
Me: "This is subway, it's all subs, what kind of sub would you like?"
Guy: "Uhmm, you know like with bread and stuff..."
Me: "... so a coldcut?"
Guy: "yeaa mann!"
Ahh how stoners always made my day at work.
[QUOTE=I-the-gamer;32757778]That's your stores fault for having shitty policies that don't allow you to have any faith in humankind.[/QUOTE]
On the other side of the argument, we wouldn't need to have those policies if we could trust people. That's not to say I look at every customer as though they are a potential thief, not at all. But given how much shit gets stolen from our store, I do have to keep an eye out for shoplifters (especially teenagers with backpacks).
Retail work makes it very easy to become cynical of your fellow man.
[QUOTE=I-the-gamer;32757778]That's your stores fault for having shitty policies that don't allow you to have any faith in humankind.[/QUOTE]
No it's corporate's fault for putting us in a bad neighborhood without cameras. We've had a ton of shit get stolen in the past month or two. Though its liking suspiciously like my coworker is having something to do with it
[QUOTE=BigOwl;32756429]Prove to me you aren't 12. Please[/QUOTE]
I don't need to. Regardless of my age you clearly don't agree with me and we're on the internet here so there's no chance in that changing.
[QUOTE=mix999;32761437]Working at subway. Lots of stoners and the like come in all the time. So its 9:30. Really stoned looking comes in.
Guy: "Hey mann... could I have a... uhmm... sum please?"
Me: "This is subway, it's all subs, what kind of sub would you like?"
Guy: "Uhmm, you know like with bread and stuff..."
Me: "... so a coldcut?"
Guy: "yeaa mann!"
Ahh how stoners always made my day at work.[/QUOTE]
I have a friend that works at "Party America", apparently they get lots of stoners and drunk folks wandering in, buying random stuff, laughing their asses off, and then leaving (or wobbling) out of the store :v:
Anyone else get really annoyed at the customers who can't read the big sign infront of your product? Or any of the labelling on the product itself?
Label: "This beer is gluten free. It contains no gluten."
Customer: "Hey, I have a question about this beer. I'm looking for some gluten free beer but I'm worried it may contain gluten."
Or the people who intentionally break the packaging on 24 can cases because they wanted a single beer and couldn't be bothered to look in the fridge next to the counter with a big sign saying "SINGLES" and the sign on the beer cooler doors saying "Please do not split packaging."
Yeah. For a period we were taking photos of people while they were in line for an exhibition. They had to stand waiting for the people in front of them in the line to get their photo taken in front of a fluorescent green screen and the flash of industrial photography lights. They were still confused when they were asked to step in for a photo.
Just had a wonderful, long-as-hell, talk about Communism and it's principles with a customer (he was a communist [too?] apparently).
My partner had trouble keeping a straight face during the whole time for some reason, dirty capitalist dog.
Felt wonderful talking with the guy thought
I work tech support for rogers, one guy called in cause he couldn't log into hotmail. He was pissed and said a previous rep told him to go to MSN or whomever about it, he couldn't find out how so he decided to call us back and got me this time.
For some reason this time he expects me to fix it despite the last guy telling him to take off. So when i'm all "Sir, you aren't going to like what i'm about to say but that's to do with their service, not ours."
He called ME a "FUCKING IDIOT" and asked for my manager. I replied with "Certainly sir! if you don't mind holding for a minute or two I can do that for you"
So then I transferred him to my "supervisor" which is just another dude wearing a headset in a completely different province.
Oh, and one time a lady called in praising rogers for their good service. This is tech support again, and she just got me. So she was showering me for compliments for shit other people had done. I was just like thanks ma'am, cya later.
[editline]14th October 2011[/editline]
As a side note I say "cya later" far too often in a job where I only get calls when their internet is down.
I work my family's coffee shop. Been doing it for six years now. When i was on my second year, we decided it would be a great idea to put a coupon on customer receipt copies of transactions. The deal was you get .25 cents off your next coffee or whatever. The coupons also said the deal was void after 2007.
Today, a random lady came up to the drive thru and ordered a Frappe-ish drink and mentioned that she had a coupon. (We also have punch cards for drinks, 10 punches = 1 free w/e size drink) I figured it was a punch card, because you always have to read the customers mind. But i suck at it. She handed me one of these receipts that expired four years ago. I told her this thing expired back in 2007. She said that it isnt right that we dont give her 25 cents off her order, dumps her drink on the drive thru window tray and speeds off. Bee's just love drinks the customers spill in the drive thru.
Also a customer spilled coffee on our creditcard machine that also does gift card transactions. So we couldnt do giftcard transactions for the longest time. Another old lady came through the drive thru and asked if our machine could take giftcards yet. I told her no sorry, not yet. Then she said, " Well im getting mighty tired of this bullshit." Then I thought, "Well why dont you take a nap and never wake up?".
You cant say that to customers when you work a small business, word of mouth works both ways for the small shops sadly.
Lady trying to buy cigarettes at my register with an EBT.
get outta heeer
The other day we had a couple of what appeared to be contracts try to return a apparently abused 15oz hammer with a 3 day old receipt for a 14oz hammer.
I know the 15oz one and it's a really nice one too.
Of course they didn't get it, not even when the manager came.
Slave jobs.
[QUOTE=gokuman4594;32798953]Slave jobs.[/QUOTE]
I read that as steve jobs
My job isn't that bad, i work as a network technician at my old school
all i really get is the computer illiterate student every now and then.
[QUOTE=gokuman4594;32798953]Slave jobs.[/QUOTE]
Depending on where you work you earn a lot of money.
I can earn up to $22 an hour and I'm 19. And that's a lot of money for people my age these days even in Australia.
[editline]17th October 2011[/editline]
Cut my finger at work today and just realized it. I assume that it's from a plastic cheese box.
Though not entirely retail, I had what I thought was a wonderful job opportunity set up. Apparently my father was talking to the owner of a partner company, one who needed a machinist apprentice. Fuck, I think, it's not something as technical as I wanted, but I'll take it. The economy was far too bad for me to argue.
So I spend a whole day setting up a very formal interview, a full page; along with possible questions and retorts. When I finally show up to the place, boss is gone. Instead, I meet the shop foreman. He's actually really friendly, but reminds me of Larry the Cable Guy. What's he do? Lead me around the shop and ask this-and-that questions the whole time. He finally states that they won't actually need new CNC machinists for another couple months, but that I can be a shop-hand in the mean time. I go with it, as I stated earlier, can't argue with any job potential.
What does it turn out to be? Crap work. It's a mix of janitor, machine technician, truck driver, spray painter, and general everything-man. It's overtime every day, about nine to twelve hour work days. Occasional Saturdays. At first, it's frustrating. It's so much time spent working that I literally come home, eat dinner, shower up, and have about an hour before bed.
An then I learned, I was getting paid more than the machinist apprentices, by quite a bit; since all they do is just cycle a machine all day which is really just pushing a few buttons and calling it work. Half of them watch YouTube on their laptops half the day. And then I also learned how overtime worked. Now I can't really argue at all. It's tough work, but I'm getting paid a ridiculous amount for something so unskilled. To top it all off, they're super lenient. I can pretty much call up and say I don't want to work today, and they'll let it fly. As long as it doesn't become a repeat habit. :v:
[QUOTE=Doom14;32811130]
An then I learned, I was getting paid more than the machinist apprentices, by quite a bit;[/QUOTE]
Are you going to end up in the apprentice position still?
[QUOTE=RichardCQ;32811622]Are you going to end up in the apprentice position still?[/QUOTE]
Yeah, in about four-to-six months. And since I'll literally be qualified to do everything else in the shop except some Deburr and Industrial Lathe work, it's not like my pay will be docked.
[QUOTE=Doom14;32811130]Though not entirely retail, I had what I thought was a wonderful job opportunity set up. Apparently my father was talking to the owner of a partner company, one who needed a machinist apprentice. Fuck, I think, it's not something as technical as I wanted, but I'll take it. The economy was far too bad for me to argue.
So I spend a whole day setting up a very formal interview, a full page; along with possible questions and retorts. When I finally show up to the place, boss is gone. Instead, I meet the shop foreman. He's actually really friendly, but reminds me of Larry the Cable Guy. What's he do? Lead me around the shop and ask this-and-that questions the whole time. He finally states that they won't actually need new CNC machinists for another couple months, but that I can be a shop-hand in the mean time. I go with it, as I stated earlier, can't argue with any job potential.
What does it turn out to be? Crap work. It's a mix of janitor, machine technician, truck driver, spray painter, and general everything-man. It's overtime every day, about nine to twelve hour work days. Occasional Saturdays. At first, it's frustrating. It's so much time spent working that I literally come home, eat dinner, shower up, and have about an hour before bed.
An then I learned, I was getting paid more than the machinist apprentices, by quite a bit; since all they do is just cycle a machine all day which is really just pushing a few buttons and calling it work. Half of them watch YouTube on their laptops half the day. And then I also learned how overtime worked. Now I can't really argue at all. It's tough work, but I'm getting paid a ridiculous amount for something so unskilled. To top it all off, they're super lenient. I can pretty much call up and say I don't want to work today, and they'll let it fly. As long as it doesn't become a repeat habit. :v:[/QUOTE]Is the name of this shop koth_viaduct?
(bad joke, I'm sorry).
[QUOTE=gokuman4594;32798953]Slave jobs.[/QUOTE]
Working wage job.
Get the fuck out of here with your high and mighty entitled bullshit.
I worked for $60/week doing online sales for Xenon and while it's nothing compared to these guys jobs it was still shit and I did it because I really needed the money. So when some twat comes in here going "get a load of these guys..." well, fuck off. When mom and dad kicks you out the door and stops paying for your cell phone and internet bill, we'll see who's laughing.
i'm now a tutor at the high school i attended. i start later this morning and get payed 8.25 an hour. c:
edit: why did i post this in a thread for retail business? i meant to put this in that unemployment thread. please forgive my stupid
can someone that works at a subway answer something that i have never been able to grasP?
there's a particular subway that i go to in atlanta sometimes. when I ask for pepper on my sandwich they say "just pepper?" and when I say "just pepper" they say "just pepper?" and always make sure I want just that.
why?
[QUOTE=DOG-GY;32825081]can someone that works at a subway answer something that i have never been able to grasP?
there's a particular subway that i go to in atlanta sometimes. when I ask for pepper on my sandwich they say "just pepper?" and when I say "just pepper" they say "just pepper?" and always make sure I want just that.
why?[/QUOTE]Other types of pepper
then why isnt the question what kind of pepper?
my pepper knowledge is nill what kinds does subway have?
if you want pepper that you would have at a dinner table then ask for black pepper
you can get white pepper as well
[editline]17th October 2011[/editline]
as for my story, I work at the most northerly Tesco store in the UK.
people here don't even know what 10 items or less means
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