[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;33420079]If we get caught buying stuff during our break on Black Friday we'll get fired.[/QUOTE]
Thats dumb. If you aren't on the clock you should be allowed to do whatever the fuck you want. Thats how its been at every retail job I've had.
[QUOTE=hobblinharry;33395994]Maybe it varies by state? Every black friday I have worked (which is a lot of them, though at various different stores) I have seen people routinely have 14 hour shifts. I'm working a 13 hour shift this year, but I have worked 12 hours every other year.
Honestly tomorrow is gonna suck more for me than black friday. I work at one of my jobs (Best Buy) from 6am to 2:30pm and then my other job (CVS) from 4pm to 10pm. Even though I get an hour and a half break between the two, and a thirty minute break at Best Buy in the morning, that is still 14 hours total of working, over a 16 hour period. What sucks worse is I'm gonna have to try to stay up even later than 10pm when I get off (gonna try to stay up for about 24 hours, because I'll need to sleep all day thanksgiving so I can go back to Best Buy at 9pm Thanksgiving night to work our midnight black friday opening and get off at 10am friday morning.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, Black Friday isn't unusual for people to put in long hours.
When i worked at the restaurant in the food court, the owner wanted us open when the mall doors did (No one would want a Cheese Steak at 5am, and no one did...but whatever.)
So me, the GM, and one of the other managers got there at 4:30 and set the place up, we pretty much stood around until 10 when a few people wandered up, mostly for drinks. Lunch was a little busy, but nothing too crazy. Anyhow, i finally clocked out and went home to nap from 5 to 7, then got up and went back to help out my friends on the night shift and worked 7 until about 11 when we finally got the place cleaned up and closed down. Not too terrible of a day.
[editline]24th November 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=hobblinharry;33422369]Thats dumb. If you aren't on the clock you should be allowed to do whatever the fuck you want. Thats how its been at every retail job I've had.[/QUOTE]
A lot of places i have worked out don't make you clock out for breaks.
Then again, i haven't worked retail, so it may be universally different from restaurants.
[QUOTE=Sykez;33421773]We asked our managers first and they allowed it haha.[/QUOTE]
I'm starting to think I should have checked this with my manager. Just as well; I have enough stuff anyway.
[editline]25th November 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;33420079]If we get caught buying stuff during our break on Black Friday we'll get fired.[/QUOTE]
This might be an odd question, but are they preventing you from buying stuff from your own store on Black Friday, or from other stores?
Either way, I'm quite certain that you cannot be fired for buying things on your break; If you're off the clock, the company has absolutely no right to tell you where and when you can spend your money.
I work at a Toys R Us, yesterday some guy payed $99.38 at my till in CHANGE. MOTHERFUCKING LOONIES AND TOONIES. He fucking brings out this pouch of coins and says THIS SHOULD BE ENOUGH. Was upset.
7am to 4pm since I'm under 18 at bestbuy. Fuck yeah working the 3D TV section too and I really don't see any amazing deals on those. I feel bad for the guy who got put in the 40 inch section and the >40 section. Those are gonna be insane.
[QUOTE=Mr.Bossman;33424901]I work at a Toys R Us, yesterday some guy payed $99.38 at my till in CHANGE. MOTHERFUCKING LOONIES AND TOONIES. He fucking brings out this pouch of coins and says THIS SHOULD BE ENOUGH. Was upset.[/QUOTE]
We have a machine that counts coins for a small take of the total, like 9% or something.
Well, one day, it was disabled, and this guy with around $80.50 or so of change comes in, and we were nice enough to get the change rollers and count it for him. We didn't charge him, so it was better for him, but we spend a good 20 minutes or so counting haha.
Well, off to my shift! Hopefully the night goes smoothly.
I work at a certain high profile coffee chain. A lot of the customers get so pissed when you tell them they are ordering the drinks wrong.
It's not a Tall Mochachino frappachino extra hot venti... I literally had one customer order this and I had to explain we don't have a "Mochachino" and a frappachino is a cold blended drink and venti and tall are separate sizes, of course they acted like they knew what they were ordering even though it was obvious they didn't.
Its like me going to McDonalds and ordering a Small tealatte soda large.
Worst thing is it happens all the time.
Edit: Also HATE when customers go to drive through tell you to hold on, then we say "Ok tell us when you are ready or if you have any questions" then they sit there for 4 min and get angry because I didn't check on them every 10 seconds. Or when they honk the horn and talk to other people in the car about how we are terrible at our job... we can still hear you.
This video explains it all, also this guy got fired for this video.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUTrJW-0xtc[/media]
[QUOTE=Mr.Bossman;33424901]I work at a Toys R Us, yesterday some guy payed $99.38 at my till in CHANGE. MOTHERFUCKING LOONIES AND TOONIES. He fucking brings out this pouch of coins and says THIS SHOULD BE ENOUGH. Was upset.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_dollar#Legal_tender[/url] That should help you.
In other Canadian retail news, someone tried to pay for a single 500mL bottle of beer we sell (Czechvar/Budwieser Budvar for those interested) with a bunch of $1 Canadian bills. $1 Canadian bills were taken out of circulation in the 70s.
I just got to Target and holyshit Im scared shitless. Only ten minutes until my shift starts.
[QUOTE=Mr.Bossman;33424901]I work at a Toys R Us, yesterday some guy payed $99.38 at my till in CHANGE. MOTHERFUCKING LOONIES AND TOONIES. He fucking brings out this pouch of coins and says THIS SHOULD BE ENOUGH. Was upset.[/QUOTE]
I deny people who try to pay stuff over $20 in change. Sorry, but it's not my job to be a bank and count your coins. You're holding up lines, and there is a strong chance of something being miscounted which could in turn cost me my job. I understand that some people only have coins, but many banks will do it for free, and if not CoinStar is always an option.
I once had someone pay me $80 in fives.
He worked for chuckie cheezes which really explains a lot.
Just over the past two weeks. Had a kid try to trade pokemon cards for store credit. And a mother return a copy of COD because it didnt work in there DVD player. Oh and some old guy came in complaining about the song 'Black and Yellow' that was playing in our store because he thought it said 'fucking yellow'. He complained to our head office and received free dvds...
Speaking of music, my store stared with the Christmas music already, thankfully it's so quiet nobody can hear it.
Last year it was horrible, our loop was so short that you would hear the same song twice in one eight hour shift.
[QUOTE=Mr.Bossman;33424901]I work at a Toys R Us, yesterday some guy payed $99.38 at my till in CHANGE. MOTHERFUCKING LOONIES AND TOONIES. He fucking brings out this pouch of coins and says THIS SHOULD BE ENOUGH. Was upset.[/QUOTE]
Yeeeaaaah if someone did that at our store we'd be like "Lol no go get bills we're a store not a bank"
[editline]25th November 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Moreto;33426608]Speaking of music, my store stared with the Christmas music already, thankfully it's so quiet nobody can hear it.
Last year it was horrible, our loop was so short that you would hear the same song twice in one eight hour shift.[/QUOTE]
We have XM Radios on demo so we stick those on the Holiday Traditions channel. I love it. You get ACTUAL music from those. I'm especially fond of the Elvis Christmas songs, TSO, and ELO.
Fuck. Wish me luck guys. I leave in an hour to start my Black Friday shift
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;33427987]We have XM Radios on demo so we stick those on the Holiday Traditions channel. I love it. You get ACTUAL music from those. I'm especially fond of the Elvis Christmas songs, TSO, and ELO.[/QUOTE]
When I used to work in PC World (for US people, thing English Best Buy) we had one radio that we had on display that we just put on max and use as the 'store radio'. My manager always used to put it on some classic rock station and if anyone went up and changed it he to just walked over and changed it back. Shame he was a total twat.
That used to happen with ours. We had to have it on "Approved Stations" (Basically anything unoffensive). Luckily, Classic Vinyl was an approved station, so we usually left it there.
Every day some stupid asshole or some kids would change it to hard rock, metal, or hardcore rap, and we wouldn't notice until the radio started spewing "SHIT MOTHERFUCKING ASS COCK BALLS TITS TWAT CUNT BIMBELDYFUCK" and we'd have to run to change it.
Now it's behind the counter.
I don't even work in Retail or even have a job for that matter, but I love this thread. You guys seem to handle your anger quite well.
I like being paid more than I want to scream at the customer and call them a fucktard.
I'm really hoping I get to yell at someone today though. Black Friday and all. I'm REALLY hoping I get to yell at someone to get out after starting a fight.
[QUOTE=Second-gear-of-mgear;33428319]I don't even work in Retail or even have a job for that matter, but I love this thread. You guys seem to handle your anger quite well.[/QUOTE]
Man, you don't even know. The trick, actually, is to work with friends. The job I have now is equally shitty, but I'm working with an old friend so it makes it completely tolerable... when I'm with him. The rest of the time I try and detach myself and marvel at how stupid my co-workers/customers are.
Co-workers can sometimes be worse.
[QUOTE=Takkun10;33425143]7am to 4pm since I'm under 18 at bestbuy. Fuck yeah working the 3D TV section too and I really don't see any amazing deals on those. I feel bad for the guy who got put in the 40 inch section and the >40 section. Those are gonna be insane.[/QUOTE]
Lol is this your first black friday at best buy? Let me know if you actually only worked one section of your department after today. Maybe its just my best buy since we are the largest one in our district, the only one for an hour in any direction, and a not just the largest in the district, but one of the largest in the company - nobody ever winds up sticking in the "zones" they are scheduled to be in.
Anyway, I just worked 8:30PM to 10AM and I feel like I want to mutilate some babies in the worst way that even Satan could imagine. Of course thats a natural feeling for anyone who works a black friday shift.
For the past two years I've worked at my local Zellers (if you don't know what zellers is, its a lower level walmart) as a stock associate, which means I get the carts and move stuff around the store and what not. But it also means I have to clean the floor if something is spilled, and one day when I was working, someone took a shit on the floor, literally dropped his pants and shit on the floor, and I had to clean it up.
I love when companies call their employees "associates." Unless I get a stake in your company, don't call me an "associate." It's just a candy-coated way of saying, "You get shit for pay, run my store, yet I get to stand around holding a cup of coffee."
[QUOTE=icedt;33393755]Last night i spent an hour listening to this guy explain to me how Iphones are for "faggots, Blondes, and Pussy whipped men" And Androids were for "Mother Fucking Men".[/QUOTE]
Well, he is right.
My old teacher just said this, I couldn't agree more to be honest.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/d2u96.png[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Second-gear-of-mgear;33435057]My old teacher just said this, I couldn't agree more to be honest.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/d2u96.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Sounds to me he's talking more about the Occupy movement than Black Friday...
[QUOTE=hobblinharry;33430926]Lol is this your first black friday at best buy? Let me know if you actually only worked one section of your department after today. Maybe its just my best buy since we are the largest one in our district, the only one for an hour in any direction, and a not just the largest in the district, but one of the largest in the company - nobody ever winds up sticking in the "zones" they are scheduled to be in.
Anyway, I just worked 8:30PM to 10AM and I feel like I want to mutilate some babies in the worst way that even Satan could imagine. Of course thats a natural feeling for anyone who works a black friday shift.[/QUOTE]
I mean I'm home life so I never leave the home theater section. I was stationed to 3D tvs but no one was buying those so I just walked around my entire department. I'm tired as fuck and fuck everyone who wanted that $200 42inch sharp, you knew it wouldn't be here why the hell would you come in at 3pm to look for it. We sold out of them in 30 minutes of opening.
[editline]25th November 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=CrispexOps;33432691]I love when companies call their employees "associates." Unless I get a stake in your company, don't call me an "associate." It's just a candy-coated way of saying, "You get shit for pay, run my store, yet I get to stand around holding a cup of coffee."[/QUOTE]
pretty much. We should make commission over in TVs to be honest, we actually have to sell unlike everyone else who clerks.
[QUOTE=Takkun10;33436321]I mean I'm home life so I never leave the home theater section. I was stationed to 3D tvs but no one was buying those so I just walked around my entire department.[/QUOTE]
So you didn't stick to your zone. Exactly like I thought. Good ol best buy and their useless zoning practicies.
[QUOTE=hobblinharry;33437611]So you didn't stick to your zone. Exactly like I thought. Good ol best buy and their useless zoning practicies.[/QUOTE]
Yeah it was really dumb. I could understand if we had like a shit load of people invading the store but we are not going to be swamped the whole time so no one sticks to zoning. Its like any other day but we have x3 the normal amount of people.
Also that $80 24" Sharp some guy was freaking out because he came in at 11am when we opened at midnight and was yelling at me about how his computer said we had 10 of them and they sold out at 1am. I tried to convince him that we would have more TVs of that price later down the line with the christmas sales coming but he was just like "I WANT IT NOW, SELL ME A TV" Guy wouldn't spend more than $100, fuck his frugal ass. Guy couldn't understand the concept of early bird gets the worm, thinks I can just drop $180 of a tv magically.
"Just store policy; how old is the person you're gifting this game to?"
"He'll be 14 by Christmas."
"Alright, I just wanted to let you know that this game is rated M and is in no fashion appropriate for kids."
"He's played the game with the assassins and something about stealing cars."
"Don't get me wrong, there are some games that have a good story or all-around fun to play in general, but... uh, this one has you beating people with adult novelty items."
The woman's eyes grew big in either interest or disgust and she leaned in to whisper. "Like what?"
"Giant purple dildo bats."
"You're shitting me."
One of the highlights of my day. After convincing her that I was in fact telling her the truth, I managed to direct her towards buying both Batman: Arkham Asylum and Arkham City.
Soon to be 14 year old is probably going to hate me come Christmas, but I feel like I did a decent thing. Particularly since she looked like one of the hags who would come back and yell about not being warned of it later.
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