Working Retail: Stories of the Underpaid - General

[QUOTE=Errorproxy;33808273]Who are the first best?[/QUOTE] Garbage people, the guys who come pick up your trash from the side of the road. Without them to pick up shit, every country would fall apart.

[QUOTE=CrispexOps;33791225]Nothing is worse than when you're on break, we've got a bench outside that we all sit on and have a smoke when we're not working, you get so many dirty looks and you get people saying, "So nice you're getting paid to sit around."[/QUOTE] People are fucking assholes when they expect you to serve them and you aren't. I was on lunch break sitting in the [i]back room[/i] with the door slightly ajar since someone had come in and out and didn't shut it. This fucking asshole customer walks up, peeks into the back room, shoves the door open, and just stares at me. While I'm eating. I look up at him and ask, I'm sure irritably sounding, "Can I help you?" 'Yes you can get out here I need help.' I told him, politely, to fuck off (not my exact words), that I was on lunch and couldn't help him. I'd be done in 'like maybe 20 minutes or something like that' and asked if I could finish eating. He makes his fucking disgustingly annoying harumphing sound in his throat and leaves. I come back out from the break room 30 minutes later and find out from my coworker that he had stood around staring at his watch fucking timing me, and got upset when I didn't come out at 20 minutes. God damn people

[QUOTE=Jmir 54;33807963]So who else has to put up with people who you barely know yet when they go to where you work at they assume the two of you are "buds" and you're expected to give them free shit. It awful for me because my older brother is practically a celebrity in my town (he practically carried his high school basketball team to states) so I get a lot of the druggies/faggoty people my brother used to hang out with come up to me and say "hey man you got me right"? All my hated and wrath[/QUOTE] I work at a game store, people try to get discounts from me all the time. My favorite response is "No, I don't got you. $49.99 is your total."

[QUOTE=Sickle;33800415]his fucking clothes magically disappeared when he was wrestling the blanket and he tried to shove a hair brush up his ass while wearing underpants this guy must REALLY work retail[/QUOTE] Are you saying we're retarded or frustrated enough to be this retarded? [editline]20th December 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Nlogax;33807071]Had some lady complain to the manager about me for being rude to her. She came into the store with a $60 sweater that she had purchased a few days ago, and wanted to return it. As I was returning it I noticed that she used a coupon when she originally bought it, and could only refund her what she paid for it ($48.87 or something). She was furious and demanded she receive a full refund and that "I wasn't being fair." Her daughter then joined up with her, and starting firing off shit like "you don't know what you're doing, you need to make this right" and stuff. So I call my manager out to come deal with the situation and she gives them a full refund. She then called me into the office the next day to tell me that I didn't handle the situation as I should have, when I was clearly taught to not give them more money than they originally paid for. What the fuck is wrong with these people.[/QUOTE] Your manager is a stupid bitch. Someone did this to me a while ago, you know what my manager said when she started yelling at us because we wouldn't give her a 'full refund' even though she had used a $20 off coupon? He asked her to leave before he called the police. Bitch left and we never heard a word from her again. We high-fived after. [editline]20th December 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=TheFishyG;33810775]Garbage people, the guys who come pick up your trash from the side of the road. Without them to pick up shit, every country would fall apart.[/QUOTE] From what I heard, garbage-men get really good pay and good benefits.

[QUOTE=TheFishyG;33810775]Garbage people, the guys who come pick up your trash from the side of the road. Without them to pick up shit, every country would fall apart.[/QUOTE] The most important people are at the bottom. I see. [QUOTE=Agoat;33811894]I work at a game store, people try to get discounts from me all the time. My favorite response is "No, I don't got you. $49.99 is your total."[/QUOTE] Yo dawg, you got me bro you got me shit throw me over here this favor and shit I'll help yo with yo shit ya know what I'm sayin' dawg? Shit.. I don't know where the hell people learn how to speak like that.

Was at work today, some weird guy came up to me and said "Don't you play any sports?" while I was checking some expiration dates or something. I asked him to repeat, and he started talking about how you had to play some sports, and get the media's attention, and that I couldn't play any sports because I was at work at 21:00.

So I've volunteered to work extra hours. Wednesday night, Thursday night, Friday night and Saturday afternoon. May God have mercy on my soul.

6am Christmas eve yay..... :suicide:

I'm going to be working as a Ski Instructor soon, for the same resort I was a Pool Attendant for. Should be interesting.

[QUOTE=icedt;33818499]6am Christmas eve yay..... :suicide:[/QUOTE] If you think that's bad, on boxing day at my store there's a total of six people in cash, including myself. I'm praying it's slow ever so much.

Went to the old Walmart I used to work at today. Had the usual. Long line of terribly-dressed adults, bitchy kids and a man ripping open skittles packets and pouring them down his pants while chasing a female employee. Ok the last part isn't so usual. But that's the reason I stuck around. One of special employees got fired so he decides to ruin 40~ packets of skittles while chasing the head manager around the store. The special guy (I'll name him Mark) and the manager (I'll name her arseface) never got along. Mark was always rather nice and wanted to help out, but arseface was more neo-nazi YOU DO AS I SAY kind of person. Well Mark was helping one of the cashiers bag and arseface came over and fired him for 'leaving his job post', that started the 20 minute long circus of a 25 year old chasing a 45 year old around the store. I love Walmart

[QUOTE=Esrange;33820766]Went to the old Walmart I used to work at today. Had the usual. Long line of terribly-dressed adults, bitchy kids and a man ripping open skittles packets and pouring them down his pants while chasing a female employee. Ok the last part isn't so usual. But that's the reason I stuck around. One of special employees got fired so he decides to ruin 40~ packets of skittles while chasing the head manager around the store. The special guy (I'll name him Mark) and the manager (I'll name her arseface) never got along. Mark was always rather nice and wanted to help out, but arseface was more neo-nazi YOU DO AS I SAY kind of person. Well Mark was helping one of the cashiers bag and arseface came over and fired him for 'leaving his job post', that started the 20 minute long circus of a 25 year old chasing a 45 year old around the store. I love Walmart[/QUOTE] If I had drawing skills (and a tablet), I would love to make that into some kind of zany comic.

Also, is it just me or can no one else trust your fellow retail coworkers? Everyone i've worked with has ratted on my to the manager for browsing the web or sending emails on my phone during the work day. I never let it interfere with helping customers, and only did it when things really slowed down. I've had like 70% of the people I work with rat on me. Done absolutely nothing to mean to them or anything. One of them even went as far to make some shit up about me "taking naps during the day constantly" which is a complete lie. Honestly, the last time I ratted on someone I was maybe 7. And it was because my friend wouldn't give me my legos I let him borrow back. What the hell is wrong with these people?

Oh lord. The isle I usually do was finished at around 11 last night and apparently they're getting roughly 1.5 times as much tonight. When I'll be doing it. Fuck.

Working Saturday afternoon. 2-6 pm. The store closes at 10. I got a bad shift. Then I normally work Sundays, and we're closed that day. And pay is going to be delayed by 2 days, and I'm living pay check to pay check. So I've got $60 for the 7 days. And still got Christmas presents to buy.

Got called in to work 10am-8pm on Saturday because every other person in the department called in "sick". I don't even work in that department and I have to cover for it. It will be a [B]very[/B] long day. :suicide:

I don't know what my schedule is like for next week yet. Including Saturday :v:

You could always buy presents a bit later/in the sales after Christmas, I'm sure people would understand.

[QUOTE=NinjaWilko;33843117]Got called in to work 10am-8pm on Saturday because every other person in the department called in "sick". I don't even work in that department and I have to cover for it. It will be a [B]very[/B] long day. :suicide:[/QUOTE] I'm just not looking forward to the next two days, and the day after christmas. While I genuinely love it when I get that overjoyed "THANK YOU! :D" from a customer who I spent the last 10 minutes helping them find the perfect gift, I'm starting to notice an overpowering disgust with the sheer volume of last minute shoppers. I just do not understand how people can wait until two days before Christmas to do all their shopping, then somehow be surprised and angry that you don't have the item in stock and can't get it to the store in time.

[QUOTE=Hana-San;33841686]Working Saturday afternoon. 2-6 pm. The store closes at 10. I got a bad shift. Then I normally work Sundays, and we're closed that day. And pay is going to be delayed by 2 days, and I'm living pay check to pay check. So I've got $60 for the 7 days. And still got Christmas presents to buy.[/QUOTE] "Money's tight, Times are hard, I made a fucking Christmas card." Write that in home made cards and give them instead of gifts.

Looks like I've got friday-tuesday off. Whoo!

McDonald's has to be one of the worst places to work during Christmas. Just the heat and sheer amount of work you have to do quickly for so many god damn customers. Fuck.

[QUOTE=Over-Run;33854507]McDonald's has to be one of the worst places to work during Christmas. Just the heat and sheer amount of work you have to do quickly for so many god damn customers. Fuck.[/QUOTE] I feel sorry for the poor bastards there, open 24 hours all holiday long...

[QUOTE=Hamushka11;33851733]"Money's tight, Times are hard, I made a fucking Christmas card." Write that in home made cards and give them instead of gifts.[/QUOTE] I'm using cards that my mum bought years ago anyway. Bought a bottle of Bailleys cream for my grandfather today. Guy gave me a stern look and asked for ID. I'm 19 (Legal age is 18). He wasn't a very friendly person.

Well, I've been working at Sainsburys for a month now.. I don't know what I was expecting after going in reading all of your stories, but I think I got off lucky. All of the management are really nice guys. They help me when I need it, leave me alone when I need it. I dropped a glass jar of something yesterday, three of them ran over to make sure I was OK, THEN proceeded to help me clean it up. Stuff like that doesn't even get docked from your pay. Stuff like this is why I'm happy to work 11:00 - 7:30 on Christmas Eve and New Years Eve on top of my normal hours. It's strange too, the store has been dead these last two weeks running up to Christmas, there have been busy spells, but apart from those I've been finding myself finishing all of my work 2 hours into my shift then helping out all the other departments after..

[QUOTE=Hana-San;33857322]I'm using cards that my mum bought years ago anyway. Bought a bottle of Bailleys cream for my grandfather today. Guy gave me a stern look and asked for ID. I'm 19 (Legal age is 18). He wasn't a very friendly person.[/QUOTE] Ugh, we have a new rule here that requires annyone to ask your I.D. if you are 21 or below. It doesnt matter if the person helping you is your mother and knows you are 18+, if she hasnt asked for your I.D. and you turn out to be 21 or below she gets fined.

Fuck, just checked my roster and I'm working New Year Eve too. [QUOTE=Funny;33859853]I dropped a glass jar of something yesterday, three of them ran over to make sure I was OK, THEN proceeded to help me clean it up. Stuff like that doesn't even get docked from your pay.[/QUOTE] The amount of crap I have to clean up here is ridiculous. Today alone, I had to clean up 3 bags of pasta, 2 boxes of cat litter, a couple rolls of toilet paper, and a bunch of dropped lettuce. The bad part is that everybody just stands there and goes "Yeah you take care of that". At least the managers are friendly, I was honestly expecting a lot worse, but they're all nice people and usually are, nobody wants to work for a manager who does nothing but get on everybodies nerves.

My dad has go to work at 7am on Christmas day to check how the refrigeration is. I told him that they should pay him extra just for that. Did I mention that he has from now til Dec. 29 or something off?

Eight hours of work. Four customers. Sometimes it's really nice to not do jackshit at work. The older employees gave me their life story today, which was very interesting to listen to.

I oculd never do you guys job, I hate bending down.