[QUOTE=Funny;33859853]
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]
The shop where I work has been quiet lately too. We're the closest food shop to most of the area.
I'm waiting for terrible amounts of customers today.
[editline]24th December 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=SEKCobra;33861239]I oculd never do you guys job, I hate bending down.[/QUOTE]
I never have to bend down. I work at a register for hours standing in the same spot. No need for bending.
I guess I'm lucky that I'm not working new years day or eve, or Christmas eve.
But on the other side I haven't worked a weekend in a month or two at a place that says you HAVE to work a weekend day a week to work there.
Go figure.
Well, today wasn't too horrible (save for the last hour). Hopefully tomorrow will be a bit slower.
I volunteered to work Christmas eve and the 25th.
Winn Dixie takes care of us there, I'll be doing a six hour shift, and I get time and a half, so 12 paid hours, PLUS, 4 hours free hours holiday pay. 16 hours, for originally a 6 hour shift! I'm excited...
[QUOTE=Kevincs316;33868623]I volunteered to work Christmas eve and the 25th.
Winn Dixie takes care of us there, I'll be doing a six hour shift, and I get time and a half, so 12 paid hours, PLUS, 4 hours free hours holiday pay. 16 hours, for originally a 6 hour shift! I'm excited...[/QUOTE]
Nothing personal, but I'm loathing your guts right now.
Gamestop doesn't pay overtime and doesn't pay holiday :(
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;33869073]Nothing personal, but I'm loathing your guts right now.
Gamestop doesn't pay overtime and doesn't pay holiday :([/QUOTE]
I fail to understand why there isn't a Cashier's Union or something. There's a Union for just about everything here in the states.
[QUOTE=ewitwins;33870754]I fail to understand why there isn't a Cashier's Union or something. There's a Union for just about everything here in the states.[/QUOTE]
Because if it will cost them too much money they can always just shut down the store right?
Worked 9 1/2 hours today - Very long day due to the shear amount of annoying customers who came in.
I lost count of the number of customers who came up to me asking if we had any Christmas tress or lights left. I had to tell each one "I'm sorry, no, we have run out of stock of x". Almost half of those people started complaining instantly by saying "It's Christmas, you should have them in stock" and then they would storm out of the shop.
Then there were the people who would complain that we didn't have a specific color napkins or decorations. They would just bitch about it and then knock something onto the floor when I wasn't looking.
Godspeed retail employees for last last minute christmas items.
Just about to finish my hour break and head back to work.
Things were fucking manic earlier, but it calmed down towards dinner time. It took me an hour and a half to do unload my first cage and stock it all because of the sheer customer density in the aisle (baking needs, go figure). I satacked several cartons of caster sugar and in less than an hour it was all gone (ALL gone - none out back or anything), the manager kind of fucked up ordering everything this xmas it seems.
Got 2 and a half hours left and then it's home time. Too bad we don't get paid holiday rates on xmas eve.
Mother of god the shop's going to be busy today.
Still, Christmas temps rejoice, contracts are nearly up.
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;33872981]Godspeed retail employees for last last minute christmas items.[/QUOTE]
I'm about to head out and open the store. I shall stand strong...
Goddamn, one of my friends has to work during Christmas Eve, thoughout the night.
Why do people keep telling me to work when a lot of the time work fucking sucks?
[QUOTE=megafat;33874963]Goddamn, one of my friends has to work during Christmas Eve, thoughout the night.
Why do people keep telling me to work when a lot of the time work fucking sucks?[/QUOTE]
because you need to make paper somehow, and while selling hash is way more profitable you need to consider startup costs
[QUOTE=megafat;33874963]Goddamn, one of my friends has to work during Christmas Eve, thoughout the night.
Why do people keep telling me to work when a lot of the time work fucking sucks?[/QUOTE]
I hate when people tell you that money should be enough motivation. I don't care if I'm getting $50 for my shift, if I have to put up with annoying customers or do horrendous work then I'm not going to care about that $50 if it means I don't have to put with either of them.
I am about to embark on a great crusade, the eyes of hundreds of husbands/boyfriends/etc who haven't gotten their wife/girlfriend/partner a christmas card yet are upon me. The hopes and prayers of last minute shoppers everywhere march with me. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms in other stores, I will bring about swift service to rude customers, the elimination of cardless-ness tyranny over the oppressed peoples of England, and security for peoples relationships over the christmas period.
Got underpaid this month and I'm working today and boxing day.
Fucking shitty arse job
[QUOTE=Nlogax;33825913]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?[/QUOTE]
You're talking like there's something inherently wrong with 'ratting'. Not to say you shouldn't be allowed downtime as customers aren't present, but if you're getting paid and violating company policies, what did you expect? If the company chooses to enforce its own statutes, well you better shape up, not blame someone else for your own problem.
Fucking 14.5 hour shift yesterday. Opened at 9am at my store, left and went to the mall store at 5pm, worked from there to 11:30pm.
Whelp, made it through in one piece. Combine the last few days with the stock counting the sunday before (200% mo'afucka) and my next pay is going to look VERY appealing.
Funnily enough, today was eerily quiet for the Saturday before Christmas. Then again, Friday was bloody hell. Fuck a woman scorned, working retail the days before Christmas is hell's fury.
[QUOTE=taipan;33859859]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.[/QUOTE]
I have the same thing, but I have to ask if you're [b]40 or below.[/b]
Yes, 40. Yay Missouri.
I've been working at East of Chicago pizza place for a few weeks and so far it's not too bad. Only problem with annoying people so far is being bitched at over the phone for not being able to send delivery drivers out of town when the roads were really bad.
[editline]25th December 2011[/editline]
and this idiot who kept calling us constantly for some dumb thing he was pissed about
So....standing behind the counter of a BP station.
First day of Xmas, so theres literally around 2 customers an hour. Im bored off my ass...
The only thing that keeps me going is knowing Im earning mobey which'll let me do nice things with and/or fort/with my friends and girlfriend.
Euh wtf. Stupid phone wont let me control my cursor on FPF...
Well anyways, bought her a solid silver collier with a genuine copper roman coin in it.. Bought it of a spanish museum. Pretty cool, can't wait to give it to her...
She's miles away from me...like 90 miles.
does security count becuase it has to do with customer experience and retarded people.
[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]
Why not just say you can't go. They can't expect you to do other people's job.
[QUOTE=mastfire;33889130]does security count becuase it has to do with customer experience and retarded people.[/QUOTE]
To be fair this thread should just be about all annoying or funny work experiences, retail or not.
[QUOTE=TheMetricSystem;33888089]So....standing behind the counter of a BP station.
First day of Xmas, so theres literally around 2 customers an hour. Im bored off my ass...
The only thing that keeps me going is knowing Im earning mobey which'll let me do nice things with and/or fort/with my friends and girlfriend.
Euh wtf. Stupid phone wont let me control my cursor on FPF...
Well anyways, bought her a solid silver collier with a genuine copper roman coin in it.. Bought it of a spanish museum. Pretty cool, can't wait to give it to her...
She's miles away from me...like 90 miles.[/QUOTE]
No co-workers to chat with, or a newspaper to read or something?
Got a nice amount of money for Christmas today.. all of it went to my brother, I owed him money :( So I'm still broke, BUT I'm debt free! I CANT FUCKING WAIT until payday! Roll on Dec 31.
Anyone who worked this week, do you get any annoying customers who constantly ask what your doing for the holidays?
It used to drive me mad, ever other customer would ask the same god damn question. Sometimes they would ask 3 or 4 times [i]a day[/i] I eventually started to say I was Muslim so they would leave me alone. Though one woman refused my help because she thought I was a terrorist or some shit.
Nice one yesterday.
I sold a tv which has a glass plate on the front to a girl who's last name was Ramp (which means disaster in dutch)<-- I am not making this shit up.
She paid and took it home only to show up half an hour later with a smashed tv. She aperrently hit her bed while setting it up, and the glass front shattered.
We happen to know that this glass front is fragile because we also had this happen in the shop once.
So she came back with it to see what we could do for her. Since the tv was a total loss and she admitted that she smashed it into her bedframe this would be entirely her fault and we wouldnt have to replace annything.
So I went to my manager to see what could be done, explaining to him that we also smashed the same type of tv once and that it might just be crappy built quality. To my surprise he actually agreed just to give her a new one for free and book up the broken tv as an internall loss.
Merry Christmas!
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