I don't know for sure. The dress code in my department is really lax because the store isn't open. They let you wear jeans and sweatshirts and stuff, I'd imagine if you work outside during the day you may need to wear a red sweatshirt or something like that but I don't really have an answer so wait on that.
I know some people have neato Target jackets but I think they're special and you only get them for certain things. They do have Target Team Member fleece jackets and sweatshirts on their company store though so I guess you'd have to order one, but ask if you get hired. Don't stress about it yet.
Would a resume be too much for an interview for a job as a "cart relocation technician"?
Sorry if I'm asking too many questions, I'm just nervous cause the interview is tomorrow morning
I didn't have a resume, never even made one. The application is enough.
I know what it's like, but if you just go in and do well enough, even if you're little nervous you have a decent chance. I lucked out because I was the default anyway (the only one who showed up to the interviews, orientation and training).
I really did luck out on that though. And my review is coming up which means I'm almost promised a $1 increase to my wage. The only thing is once I max out at like $12 an hour or so I think I'm stuck there. So if I want more hours I have to cross train to work backroom/stockroom or a day-shift position. Alternately go to college and see if I can become a Manger but meh. This is my first job ever, the first job I ever applied to and they hired me right out of High School and pay me good, treat me good. I'm pretty content.
All the people working as CRT's at a TESCO store near me look like hobos
Before I leave my work I'm going to find the person that insists on putting the reduction stickers ON THE FUCKING BARCODE.
That reminds me. Tesco, for some reason, has decided that some departments need new uniforms to help with the "customer image" of the staff. So the Clothing department get black polos and trousers, Fruit & Veg get the standard blue combats with green polos and fleeces that say "Fruit and Veg Team" on the back.
I work on meat. Where everything is sealed, and there is no chance of getting covered in blood or anything unless the packet of something is ruined, and even that is rare. But anyway. My new uniform consists of a white butcher jacket and red apron. I have to wear full butcher gear, even though I am not a butcher, and know nothing about butchery at all.
I understand the company's thinking of "customer image" and everything, but considering that the other departments' uniform change just involved some different fleeces and polos, couldn't they have done the same for me and my department? Could they have separated the red polos from the other departments, and just used them for the meat department? Or even just white polos and fleeces? NOPE, stupid over the top uniform that is completely unnecessary.
Oh, and I almost got fired a couple weeks ago for being "smart" (I wasn't, I was doing what the deputy store manager was going to tell me to do anyway). The store manager (who thinks he's on a personal level with all the staff, when he really isn't), called me over, and said something along the lines of:
"If you're gonna be smart on a day when one of my staff has died (one of the old deli women went into a diabetic coma a few days before, died the day before this, or early morning on the day. I barely knew her.), then you can either do what she (deputy store manager) said, or walk out that door and not come back."
My job is fun.
[editline]28th December 2011[/editline]
My store also has a facebook page.
[URL]https://www.facebook.com/TescoLerwick?ref=ts[/URL]
I should mention, they drove the local CD/game shop into closing as they stole all the customers. It was 1 of only 2 stores that I actually visit in the town centre - the other being a musical instrument shop.
The page mentions "record sales" and "breaking targets". The store took over £1,000,000 in Christmas week. None of the shop floor staff see that in any form. No Christmas bonus, just a booklet with about 10 £1 off every £5 vouchers, and some other cheap shit deals that we can't use, because we don't have those stores.
[QUOTE=Mikaru-Yanagida;33935180]
-Shitty equipment. I have to deal with a cart pushing machine that has a habit of going to the side on its own, which nearly causes accidents sometimes, and other times it causes issues (see the next one) and to top it off the velcro on the safety vests is usually off, we don't have enough vests, even.[/QUOTE]
You have a cart pusher machine? Where I work we have to push them all in by our strength alone.
Not about where I work, but about a shop I visited earlier today.
I was in a long queue to return an item (It's boxing day sales, so the store is pretty damn busy). Now this dickhead decides to cut the queue and goes straight to the desk, asking to exchange his faulty item.
The server politely informs him that he has to wait at the end of the queue. He gets all pissy and storms off. The server looks a bit taken back, and her colleague quietly tells her to "Just ignore him".
However, shortly after, the customer comes back with (who I presume) a manager who is repeatedly apologising to the customer, and demands the server to exchange the items.
I [i]hate[/i] managers and supervisors who suck up to bad customers like that. "The customer is always right" gimmick is a load of horseshit and should have died out years ago. It's counter-productive as it rewards the arsehole customer for being an arsehole and humiliates the employee who is actually doing right.
[QUOTE=Moreto;33942002]You have a cart pusher machine? Where I work we have to push them all in by our strength alone.[/QUOTE]
Two actually, but the machines have had issues about 3-4 times in the 3 months I've been there, leaving us with one quite a bit. Sometimes we do have to bring them in my hand, which sucks a lot because I can't do very many. We have straps to use to hook the carts up when we do it by hand too as well by machine, for safety reasons of course.
Also I had to push 9 or 10 carts up a hill tonight. I swear customers who leave carts in the kohl's parking lot in the next to us must be pure evil, because I was panting up a storm and coughing a bit, and sweating quite a bit, in 20's degrees (Fahrenheit) temperatures. I wish I had a bottle of water with me at the time.
[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;33938738]and see if I can become a Manger[/QUOTE]
I hear that Jesus has a spot open for you.
My job interview is 9 hours from now and I can't sleep, dammit
work in a gas station there's a law here that cigarettes can't be on open display. Had to open ever single drawer to show him the cigarettes he took like 10 minutes to choose
[QUOTE=Mikaru-Yanagida;33944974]Two actually, but the machines have had issues about 3-4 times in the 3 months I've been there, leaving us with one quite a bit. Sometimes we do have to bring them in my hand, which sucks a lot because I can't do very many. We have straps to use to hook the carts up when we do it by hand too as well by machine, for safety reasons of course.
Also I had to push 9 or 10 carts up a hill tonight. I swear customers who leave carts in the kohl's parking lot in the next to us must be pure evil, because I was panting up a storm and coughing a bit, and sweating quite a bit, in 20's degrees (Fahrenheit) temperatures. I wish I had a bottle of water with me at the time.[/QUOTE]
You have straps too hook the carts? We have carts where all four wheels can rotate so they can go in any direction, and an uneven parking lot, and we still don't have straps or anything. (I don't really see the need for them myself) We have two cart machines as well that are both falling apart, one always reads zero for power level and runs out of power after a few hours of constant use, and the other has a shitty antenna and always cuts out. I have gotten used to hand pushing stuff, and now I can do pretty large rows without even using one of them.
Customers are just fucking assholes when it comes to carts, I mean really, they can't go five to ten seconds out of their way to put their carts in the proper place? Half of the customers do, but the other half are just inconsiderate fucks about it, they put carts in empty parking spaces, by random signs, in a lot of cases, about three spaces from the fucking cart return. The worst part is that when one person leaves a cart somewhere, a bunch of other people decide to leave their carts in the same place, which leads to random parking spaces being jammed full of carts, and rows that go into the middle of the street. Oh and there are idiots who exit the store when we are closed, and decide that because the lot is empty they can just punt their carts across the parking lot, fuck it makes my job just that much harder when they do that at a time where I just want to go home.
Customers also like to throw all of their trash into Carts. To elaborate this includes diapers, hot dogs, ice cream, fast food shit, stuff from their car, newspapers, cardboard and styrofoam from stuff they opened in the parking lot, etc. They also treat our parking lot like a fucking garbage dump/recycling center, they have put couches, printers, fans, baby car seats, mattresses, monitors, and other assorted shit that they were too goddamn lazy to deal with.
Surprisingly enough I enjoy my job, but it just makes me feel so angry to know that people can be so inconsiderate, and not care at all about the effort that others have to go through because they decided to be lazy. A phrase that has popped into my head a lot has been "oh just let someone else do it" and that I am that someone else, and that I am fucking fed up with it.
Oh and as a side note, fresh snow makes this job 10x harder, you can only push up to seven carts at a time and even then you can barely move, and the cart machines are totally useless and spin out.
[QUOTE=Batmoutarde;33946594]work in a gas station there's a law here that cigarettes can't be on open display. Had to open ever single drawer to show him the cigarettes he took like 10 minutes to choose[/QUOTE]
Here it's the same. Yet you can't show them. We can get into trouble for it.
[QUOTE=igamiwarr;33947491]
Customers are just fucking assholes when it comes to carts, I mean really, they can't go five to ten seconds out of their way to put their carts in the proper place? Half of the customers do, but the other half are just inconsiderate fucks about it, they put carts in empty parking spaces, by random signs, in a lot of cases, about three spaces from the fucking cart return. The worst part is that when one person leaves a cart somewhere, a bunch of other people decide to leave their carts in the same place, which leads to random parking spaces being jammed full of carts, and rows that go into the middle of the street. Oh and there are idiots who exit the store when we are closed, and decide that because the lot is empty they can just punt their carts across the parking lot, fuck it makes my job just that much harder when they do that at a time where I just want to go home. [/QUOTE]
Where I work, we don't have a lot of people with trolleys come in but had some bitch a few months come through with a double wide pram. It couldn't fit past an aisle so she just kicked the stack over. My boss was working in that aisle at the time and just told her to get out. She stuck here nose up and walked off.
[QUOTE=igamiwarr;33947491]
Customers also like to throw all of their trash into Carts. To elaborate this includes diapers, hot dogs, ice cream, fast food shit, stuff from their car, newspapers, cardboard and styrofoam from stuff they opened in the parking lot, etc. They also treat our parking lot like a fucking garbage dump/recycling center, they have put couches, printers, fans, baby car seats, mattresses, monitors, and other assorted shit that they were too goddamn lazy to deal with. [/QUOTE]
A pot that was housing Christmas garden stakes near the front of store, I found a tampon in it along with a half dozen cigarette butts and a McDonald's ice cream that was half eaten in it. The ice cream had melted and started to stink as well as a whole bunch of ants that started to swarm the area.
[QUOTE=Cheshire_cat;33946379]I hear that Jesus has a spot open for you.[/QUOTE]
I don't get it. Explain what you mean?
[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;33948221]I don't get it. Explain what you mean?[/QUOTE]
[img]http://charlespaolino.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/manger.jpg[/img]
Customer came in complaining I sold them a scratched radio unit, I open the box.
Pull the factory plastic cover off and put it back in the box in front of the customer.
I look at them, smile tilt my head all girly like and say "Fixed" in a high pitched voice.
Then walk off. My manager nearly died trying not to laugh in front of the customer.
My day was pretty good.
Ah, now I get it. I didn't notice.
Well, the interview went ok. I hope I get the job, even though they said it was the hardest one at Target and I only get paid 8 bucks an hour. Some of the chicks that work there are pretty hot, it would make the hard work worth it :v:
i'm about to go to work....god i hate my life... :suicide:
There are no pretty girls on the 3AM shift [img]http://sae.tweek.us/static/images/emoticons/emot-smith.gif[/img]
I hate midnight shifts. Granted, it means I get to go in a lot later than usual, but then I often have to work fairly early the next morning. Grr.
Well, they're not retail, but I just got two jobs in the space of a week after hunting for six months. First is a part-time gig driving sedans for a limo company, second is a full-time position for a company that delivers and sets up medical equipment. I'm really happy about the full-time one, the pay and hours for the limo gig are next to nothing and I was going to end up going broke anyway. I'm really hoping they'll let me stay on for a couple of runs in my off time from the main job, it would be nice to have extra money for doing a really easy job. Running people to the airport and back in a cushy Lincoln for 3 hours a couple times a week is not bad at all.
Here is some Christmas joy for all of you.
A week ago (Last Thursday) I was called to one of the many cell phone places in town. When I arrived there were the two employees and an elderly couple standing in the store. I approached them and asked what the issue was (It was called out as a "Trouble with person.") One of the employees immediately points at the old man and tells me that he hit him. I gave him a very "Reeaaaalllly?" look and looked over at the old guy, who turned out to be in his 70s and had an oxygen tank. I asked the old guy "Did you hit him?" and his response still shocks me to this day.
"I sure as hell did."
Okay...then.
I looked back to the employee. Asking him where he was hit. He turns so I can see the other side of his face. his whole left side of his face is red and already bruising. He has suffered a decent cut on his nose and his glasses are about broken in two pieces, he shows me. No freakin' way.
So I ask the old guy "Why did you hit him?" to which he responds "He was talking shit." Okay then. I tell him you can't just hit people for talking shit and he proceeds to tell me how he is right and I am wrong - and he was 'defending himself' from the employee. When I asked if he was physically attacked by the employee, he said no. "He was insulting my good name." was his response. Riiiiight.
So, I ask the employee if he wishes to press charges and he states yes. Old guy ends up getting hooked for assault and while trying to explain why (He just would not get it that you can not just punch people) his wife also joined in and tried to 'excuse' me from the scene. Demanding that I leave.
OKEDOKIE I'LL GET RIGHT ON THAT.
Anywho. Old guy got charged. Old woman filed a complaint against me.
Once that was taken care of I interviewed both store employees. Now, you may be wondering WHY the employee was hit in the face?
He told the old guy "Happy Holidays and have a good night."
The old guy turned around and asked..
"What the fuck did you say to me?"
"I said happy holidays and have a good night."
Then walked up and punched him in the face.
True story. Happy holidays! ;)
[QUOTE=HkSniper;33959411]Here is some Christmas joy for all of you.
A week ago (Last Thursday) I was called to one of the many cell phone places in town. When I arrived there were the two employees and an elderly couple standing in the store. I approached them and asked what the issue was (It was called out as a "Trouble with person.") One of the employees immediately points at the old man and tells me that he hit him. I gave him a very "Reeaaaalllly?" look and looked over at the old guy, who turned out to be in his 70s and had an oxygen tank. I asked the old guy "Did you hit him?" and his response still shocks me to this day.
"I sure as hell did."
Okay...then.
I looked back to the employee. Asking him where he was hit. He turns so I can see the other side of his face. his whole left side of his face is red and already bruising. He has suffered a decent cut on his nose and his glasses are about broken in two pieces, he shows me. No freakin' way.
So I ask the old guy "Why did you hit him?" to which he responds "He was talking shit." Okay then. I tell him you can't just hit people for talking shit and he proceeds to tell me how he is right and I am wrong - and he was 'defending himself' from the employee. When I asked if he was physically attacked by the employee, he said no. "He was insulting my good name." was his response. Riiiiight.
So, I ask the employee if he wishes to press charges and he states yes. Old guy ends up getting hooked for assault and while trying to explain why (He just would not get it that you can not just punch people) his wife also joined in and tried to 'excuse' me from the scene. Demanding that I leave.
OKEDOKIE I'LL GET RIGHT ON THAT.
Anywho. Old guy got charged. Old woman filed a complaint against me.
Once that was taken care of I interviewed both store employees. Now, you may be wondering WHY the employee was hit in the face?
He told the old guy "Happy Holidays and have a good night."
The old guy turned around and asked..
"What the fuck did you say to me?"
"I said happy holidays and have a good night."
Then walked up and punched him in the face.
True story. Happy holidays! ;)[/QUOTE]
...I'm not sure who to believe in this story.
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;33960014]...I'm not sure who to believe in this story.[/QUOTE]
I'm not sure why the old guy hit him.
Happy holidays and have a good night?
He was insulting my good name?
Is that some new age form of insult?
[editline]30th December 2011[/editline]
Some customers at my work just don't get it.
This woman came through the register and she had two bottles of soft drink, from two different brands.
If you bought two of the one brand they were 2 for $3 instead of just $1.89 each.
I told her this. She went and got another bottle of the same drink so she had two of the same. Apparently she talked to some guy named Ron, (I don't really know many of the stock guys names very well.) and he had said to put it through as 2 for $3.
I said that I couldn't. I have no way of putting the drink through as 2 for $3. So she complains to me about how the guy said she could and she eventually just said fins she would take two of one brand.
My managers often have people doing this and they all say that they can't as well.
But this was the first time that I've ever done anything like that. Normally I guve in to the customers bullying, but I wasn't this time.
[QUOTE=HkSniper;33959411]Here is some Christmas joy for all of you.
A week ago (Last Thursday) I was called to one of the many cell phone places in town. When I arrived there were the two employees and an elderly couple standing in the store. I approached them and asked what the issue was (It was called out as a "Trouble with person.") One of the employees immediately points at the old man and tells me that he hit him. I gave him a very "Reeaaaalllly?" look and looked over at the old guy, who turned out to be in his 70s and had an oxygen tank. I asked the old guy "Did you hit him?" and his response still shocks me to this day.
"I sure as hell did."
Okay...then.
I looked back to the employee. Asking him where he was hit. He turns so I can see the other side of his face. his whole left side of his face is red and already bruising. He has suffered a decent cut on his nose and his glasses are about broken in two pieces, he shows me. No freakin' way.
So I ask the old guy "Why did you hit him?" to which he responds "He was talking shit." Okay then. I tell him you can't just hit people for talking shit and he proceeds to tell me how he is right and I am wrong - and he was 'defending himself' from the employee. When I asked if he was physically attacked by the employee, he said no. "He was insulting my good name." was his response. Riiiiight.
So, I ask the employee if he wishes to press charges and he states yes. Old guy ends up getting hooked for assault and while trying to explain why (He just would not get it that you can not just punch people) his wife also joined in and tried to 'excuse' me from the scene. Demanding that I leave.
OKEDOKIE I'LL GET RIGHT ON THAT.
Anywho. Old guy got charged. Old woman filed a complaint against me.
Once that was taken care of I interviewed both store employees. Now, you may be wondering WHY the employee was hit in the face?
He told the old guy "Happy Holidays and have a good night."
The old guy turned around and asked..
"What the fuck did you say to me?"
"I said happy holidays and have a good night."
Then walked up and punched him in the face.
True story. Happy holidays! ;)[/QUOTE]
Why did they call you
[QUOTE=SEKCobra;33961167]Why did they call you[/QUOTE]
Because people call and I show up to deal with it.
[editline]30th December 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;33960014]...I'm not sure who to believe in this story.[/QUOTE]
I believe the store employees. Spoke with both of them in separate and spoke with a couple of witnesses who came forward. All stories supported what the victim told me.
[QUOTE=Juggz;33949440]Customer came in complaining I sold them a scratched radio unit, I open the box.
Pull the factory plastic cover off and put it back in the box in front of the customer.
I look at them, smile tilt my head all girly like and say "Fixed" in a high pitched voice.
Then walk off. My manager nearly died trying not to laugh in front of the customer.
My day was pretty good.[/QUOTE]
What do you mean girly like.. you mean.. snobby I think. Like gum showing teeth showing head tilting snobby.
[editline]30th December 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=HkSniper;33959411]Here is some Christmas joy for all of you.
Geezer beats up store employee
True story. Happy holidays! ;)[/QUOTE]
Maybe his name is Holiday or something. Or the old man heard him wrong, like "Happy fuck and fuck fuck good fuck."
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