[QUOTE=Errorproxy;33961671]Maybe his name is Holiday or something. Or the old man heard him wrong, like "Happy fuck and fuck fuck good fuck."[/QUOTE]
Or maybe the old man got tired of people saying Happy Holidays and wanted him to say Merry Christmas.
[QUOTE=1solidsnake2;33936922]Then you'd be without a job. Many people find it hard to find work in the first place, and are happy to even have a job no matter how shitty it is.[/QUOTE]
I would rather not have work than work for a bitch who thinks it's okay to
A- Unlawfully force an employee to pay 30% more damages than were incurred, or at all
B- Do the same thing to all the employees to make a profit
Besides where I live there's actually an abundance of jobs.
[editline]30th December 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;33938411]Any red shirt works. Don't wear it to the interview though, wear a different color or you'll come off as an idiot or something.
If you so desire you can order a 'Target' shirt off their site once you get hired, like shirts with their Logo and stuff. I was recently given a free Target Volunteers shirt that I wear, I love getting free shit. They also gave me a stuffed Target dog and a card for Christmas.
I love my job [IMG]http://sae.tweek.us/static/images/emoticons/emot-buddy.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Free food in the break room? Fair wages? Fun staff? Free shit?
I want to work at target [IMG]http://www.arklight.net/forum/SA/emot-saddowns.gif[/IMG]
[editline]30th December 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;33938454]Cool guy working retail story:
One of my controllers I bought at Best Buy broke and I somehow managed to put the receipt in the box THEN lose the box so I went there hoping to exchange it and that there was a transaction history on the Rewards Zone account or something so I went up there and the guy took it and gave me full store credit, I didn't have any ID on me or anything. Either Best Buy's return policy is incredibly lax around the holidays, the guy is super duper cool, or both.[/QUOTE]
Most retail stores these days have a way to look up customer purchases. I know for sure RadioShack (I work there) and Sports Authority does. I guess Best Buy does too.
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;33963705]I would rather not have work than work for a bitch who thinks it's okay to
A- Unlawfully force an employee to pay 30% more damages than were incurred, or at all
B- Do the same thing to all the employees to make a profit[/QUOTE]
The way you quit that sort of job is you work until you actually find a job and THEN quit. If you quit on the spot you're just fucking yourself to make a point.
[QUOTE=All0utWar;33961870]Or maybe the old man got tired of people saying Happy Holidays and wanted him to say Merry Christmas.[/QUOTE]
I hate "Happy Holidays" so much. Fuck you, America, and fuck your 'political correctness'. It's Merry Christmas.
Don't get me wrong I'm not insensitive to other people's religions, but fuck. It's Christmas damnit.
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;33968158]I hate "Happy Holidays" so much. Fuck you, America, and fuck your 'political correctness'. It's Merry Christmas.
Don't get me wrong I'm not insensitive to other people's religions, but fuck. It's Christmas damnit.[/QUOTE]
Happy Holidays!
These threads make me think that whenever I'm not a dick to an employee I'm pretty much making their day.
[QUOTE=Ploo;33968581]These threads make me think that whenever I'm not a dick to an employee I'm pretty much making their day.[/QUOTE]
Why would you even be a dick to an employee in the first place?
[QUOTE=Jim_Riley;33968628]Why would you even be a dick to an employee in the first place?[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't, but this thread makes it seem like every customer is a dick.
I'm curious. Those of you in retail positions who shuffle a customer as part of the job description (like where there's a cashier who gives your order to a barista and the barista gives you your drink), if the customer receives his item and then tells the person whom he was shuffled to to have a good day or some other retail pleasantry, do you also take it as directed toward you/the staff? If so, how would you value it as compared to being told personally?
Fucking underpaid, AGAIN. Seriously, NEVER work for Primark. Last shift tomorrow but I'm so tempted to just not go in, if they're not going to pay me, I'm not going to work.
[QUOTE=igamiwarr;33947491]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]
You can only remove a cart when you insert 50c here so you have to bring it back and hook it to another cart to get your money back.
[QUOTE=taipan;33981828]You can only remove a cart when you insert 50c here so you have to bring it back and hook it to another cart to get your money back.[/QUOTE]
They use those at the airports here, for handcarts for luggage and shit.
It doesn't work. I still see them fucking everywhere. No one cares about 50 cents or 50 pence.
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;33984121]They use those at the airports here, for handcarts for luggage and shit.
It doesn't work. I still see them fucking everywhere. No one cares about 50 cents or 50 pence.[/QUOTE]
Here at ALDI, the carts require $2 and it works really well. Even if someone leaves a cart, someone else will take it back to get the $2 :v:
[QUOTE=Shifty Pete;33993576]Here at ALDI, the carts require $2 and it works really well. Even if someone leaves a cart, someone else will take it back to get the $2 :v:[/QUOTE]
I used to go to the mall and return peoples carts just to get the coin. Got about 20 guldens per hour then, (around 10€)
[QUOTE=Shifty Pete;33993576]Here at ALDI, the carts require $2 and it works really well. Even if someone leaves a cart, someone else will take it back to get the $2 :v:[/QUOTE]
I use a toothpick. Trick my old job showed me for getting them from the carpark when we needed some for the customers.
[QUOTE=Errorproxy;33961671]What do you mean girly like.. you mean.. snobby I think. Like gum showing teeth showing head tilting snobby.
Pretty much
[QUOTE=NinjaWilko;33995059]I use a toothpick. Trick my old job showed me for getting them from the carpark when we needed some for the customers.[/QUOTE]
I can do it with literally any coin
Ah man I wanna be able to work :(
I have an uncle who works at Wal-Greens who told me this:
Someone has to steal something every two weeks. TWO WEEKS at least. And store protocols state that the cashiers and store workers can't chase after them, even if it's just a kid! One day while he was working at the cash register, an employee was stealing candy and left via the back door. No one knew until later and he came into work the very next day. He was fired on the spot. But it gets better. That night, the store was broken into and the code used to disable the security system, was, yep, the guy who got fired. Every employee has their own code so he stole from the store and was arrested the next day.
My uncle is thinking about quitting (He works for minimum wage as well)
[QUOTE=taipan;33994794]I used to go to the mall and return peoples carts just to get the coin. Got about 20 guldens per hour then, (around 10€)[/QUOTE]
Tom Hanks in Terminal did that to afford to keep buying Burger King.
Living in an airport would be pretty fun I think.
[QUOTE=CrispexOps;34025446]Tom Hanks in Terminal did that to afford to keep buying Burger King.[/QUOTE]
I fucking loved that movie.
So two customers walk into the store and I'm showing them boost and virgin phones and one of them sits down on the floor cross legged tears off his shoe and sock and starts digging into his feet with his fingernails. So I look over and ask "sir I'm sorry could you please put your shoe back on?" And he retorts with "what do my feet stink or something?" And I say "no sorry but we have a no shirt no shoes policy and I'd like you to put your shoe back on" so his kid looks at me and says "so why don't you put it on for him" and storms out and the guy gets up and storms out as well both of them yelling about how its "bullshit" etc.
What the fuck is wrong with people.
After reading this thread, I have decided that the next time I'm in a store and someone helps me out quite a lot, I'm going to tip them £5 or £10 just as a one off to brighten there day. If more people did that, maybe retail workers would be able to take the other shit that happens better.
[QUOTE=Rawrasaurus;34035142]After reading this thread, I have decided that the next time I'm in a store and someone helps me out quite a lot, I'm going to tip them £5 or £10 just as a one off to brighten there day. If more people did that, maybe retail workers would be able to take the other shit that happens better.[/QUOTE]
That's too bad because I can't accept tips anyways.
Snowing like hell today again, looks like tonight's gonna be a blast as usual.
[QUOTE=Mikaru-Yanagida;34035240]That's too bad because I can't accept tips anyways.
Snowing like hell today again, looks like tonight's gonna be a blast as usual.[/QUOTE]
The whole not allowed to accept tips thing is bullshit. If someone wants to tip me for doing a good job how fucking dare anyone else tell me I can't accept it. Fuck that I get paid shit if someone wants to tip me they can.
Oh, forgot to ask something, anyone here work at Hobby Lobby? And if you do, mind telling me what it's like? I'm debating going there to work instead of where I'm at now, the pay looks much better and I'd rather work at a place where I actually know where things are, because I actually shop there for some supplies.
So I'm kind of hot in the store and it's around 45 outside, so I go to stand outside next to the door to cool down.
A woman walks up, stops in front of the door, then stares at me. Looks at my nametag that says "The Shack, Jesse" the breast of my shirt that says "Radioshack" with our logo, then cranes her head to look at my sleeve that says "The Shack" then says
"Excuse me do you work here?"
'Uh... I don't know.'
Dont know what was happening, but on Christmas Eve at the JC Penny where I work, There were two white guys dressed as Barney and Fred from the Flinstones buying a shitload of shoes and stayed past closing to get them because they came at like 8:30 and we closed at 9. They seriously got like 15-20 pairs of shoes and paid with cash up front! They had a stack of 20's they paid with and all the 20's were real because we check them with a pen to see if they are counterfeit. Would have been better if they talked like Fred and Barney though, and if they were barefoot.
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