[QUOTE=MalwareOhMy!;34037907]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.[/QUOTE]
Must have been refueling their car
[QUOTE=Da_Maniac_;34031743]I fucking loved that movie.[/QUOTE]
I loved the theme song.[QUOTE]
[video=youtube;54vmdLypfDk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54vmdLypfDk[/video][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=latin_geek;34040331]I loved the theme song.[/QUOTE]
Movie still was the best part.
[QUOTE=Karishnikova;34036777]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.'[/QUOTE]
At my job we were a chef's jacket as our uniform, I walk out of the office going to the registers to assist a cashier and a customer asks me "Do you work here?". "I responded with "yep" and kept walking
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Also terminal is depressing as shit when he goes from BK to eating crackers again
Anyone else notice that when people hand you a bunch of bills, right after you get the correct change out of the till and are about to hand it to them they say: "Oh, hang on I have correct change."
Why don't you tell me this before I gave you your change!?
I got off tonight. They canceled our truck because we're not making sales.
They've started the remodel at my Target hardcore and there are all kinds of Contractors, tools and machinery blocking the isles while I'm trying to work. Doesn't bother me, we are all getting paid to do a job and make a living so I can't blame them, but it knocked me out of my mojo.
We also got Pizza. Fuck yeah. I get paid Friday.
And we got the all new 2012 Lego Sets. I love Legos.
[QUOTE=Wolfmatyr;34051091]Anyone else notice that when people hand you a bunch of bills, right after you get the correct change out of the till and are about to hand it to them they say: "Oh, hang on I have correct change."
Why don't you tell me this before I gave you your change!?[/QUOTE]
If I've entered the amount they gave me before they pull out the correct change I just tell them I've already put the amount in the computer and to keep it.
[editline]4th January 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;34052836]I got off tonight. They canceled our truck because we're not making sales.
They've started the remodel at my Target hardcore and there are all kinds of Contractors, tools and machinery blocking the isles while I'm trying to work. Doesn't bother me, we are all getting paid to do a job and make a living so I can't blame them, but it knocked me out of my mojo.
We also got Pizza. Fuck yeah. I get paid Friday.
And we got the all new 2012 Lego Sets. I love Legos.[/QUOTE]
...
I want free pizza and lego sets ):
They didn't give us the Legos, they are just on the shelves and tempting me to buy them now.
[QUOTE=GoldenWolf;34023261]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]
I currently work at a Walgreens myself. The company is OK I guess but my boss is just an asshole. Arrogant, nonsensical in general, I do not like the fact that he exists. I talk to him but he doesn't seem to be all "there" in the conversation. Like, he's not really paying attention and just giving out general replies to whatever you're saying but doesn't really give a shit what you have to say. For whatever reason, when he talks, he's constantly blinking at a crazy rate. It's weird. A lot of other employees share my contempt. Normally I try not to bitch and moan about how shitty [i]I[/i] think management is but a recent event just made me more and more eager to quit.
On the week before Christmas, I hurt myself pretty bad from a workout. I pulled my muscles so bad in my arms that I literally could not bend or extend them without some of the most debilitating pain I've ever experienced (obviously I'm not a big work out buff so this was all so shocking to me at the time :v: ). They were "stuck" at a 90 degree angle. Literally. I couldn't lift anything, I couldn't extend them, I couldn't stretch them...I was pretty useless. So, I went to the doctor because it was persistent and I got a note to excuse me from work.
I had gone to the doctor on Christmas eve (I usually get stuck working all major holidays regardless). Christmas Eve is "one of the busiest times of the year" so that was always on my mind. That same day, the doctor could not stress the importance of at least a week off to rest the arms while taking the necessary pills for my recovery. She also said I couldn't lift anything more than 5 pounds. She gave me my note, I decided to go into work that same day because it was on my way home to present my case and I figured me physically proving to them that this is not a bullshit call-out on Christmas Eve of all days, would make sense. That didn't go as planned at all. I confronted my boss, I explained the situation (showed him even) and gave him the note. He then replies with this:
"You knew that Christmas Eve was coming up when you decided to do what you did (I guess trying to imply that it's my fault for pulling a muscle as badly as I did) this week."
I replied:
"Ok, but obviously I couldn't have seen myself getting injured by working out this week."
*After a bit of a rant on how somebody else called out and how me calling out would be TWO people out on the busiest day of the year and how he has nobody on standby (not my problem)*
He finally gives me back the note (not really looking at it of course) and says:
"I know plenty of doctors. That note means nothing to me."
I couldn't believe it. I was genuinely shocked. I've been working for this company for almost a year and a half. I have given them no problems. Only once have I requested time off (at the assistant manager's request too) and here I am physically hurt, note to prove it and just because it's Christmas Eve my manager thinks I'm just trying to be another punk trying to weasel my way out of working? I don't even celebrate Christmas eve with anything special so I could care less about working.
So, I took the note. Looked at my manager in the eye and told him that if anything was to happen to me that will further damage the condition of my arms in any way, they'd have a serious problem on their hands. Best threat I could make I guess. I tried to argue further but he just put his hands up, cut me off and said he's "through." And walks out into the store. I ended up working Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. I'm still thinking about complaining to corporate because that's not right at all. That was pretty bad. Hell, even my doctor told me that it's illegal.
[QUOTE=Jim_Riley;34058221]-longpost-[/QUOTE]
Call into Corporate 'hotline' or whatever (We have a number for work abuses).
Better yet, call your union.
Or wait for him at his car and gun him down.
[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;34055784]They didn't give us the Legos, they are just on the shelves and tempting me to buy them now.[/QUOTE]
Do you get a discount?
Can you buy me one? I love Legos.
[QUOTE=Keegs;34058645]Call into Corporate 'hotline' or whatever (We have a number for work abuses).[/QUOTE]
I'll probably do that in the end. Since then I've put serious consideration into quitting and just going to school full time while I wait to be shipped off to boot. So me and two other employees plan on putting our 2 weeks in all at the same time. That'll screw them up pretty good since they'll lose quite literally 90% of their night crew. My Walgreens is tiny. 4 people close a night and that's counting a supervisor. During the day it's about the same amount and that's not including the manager himself.
So...I could care less with how they deal with it at this point.
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;34065645]Do you get a discount?
Can you buy me one? I love Legos.[/QUOTE]
Target employees get 10% off everything, IIRC. It's been a few years since I worked there.
[QUOTE=silverhawk79;34072201]Target employees get 10% off everything, IIRC. It's been a few years since I worked there.[/QUOTE]
Wow that's fucking terrible.
I get 50% off anything RadioShack branded, sometimes more, and I get to buy anything not Radioshack branded at like $10 or less above warehouse cost.
Well Target didn't call back, I've been slowly been realizing that I massively fucked up the interview :v:
And the job search goes on!
The Grocery store I work at doesn't even give us discounts :<
It's a 10% discount when you sign up for the discount card. I never did it because I seldom buy anything from Target and the card only works when you pay in cash, which I never do, I never have cash on me.
The stores I know off do the right thing, and remove the VAT and the parts of the price made up by paychecks and other values related to being sold in a storefront.
[QUOTE=Karishnikova;34034669]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.[/QUOTE]
Hahaha i get customers like that all the time. For example, a lady had gotten her son popcorn and he was holding it sideways so that all the popcorn was spilling onto the floor. So one of my managers grabs a broom and starts to sweep it up and tells her to watch whats happening so they dont make a giant mess. She just flips, starts making what i assume horse noises and storms off yelling at her that its not right and its bullshit for being told that.
I was on register one day and it was super busy and the line was damn near out the door so we were trying to keep the line moving but i had to grab a dvd for a customer. Of course when i step right out of the line i have a customer if we have the tv show "227". I explain to her that i cant show her where it is exactly since i was needed on the register and i told her that if we had it, it would be under T for two. She cuts me off and asks how do i know and begins arguing with me about how it would be under a number section not under t. at this point i got fed up and just told her specific directions to where she can find it. I even walk her over and point at where the it could be found. she then starts mumbling about how this has to be a joke. Man i hate it when customers feel the need to be hand-guided for everything and that theyre royal descendants or something.
One last one is that a customer asks if we have a specific movie or not and i told them that it doesnt release till next tuesday. Three seconds later her mother asks me the same thing and i tell her what i just told her daughter. She goes ape and tells me "Shame on me for not having it" and storms out of the store. Shit like this just makes me feel like "Well how the fuck is that my fault". People these days
It goes both ways.. I hate it when I ask a store employee for help and he tells me to hold on because he's talking to his co-worker about non work related stuff.
This one time I think I just walked away after a minute.
I'm going to be applying for my first job soon. Any tips what to do/what not to do if I manage to get an interview?
Don't say "I don't know" to any questions they ask you, [b]always[/b] give an answer. Bring a pen and notepad just in case you need to write anything down. Bring a resume, even if the job doesn't need one bring one anyways; it'll look good.
[QUOTE=PN_Redux;34090755]I was on register one day and it was super busy and the line was damn near out the door so we were trying to keep the line moving but i had to grab a dvd for a customer. Of course when i step right out of the line i have a customer if we have the tv show "227". I explain to her that i cant show her where it is exactly since i was needed on the register and i told her that if we had it, it would be under T for two. She cuts me off and asks how do i know and begins arguing with me about how it would be under a number section not under t. at this point i got fed up and just told her specific directions to where she can find it. I even walk her over and point at where the it could be found. she then starts mumbling about how this has to be a joke. Man i hate it when customers feel the need to be hand-guided for everything and that theyre royal descendants or something.[/QUOTE]
I always have to wonder why customers think that we don't know the layout of the store or our inventory when we spend 40 hours a week working there. Lady, I don't give a flying fuck what Gamestop Online said we had in stock. We do not have it. As if it's my fault Gamestop Online doesn't update in realtime with our actual stock.
Like you know every item in the back. I know a shop had Evil Genius first release copies in the back and because they were like 10 years old they auto-priced down to 5 €
[QUOTE=SEKCobra;34093672]Like you know every item in the back. I know a shop had Evil Genius first release copies in the back and because they were like 10 years old they auto-priced down to 5 €[/QUOTE]
Do I know it by heart? No. But if my computer tells me that I do not have something, I am not going to spend 5 minutes in back searching for something just to humor the customer because "The website said you had it!". I don't do that to be lazy, but because I have other people who need help.
Ugh, I hate it when customers request something that is is OOS on the shelf in the frozen section. Means I have to go downstairs, get a jacket on, get gloves on, and spend 5-10mins rummaging around inside our -30c freezer. It's worse when a second customer is looking for the same thing later, I now know it's not down there but the customer wants you to check anyway. AAHH NO WE DON'T HAVE ANY MORE FUCKING MEAT FEAST PIZZAS. YES, I ALREADY CHECKED. NO, I WON'T CHECK AGAIN.
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;34093825]Do I know it by heart? No. But if my computer tells me that I do not have something, I am not going to spend 5 minutes in back searching for something just to humor the customer because "The website said you had it!". I don't do that to be lazy, but because I have other people who need help.[/QUOTE]
Checking the computer is different than knowing, I just replied to what you said.
[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;34090611]It's a 10% discount when you sign up for the discount card. I never did it because I seldom buy anything from Target and the card only works when you pay in cash, which I never do, I never have cash on me.[/QUOTE]
That is fucking terrible. Down right goddamn atrocious.
[editline]8th January 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Errorproxy;34090995]It goes both ways.. I hate it when I ask a store employee for help and he tells me to hold on because he's talking to his co-worker about non work related stuff.
This one time I think I just walked away after a minute.[/QUOTE]
That happens a LOT less than customers just generally being rude pricks.
I can't count how many times it's been really busy and I'm doing something for one customer and I step away for one second to get something for that customer and someone else immediately comes up and tries to get my help on something else when they've been in line and know that I am still helping the other customer.
Fuck, dude. Wait your goddamn turn.
[editline]8th January 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=SEKCobra;34093672]Like you know every item in the back. I know a shop had Evil Genius first release copies in the back and because they were like 10 years old they auto-priced down to 5 €[/QUOTE]
I know every single damn item we have in the back room. It's my [i]job[/i] to organize the back room and put out new stock.
Off the top of my head I know where any given item is in the store, whether or not it's in stock, and if it's in the back room or not.
[editline]8th January 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=SEKCobra;34093879]Checking the computer is different than knowing, I just replied to what you said.[/QUOTE]
Online inventories are updated at most every couple of hours, at worst once a day.
In-store inventory is updated instantly. As soon as something is sold the computer deducts it from the in-store inventory.
If the computer says '0 in stock' there are 0 fucking items in stock.
Would you just shut up and go away? You obviously have no concept of working retail or how anything in a job works.
You are terrible. You would be that customer arguing with an employee about how the store system works when you saw what an employee was doing once for 2 seconds and you would think you know more than the employee who has worked there for over a year.
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