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Post by angel607 on Mar 6, 2011 0:13:56 GMT -5
it seems like at work I am all around stupidity. I mean diamond get's away with so much sometimes I can't belive my eyes. years ago we had strict manager's and if you didn't do your job prepare for trouble. sometimes I miss that. the managers here are nice but I feel they don't do what they should and that's FIRE THE SLACKERS. we have complained about diamond for 2 years because she does nothing. just a few weeks ago maybe like 2 she called off 2 days in a row then came in the next day off with her hair colored and looking healthy. I herd wednesday my co-worker told me today she called off work because she had a cold. I mean really bring some tissues in your pocket and your good. they made her come in because she called off to many times and came in late. so she came into work not even in the dress code. I herd she wore a satin shirt and black jeans and a jacket. I don't get why the manager's keep her around. the one day she was scheduled with me which thank god is not often she would not help with returns because she was texting and telling me about her problems. she has been in trouble so many times yet nothing is done. also tonight I herd about something weird about a new cashier the superviser told my co-worker. the new guy at checkouts came up short at the regester 4 times and still works there. now the strange part the guy on the 4th time came up short $75.00. I find that a little strange. I have been a cashier for a few years myself before going on the floor in ladieswear. I run register now every now and then when it's busy but the most I came up short was 5 bucks. I don't get how you can be short 75 bucks. yet these people still have job. it leaves me very confused.
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Post by Phil on Mar 6, 2011 17:45:34 GMT -5
I'm confused by reading this and I'm not even there. I have had the same job for 20 years it will be 21 in May. So I haven't surfed the different rules of different places but I think some things should be the same.
When I was in high school I worked as an attendant and assistant at a filling station. On each shift 1 person was responsible for the drawer. You held the keys in your pocket and rank each sale whatever it was and if the drawer was off you had to find the mistake if you couldn't find it you were let go. If you could prove you rang 100 when it was supposed to be 10 and you were 90 short and you found the sale you could be off the hook but otherwise your goose was cooked.
I applaud Angel that your register has never been off more than 5 dollars I know how busy stores like K Mart can be especially around Christmas or just before school starts.
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Post by angel607 on Mar 7, 2011 1:11:43 GMT -5
i agree 100 percent. they are giving slackers easy jobs and letting them do whatever they want. so the people that work hard have to work their jobs on top of what they already have. and this does nothing but cause my stress. about a month ago diamond was working and reading a magazine at the checkouts on the job. the manager jokes saying put away the magazine and do what I told you because somehow it's funny. today on her last strike with calling off and coming in late she was 15 minutes late. she told my co-worker she was going on her 15 break. for 10 minutes she was at the service desk talking eating chips then went in the break room for quite some time. she does this all the time. 15 minute breaks end up 30 minutes. I have never seen someone get away with so much crap in my life it makes me sick. I think that's a good rule to set that if your short and can't prove it your fired. I think diamond should of been fired a long time ago and it still has not happened. she actually complained to me last week that it was so bad she had to straighten all of ladieswear by yourself. wow that's what I have been doing for years big deal. I think it's time job's need a change. stop having managers who are pushovers and get some that demand you do your job. it's not fair to others who work hard everyday watching people who don't even care to be there on their jobs and live in the break room.
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Post by Kimm on Mar 7, 2011 20:06:36 GMT -5
My dad has his own business. Once my brother got old enough to work with him my dad has said its easier since its those 2 and 2 good workers. They get more done with 4 that it used to be 7 but the dead weight is out of the mix.
Some of the stupid is blamed on the schools. I swear the teachers are trying. Were surrounded by the parents who dont reinforce the lesson at home. And they dont want to hear it if their little angel did something they dont believe you. So the kid grows up believing theres no consequences. Some would rather get fired than do the work that they think is beneath them.
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Post by Beangirl on Mar 7, 2011 23:17:46 GMT -5
I work at Wal Mart and I agree with all of you.  Retail is going to the weenie heads.  |
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Post by Mahnarch on Mar 8, 2011 0:37:42 GMT -5
Oooohhh? We need pictures of this!  |
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Post by angel607 on Mar 8, 2011 1:06:10 GMT -5
kimm I think you have described diamond because I don't think her parents taught her much values about work. she was braging about how she got arrested in a little white dress and told the employees how funny it was. karen the lead in ladieswear could not believe it. personally if I was arrested and gave the cop a attitude I would be pretty embarrased. but for 2 years the girl has slacked off and pissed mostly everyone off. my one co-worker pat who works really hard and helps me out alot was so angry with diamond she walked off on the job. she came in the next day and said she was sorry. she was so backed up in returns and diamond was standing around talking to people doing nothing. pat asked her to help but diamond didn't do anything like straighten or returns. I am glad pat did not get fired but the manager said anytime pat has a problem to let the manager know. and beangirl I think that is a perfect statement retail is going to the weenie heads. the people now who slack get free passes to do what they want. people who work hard are expected to clean up their messes. back when I first started we had managers that would not tolerate that and I miss it. like one manager thurston actually paged a slacker named abby to the fitting room then he told her to do the returns because he saw that I did 3 baskets before straightening. when he worked there you wouldn't dare screw around.
and Mahnarch I think I do have a picture of me at work that a friend took a few years ago. I was angry at the time because we had one manager flip out and yell at us because of inventory the worst time of year. I have it on facebook if I come across it in my picture's i'll upload it.
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Post by Classicblast on Mar 8, 2011 1:27:08 GMT -5
Mahnarch, you are so bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahaha
I do agree with most of what's being posted here though its getting harder to find good workers in every field. Maybe my past career would be the exception in some ways because conditioning and athletics has become better than it ever has. But there's other wrinkles in that. Drug and gang participation has claimed the careers and even the lives of many good athletes and that stems from the same root of poor upbringing.
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Post by angel607 on Mar 8, 2011 1:36:32 GMT -5
me at work during inventory. a friend took this and I was not having a good day getting yelled at. Attachments:
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Post by Phil on Mar 8, 2011 14:21:52 GMT -5
You look good even on a spontaneous picture taking.
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Post by Beangirl on Mar 8, 2011 20:15:02 GMT -5
me at work during inventory. a friend took this and I was not having a good day getting yelled at. Angel?? I know "The Inventory Look" quite well. ;D You have captured it 100%.  |
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Post by angel607 on Mar 8, 2011 23:38:29 GMT -5
thank you phil. and beangirl I hate inventory as one of the worst day's of my life. in retail you have to have all the clothes sized in order. everything has to be in the right spot. then my manager at the time yelled at me to do one thing and screamed I need to finish something else. last inventory they scheduled me 9 days straight with one day off. inventory really takes a lot out of a person.
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Post by Beangirl on Mar 9, 2011 13:46:02 GMT -5
thank you phil. and beangirl I hate inventory as one of the worst day's of my life. in retail you have to have all the clothes sized in order. everything has to be in the right spot. then my manager at the time yelled at me to do one thing and screamed I need to finish something else. last inventory they scheduled me 9 days straight with one day off. inventory really takes a lot out of a person. YUCK! It is murder! My store manager yelled at me while I was zoning the throw rugs with my department manager. I was talking to my department manager while working on the rugs and she told me"Get your hands out of your pockets and get to work!" I was stunned.  |
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Post by Phil on Mar 9, 2011 13:53:56 GMT -5
There is a lot of 'what have you done for me lately' these days. That's because there's too much stupid.
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Post by johnb1 on Mar 9, 2011 15:51:48 GMT -5
yep,agreed there
I used to work at a full-serve gas station, and the stupidity I saw and the "gimme gimme"attitude and general rudeness of some folks spoiled retail for me. We used to give away glasses, drinking glasses if you spent less than $20 and people used to tell me " Oh, I don't like these ones or those ones, I want those ones". Look it's a glass, if you don't like it or don't want it don't take it. Some lady even wanted 6 glasses for nothing. I went to work one day, and the person that had the keys was late, so this lady pulled up, and I told her "sorry, I don't have the keys, I can't open the store, and I can't serve you. Did she leave? No. She sat there waiting for 90 minutes until the store did open. On my last day of work, after putting in 14-15 hours of work solid alone (no break, no dinner, and pretty much no lunch) and having to deal with crazy folks all day (coupons were about to expire, we used to do this coupon deal) and of course they HAD to come in or their precious coupons would expire. Anyways, I was just about to close and some goof comes in "Gimme a pack of smokes" "sorrry" I told him "We're closing, I worked 14 hours and I'm done" "Gimme a pack of smokes" "No, go to 7-11 or Mac's" "Gimme a f***ing pack of smokes now, Godammnit" Well, that was it- I was D-O-N-E. I quit the next day. All I can say is that the gene pool is stagnant and needs skimming and chlorination. Mother Nature is able to weed out the old, slow and the stupid in the animal kingdom-how come we can't do the same?
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Post by Classicblast on Mar 10, 2011 1:27:24 GMT -5
Wait, the person who had keys was late and you mean in excess of 90 minutes late!?!?! Not 10 or 15 minutes late?
Thats in excusable. That person knew he or she was counted on to open up. Obviously there's only a few people with keys so the owners know who has keys to their place and who opened or closed on what days. Obviously that means that if you open at 9 o'clock the keys possessor has to be there a good twenty or thirty minutes early to open get out what's put away and have it started and ready by 9 o'clock.
The rest of the workers can get there five to ten minutes early so finish getting things ready but come 9 o'clock everybody is in place.
In an event where the person with the keys is having car trouble or is stuck in traffic they call the owners to see if someone else with keys can open to get everybody else started. If that absolutely can't happen then that person gets here perhaps at most fifteen minutes late and they all scurry to get things ready apologizing to the customers but since this only happens about once every two years that the person who is needed to open is late they all understand and at 9:25 all is up and running and its as if anybody who shows up at the bottom of the 9 hour or after is fully unaware that you opened late.
Ninety minutes late with no explanation at all means fired.
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Post by Phil on Mar 10, 2011 14:56:23 GMT -5
Good post Classic. And I can't believe John's story that's sickening. If I were in your spot and was waiting for the person to open and they weren't there I'd have gone to a payphone and called the owners. Maybe that's what John did.
But I never could have waited that long. I already said in another post I was 25 when I got my 1st cell phone but I always had a few quarters for phone calls. I can also understand a problem that makes someone a few minutes late once in a while but an hour and a half no way!
The other thing is the phone probably rang a number of times that's a big expense for a business to miss an hour and a half's worth of calls.
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Post by angel607 on Mar 10, 2011 22:08:14 GMT -5
wow john that's horrible. they should not have anyone work 15 hours straight because they can pass out and it's against the law. and the person who came in 90 minutes late should not have a job if they never called to say they would be running late. but I don't know these day's it seems like slacker's get away with everything so the people who actually work clean up their mess and take on more stress. also for custermer's cursing at you I think the someone around you should of stepped in and said that's not allowed or tolerated. retail can be a nightmare sometime's and take a lot of you like any other job. the most I ever worked was 7 hours straight because I covered softlines which was the clothing department and jewelery. the only people I could get to cover never did jewelery. so if something would go wrong I would take the blame for it. I then got in trouble for not taking a lunch and speaking up. well if I have no coverage I can't really go anywhere. I do have good times in that place because at least most of my co-workers are incredible people but the slackers omg I wanna smack them upside their heads. I have learned to stand my ground because the new hr manager had me work for a month 7-9 day's straight because someone in jewelery got hurt and would be out for awhile. I had to cancel my plans because god forbid they ask anyone else to come in. then the one time around halloween haunt they asked me to work on a saturday. I said no I am going to be at dorney park all day. instead of understanding she just stormed off all mad at me.
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