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>Assume every customer is a barely functional retard
>Treat them accordingly
>Apologise when they do or ask something stupid
Retail general
>>28091545
>I've been a customer at this store for years!
>I deserve this item for free!
>>28091746
Fuck I hate this. Had one guy claim he'd been comin for over 10 years. Store had only been open 7 and I'd been there for 5 of them. Had never once seen him.
Is there a job for the unskilled that isn't as soul sucking as retail or as physically demanding as basic trades/construction?
>>28092074
Do you think it depends on how soul sucking it is being directly related to how much time you spend with your boss (if he/she sucks)?
>>28092587
Personally no, I rarely see my boss. Customers and having to feign happiness and being polite is what I find draining.
>ask customer to obey rules
>customer goes out of their way to disobey rules
I don't even get angry anymore. Just disappointed.
How do you deal with people treating you either like you aren't even a real personnel or like you don't know the inner workings and policies of your own store?
How often do you have to deal with people trying to get free shit?
>>28092074
warehouse work.
literally just walk around all day moving boxes here or there and shipping orders, all while listening to music. comfiest job in existence.
>>28092074
If I had to get a wagecuck job it would be driving something or operating machinery but you need to be skilled for that right?
>>28092759
>How do you deal with people treating you either like you aren't even a real personnel or like you don't know the inner workings and policies of your own store?
I work next to a big public service building, so pretty often. I didn't think it meme'd like this, but it do.
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How often do you have to deal with people trying to get free shit?
You're giving them too much credit, they stopped trying ages ago. I caught some faggot today that said with a straight face 'I didn't pay for it because I didn't want to'.
>>28092781
How long until that is completely automated?
>Work at a restaurant
>Counter has oil candle on it
>Retards constantly stick their nose in this scentless flame and then withdraw in shock as they discover that FIRE HOT!
>One guy stands in front of the candle
>Burns his fucking shirt off
>Asks for a refund because of this
Other story
>Someone asks a third party to buy takeaway food in "red sauce"
>restaurant has a shit tonne of red sauce foods
>have to guess
>30 mins later guy who sent innocent retard to buy the food storms in
>I ASKED FOR RED SAAAUUUUCCEEEE
>mad beyond belief, jumping up and down, smashing fists into counter, looks like the guy has legit anger issues
>I ask him to calm down and describe what he means by "red" sauce
>figure out that he wanted sweet and sour
>offer to switch the food since I'm a nice guy
>screams "NOOOOOOOOoooo" as he literally runs out of the restaurant
>>28091545
Customer here.
What can I do to improve a retail worker's day?
I really didn't mind retail.
In fact I liked it.
I worked in a grocery store and sure you'd sometimes get a weird customer or a bitch, but they added variety to my life. And getting to know the regulars almost gave me a sense of community.
The predictable jokes didn't get old for me, I appreciated people trying to be nice or make conversation.
>>28092820
Be polite, don't make small talk, know what you're after to some extent, pay for your product and leave
>>28092820
Don't come in
>>28092704
ahahahahah I'm the complete opposite. I actually like interacting with people and doing work related shit at my own pace. It's just when my boss comes in he stresses everybody out and since I'm the newest person he takes it out all on me and shows me no respect. I just take it like a bitch though, can't be bothered to talk back.
>>28092806
depends what kind of warehouse.
Amazon and misc distribution warehouses? Probably pretty soon.
But there are a vast multitude of goods that would be very costly to automate.
Especially if your warehouse does orders direct to sellers, instead of just distribution to retail stores like a walmart distribution center. Picking and packing is very difficult to automate.
>>28092820
No small talk
Just buy the product and walk away
Don't even talk to me
Man I can't stand customers trying to make small talk. I always try and talk back in a fun way and make an ass of myself
>Stocking the eggs
>Old Customer comes and sees me struggling to move a heavy carton with many eggs
>Laughs and says 'you lay them yourselves son?'
>realise he is making a joke, and that I should reciprocate
>'I-I can't lay THAT many eggs, I am not a centipede!'
>he doesn't laugh at me, so I decide to make a punchline
>'I'm a MILLIPEDE!'
>pretend to be a millipede and mime my hands in the air really quickly like I have 100 hands
>he doesn't laugh
>I go back to work and ignore him
Also I fucking hate secret customers. I have failed them before and will get fired if it happens again
>>28092806
Yeah, automation is on my mind. I work in the warehouse for a courier company, driving forklifts and so forth. 3d printing, drones, and driver less vehicles are going to shake this industry to it's core. I think I may last longer than the couriers and truck drivers, but who knows? Hopefully automation will lead to a post scarcity society and I'll never have to work again.
>>28092996
>eggs
>centipede
>millipede
what the fuck?
Jesus christ didn't you ever learn to just laugh smile and nod?
>>28091746
>this isn't the 1900's, gramps
my fucking face
>>28092996
>'I'm a MILLIPEDE!'
>pretend to be a millipede and mime my hands in the air really quickly like I have 100 hands
what
>>28092996
>Also I fucking hate secret customers.
What is this?
>>28093066
Retail gestapo.
>>28093066
oh shit I had that in my store too.
They were basically people who rated how well each station did like did the cashier greet you/ask for your rewards card, or did this department of the store's employees come to you and ask you if you need any help.
>>28093066
Someone from the store buys something and rates your customer service skills. in our store nobody cares if you pass or fail it's just a tick box thing
>>28093066
people who are "paid" or compensated by your parent company through a contractor to go in and rate their customer experience.
So if you're a bitch to the wrong person or fail to uphold the corporate standards you fail your shop and get in trouble.
Most people are cool about it and just give you 5/5s but every now and then you get that fucking busybody who has nothing at all to do with her time and picks apart your fucking routine like you're a fucking guard of the tomb of the unknown soldier.
>>28093066
People that get paid to shop at stores and judge them via reviews. They rate worker interactions too, so they'll call you out in the report for not smiling and greeting them as they walk past you when you're trying to get your job done. Stupid shit like that.
>>28092956
>Picking and packing is very difficult to automate.
Keep telling yourself that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWsMdN7HMuA
>>28093237
all I see are robots brings a guy shitty little racks of shitty little goods.
I'd love to see them automate bulk goods not amazon tier sundries.
>>28093283
You're vastly overrating the importance and difficulty of what you do. Surely seeing that makes you realize it's not a giant leap to replace you putting shit into a box?
>>28092996
he was implying your a chicken shit faggot and you proved him right.
I stock shelves in a supermarket on Graveyard shift. Not a bad job in itself:being paid to exercise, enough solitude once you get your assignment for the night for indulging in audiobooks. And having days free means you can enjoy the daylight while 9 to 5ers are trapped,matinee theatres with noone to annoy you,and avoiding the idiot management and their scarey big bosses. You'll have to sleep through jackhammers,and you can't find a steak dinner at 8AM when you want one,but the worst part are the Night Shoppers.
You get mobs of teenage punks who ride around in the cripple carts like it was their own personal toy,and if they actually BUY anything its a miracle. You get the bums and crazies camping out where the coffeeshop is,sprawled on the table with their cartful of belongings,muttering and stinking. You get the shoplifters, regulars that smile at you as they rip you off,because it costs the company too much to prosecute them,and God forbid they get their "rights" violated if you dare chase them out. You see the carelessness of people who let frozen stuff rot on the shelves,things opened and half eaten,the biggest boxes of diapers torn to get a change for some mutants lil WIC welfare spawn,and sometimes the Dirty diaper is thrown on the shelf next to it.
I leave work fantasizing about putting tiny signs on the front doors declaring Martial Law upon entering,and bringing a much needed beating to these lovely folk. But the Security team is more interested in watching the workers,since firing US frees the company from paying benefits and pensions,while stealing is written off as a tax cut for loss.
Oh well...I can dream
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>>28093302
I am not a warehouse worker anymore.
I also don't think it's important. Just difficult and not cost effective to automate. With little shit like smaller amazon orders maybe. But with bigger difficult packages and good it requires a human touch.
>>28093774
>let frozen stuff rot on the shelves
this makes me so angry
>woman walks up with handbag
I scan it; "That's 17.99"
I hand her her receipt
>"can I have a bag with this"
W-hat?
>can I have this in a bag?
>>28093774
I'm a fulltime overnight stocker at a 24 hour walmart. Havent had nearly this terrible of experience, and the store is literally a fence away from the town "projects".
Then again I've seen a support manager call the cops on a homeless man for washing himself in our washroom. So many people know they dont tolerate shit.
Funny story is that 2 years ago, before I worked here, I was immediately escorted out of the store because I was wasted at 3 am chatting with a fat girl. Im almost positive we were actually having a conversation and it wasnt my shitface self creeping on her. But I think the manager caught on that I was wasting her time instead of stocking.
So yeah, maybe your stores management are liberals or something.
>>28093958
I ask for everything in a bag, because the guy at the door is less likely to check your shit and assume you stole it.
Fuck you.
>>28091545
>work as a cashier
>not being the retard
Look, yeah there's retarded customers of course, that's because everyone goes to the store to buy groceries, clothes, etc. So of course you're going to get retards, but also college students, businessmen, etc etc.
I hope you're aware that everyone with a real job looks down on you. I know I do. More so if it's a male cashier. Female cashiers are normal because women don't care about getting good jobs.
>>28093987
>guy at the door
The fuck are you on about
>>28094045
>people who are cashiers obviously want to be cashiers and do the same shit job forever
I found the soccer mom.
>>28093066
>work at planet fitness
>we have to memorize a 5 page script to recite word for word to people looking to sign up for a membership
>secret shoppers come in once a month
>if you don't get 100% you get written up
>people have been fired for missing like one thingi fucking hate planet fitness, such a shitty company
>>28091545
did you ever have to deal with shoplifters?
I had a lady think she put money on the counter (she didnt). She accused me and the guy behind her of taking it. Nope. She got piss and said "I wish i could cut off all males penises" then storm out the store. Thirty minutes later she called saying she found the money in her purse
>>28094198
had some guy say I short changed him 20 dollars, and i flatly told him that hes wrong and I know hes wrong. He just walked away and I never heard about it again.register came up 20 dollars over and I pocketed it
>make the work day go by quickly by obsessively working
>suddenly, old person wants to talk to me
>starts ranting about politics
>I become incredibly uncomfortable because I'm not working
>can't just ditch the old person, that would be rude
>>28094251
you would of hated my old job. I worked as a "barista" at a video slot machine place and my job was pretty much talk to old people while they burned their money.
>>28094045
Doctor here. I used to be a cashier at Wal-Mart. I don't look down upon retail or Customer Service jobs at all. I pity them and empathize with them. They are smarter than you think, but they are having their souls sucked out of them for a thankless job at $9.00/hour. They have to put up with entitled and arrogant folks such as yourself, perform tasks that don't even fit their job description, and believe it or not, be aware of any shoplifters or receipt shoppers that try to steal or take advantage of the store. They have to keep an eye on counterfeit bills and checks. But nothing takes the cake from a whiny customer who thinks they know how to do their job better than them.
>>28094281
so you were a drink whore at a casino
>>28094076
Tell me about it, Jesus. I work at Staples in Canada never had:
-LP teams
-Secret shoppers
-Any sort of LP training
LP literally consisted of telling a manager if you see somebody stealing, that's it.
>>28092759
how do i deal with the former? walk away. literally walk away. they get so assblasted when they aren't the focal point of your attention. those fucks are so vapid it's insane.
free shit - tell 'em no or call AP and your manager.
t.wageslave for an entire year
>>28094290
What is a doctor doing on /r9k/?
What kind of doctor are you, a doctor in women's studies?
>>28093237
how long until we have obese americans riding those things down the street?
>>28092759
apathy towards everything. just do the bare minmum until you get fired then move on to the next shit job.
>usually work as a cashier
>today theyre putting me behind the meat counter
>I know literally nothing about how to do that
What do I do robots? I have work in 3 hours
>>28094345
AP?
I never had anybody ask for free shit, nor even discounts. The irony is I could take up to 10$ off any purchase without manager approval, so if someone needed a discount all they need do was ask.
>>28093066
>corporations have their own secret police
I want off the ride.
>>28094377
ask your co-workers if they worked there and what to do.
>>28094377
meat counter is the easiest fucking job in the entire store next to dairy stocker.
The guy at my store was an alcoholic who was almost always drunk. Just chill in the fridge area and come out every 15 to 30 minutes or so to hand people some sausage or whatever the hell they want.
Do you guys really hate small talk? My dad will tell his life story to any waiter or cashier who acts even somewhat friendly.
>>28094414
only the autistic ones who don't deserve their fucking jobs. Putting on a friendly smile and asking someone how their day was is not hard.
>>28094408
>meat counter combined with seafood counter
>pretty easy, just type in the code, weigh the product, wrap it up
>store implements a new system where customers can get their fish put into a baking bag, complete with a selection of 16 different seasonings/herbs
>customers don't ever know what they want in the bag
>interactions take 10 more minutes than they used to
>lines build up easily and then you have to prepare some yuppie fuckhead's seasoned fish bag while 3 other yuppies angrily stare you down for taking too long
Nah, fuck the counter
>>28094359
Psychiatrist. I hate people.
>>28094506
Oh, I don't think we offer anything like that
Do you have any tips for me though? Like, how to pick out a pound of ground beef, or wrap stuff properly? I don't even know how to use the measure or anything.
Apparently the manager asked all my coworkers if they wanted to do it, and when they all said no, she put me back there without asking )^:
>>28094587
meh, let them bitch at you, you still control when they get their meat. Underestimate at first. it's easier to add weight than it is to take it away.
Also don't cut your hand off with the slicer thing.
Usually there's at least 2 people back there though? One stocking the packaged meats and one working the counter. If that's how your store works try to be the one stocking the packaged meats.
>>28092859
I think it depends where in retail you work. I worked at a convenience store for a while, and it was a lot of fun. People were typically really friendly and social. A few even invited me to hang out with them (they'd never follow through if I texted them, but the invitation was nice at least). Then I worked at a grocery store and it was fucking miserable. Everyone's tired, angry, mean, and so demanding they'll start screaming over not getting a 10 cent discount.
>>28092074
>get nightshift retail stocking job
>'everyone works together'
>noticeo ne dude whos been there for 30 years works alone
>he has back problems and starts doing other shit
>take over his area
>just jam music and do my job then peace out every night
it's great. The hardest part was convincing my boss I'm capable of not needing him to tell me what to do 24/7. I just bantered him to death with bullshit until he fucked off.
>cashier at Aldi (germany's walmart)
>very nice regular comes in
>older guy, pretty right wing
>starts ranting about gun rights
>i agree, we shoot the shit about the few fudd guns we're still allowed to have
>reach behind me for his cigs and see libtard coworker glaring at me
>if she reports me to HR I'm done for because I fucked up pretty bad before
WAKE ME UP
>>28094587
For a pound of ground beef, I just grab a handful and see what it weighs, then take or add some depending on how close it is. Customers usually aren't picky and as long as it's close to a pound they'll give it the OK, so you won't have to be exact. There will probably be someone else in the meat dept who can give you a quick rundown of the basics, I doubt they would just toss you on untrained. Though it wouldn't surprise me.
>>28094621
Even then, the packaged meats guy may have to cover breaks or help when it gets busy.
>>28094673
reports you for what?
Talking to a customer? she's got nothin
>>28094673
report her for sexual harassment, say she's 'leering' at you constantly. KEK
>>28094673
we have Aldi in the US Only grocery store i know that lets cashiers sit down.
>>28092074
I work with a glazier and it's pretty easy work
Sure sometimes it's pretty demanding but I can do it and I'm a lazy fuck who didnt exercise in years
10 eurobucks/hour is also great for unskilled labour
>working at a bagel shop
>dykeish looking woman asks for a certain type of sandwitch
>okay
>also wants Jalapeno creamcheese
>okay
>Make her order exactly as she asked
>5 minutes later the dyke comes back, face all red
>YOU SONOFABITCH YOU GAVE ME JALAPENO CREAMCHEESE, I WANTED CHIVE FUUUUCK YOUUUUU!
>slams a perfectly good sandwitch righ into the trash
>fuck.jewpg
>manager saw everything happen
>the lady clearly asked for jalapeno
>we give her a free combo meal deal just so she'll shut the fuck up
She did it on purpose. I despise the human race and pray ever day for it's complete destruction.
>>28094693
She knows about me smoking on graveyard shift though, rather not pick a fight with her
>>28094708
Kek
>>28094713
Thats pretty cool really. Although the chairs arent comfy at all
>>28094621
>>28094683
Thank you, friends.
They said I'll definitely be working the counter though, so no luck on that front
>>28091545
>works retail
>thinks customers are retards
>thinks he isn't a retard
Congrats on being a highly functioning one.
>>28094673
>>28094852
Can you really get fired for your political views? How the fuck is that legal?
>>28092859
You keep posting this. Or I've got deja vu.
>>28094905
Have you ever been to germany?
Think of the most liberal college in your country, double that and make an entire country out of it. You can get fired from a multitude of jobs not for smoking on the job, but for publically admitting you smoke. Theres also reserved jobs for minorities. Help me, adopt me if you want. I want to get away
>Worked at GoodWill before going off to college to save up some money.
>Mandatory down syndrome employee who was actually pretty cool and funny but would sometimes just hum really loudly freaking me out.
>6/10 qt who had no business working there but probably dropped out of school or some shit
>Old lady who was unnaturally cheery until I saw her crying her eyes out in the back one day, turns out her house burned down and she lost everything.
>Crabby bitch who never took shit from customers and would stand up for you
>Gimp boss who never really talked and was there one day out of the week
>Indian supervisor who took job too seriously but was willing to teach and work with me
Goddamn that place was the best kind of carnival. Never really had a hard time with customers since they were usually dirt poor and didn't act up out of shame. Also got two gameboy colors and all the pokemon games for it for 4 bucks with my discount. Goddamn I miss retail.
>>28095079
>tfw half my co-workers smoke, we just have to be out of uniform when we do it.
>working drive thru at Taco Bell
>customer drives up to intercom
>"Hi, welcome to Taco Bell. What can I get you?"
>silence
>"Order whenever you're ready"
>more silence
>after 2 or 3 minutes ask if they're ready to order yet
>silence again
>another 2 or 3 minutes
>at this point all customers in front of them are gone and there's a line forming behind them
>"Can I help you find anything on the menu?"
>more silence
>eventually they speak up
>"HELLOOOOOOO?! IS ANYBODY GOING TO TAKE MY ORDER?!
another time
>"Hi, welcome to Taco Bell. What can I get you?"
>*mumble mumble mumble*
>"I'm sorry I didn't hear that."
>*mumble mumble mumble*
>"Can you speak up please? I can't hear what you're saying."
>*mumble* quesadilla *mumble*
>"Did you say a chicken quesadilla?"
>*mumble mumble mumble*
>literally nobody in the store can hear this guy
>after a few back and forths the lady in the drivers seat fucking yells
>"A NUMBER 7 WITH A MOUNTAIN DEW"
>"Okay, thank you. You should do the ordering because we literally can't hear what the other person is saying. What else would you like?"
>"UGH NEVERMIND JUST CANCEL THE ORDER"
>they were mad because I can't hear someone trying to whisper to me from the other side of a car
>>28095391
learn 2 fucking problem solve holy shit. "Our speaker is having problems please pull forward to the window and we'll take your order there."
>>28095426
Well first there's nothing wrong with the speaker, these people were just retarded. Second, having them come up to the window to order kills our window time. We had to get them out in less than 70 seconds.
>>28095459
I'm sure sitting there saying "wut?" 5,000 fucking times is faster than them pulling forward.
>>28095476
Keeping them at the intercom doesn't ruin our window time.
I work at a meat counter at a grocery store. I can't stand some people, especially the crazies.
>see some crazy fuck bumbling around
>wishing Hitler won WW2 and I was the grocery store gestapo and I could just grab people and throw them in a black van
>>28095497
by all means, keep using terminology like I fucking work at taco bell and know what you're talking about.
>work at Petsmart
>"where is the dog food?"
Why don't people even try looking for themselves before asking these mind-numbingly vapid questions? I honestly wish death upon these imbred mongoloids.
>>28095536
hey person who works here literally every day, where is the dog food aisle so I don't spend 10,000 fucking hours wandering around this store that smells like piss and sawdust?
>>28091545
Jokes on you, they have real jobs and extensive knowledge in fields you could have taken the time to learn to understand and chose not to
>>28091545
>They use welfare shit but don't know what they can or can not buy with it
>They don't notice an item marked $1.99 was placed there by another customer
>They expect you to be a machine
>You smile and tell them to have a nice day and they straight up ignore you
>They expect you to open the till for change, but we're instructed that they have to purchase something first. They get pissy about it
This one is the one that pissed me off the most:
>That one dumb ass spic lady who doesn't understand English and is searching for her welfare card.
>Holding up the ENTIRE LINE
>Paying attention and waiting.
>Bagger makes a comment
>I chuckle
>"HEY GUY SOME OF US HAVE TO BE PLACES WHY DON'T YOU HURRY IT UP!"
>Stupid ass beer belly fuck head thinks i'm the one holding up the line.
>"This lady is looking for her card."
>"Andele, senorita"
>stupid spic bitch frantically sifts through her garbage purse for her nappy ass welfare card
>Dumb-ass feels dumb for essentially scolding a borderline retarded illegal
got to love retail.
>>28093774
>>28093908
I usually get chocolate milk or ice coffee in the dairy section then put down in the cereal/ bread section when I remember it gives me bad shits
>>28095528
Are you brain dead? "Window time" = time spent at the window where they give us money and we give them food. They have to give us their money and we have to give them their food in less than 70 seconds or we get bitched at by management.
>>28095624
no but you seem to be a literal retard who is incapable of abstract thought beyond the confines of clearly defined "rules" laid out by superiors.
Do you think management would rather lose a sale or have an abnormal window time due to communication problems?
>>28091545
>Hmph I'm in a shitty mood, better take it out on the wageslaves who work here!
>Are you getting an attitude with me?
>>28092820
Don't look at me, don't say hello, don't ask how my day is, just get what you need and leave.
>>28095731
shitty customer service
>>28095731
How can I not say hello? Do cashiers not like that?
>>28092996
>old customers
As a customer myself, I also hate them.
Holy shit, no one wants to hear your lifes story, or that 'This was alllllll orchards back in my day'.
Happens everytime I'm in line at walgreens. Some fucking bluehair pays with a combination of coupons, dollar bills, pennies and wampum and keeps talking to the cashier.
>>28095651
They'd much rather lose a sale. I know because I fucking worked there.
>tell the customers our store rules
>they don't like it
>can I talk to your manager
>my manager tells them the same shit
Why...
>>28095745
Like almost 90% of the posts in this thread. Shit sucks.
>>28095775
I'm not a cashier, Iused towork in produce.
>>28092996
Dude ur obsession with these things is really funny. You're the one with the millipedes mating pics right? Does your whole world center around them? Why do you like them??
>>28091545
>considering getting a nightshift job somewhere because I think it'd be really comfy
Am I the only one? It's dark, much less customers and probably more camaraderie with your employees because you're all in the early hours together.
The thing that annoys me most is when people ask where shit is
Like people walk through the door and immediately start asking where shit is
WHY DON'T YOU FUCKING USE YOUR EYES YOU PIECE OF SHIT THEIRS SIGNS EVERYWHERE.
Worst part is the item they're looking for is usually clearly on a sign like 5 feet away.
One time the store was being remodeled and our bread moved to isle 6. We posted a sign right at the entrance saying it's moved to isle 6. Still had people asking for the bread and commenting how it's bullshit and that they can't find anything during the remodel.
>>28095688
Why not? Wageslaves cant do shit about it. They are used to being shat on and asking for more shit with a smile.
Its cheaper than a shrink and has no long term consequences for me. Them doing this is their best value to society because they obviously are not skilled enough for anything else.
>store's return policy is 30 days
>bring it back within 30 days with receipt and you can get cash
>after 30 days or no receipt you get store credit
>people constantly coming in after 30 days or with no receipt wondering why I won't give them cash
>register literally won't open for their return, will only let me swipe a gift card
>>28095553
Hey customer, literally half of the store is dedicated to dog food. If it takes you more than a minute to find it, you deserve to be euthanized.
>>28095861
nightshift? like midnight to morning? fuck that sounds hard
that would mess my sleeping schedule all up and I'd probably be fucking tired/stressed/irritable all the time
I wish there was a job where there required little to no customer interaction, and no degree
>>28095426
So that the dumb cunt will tell him to fix the speaker like it's his personal problem/concern
>>28095894
Somehow I returned some unused stuff and got my money back after 60 days.
>store policy is 30days
well feels good I guess
>>28095861
It's good if you don't have friends or ever want to do stuff in the day time. It'll absolutely kill your social life if you have one though.
>>28095932
>I can't answer a simple fucking question at my work about my work hurr durr retail is so hard!!!
>spill my spaghetti every time i try to check out
I wish i could just be a cunt and ignore/dehumanize the cashiers, but i feel like an enormous cunt if i do so.
>>28092074
graveyard shift security guard?
>Only getting paid $7.50 an hour
>Baggers make more money from tips. They only get paid $0.10 less than us, but make $5-$20 tips every time they take out for an old lady
>Get robbed at gunpoint one night
shit's honestly not worth it.
>>28095969
Are you seriously trying to justify not being able to find dog food at Pets Mart? Please kill yourself if you're so helpless that you can't do something so daunting as finding pet food at a pet store without someone holding your hand the entire way.
>>28095969
What makes you think I don't answer them? Great strawman.
>It's this entire half of the store, sir
You must be mentally impaired, anon. I'm sorry.
>ITT: Skill-less workers complaining about having to do their jobs and having to say "hello" and "have a good day" to customers, since it is so beneath them.
top kek
>>28095144
My goodwill was a rollercoaster too. Manager was an excon, our tard would always fist bump and tell you "Hey thanks!"
>>28096011
>rawr! how dare they ask me a question that takes literally 2 seconds to answer! RAWWWWWR! I shouldn't have to do ANYTHING at my job!!!
>>28096026
>simple fucking question
>answers it like a snob
>while working at fucking petsmart
>complains about his inability to not be a fucking snob on r9k
nice "retail nightmare' buddy
>>28096004
>baggers
>getting tips
What the fuck?
>>28096055
>>rawr! how dare they ask me a question that takes literally 2 seconds to answer! RAWWWWWR! I shouldn't have to do ANYTHING at my job!!!
It takes less than 2 seconds to use your eyes and actually see where the fucking dog food is.
>>28094518
Can you help me? Please?
>>28096004
>Baggers make more money from tips.
Not sure if bait
>>28096085
>STILL trying to justify his discourteous snobbery
epic
>>28096033
>Skill-less workers
Man an express lane near the front door for 8 hours and tell me how skill-less they are having to micromanage the till, bagging, and all the idiots who try to squeak by with more than x number of items.
by the way, I'm in the tech industry, but worked retail while in college. It's the most excruciating shit ever, if only for the fact you're not allowed to catch a break. You have to clean your own conveyer belt so it doesn't end up a trichinosis melt-down. You have to be cordial or suffer reprimands from the floor managers. You have to be accurate with your transactions.
Honestly, the only reason the tech industry is "skilled labor" is because it requires a lot of abstract memorization and understanding logical concepts. Retail is more difficult, in my experience.
>>28092947
Same here. Currently working under a mentorship as a sushi chef. Everything is really awesome until my boss walks over and devalues my whole existence.
I clean crashed cars all day.
I've seen some shit
>>28094713
woah woah woah WHAT
Cashiers don't actually sit down over in the US? I'd actually be amazed if this is true. It seems pretty weird that they'd rather risk lawsuits over back injuries than just dish out $30 for a chair that'll last probably a good 7 years (i've seen some of the chairs in retail stores in my country, and they're pretty busted up, at least 4 years old). Of course most people won't have the money to sue the big corporations, but what about unions and labor departments? Surely they'll fix something up if they get enough complaints?
>>28096102
>STILL trying to justify being retarded
>>28096138
>Cashiers don't actually sit down over in the US? I'd actually be amazed if this is true.
That's right. We stand. We're forced to stand on support pads, usually.
>man comes in and immediately starts talking about a book he read
>"You should stock this! It tells the truth!"
>Quick summary: science is all a lie, the earth is in fact flat and saying it's spherical is a massive centuries long conspiracy by all scientists. All photos and whatnot from space are a fabrication.
>"Therefore, global warming is a lie since the earth is not a globe!"
>me: T-that's interesting. Thanks for telling me
I get these people every now and then.
>>28096140
>can't
>answer
>a simple
>fucking
>question
>that it's
>your job
>to answer
LMAO
>A manager at store x said hed take 200 off so Id like to do that here
Go to store x then
>>28096004
I'm a bagger and out of like 75 carryouts I've done in like 8 months I think 2 old ladies tipped me 2 bucks and some southern dude tipped me 4. Shit sucks dude. Also the store gets us in trouble if they find out we accept tips. Why do people tip waiters but not retail people
>>28096055
>answers it like a snob
>literally telling a customer where his product is is being a snob
Okay, little guy. I understand the whole "critical thinking" thing is new to you, so I'll be sure to hold your hand the next time you walk in my store. I'll even breastfeed you like the mindless little baby you are.
>>28096154
I'm going to have to side with the cashier. Dog food and Cat food are easy to find in a Petco or Petsmart.
It's like asking "Where are the tires" after walking into an autozone.
Work at some hipster organic food grocery store, so you can kinda guess what the clientele will be like.
>Customer comes in and asks where our gluten free shit is
>literally fucking everywhere
>"oh, so you guys just mix it all in with everything else"
>Fuck. "Yes"
>ask her if she would like anything is specific
>"where is your cereal at?"
>take her to aisle 4
>"I don't see gluten free"
>WTF BITCH EVERYTHING HERE IS GLUTEN FREE
>kindly say that it says it on the box
>"I STILL DON'T SEE WHERE YOU'RE GETTING GLUTEN FREE FROM"
>Point to it on the fucking box
>"ohhhhhh"
There is nothing worse than when customers bitch to yoy about ingredients or why they can/cannot have a certain item. Who fucking cares
>stocking the snack aisle
>customer calls me over
>"where's your SeaSnax seaweed?"
>"oh, sorry ma'am, I guess there's none out here, I'll go check in the back, hold on.
In any normal situation the interaction would be over by now.
>"and this here Annie Chun's Seaweed....."
>FUCK
>literally lists off every ingredient and how it's bad for you and goes off on a tangent about the history of Annie Chun and how she used to have Annie Chun's on display in the grocery store she worked in.
>this drags on for 20 minutes.
>already on a tight fucking schedule.
>end up writing a note for the manager to see telling him that a customer had a request for more damn SeaSnax
>>28096107
Wow, that's great. Guess what, I also worked skill-less customer service jobs during college.
Yeah, it can be stressful, but that doesn't make it skilled work. Any monkey off the street can "man an express lane near the front of the door." It's only skilled when the average person off the street can't do your job.
And I have nothing against cashiers, stockers, or any other unskilled workers. But what I do have a problem with is when they think that they are so above having to have small talk with the customer or when they feel bothered having to explain something to the customer. It's literally their job.
>>28096177
>2 seconds to answer a simple question
>HURRRRRRR RETAIL IS SO HARD
>acherilly the cashier whose job it is to answer questions and be courteous is right to complain about blah blah blah blah
>>28096163
Peridot is qt pie
>>28096138
True in Canada also. I was reprimanded repeatedly when i worked cash part-time in highschool for leaning slightly against my counter when there were no customers.
>>28096154
We can answer the question. We just shouldn't have to because it's a retarded question.
>walk into grocery store
>HURR DURR WHURS DA FOOD?
>walk into candy store
>HURR DURR WHURS DA CANDY?
>>28095651
one of my best friends worked at a burger king for a good 2 years. They quite literally have a clock that starts counting as soon as they order. Whenever we hung out and wanted to grab some food in the drive-through in the evening (where there's very few customers and very little food prepared), he'd tell me to park a little further up, since it'd stop their timer from counting down the time it'd take.
The basic gist is that they'd like to reduce the general time it takes to service a customer, both to reduce wait time, but also to increase customer satisfaction with their wait time. It might be stupid as fuck if they can't do anything about it, but that's retail for you.
>>28096229
>petsmart is a DOG FOOD ONLY store
>implying there aren't fish tanks
>implying there isn't cat food
>hurr maybe if I oversimplify it I can justify not answering a basic fucking question and then acting like it's super duper hard at my job on r9k durrrr
>>28096229
>We just shouldn't have to because it's a retarded question.
Why shouldn't you? That's literally part of your job.
>>28096144
>>28096221
Damn, i'm really sorry you have to go through that. How long are your shifts, or at least the time you stay in the register? It might just be because i'm a lazy fuck, but i generally start to get quite tired in the feet if i stay up for more than 3 hours.
>>28096250
>walk into Pets Smart for dog food
>see fish tanks
>see cat food
>"Well that covers a good 2/3 of the store already. Should I turn around see see the dog food in the last third or ask the cashier a stupid question?"
>HURR DURR WHURS DA DOG FOOD?
>>28096291
>hurp durp! he said fish tanks and cat food that must not have been an exhaustive list of every item at petsmart, better take that super literally in an effort to justify my inability to not answer a question from a customer about the store!
>tfw you went from trying really hard to be a good employee in retail to not giving a fuck because you're protected by a union and you make the same 9 dollars all the other high school kids make
>>28096291
>Why would someone ask me, someone who works in the store, where a product is?
>I'm so above answering questions like that!
>>28092820
shut up and buy your shit and leave and don't talk to them or just don't go to the store at all
thats really all you can do
god damn this thread makes me glad I got out of retail
>>28096290
My shifts were 8.5 hours, two 15 minute paid breaks and one 30 minute unpaid lunch. And god help you if you aren't back on the til after precisely 30 minutes elapsed.
>>28096220
Ikr. She is my favorite
>>28095938
I sleep 1530 to 2020 and work 2345 to 715, four days a week. It's fucking great.
>work in bookstore
>customer looking for book
>find it for him
>"Have you read it? What can you tell me about it? Is it good?" and so on
>No sir I have not read it, I'm sorry
>"I can't believe it. You work here but you've never read this. Let me guess, you just 'work' here, right?"
>Hey, you guessed right!
Fucking people, We sell literally thousands of books, why would you expect me to have intricate knowledge of the random garbage you come in to pick up?
>Customer calls
>"I can't find your store, can you give me directions?"
>Give street names and what not
>"No no, I'm in the parking lot, I just can't find you."
>Parking lot/shopping center is kind of big, give her the benefit of the doubt
>Turns out she is standing literally outside the building, just facing the wrong way
>try to get her to turn around, she still doesn't understand.
>"I'm by the McDonald's but I don't see you."
>That's because you're looking at the McDonald's wall, turn around."
>Turns to the street
>"Where?"
>Can you hold please? I have a lot of customers to help in line right now.
Holy hell, it's a miracle some people can walk and breathe at the same time.
My absolute favorite story is this one
>Lady comes up with a book in Spanish
>"Is this written in Spanish or Mexican?
>What?
>"Is this language Spanish or Mexican? Like will a Mexican understand it?"
>If a Mexican can speak Spanish they will understand it.
>"Wait, now I'm confused. Is Spanish Mexican?"
>Mexican typically refers to people and other cultural items from Mexico. Spanish typically refers to the language Mexicans speak OR people and other cultural items from Spain.
>"So will a Mexican understand it?"
>Only if they speak Spanish.
>"Oh"
This is in California, I thought most people above the age of 3 had a basic understanding of what language people from Mexico speak.
>>28096313
You can still literally see where the dog food is from the entrance of the store if you'd actually use your eyes.
>>28096333
There's a difference between asking where a specific product is and asking for a type of product where an entire portion of the store is dedicated to that we can see from where we're standing.
>>28095528
then why are you telling him how to do his job? lmao
>custies these days
>nigger customers
is there anything more horrible in this world I think
not
>escuse me lemme axe you a question
>makes up some story to try to get free stuff
>don't give it to them
>das racis
>sometimes just give it to them so they shut up and leave because retail doesn't pay well enough to have to deal with niggers
>>28092074
I fix computers. Buy, sell, trade etc.
I've scored some top gear gaming rigs for like $50 cause the person would rather buy a whole new thing than diagnose a $50 repair.
Business run on computers, from databases to work stations. Every business at some level needs a computer dude. And it scales well into a career. There are some 100k a year jobs for Oracle database sysadmins at big companies. Of course the other end of that where you'd start with entry level IT showing people how to hook up a printer and installing Adobe Acrobat lulz
>>28096313
You're right. 1/3 of the store has its own section. Small animals, cat food, and toys. Literally the rest of it is dog food. The dog food section is so large that when you walk into ANY Petsmart store, you are staring it in the face.
Keep trying to justify your mental retardation.
>>28096392
>There's a difference between asking where a specific product is and asking for a type of product where an entire portion of the store is dedicated to that we can see from where we're standing.
Even so, that's part of your job to deal with the retards.
>>28096085
It takes YOU two seconds because you have a familiarity with the store. Admittedly it's not hard to find dog food if you actually try looking, I accept and know firsthand that most people don't, but it doesn't absolve the facts that: a) when you're in an unfamiliar place it's very easy for any specific thing to blend into the backdrop, or as it may metaphorically be called, "hiding in plain sight"; and b) customer service is part of the fucking job. It's not that hard for one to swallow their ego and just point the person in the right direction, and do so without being smarmy young punk about it.
Speaking from experience, it's far easier to just leave your pride at the door and do the job correctly once you actually get over the mental hurdle of actually DOING it.
>>28094408
>dairy stocker
Man that was a shit job when I was a stocker.
For one I was a weak 122 pound faggot who couldn't even get the fucking pallet full of eggs, milk and shit in the refrigerator because of this one fucking small bump. Then people peered inside from the customer end and asked for shit that I haven't had a fucking clue where it is in the mess of things.
There was a crowbar that I was suppose to use to bring out 4 or 5 boxes of milk towards the area but everytime I used that it just made me spill milk all over the floor and my manager looked at me like a dumb fuck.
And the gloves were always fucking missing because the baggers would use them to grab ice and never put them back in place so always without fucking gloves.
It sucked and I'm glad I'm not there anymore. But now my back is all fucked up cause I'm an idiot who tried to work hard.
>>28096355
Amethyst master race.
>>28096138
IF YA GOT TIME TO LEAN YA GOT TIME TO CLEAN
>>28095875
>Worst part is the item they're looking for is usually clearly on a sign like 5 feet away.
And how the fuck am I supposed to know that, prior to me starting up the process of scanning the environment and putting in ten times more mental effort than this task warrants? I have ZERO trust in the people who remodeled your shitty store to have signs and layouts that make sense or help with anything, and I see no reason to test that level of trust when there are perfectly sane, knowledgeable people standing around
>>28094163
Nice, I signed up online to avoid the generic and sometimes awkward, "Why do you want to sign up? What are your goals?" spiel. I like the gym and the employees, they seem nice. And Im glad they don't shove suggestions and products down your throw
throat.
>>28096107
>trichinosis
Trichinosis, schnickinosis!
>>28095861
>trapped inside the store with no crowds, no distractions, nowhere to hide, just your stupid normie coworkers and whatever insane customer happens to wander in
sounds real comfy faggot
>people always say our retail jobs will eventually be 100% automated
>people ITT trying to defend customers being retarded, unable to find dog food at a pet store
Our jobs are intact as long as we have customers who can't do simple shit for themselves.
>>28096560
God, you are retarded.
People aren't unable to find dog food at your pet store. It's just why would they spend a 1-2 minutes searching your store for it when there's an employee standing at the front who will be able to tell them in 2 seconds flat?
>>28096524
I've signed up to PF numerous times and no one has ever asked me that.
>>28096589
>1-2 minutes
>finding dog food
>at a pet store
RETARDED
E
T
A
R
D
E
D
>>28091545
>Really bad social anxiety
>always treat people that are working super nice
>they react weirdly and tell me I don't have to apologize and stuff
Am I too nice?
>be a meat cutter
>honestly not that bad
Fucking customers keep insisting that we have plugs
>I was here just last week and you had plugs in the walls!!
No, we've never had plugs and no one here has ever seen you. Fuck off.
>>28096612
You really need to acquire a few more years of maturation, and humility. You aren't done growing at 20. You have a long way to come, I assure you, and you will look upon how you were when you were younger with disappointment.
>Hey guis, muh retail job is so hard!
>Sometimes I'm forced to say hi to customers! And sometimes they make small talk with me, with corny jokes!
>Even worse, sometimes they ask me where a product is in the store!
>Easily the most difficult job in the whole entire world XD
>>28094713
Why would you not be allowed to sit?
>>28092820
>don't try to be my friend
>don't ask me my name or school
>have your money ready when you walk up to my register
>know what you want to order by the time you get to me
>stop using those stupid fucking loyalty cards
>fuck off
Best customers are the ones that are in and out with minimal communication.
>>28096709
Because they throw old chairs out and by padded standing cushions instead.
>>28095391
>go to mcdonalds
>ask for 2 big macs to go
>what soda do you want
>i dont want any soda
>...
>sir, what soda do you want?
>i dont want anby soda
>...
>i just want the two burgers
>oh
yes, i go to mcdonalds and order two big macs to go. I dont want two big mac meals to go, im not sharing this with anyone. I dont need any soa, i bought a big bottle of coke for half of what you charge
>>28096612
Depends on how big the store is. A store like Petsmart yeah, it can take 1-2 minutes if you've never been in there before.
But yeah, they're the retarded ones, not the unskilled cashier who thinks he's too good to answer questions. Okay buddy.
>>28094843
>works at sushi bar
>woman wants sushi but is allergic to shellfish
>makes convoluted order
>woman complains that it tastes bad and wants refund
>woman proceeds to complain to every single worker in bar
>I get yelled at
When does life begin being worth living?
>>28096684
At least I won't be stuck in Pet Smart wondering where the dog food is.
>>28096709
Because it makes the the customers think the employees are lazy. I'm not even kidding, people get in trouble because they were talking to co-workers in ear shot of a customer in many stores.
>>28096764
Because you already worked there and know where it is? kek
And you look down on someone who hasn't worked there before
>>28096684
If at 20 I'm better at orienting myself to my surroundings than your middle-aged "wise" ass, then you have more to be worried about. Early onset alzheimer's, perhaps?
>>28096410
Indian customers. Indian customers are by far the worst. I've met people with actual, diagnosed autism who act less autistic than them.
>Enjoy dealing with difficult customers because it's almost the only social experience I have where I can't fuck up and get rejected
>Coworkers keep coming up to me and trying to joke about the customer I just dealt with
>"H-haha yeah, what a loser..."
Hard to have anything, isn't it?
>>28096788
I'm not even the one who works at Pet Smart. I'm just not retarded and can find dog food because I can see with my eyes where the dog food is.
>can I help you find anything
>they say no
>less than 30 seconds later cute female co-worker asks
>yes I'm looking for dsafhsfgd
or
>is this a bobble head
>no it says when they are on the box, and you cant see the spring cause there isnt one
>immediately turns to same female co-worker and asks same question
there was the one regular who did that to the other co-workers and only talked to me though, that was nice
>>28096764
>Go into big store.
>See employee in front of store who should know where everything is.
>Ask where product X is instead of taking time to look for product X yourself.
>20 year old cashier smugly tells you, acting like he's too good to do what he's paid to do.
>Smug 20 year old high school graduate goes online to complain about "retarded" customers on 4chin
Is this what it's like being a customer now?
>>28096810
>If at 20 I'm better at orienting myself to my surroundings
>better
We orient ourselves just fine, kid, we just have our mind on more important things than trying to figure out the way this podunk store is laid out. I know it seems like the whole world to your deadbeat self, but there's more to life than retail.
>>28092820
Dont use cash, use your debitcard or whatever. Makes it more easy for us.
Whats the music like at the store you work at? I work at a Kroger and they play absolutely nothing from later than 1990.
Makes me want to kill myself when it gets slow and all you can hear are the same Stevie Wonder songs over and over again
>>28096821
This is my fear when going shopping. If I ask for help from someone, I'm sure they'll talk shit about me as soon as I'm not in earshot.
I thought this bullying thing ended in high school.
>>28096835
>go into big store
>see where product X is
>get product X and go to the register to check out
Wow, so hard.
>>28096850
>work atChristianbookstore
>listen toChristianpop/rock all day
I'd prefer Stevie Wonder.
Thank goodness I work primarily in the back and listen to whatever I want.
>>28095598
>>They expect you to open the till for change, but we're instructed that they have to purchase something first.
this reminds me of the time they refused to give me change so i purchased a single lollipop with a 50
>>28096891
Yeah, except sometimes product X is hidden somewhere in the back. Why would I spend time scavenging your whole store when there's someone in front who can literally tell me where to go in 2 seconds flat?
I know your time is worthless, but some of us have important things to deal with.
>>28096823
This. I'm the person who works at Petsmart. These people find it difficult to comprehend that someone who doesn't work there is able to find pet food on their own. Not even a specific type of food, just "dog food".
I honestly feel bad for them if they are this dysfunctional walking into every store. In fact, I'm going to help every person looking for "hurr durr dog food" because I'm going to assume they have literal mental handicaps.
>>28092074
I work at local soda factory/brewery.
I take care of the packing line where cans come to be packed. Most I do is keeping conveyor belts topped with cardboard bases for trays and packs, glu machine topped up and other part of the machine topped up with wrapping plastic
Then there's of course clearing up malfunctions and such which luckily are easy and safe to take care off since machine automatically shuts down when it detects a problem. Stuff like soda can fell down, wrong number of cans per package, machine skipped picking up cardboard base etc.
Then I get to cruise around on motorized pallet jacks to get stuff which is fun. Hardest thing so far has been learning starting and ending a new run for different product alone since there's lot to do - get specific packaging materials, set the machine up for new package if needed, set the conveyor belts before and after the machine, that rails are open/high enough/wide enough.
Can be bit exhausting since there's three shifts. First you do one five-day week of night shift from 10pm to 6am, then week of evening shift from 2pm to 10pm and then one week of morning shift from 6am to 2pm and then you start all over.
>make $200-$300 an hour as a software engineer at my uncle's company even though I'm only mediocre at my job at best
>still feel poor at the end of the month
Don't know how you guys get by on $10 an hour, that shit seems rough.
>>28096891
>Customer asks where product X is.
>You tell him where product X is.
>Customer leaves.
Wow, so hard.
>>28092781
maybe for you. i worked at one where it was glaring blight and you had to talk to this voice recognition piece of shit that made you want to shoot your head. all while being tracked so you had to do be on the run to get your piece count up. no music either
was not comfy at all. some are good some are just gay. the other one i worked at for a little while was nice when you didnt have that voice picker
>item doesn't ring
I
GUESS
I
GET
IT
FOR
FREE
>>28096882
They probably will but I won't.
I like helping old people and fuck-ups because they won't judge me, but it's surprisingly common for teenage females to drop what they're doing to take a picture of me. I didn't even know I looked that bad, but apparently they like to make a spectacle of me and have a laugh with their friends.
>>28096931
When "product X" is fucking DOG FOOD and you're at a NATIONAL CHAIN PET STORE, your product X is not some obscure item hiding behind a river troll you have to fight to get through.
>>28096944
>$200-$300 an hour
Do you really make $10k a week? Anon, somehow I don't believe you. Did you mean 20-30? Or are you in some eastern bloc commie shithole?
>>28096850
At my store they play orchestral music. It's not too bad, but I'm there so much, I start hearing the music even when I'm not at work. I think I'm losing it
>>28095497
Holy shit, no wonder you work at Taco Bell.
"Our speaker is having problems, can you please pull up to the window?"
Take their order.
"Thank you, please pull ahead and we'll bring your order out. Yep, just up there, thanks."
They are only briefly at your window, and no awkward fuss.
>>28096991
We can't pull them forward either. That's "manipulating the window time" and we get written up for it.
>>28096931
>Yeah, except sometimes product X is hidden somewhere in the back.
Yes dude, all the dog food in Petsmart is hidden in one obscure shelf in an unmarked location. It's honestly funny hearing your mindset of this.
>>28096967
>I mad because I have to do my job: the post.
>>28096931
>important things to deal with
YOUR PROBLEM FAGGOT
>>28097057
Nah, your problem, since it's your job to answer my questions. :)
>>28095989
Security guard here
Used to play vydia and watch movies on 3rd shift, life kinda sucks when even that is boring.
>>28094506
I loved working the meat counter
Worked at a stater bros (california only super market) and although I was one of the "new guys", I was the most competent meat clerk in the store
>some recovering addict tried to put a bone-in pork chop through the manager
>would get super pissed if you ask him to hurry up
>as I was helping some guy get some hot wings for a game, he decided that that was the perfect time to strike up a conversation with him in the middle of the order
>would constantly do dishes regardless of how many people are in line at the meat counter
>some kid whose dad knows one of the meat cutters constantly brags about getting a promotion before me even though I've worked in the store longer than he did. He only got the promotion because the meat cutter who was a friend of his dad's was asked to put in a good word for him
>>28097036
He doesn't work at Petsmart. I do. Is it really that difficult for you to understand every customer except you is capable of simple cognitive function when in a store?
>>28097021
You do realize that some products are in the back of the store, right? If it's not dog food, it's cat food. Or pet toys. Or rodent items. Or whatever the fuck.
So when I come in to a new store, don't see the product at the front, it makes sense to ask an front-end employee (who I'd assume knows where shit is) where product X is, so I can just go get the product instead of wasting time and searching the store.
>>28096124
tell us nigger
>eating at chinese restaurant with dad
>asian lady is leaving
>dad yells excuse me 3 times
>asian lady turns around
>can you tell me the wifi password?
>she obviously doesnt work here
>every waiter wears a fucking uniform
>she tells him to ask one of the waitress
god damn it dad
>>28097114
>implying the customer asked for one specific product
>>28092820
I just try and smile
>>28097111
>I walk into a new, big store.
>Don't see product in front of store.
>See employee at front of store.
Please justify me walking the store to find the product when I can engage in a 5 second exchange with an employee who will tell me where the product is.
Protip: I don't want to do my job is not an acceptable response.
>>28097114
If they would ask for the products hidden somewhere in the store, that's not a retarded question. That isn't an issue.
Asking where dog food is in a pet store is a retarded question and they need to use their eyes.
>>28096814
This
. . .as long as we are talking about rahjit the indian, not Running Bull the indian
>>28095598
>>You smile and tell them to have a nice day and they straight up ignore you
That's upsetting senpai
I always talk to you guys like human beans. I know what it's like to be ignored or "used" as a resource. People only talk to you when they need something.
>work at a large chain
>mostly women there
>few guys but younger than me and most move on
>been there for 4 years because I literally don't know what to do with my life and switch between comp sci and kinesiology
>general cashier feels and bullshit smiling/chatter crap
>old lady comes in
>says she remembers me saying things like "you've been here for a long time" etc
As if the bags under my eyes and dead look signify I WANT to be there or something...
Thanks lady.
>>28097162
>Please justify me walking the store to find the product when I can engage in a 5 second exchange with an employee who will tell me where the product is.
Because you're a reasonably capable adult who can read signs that clearly mark where the type of product you want is?
>>28097166
Fair enough.
Congrats, you deal with a few retards, something that is literally part of your job. Do you want a cookie or something?
>>28096418
I'm actually at my entry level help desk job right now and its comfy as shit: I just fuck around on the internet and read all day.
>>28097210
No I just want to not deal with retards. Believe it or not, I actually have other shit to get done in my day than to hold your hand because you're too lazy to read a sign.
As someone who works in a higher end clothes shop, please dont ruin the freshly folded piles it's already boring as fuck tidying them up please don't make me do it again 10 mins later i've got stuff i need to do and will have to stay later to tidy up.
>>28097206
There's a difference between capability and efficiency which I don't think you quite understand.
I am capable enough to do math in my head, but why would I when I have a calculator?
Same thing here. I could spend time walking the store to find what I want, but why would when there's an employee up front who knows the store like the back of his/her hand? Those extra few minutes add up.
>>28097256
>No I just want to not deal with retards
Then go get a job that doesn't require you do deal with retarded customers. It's not my fault you have a job where one of the duties is something you don't like.
>I actually have other shit to get done in my day than to hold your hand because you're too lazy to read a sign.
I've never worked at Petsmart, but I'm guessing customer service is part of your duties.
>that one faggot who will ask for you to open the bathroom for them when you are clearly busy helping other customers or ringing
IM NOT THE ONLY ONE WORKING HERE FUCK OFF AND ASK SOMEONE ELSE JESUS CHRIST
>>28097258
If you were truly capable then you'd be efficient too. Why is it that when I go to a store I don't work at I have absolutely no problem finding what I need, but you can't do the same?
>>28091545
Do you guys get a lot of drunks? One time I was driving my dad around because he was drunk and he had me stop at the market so that we could pick up some... bananas at 10 PM. He had a big cut on his arm that he was showing off while we were waiting in the checkout. It was so obvious that he was drunk you should have seen the look on the cashier woman's face.
>>28097304
>Why is it that when I go to a store I don't work at I have absolutely no problem finding what I need, but you can't do the same?
Because you're a retailcuck who has optimized his mind for spatial awareness. Some people have other fucking jobs that require other types of competencies that they've trained their brains to focus on, how fucking stupid can you get, jesus christ, I want to beat your white trash head in with a tire iron
I really hate co-workers who 'show off' more than anyone else, because they fucking raise expectations across the entire store and make me look bad.
>Have Pakistani co-worker
>He loves his job because he is from a shithole
>He ALWAYS makes jokes to customers
>He showed me a few weeks ao that he has a notepad with EVERY item in the entire store
>We are a huge mega supermarket as well, so thousands of items
>Has a joke for every item that he has memorised
>a few examples I have seen
>Customer asks for dog food, so he pretends to walk his dog across the fucking store on a leash while leading them
>Stops if he sees me and pretends to pick me up while saying 'he poops everywhere'
>customer always laughs
>customer asks for M&M's
>He takes them to the CD's (because Eminem HAHAH) then apologises and runs to get M&M's for them
>customer asks for baking equipment
>he runs with them to the in store bakery and has a playfight with the baker then comes out acting hurt and says 'he isn't giving it up' and takes them to the actual section with that stuff
This is a problem. I am always being told 'be more like Inderpal'. Literally every day. The management actually put up a little chart in the staff area for everyone to rank how close they are to Inderpal. I am near the bottom.
>>28097283
>I've never worked at Petsmart, but I'm guessing customer service is part of your duties.
I don't work at Pet Smart either. Since when did "customer service" mean doing your shopping for you because you're too lazy to try for yourself?
>>28096733
>finding cheaper soda than mcdonalds
Bullshit
it's a dollar large there 32 oz
retailfriends, how retarded am i?
>feel bad when workers bag my groceries
>just standing there watching them bag it is awkward like i'm some king and they're a peasant
>usually help them bag it
is this annoying? i don't want to annoy you guys because i know you deal with so much shit working in retail but i just feel bad not helping you
also
>go shopping with friends or family
>people make a mess in stores
>people are barbarians
>clean up and fold the clothes and put them back
>"haha anon you're so OCD! maybe you should be working here!"
leave me alone
>>28097335
And what do you do that drains so much of your brain power that you can't find dog food at a pet store without somebody holding your hand?
>>28097336
There's nothing worse than having a co-worker that takes retail way too seriously
>>28097336
Wow that sucks but that guy sounds really cool.
>>28097366
>Tell someone where a product is.
>A literal 5 second response.
>This is equivalent of "doing your shopping for you."
Nice jump you did there.
>>28097385
You can buy 4 liters of soda for like $3. Don't even get me started on the deals you can find for 12 packs of cans.
>>28097336
this could be a movie
>>28096608
LA fitness does that and I'm guessing xsport might too. They're either bro-zones or clans of old people that sit in the steam/sauna rooms. PF is simple and I like the welcoming feeling
>>28097394
Are you so retarded that you don't realize that it's faster asking someone where a product is than scavenging a big store for it?
But I like how just asking a simple question is now "holding your hand."
>>28097336
yea like that guy who works really hard and acts superior and mad at everyone who just works normal. those guys are gay
>>28097336
That pajet sounds like an alfa worker.
Don't put yourself down only retards put effort in retail jobs.
>>28097394
>And what do you do that drains so much of your brain power
Some of us work real jobs. Somethings that have so much physical and/or mental exhaustion that we are pretty much dead after work.
Not everyone has an easy job where scanning barcodes and answering "retarded" (XD) questions are the hardest parts of the day.
>>28097444
Why do you pretend that every store ever isn't clearly marked to show where the product you want is? It isn't faster to ask an employee because I have to track one down, wait until they're not busy with a customer, then exchange word with them when I could have just looked at the signs, see where the thing is, and grabbed it myself.
Why is this so hard for you to do?
>>28097336
Damn...
That guy must be great. I too would like to be more like Inderpal!
>>28091746
no truer statement has ever been said on 4chan
>>28097497
You didn't answer the question faggot. When I worked for a moving company lifting heavy shit all day long I could still walk into Walmart and get my shit without asking for help. Why can't you?
>>28097336
If a retail employee tried pulling that shit with me I'd complain.
>leading customers to the wrong section as a joke
Don't waste my fucking time, Pajeet
>>28097162
>implying the customer asked for a single product
>>28097509
>Why do you pretend that every store ever isn't clearly marked to show where the product you want is?
Because it isn't.
Many stores don't have a huge sign in front saying where everything is. At best, each individual asile has a sign saying what's in it, but you walk to each individual item.
Instead, I can find a front-end employee, ask which asile has product X and just walk to that asile after our quick conversation.
Why is it so hard for you retail workers to do your jobs? Especially a part of your job that requires at most 5 seconds.
>>28097394
>And what do you do
I'm a retailcuck, you dumb motherfucker, I just happen to be in contact with the rest of society which makes me uniquely positioned to be sick of your bullshit fucking excuses
>>28097509
>Why do you pretend that every store ever isn't clearly marked to show where the product you want is?
You have an extremely high opinion of the kinds of middle management fuckheads who place signs and layouts, and you're an autistic cunt if you can't understand why other people wouldn't have that same trust
>>28097548
Again, I *can* do it. But it is more efficient to ask an employee where a specific product is.
Why can't you retail workers do your jobs without bitching about it on 4chin like huge faggots?
>>28095938
there are jobs like this, factories and warehouses
>>28097627
>Why can't you retail workers do your jobs
Just like you, we *can* do it but we rather not because it's distracting us from our other tasks that we're doing when your question could be answered on your own if you'd shut up and look.
>>28096481
Not only does your cartoon suck, but the character is a fat dyke.
>>28097388
Are you me?
Why does everyone think that the reason I am folding the clothes is Ocd and not to help a retailbro?
I too would like to learn if I am doing anyone any good or I am just making it worse.
What I am afraid the most is that you have to unfold and fold those shirts I folded for you because I don't do it in a specific way.
Or that if I insist that I bag my own groceries some manager will see me and scold the cashier because she/he should be doing it.
Please answer it's really important to me!
>>28097666
Right, but the difference is that you're paid to do that. I'm not paid to waste my precious time going to each asile to find shit.
>>28097717
Read the fucking signs that we put out for you then you moron. Need dog food? If only there were something that let's you know where to that is. Oh, there's a sign that says "Pet supplies" Need cereal? Try going to the aisle that says fucking "Cereal" on it.
Stop trying to justify being a retard.
>have terrible social anxiety
>as a result I'm extremely polite to eveyone, not because I'm a nice person but because everyone scares me
>on the rare occasion I go grocery shopping I always wind up telling the cashiers to "have a nice day" as I'm leaving
>they often don't say anything back
>come home and sit on the couch and wonder what I did wrong
>then extrapolate that thought process to where my life went wrong in general
>stay inside for the next few weeks
Am I doing something wrong? Should I just take my bags and leave without saying anything? Do they think I'm making fun of them? I'm going to kill myself.
>>28097764
>I don't want to do my job.
>It's the customers' fault when I need to do my job.
It's not even worth arguing with retail workers anymore. All they do is mental gymnastics to justify complaining about their work duties.
But for the fifth a final time, our time is not worthless unlike yours, and it's more effeicient to ask an employee where a product is instead of searching asile signs for it.
If a 5 second exchange makes you this made, I'd suggest getting skilled enough to get a non-retail job. Stay mad, faggot.
>>28097258
Sometimes, it's about having a little dignity. You can't always be a little bitch having your hand held through life. I know this is a new concept to you, but try to take ownership of your life. Even if someone can do it for you, do something for yourself. The 3 seconds it saves you to be a mindless drone isn't worth it.
>>28097712
maybe. i have the same worries!!
pls respond retailfriends
>>28092996
Next time, anon. This joke might not have worked out, but don't let that get you down.
>>28097335
>literally admitting you aren't capable of spatial awareness
>the literal definition of a retard
>>28097336
Based Pajeet.
>>28097822
It's not a 5 second exchange for me you dipshit. I have to stop what I'm doing, walk you over to where the shit you want is, and either point to or physically hand you the product you want. At that point I have to stand there with the customer while they compare brands and sizes and prices and other bullshit until they're satisfied with what they want. All because this is company policy and I get written up and bitched at if I don't go through this song and dance. All of which could have been avoided, if you'd read the fucking signs.
>>28097823
kek
I've worked plenty of shit-tier customer service jobs in high school/college. And yeah, I've dealt with retards myself, but I understood the concept that this was what I was paid to do.
I have a white-collared job now, and I still deal with retards, but now they're just in suit and ties. I still don't complain because again this is what I'm paid to deal with.
But keep coddling little retail workers who are too good to answer questions. I mean heaven forbid they do what they're paid to do, right?
>>28096410
All of the black customers I've dealt with were fine, the only one that caused an issue was some older crackhead looking guy who tried to get my cute dd tits supervisor to audition for the strip club he mopped the floors at
>>28097764
>If only there were something that let's you know where to that is. Oh, there's a sign that says "Pet supplies"
How the fuck are people supposed to know that "pet supplies" means dog food? For all they know, in the language of this store, "pet supplies" means toys and other nonperishables, and there's a separate aisle for "pet food" at the end of the store where the sign is obscured by some aquarium display. And the dog food has enough variety that it's not in "pet food", it's in a separate "dog food" aisle that runs widthwise along the back of the store. It's not the customer's job to immediately grasp every stupid bullshit nuance of your store's stupid bullshit signage; it is your job to do so.
>>28097892
>All because this is company policy and I get written up and bitched at if I don't go through this song and dance.
Your company policy is retarded enough to force you to manually accompany every customer with a simple question, and we're supposed to assume your company policy isn't retarded enough to have layouts that make no fucking sense? You have a very bizarre perspective on the retail industry.
>>28097892
Oh man, you actually have to walk over and show them? Wow, talk about a total holocaust! Man, you should be making $100-an-hour do deal with that!
Again, if you don't like your job, get a new one. It's not my fault as a customer that you have to do what you get paid to do.
>>28097949
>sign says "pet supplies"
>nope, no dog food there, better ask an employee
>oh, it's in the aisle that says pet supplies
>>28091545
Retail sucks pretty hard. I work unloading trucks for a home improvement store. When we unload the trucks we don't have to use a uniform but sometimes I get scheduled to come in early and help on the sales floor and I refuse to wear it to avoid being stopped by customers. Managers are pretty chill and don't seem to care since I'm out there very rarely.
>>28098026
>Deal with a few retards each day.
>Look at how hard muh job is guis XD
Don't even bother looking for real work, nigga. The corporate world would eat you alive.
>>28092820
Don't listen to the others.
I like it when customers engage in small talk.
What I don't like is when customers pretend they know more about the machines I use and store policy than me. Always trust what the cashier is doing. If I say this is what happened this is what happened.
>>28097984
Nice strawman. I just want to get my daily tasks done because I get a bonus if I get them done consistently. Hard to do when I have to help retards do their shopping.
>work at a restaurant part time during college
>not a retard so they promote me to management
>single moms who have been there for years and never advanced hate me
>also have to deal with niggers wanting shit for free all the time
>>28098054
I still don't understand why you're trying to justify people being retarded.
>>28097414
>>28097444
It's literally quicker to walk in a straight line where there are signs pointing to the dog food that occupies 90% of the store.
>>28098065
did you fuck any of the moms?
>>28098064
It's not the customers' fault that you can't get your job done.
>In before mental gymnastics of "b-b-but it is!"
Serving the customer is literally part of your job.
>>28097588
>Many stores don't have a huge sign in front saying where everything is.
Every Petsmart store has signs pointing to where the dog food is. It's store protocol.
Keep making excuses, it's fun proving how subhuman you are.
>>28098149
>Serving the customer is literally part of your job.
A part of my job that gets easier and less time consuming when they actually decide to think for themselves.
>>28098026
>sign says "bedding"
>nope, no comforters there, better ask an employee
>"yeah the comforters are actually at the end of the bath aisle"
Is this literally your first retail job? No, scratch that - is this literally the first big store you've walked into in your life? What kind of sheltered life or stupid luck do you have to have to assume signs are even remotely accurate, and dismiss as retarded any customer who dares to doubt it?
>>28098191
>Every Petsmart store has signs pointing to where the dog food is. It's store protocol.
as if i fucking care about your one fucking franchise's "store protocol"
>>28098145
>Every store is like my Petsmart store.
But no, most stores you have to walk to each individual asile to see the sign of what's down there. So it IS faster to ask a front-end employee. Of course some stores may be an outlier to that.
>>28098137
Capability /=/ efficiency.
Most people have SO, kids, real jobs, pets and tons of other responsibilities to attend to, so saving a minute or two in each store adds up. I understand that single 20 year old kids who work retail wouldn't understand that, though.
>>28098217
Please tell me what fucking store stocks comforters in the god damn bath aisle. If you're going to lie at least make it a good one.
>>28098191
I'm not talking just specifically about Petsmart, dipshit.
It's a general statement about all retail stores.
>>28098195
That's not the customer's problem, faggot.
>>28097712
>>28097824
Can't speak for others but in my store it's okay to fold the clothes, long as it looks presentable. For example if our bitchy manager walks across and aisle and sees things not folded and thrown around compared to folded (even if randomly) it's better than nothing. Some stores are quite anal aboot it no doubt.
I've got this one customer who works as a night shift security guard, and he's the nicest dude I've met in my life. Apologizes for everything even when not needed, but I'd go out of my way to help him out if he requires it.
Basically just be nice and try not to small chat cashiers unless they do it first.
>>28098246
>That's not the customer's problem, faggot.
Never said it was, faggot. They still should strive to be less retarded.
>>28097336
plant drugs in his locker and tell the boss to get him fired
>>28097786
If only human interaction was that simple bro. I'd give you a hug. It's in these private moments in your head that you realize people don't communicate well unless they really speak their mind, literally. Like you typed now.
>>28098280
>Never said it was, faggot.
Good. Now stop bitching about having do your job on a Chink cartoon message board.
>>28091545
lol look at all these wagecucks trying to have fun before their weekend ends
>>28098220
>But no, most stores you have to walk to each individual asile to see the sign of what's down there.
Think about it like this:
>thing you want is on aisle 10
>ask employee where thing is
>they say aisle 10
>you have to walk to aisle 10 to get thing
OR
>thing you need is on aisle 10
>start walking down the store
>assuming you have decent vision or corrective lenses you can see past the aisle you're currently on
>you'll see the item you want is on aisle 10
You actually save time by not stopping to talk to an employee because you still have to go to that aisle and search for the specific product you want.
>>28098238
I work at K-Mart. There are a lot of things they do wrong. There's a reason they're going out of business. However, one thing it does do right (along with the vast majority of retail stores) is enable me to answer a customer's question "lol where tf is this" in 5 seconds. Not even 5 seconds, more like 2. And most customers walking into PetSmart will come in with the same assumption, that they can ask a simple question like a normal person, and you can rattle off the simple answer instantly like a normal person.
>I have to stop what I'm doing, walk you over to where the shit you want is, and either point to or physically hand you the product you want. At that point I have to stand there with the customer while they compare brands and sizes and prices and other bullshit until they're satisfied with what they want. All because this is company policy and I get written up and bitched at if I don't go through this song and dance
Don't blame the customer for how idiotic and unnatural your company policy is.
>>28098217
>as if i fucking care about your one fucking franchise's "store protocol"
You're making up lies about sign placement. Get over the fact that I proved you wrong. Again, keep replying to me. You're only helping my case.
>What kind of sheltered life or stupid luck do you have to have to assume signs are even remotely accurate
Every store I walk into that uses signs is accurate. I've lived in 4 states, and it is always the same. Bed Bath and Beyond? Would you look at that, bedding is in the linen section. Grocery store? Would you look at that, chips are in the chip aisle. Petsmart? Would you look at that, dog food is where the signs say dog food. In literally 90% of the store. Everywhere. At the entrance.
Just admit it dude, you are incapable of cognitive function. I'm not trying to be mean or throw generic insults, but hy definition you are subhuman. Deep inside, you know this too. Your family and the people who pretend to be your friends would benefit if you crawled in your closet and decomposed.
>>28098387
My store actually puts things where we say we put them so if you read the signs you'll actually find what you're looking for.
>Don't blame the customer for how idiotic and unnatural your company policy is
But it's "good customer service". Shouldn't you be striving to provide "excellent customer service" to your store's patrons?
>>28098362
J-joke's on you, I work on weekends...
>>28098376
>Enter store.
>Turn left.
>Go through the 10 asiles on that side, your product isn't in any of them.
>Walk all the way back.
>Now walk the right side of the store.
>Your item is in the last asile.
>Total time elapsed: 2 minutes.
>Walk into store.
>See free front-end employee.
>Ask where product is.
>"It's in asile 20, the last asile on that side."
>"Ok"
>Go get product.
>Easy
Its Freaking DOGFOOD
>My sides
>tfw working in a warehouse all day
feels good man
>>28096085
I have shit to do. My time is more valuable than some little teenage shit working for peanuts. If I can save 2 seconds ill save 2 seconds
>>28098456
>You're making up lies about sign placement. Get over the fact that I proved you wrong. Again, keep replying to me. You're only helping my case.
No one is just talking about Petsmart but you, kid.
>Every store I walk into that uses signs is accurate. I've lived in 4 states, and it is always the same. Bed Bath and Beyond? Would you look at that, bedding is in the linen section. Grocery store? Would you look at that, chips are in the chip aisle. Petsmart? Would you look at that, dog food is where the signs say dog food. In literally 90% of the store. Everywhere. At the entrance.
So in other words, "muh personal experience?" Most stores I've been to don't have good sign placement and it IS much easier and faster just to ask a front end employee.
>Just admit it dude, you are incapable of cognitive function.
You do realize that you're replying to more than one person, right? I'm not the guy in 28098217.
And it's funny how a 20 year old Petsmart cashier is saying this to likely 2+ professionals.
>>28095651
Sad truth is they don't give a shit about the sale. Things like "window time" or "serve time" are usually corporate evaluation metrics that only serve to evaluate how well a particular location is gaming your system. If your location does poorly only them corporate reams you the fuck out.
>>28098615
This is correct.
2 seconds not searching for shit is 2 more seconds I get to spend with my wife, my kid, my pets, or doing some shit I enjoy.
Why wouldn't I? So some 20 year old employee doesn't have to look up from his cell phone hidden underneath his counter?
>>28096951
In my experience, this works out fine. But there are always those people, those fucking people who will, upon having their first request fulfilled, badger you for five to six things in a row, while you're on a schedule to do your job in the first place. Customers are shit.
>>28092781
Im busting my head in college in an ECE degree, but I got to admit it, that sounds neat lol.
Easy work, no stress. I bet the payment is garbage though, no such thing as an easy living in this world :S
>>28096229
More like
>walk into a grocery store with many types of food
>where is x food?
>walk into candy store with many types of candy
>where is x candy?
Sorry u were too stupid to get a real job buddy
>>28097336
>'he poops everywhere'
I'm so sick of memes breaching into real life, I'm almost to the point of suicide because of it
>>28097548
>moving shit
Literally easier than retail u fucking idiot he meant skilled jobs where u have to use ur brain
Robots, do not work in shoe sales; especially not women's shoes. I'd say 5-10% of the customers come in actively planning to fuck with you.
>>28098064
What exactly are your daily tasks that cannot be done in an 8 hour timespan without dedicating the entire 8 hours?
>mfw too autistic to work in retail
>>28097388
>usually help them bag it
>is this annoying?
I'd find it annoying if you didn't desu haha
>>28096370
Both of these stories amused me.
>>28099110
5 or 6 hours usually. And they differ from day to day. Usually it's unloading the truck and making sure everything in the store is where it's supposed to be.
>>28093774
You could be a poet, famalam
>those 2 autists still arguing about dogfood in petsmart
holy shit shut up you are both faggots
>>28092820
The advice on this post is solid although you could off as rude. Ive worked with some genuinely friendly people before.
ABOVE ALL ELSE
Dont ever fucking apologize to someone when shopping in their store on a holiday
>sorry you have to be here in thanksgiving
>sorry you have to work on christmas
Bullshit faggot, if you were sorry, you wouldnt be contributing
>>28095846
I can a woman posted this
Be my gf pls
>>28093987
Your also a faggot.
Milk has a handle
Detergent has a handle
12 packs have a handle
Fuck you
You are worst kind of person.
Fuck you
>>28094117
Jesus christ
Best image ever
I fucking LOVE when people ask to speak to a manager
>i am the manager
Have you ever seen a persons soul slowly drain out from them? Its satisfying
>>28094290
Why the fuck are you bringing up that you're a doctor? How is that relevant, you egotistical asshole?
>>28095881
I hope a pack of niggers rapes you.
You faggots dont know retail till youve torn an ad set like this, and then put it up......weekly
>>28095805
Its worse when your managers dont back you up bruh
>>28094189
Almost.
My boss dragged me and some other lanklet outside with her to confront 2 customers she thought stole something.
2 hulking aryan nation dudes.
As it turns out they didn't steal shit, they'd just brought in a bag from another store.
>turn to boss as we're going back in
>"What the fuck did you expect us to do? Get broken in half while you called the cops?"
>>28094385
Asset Protection
Another term for LP
>>28092074
Army Officer. If you're a Brit, just apply and attend selection - a 2 day selection, followed by a 4 day selection. No strings attached, no charges. Might as well try and if you pass you have the option to go to Sandhurst and begin yourself a well paying, highly respected career with lots of perks and job satisfaction, excitement etc etc.
That's what I did when I was bored and unemployed one day and I have never looked back. Now I'm a commando trained officer looking at doing SF selection very soon - I used to be a hideously unfit and unpopular nerd back in school.
>>28100066
That is the easiest job in the store and everyone still fucks it up. Then the customer gets the product for free and the cashier/management get mad at the department workers, when the office department worker that's in charge of putting up tags gets off scot-free to sit around some more.
>>28096370
>work as drug store
>these are symptoms what medicine do i need?
Nope. Youre an adult.
My favorite:
>what medicine does my child need
No, im not setting myself up for that bitch
Try giving them
>bleach
Heard that works
Had a faggot ask me about vitamins:
>oh dude i couldnt tell ya, im sure the pharmacist would be able to tell you, her name is anon, shes real nice
>what you mean, you work here, you sell them! You dont know?
>look sir, you see how many vitamins are here. Look at all these other isles, do i think i know everything about every item here? We have over 300,000 upcs in this store, and my company doesnt offer product knowledge classes. I have a house, a wife, and a child, and im in college full time, the amount of time i spend at home on work is zero.
Fucking faggot
Ive condensed this and have defaulted to:
>I dont know, im an accounting major.
>>28100066
But I do do that every week.
>tfw this is the last week of this month
>tfw have to put up the monthly sale tags next week
>>28100419
Fuck you, I get them right every time. Customers just peel them off and stick them whereever they like.
>>28096963
Fuck i hate this
>yeah thats exactly what it means faggot
>>28100066
>>28100460
Where do you work at guys?
I hate when customers read my name tag and call me by my name.
I know "thats what its there for" but i fucking hate it
I feel like its moreso accountability, so if i piss someone off, they have my name
>working closing shift at shitty kmart
>literally 15 minutes before close, be only cashier up front
>fucking nazi with a giant swastika tattooed on his neck buying some shit
>mexican gangbanger gets in line behind him
>tension was palpable
>nazi gets his shit leaves, mexican does too
Seriously thought i would get shot or stabbed in crossfire or something
>>28100776
I would've been nervous too
>>28096194
>It's literally their job.
Okay? It's nothing new for people, of any sort of profession, to dislike their job. You're projecting a lot of arrogance onto people for finding the draining and unrewarding parts of their job draining and unrewarding. Would you do the same to a nurse that dislikes wiping ass? Or are you just surprised users of a 4chan board famous for being anti-social dislike the social aspects of their jobs?
> It's only skilled when the average person off the street can't do your job.
Any idiot off the street can do anyone's job, given the training and education. "Skilled labor" is barely at any more premium than remedial labor, and the people in "skilled labor" are just average people off the streets, educated idiots, such as yourself.
To put it another way, if you can do it, it's not skilled, duh.
>>28095613
You better quit it or else I'll have you interrogated by security and the store director
>>28092781
This right fucking here. There is no reason to humiliate yourself by wearing a stupid fucking McUniform and pleasing herds of dumb people for 10 bucks an hour. Warehouse job is so chill, I make $18 an hour just to shoot the shit half the day with coworkers/buddies, drive forklifts around, ocasionally lift some wood. 3 breaks a day which are supposed to be 15 min but on a slow day i'll take 30 - 1 hr. I drink beer at lunch/ after work, and take any days off whenever I feel like it with need for an excuse.
>>28100727
Why? You would rather they whistle at you like a dog or something?
>>28101085
They dont need need to address me by name.
>excuse me
Works well
Think of this, how many people ever fucking call you by your name in a conversation
The only people i ever talk to who use my names are customers, and there all faggots.
And besides you raging fucking faggot, when im working on something and they come up behind me or approach me from the side, guess what they cant see?
hint:
>its my name tag
You fucking idiot
Your one of those customers
>how come i cant use this soap coupon on this cough medicine, what the hell man?
I can tell by how your unable to think reasonably, like a person, and you innate need to try to justify advertising your name on your shirt
>business is dead all day
>about to go home
>all of a sudden
>every Chad and his litter of 3 kids decides to come get food.
This just happened, I had to stay an extra hour. Do they plan this shit? It always happens.
>>28099816
I agree, those two people saying they need help finding food are dumbasses
>>28101388
>how many people ever fucking call you by your name in a conversation
>Max level autism achieved.
People call me by my name literally every day. Clearly they don't for you because you probably rage and have an autistic episode like you just did over a simple comment. Take a deep breath little buddy, everything is going to be all right.
>>28096138
Its healthier for the back if you stand, fyi.
>>28096138
>8 hour shift
>no breaks
>get shit on for standing still, let alone siting
>>28101850
Get a better job.
See:
>>28101052
>>28097336
>>Customer asks for dog food, so he pretends to walk his dog across the fucking store on a leash while leading them
>>Stops if he sees me and pretends to pick me up while saying 'he poops everywhere'
jesus
>>28091545
>why so expensive?
>why don't you know every little bit of information there is to be had about this supermarket you work in?
>I need your attention now! I don't care you are already with a customer.
Ive somehow rused my coworkers into thinking I'm a hard worker. Every time hey see me sweeping they're like 'wow you're so thorough' when really I'm just being slow to waste time
>>28094045
>tfw you're 25, male, and still work in retail despite having a business degree.
You think I want this still? It's been 8 years of hell working part-time in this shithole company.
I want out so bad. I want a life of my own, but I unfortunately also have an autistic younger brother to care for. No. Not 4chan autsitic, literal, has mental breakdowns, self-harms and makes inhuman noises autistic. Obsession with cartoon characters and collecting DVDs autistic.
I work part-time doing stuff for him. Taking him out of his room, going to movies, eating out at lunch. Constantly watching for his triggers and his personal safety. Because I can't trust anyone else to do it. Everyone eventually drops out and it's back to me sorting shit out because my parents work full-time.
A lot of his care package has fallen through. The woman handling his case has had to elevate his priority because she admitted to me that they failed to do a good job so far.
Hell, if a random social worker hadn't got into contact with my parents a few years ago, we wouldn't even have that. He'd be sitting around doing jack because we can barely afford to have a roof over our heads as is.
Hired hands don't educate and tutor him, they just expect him to wander around like a robot/retard. But he's actually quite smart and ambitious, just incredibly vulnerable and has communication issues that hold him back constantly.
I only got my degree because he had somewhere to go, a life skills unit, but he's 'graduated' from that and has to be legally supported like an adult at 23 even though he has the mental maturity of a 6 year old.
So fuck you anon. I have to endure half a week listening to borderline retards less capable than my brother spew a load of dumb, patronising shit,all because it's the only job flexible enough to support my care work and tutoring.
>>28101085
How is it possible to be as dense as you?
>>28102191
Fuck that entitled asshole. Not everyone "looks down on you". Only faglords like this guy >>28094045
The only people I look down on are lazy NEETs
>have all sorts of ideas on where and how to place products to free up room and boost sales
>want to clean all the crap that has been piling up, the cob webs, the dirty shelves, all the things people overlook but builds up overtime
>want to overhaul the office and reorganize everything so our records are actually kept properly and things are easy to find
>want to add special touches to the store, maybe some decorations or some sort of small freebies added to customer's bags after they pay
>work in a small box discount retailer with barely any employees, and the store can't afford to give out many hours to anyone
>constantly stuck in an eternal game of catch-up as the store very slowly becomes worse and worse over time and will inevitably be just another bleak dollar store
It ain't fair.
>>28102319
Normal , sane people actually don't mind being called by their name. Keep on crying about it though.
>>28101868
This is the only place that would hire a 21 year old NEET
>>28102365
Warehouse job takes ZERO experience. I learned to drive a forklift in 15 minutes and everything else is easy enough a third grader could do it. Find a small family company, not a big chain.
>>28102191
>Not 4chan autsitic
>literal, has mental breakdowns, self-harms and makes inhuman noises autistic
>Obsession with cartoon characters and collecting DVDs autistic
I thought that was 4chan autistic
>>28096625
I love you. Never change
>>28092820
die in a fire and fuck off
>customer hands me a 20% off coupon
>it was a black friday, one day only promotion
>it's now April
>tell them it's no good
>"I'll settle for 10%"
>no you can't have any discount at all
>"but the girl at the front said it would be fine."
>girl at the front is cashier manager
>call her over
>she declines the coupon
>customer fakes an understanding
>manager walks away
>"Ok, how about 8% instead?"
Fucking stop
>>28101598
Thats the cringiest shit ive ever heard
Literally nobody interjects your name into a sentence they are saying unless theres more than one person involved and they need to specify that the comment was directed at you
This has never happened to me.
You talk to awkward people.
Sounds like you hang out with /mlp and /9rk faggot virgins on the regular
>>28102432
Do 4channers hump the bed each day to creepy pictures of people in cartoon character costumes?
Then no. They are not THAT autistic.
Fuck you anon
Whoever made this thread fuck you
I dont wanna talk about being a pleb vcs worker when im not there sucking on woonsocket RI's dick.
Fuck this thread
>>28101085
>implying they don't do that already regardless of your name tage
>>28100066
Found you faggot. I KNOW WHO YOU ARE. I'm reporting you to corporate you can't post pictures online from the store. REEEEEEEEE
>>28102862
>evidence is a white cis invention of oppression
You can find me MyValuesInAction nigga
>>28102702
>Do 4channers hump the bed each day to creepy pictures of people in cartoon character costumes?
>>28102675
How retarded are you?
>Boss: "Hey [name], can you go deliver this shipment?"
>Budddy calls: "what up, [name], want to grab a beer later?
>"Good morning [name]!"
There are literally thousands of circumstances where someone uses your name. What are you even talking about? mlp?? You sound like you haven't spoken to a real person in a month.
>>28102862
Lel, the corporate meme is so funny. Like corporate could give a shit what an individual says. I've had people threaten to call corporate because a product they just made up didn't exist and they demanded it to be un-discontinued
>yes youll find them in office 205
>just go down the stairs
>it goes up the stairs
im not sure what im doing wrong
is it the word stairs that confuse them?
should i say something else instead of down?
>>28102935
You faggot.
Im talking about during a conversation
Not getting someones attention
Theres plenty of circumstances in which you should kys
>>28102334
It pisses me off when I get criticised at work for not being social and only saying the bare minimum.
You know why I do this? Because I have already tried to engage with my customers and 98 percent of them don't understand me at all.
I try to start up a nice discussion, and it gets to a point where I try to take the conversation further into something more advanced and it sails over their heads because I'm talking about things they've never heard of before.
Sure to some of them that's interesting, but to me it's not because I'm not getting a return on their end.
Acting like myself is just alienating, and putting on a facade each day is emotionally and physically stressful and draining.
Can anyone honestly blame me for being apathetic and depressed?
My life has become a groundhog day of hell, serving old people and housewives and foreigners who can't even speak English, with no sense of progress. One step forward, two steps back.
Being there reminds me of my own failures and inadequacy and I often wish I never existed at all.
>>28102862
>>28102947
Same faggot
Same faggot
Same faggot
>>28095861
I hated night shift. It took a couple weeks before I adjusted to sleeping during the day. I was lonely as fuck. It was dark while I was doing shit. Had to stay up/in town later if I wanted to go to the bank or something. Leaving to go to work after it had gotten dark and having it dark outside while I was doing stuff was the worst.
>customers asks if product is in stock
>tell him no
>"Son, let me give you a lesson in business."
>"In business, there is this thing called 'supply and demand.'"
>"I am the demand, you are the supply."
>I am just a stocker
I took an elective Business class in college that I wasn't even there for half the time and even I know that's not how that works.
>work in a petrol station
>people constantly coming in, asking me to help with car repairs
>explain that I have no idea how to help them, and that they should go to a mechanic
>"This is a petrol station, yes?"
>"Yes, it is."
>"Then you can help me replace my faulty brake light. It's in your job description."
Literally where do these morons come from?
>>28103099
Burden of supply is the manufacturer/service provider.
Retail outlets are a medium
>Work at supermarket
>Was up for a promotion at work, but at a different store
>Have a few shifts there
>Weeks past and haven't heard a single thing from the other manager
>Tried calling him but nothing, no response whatsoever
>Out of the blue he calls and offers me more shifts
>lol.okay
>Says he'll make a decision on me next week
>Next week, got told from my boss that I didn't get a job, but I should be expecting a phone call from him soon for feedback and to be 'officially' notified.
>Still nothing
I'm not surprised but it's just common decency to do the right thing.
I don't know how, but I've reached a level of apathy that bores me so much I refuse to acknowledge small talk anymore. A blank stare and a question of if you would like your milk in a bag is all you'll get out of me. I don't wear my name tag either, because it's weird to have people call you by name that don't know you. But I'm the fastest cashier and occasionally get red cards so noone higher up gives a shit
>>28098055
>What I don't like is when customers pretend they know more about the machines I use and store policy than me. Always trust what the cashier is doing. If I say this is what happened this is what happened.
Fuck that shit, I got tires replaced at Wal Mart and they tried to make me pay full price for a new tire that was under warranty when I ran over a nail. The slack-jawed white nigger's reasoning was that I drove the car on the flat tire after I ran over the nail. I guess in his mind, if you run over a nail on the highway, your car teleports to a safe place to change the tire. If I didn't fight back, I would have paid for his retardation myself.
>>28102926
No honestly, he puts up collage of pictures on his monitor each morning religiously. Like fucking, fursuits of the characters from Oliver and Company, all dogs go to heaven, maybe a carebear or two or whatever he's into.
I'm very lucky he's never learned to maturbate. I'd never want to walk in on that. That anons, is true horror.
(But he's my brother so I got to take care of him, no matter how disturbing his fetishes are)
>>28091746
>"I've been a customer at this store for years!"
>he maybe gets one or two copies a week
>One normal transaction from someone else would still be more than the amount he has spent since he's come here.
>work at a supermarket
>girl behind the customer service desk is a proper qt
>work up the courage to speak to her
>we get on okay at work
>finally pluck up the courage to ask her on a date
>final written warning for "unwanted romantic advances and minor sexual harassment"
Resigned on the spot desu. Fuck that.
>>28103190
I think you've helped me discover that I am legit autistic
>assigned to folding clothes on a table
>table is fucked because the retard before me barely did any work
>decide to try hard and fix this shit
>start from one end and fix the table
>reach the middle and see the bits I've already done are fucked because the animals that shop at the store decide to fuck up the whole pile by grabbing the item at the bottom and ruining the stack
>decide fuck it and just go to the fitting room to sit down and play games on my phone
>>28091545
>having a long, boring day as a wagecuck cashier
>hot milfs come into my line and chat me up, most even call me 'hun'
thank you nice milfs everywhere, you are why work is bearable
>In Wal Mart (customer) with this guy I work with getting random small stuff for work
>This guy thinks he's a fucking comedy genius
>Says "lel watch this" as we pass by the auto parts
>Tells the cashier at the auto repair section that he is looking for spark plugs for a diesel engine
>Cashier can't find them
>The whole time, coworker snickers to me whenever the cashier has his back turned
>The cashier at Wal Mart doesn't know that diesel engines don't use spark plugs and my coworker thinks this is the funniest thing in the world
>>28103366
>asking out your coworkers
>>28103372
Do you have rituals? Like each day you absolutely HAVE to do something to feel secure and safe? Like an OCD compulsion? Do you freak out when something goes wrong and you can't indulge in these?
My younger brother has many of these. For example, each morning, despite my protests, my glasses teleport from my windowsill onto my face.
Now normally that wouldn't be too bad but my brother puts my glasses on my face BEFORE I wake up. Then he just leaves.
Its why I wear plastic frames now.
>>28103366
why would you even bother trying to date a co-worker
>>28103486
>>28103510
I don't have any other human interaction
>>28103181
Man, fuck redcards. I once got 3 in a row and my GSTL told me "get more," while praising someone over the walkie who "almost got the first one of the day"
I'm really good at sales planners though and am trained to do everyone's job, literally the only reason they wanna keep me.
They reduced my 40hrs to 30, so I started asking for a reference for my resume. They knew I wanted to quit so they gave me my full 40 back
>>28103482
that is pretty funny though
Worked at a dollar store as a stocker
>Boss hired a native 17 year old girl from the reserve next to us.
>checked her phone every 5 minutes while at the till
>went to the bathroom 10 times a shift for up to 10 minutes at a time
>People lined up at the till but she wasn't there
>I got shit from customers but I couldn't help because I didn't have a till open
>had to look around the store for her until she came out of the bathroom
>Manager would notice things that I fucked up and asked me who did it.
>I always just blamed the cashiers especially the native girl.
>she got fired 3 weeks in
>>28092820
shop online
>>28103519
and now you don't have a job either
well done
>>28103521
I get one maybe every 2 weeks because someone asks me for one. I asked to go to hard lines for months and these fucking ultra niggers hired more people for it instead of letting me go. I hate this fucking place, but I'm moving soon so it's not that bad
>>28103519
neither do i, but id rather wait for someone to catch my eye outside of work because it'd be terribly awkward working with them if you broke up/got rejected
>>28103366
this is odd.
Walmart doesnt even discourage flirting with coworkers. It advises that if the other person isnt interested to just stop.
>>28103490
tell us more of this horror
RETAIL WORKERS:
Its not being rude, you are just not important...ever
>>28103765
you're not very bright, are you? that sentence makes no sense.
>on killing puppies:
>"Its not killing, theyre just animals..."
you see how that sentence makes absolutely no sense, right? now re-read your post.
>>28100440
>>28102996
Close but you only got one right
I just always treat retail like shit.
My favourite one is hyping them up on a commission and then changing my mind before they seal the deal.
I hate it when they think I'm an easy sell
>work at a sex shop
>have some of the most annoying customers ever
At least it pays well and I get free sex toys out of it but fuck the customer base
>>28096931
>products hidden in the back
Soccer mom detected. Nothing is in the back hidden from you, unless it's a toy that isn't supposed to go out yet.
The meat market is so dirty, guys )^: I never wanna buy meat again. Its easy work but the environment is so so dirty. I can barely see over the counter, too
>always see everybody treat retail/service industry dudes like soulless robots who exist to dispense goods & information
>feels so weird to watch, it's like "WHERE IS BATHROOM." and then when the guy says "over there," and tries to be nice by giving good directions, the customer just walks off without even saying thanks
What the fuck, man? Is it just my autism, or does this shit get really to you guys?
>>28103490
>>every morning before i wake my brother puts my glasses on my face.
t-thats creepy
>>28104267
Why would I say thanks? They're getting paid to answer questions
>>28094117
THIS
The worst people to deal with when you're in retail are women aged 35-45. Soccer moms, snotty business women, women just starting to wrinkle and feel that old age. That image brings back some painful memories of the few incidents I had when I used to work retail.
>>28104264
manlet ahahahahahahaha
>>28094444
>Putting on a friendly smile and asking someone how their day was is not hard.
Not initially. But try doing it for 13 years. It's fucking torture just to smile and being used as a surrogate psychiatrist for lonely people is taking its toll on me.
>>28097019
its like corporate has no idea what it's actually like to work at their company
OH WAIT
>>28103967
Good fucking call m8
>accounting
Mustve gave it away
>>28104472
>Work as a Dishwasher at a fucking Cracker Barrel
>Always understaffed, overworked and underpaid
>Every time corporate does an inspection they stock 2 extra guys in every position.
>Actually hear one of those faggots say "It's like a movie"
Most higher ups are fucking gullible retards that got their jobs with straight up nepotism, I refuse to believe any of them did any actual work for an entire day in their lives.
>>28095651
>He expects retail to demand logical solutions to a problem
Kek. No. You just do what you're told.
No shit, I used to work at a shoe store and they had a sign hanging in the stock room that said, "a good worker always does what they're told, not what they feel."
>>28104591
Holy shit reminds me of
>>28104360
N-no, 5'4" is the national average
>>28104678
didn't know you were chinese anon
>>28104540
>corporate inspection coming up
>manager: "shit we have to do everything by the rule book says now"
>gets super anal about everything
>productivity drops, but hey at least the manager looks good for the head honchos
>corporate gets their ass kissed
>corporate leaves
>manager stops giving a fuck
>everyone goes back to doing things the way that actually work
>>28100727 I call them cattle tags
A nametag at work is a sure sign of being of slave or servant class
>tfw some bitch complained to me that the signs in Target weren't gender neutral
>>28102421
>Warehouse job takes ZERO experience. I learned to drive a forklift in 15 minutes
Not him, but is this the case even if you never learned how to drive?
>>28097142
>Racism cringe
>>28104766
I'm American, I'm just a gril shh don't tell anyone
>>28104928
Why can't people just accept what's between your legs decides where you go to the bathroom? Are they offended they can't go to the bathroom with everyone else? Do they need all their friends to accompany them? I just need to take a fucking piss. Such a fucking non problem.
>>28104970
>ew dirty meat
what did you expect in the dead animal flesh department
>>28105026
Actually it was worse than that, she was mad that the toys were separated based on boys and girls and she was upset that the girls one was sexist or something. I completely ignored what she said because it was so stupid.
>>28092820
don't bother
I mean look at this thread
stupid wagecucks I'll go out of my way to fuck with you all
>>28104840
>plebian-tier employment
RETAIL IS FUCKONG GARBAGE BUT ID RATHER DO THAT THEN FOOD SERVICE.
I feel bad for those faggots. Fuck that job.
>>28103965
rude means to be ill-mannered; however, it is never ill-mannered no matter how a nobleman treats a servant because they are not on equal standing and most importantly the servant/ wageslave has no standing.
It is the same as if being expected to say hello to your car every time you got in it.
or sentence structure because the recipient is a retail worker
>>28105159
food service and retail are both equally shit tier compared to jobs where you have no customer interaction
call center work is even worse
I hope I never have to deal with customers ever again, fuck them all fuck even the polite ones that ask you how your day is going annoying shits
>tfw used my food safety experience in food service to get a job in a frozen vegetable factory where I never have to talk to any customers ever and get paid much better as well
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>>28094327
I work at Staples in Canada too. Copy associate, how about you?
>work at white castle
>family of spics come in
>not the hardworking, honest, kind
>the second generation, tatted up, ghetto trash kind
>"hi, welcome to white cas-"
>"YEAH CAN I GET 16 SLIDERS"
>tell them it would be easier if they just got the 20 slider combo since the difference is only a dollar 50
>mom pulls out a coupon
>demands i use it
>it's for 10% off and expired in February
>tell her this she gets mad
>husband starts calling me "Mr. White Castle" and asking if i think i'm tough
Manager came and took over after that but jesus christ, what hole do these people crawl out of?
>>28105067
The meat isn't dirty, I'm fine with meat. Theres a leak in the wall though, so I'm wading through puddles with meat fluids and grease and grime. Some guy cooked bacon back here earlier and there's a shitload of nasty grease on the wall and the floor. There's trash all over the ground, used gloves and wrapping paper that was soggy because of the puddle. I cleaned up a bunch, but its still nasty
>>28104312
You are an insufferable cunt.
>>28105354
>tfw no White Castle for hundreds of miles
I..I would just buy some sliders and leave and not bother you Mr. White Castle I swear
>>28105368
clean it up in there and maybe they will see that you are not a messy retard like whoever was working there before and give you a raise
>>28091545
I worked in retail 2 years before I got an allied health career
Now I work graveyard shift and don't have to deal with anybody but my co-workers whom I can actually tolerate
I like my job now
>>28105409
that or call the health inspector on their ass
food safety is no joke people die because of shit like that
>lets pay the people who have our lives in their hands by making sure our food is safe to eat almost nothing
shit doesn't make sense
i use to work in retail for like six months to a year. shit was ok but customers. when i first worked there put me as bagger and push carts for some reason they moved me to pushing carts. it was much better than bagging peoples stuff. it was great when i told them i was quitting.
>used to work in a big box store
>power wheelchairs are provided for elderly and disabled people to use
>but actually only get used by fatasses too lazy to walk around the store while they buy more junk food to shove into their gut
>their fat-enabler drops them off at the door, then they walk 10 feet to the powerchair and slump down into the seat completely out of breath like the just ran a marathon
mandatory fat camps when?
>>28105601
>use to clean the bottle and can machines
>it closed at 9 for me to clean it
>pepople would come in with bags at like 8:50
>it's closing soon
>ok i have to get more
>...
>>28093774
I go to my local supermarket around 2am every week or so and steal a bunch of stuff, it's pretty legit senpai
>>28105409
Yeah, I think I'll ask to transfer, or at least be scheduled there more. Way more comfy than cashiering.
>>28105519
Our store is honestly a health inspectors nightmare. The bakery is just as bad, and the deli is even worse. OSHA would shit if they came in, the back room is a disaster, there's carts and pallet jacks all fuckin willy nilly, cords going every which way, even plugged in near where the water leaks in through the door every time it rains. The elevators inspection expired like 6 months ago, too. The manager is fat and lazy and doesn't know anything. He spends all his time at the store yelling at workers and schmoozing to customers.
>>28103482
Almost as funny as telling a customer that the toilets are upstairs in a single-floor store
>>28105715
why is it always that the biggest retards become managers just because they are the biggest ass-kissers to corporate
I sometimes feel for the fast food workers
>at jack in the box
>kinda crowded atm but fuck it im already here
>order my stuff and wait
>gettin bretty crowded
>get my food finally
>oh we gave you a medium fry instead of a small, sorry for the wait :)
>say its cool and leave
>as I leave I hear some white trash fat guy go up to the front and demands to see a manager all upset and shit
>probably some shit storm on the fires being too crispy but god damn customers are such cunts to fast food workers, like bigger cunts then retail customers and believe me i've been working retail in different stores over the course of 2 and a half years. I mean why are people such assholes to workers including me?
>>28102191
It's emblematic of our fucked-up culture that normal people are forced to take care of invalids who should have been put down years ago
>bathroom cleaning duty
>men's bathroom might have some piss on the toilet seat, maybe some paper towel on the floor, no big deal
>women's bathroom is a vomit-inducing hellish nightmare
>makeup all over the sink
>piss all over the toilet and floor due to hover-peeing
>used tampons on the floor that didn't make it all the way to the trashcan
>panties in the trashcan?!
women are fucking dirty
Hold up I got a story
>first month at home depot
>we get these smart phones that scan/lookup products and of course talk to customers
>get a phone call from a customer
>hi do you have this product?
>uh sure do you have the model or SKU number
>gives me model number and looks it up
>item pops up and find it
>tell her we have 3 in stock
>can you check if its the same product? whats the model number??
>theres only the SKU number (both are different)
>tell her theres no model number in the sales floor stock price but this is the same
Like the price tag on the shelf only contains the UPC, and SKU number
>assure her it's the same product
>NO ITS NTO THATS A DIFFERENT NUMBER
>tell her to please calm down it's the same exact product she just gave me the model number
>this goes on for 5 minutes until she angrily hangs up
>mfw
dealt with worse at Target but fucking hell
>>28096847
This!
I work in fast food, and I fucking hate being on till, but I fucking love it when people use their debit cards. Don't have to worry about being short on money, or counting change back or whatnot.
Damn, makes it so much more simpler and faster.
>those people who ask "Do you have change for 100?"
No, motherfucker! Do you not understand we don't have that much money in the till for safety reasons?
>>28105887
>inb4 steal the dirty panties out of the trashcan
>>28105862
Why?
Because retail and fast food workers are the cuck who is married to the whore of life. Everyone uses her and fills her up and even some of them have to lick the cream, but you get to eat it all last.
>>28100066
Thats the easiest job you faggot, try pushing carts in over 100 degrees or below freezing after it snowed like fuck outside or wen it fucking storms on you and youre soaking wet. Fucking pussy
>b-but I gotta put up alot of stickers <:((((
get fucked cuck
>>28091545
Anon, I can understand the sentiment if you're in school and getting a good degree. However, if you have a career in basic retail, you don't really get the right to look down on anyone.
>>28105804
I dunno, its really annoying though.
>one of the managers quits
>everyone thinks this hardworking, competent chinese guy is gonna get the spot
>some spic lady who's only worked bakery gets the job instead
>she fucks up all the time and never gets in trouble for it
>>28091545
When I go to a store. Keep my replies very simple and prompt. Pay and get the fuck out of there.
>>28105986
Holy shit you're a faggot,
>i'm gonna try to sound deep and cool
no i'm talking about how people treat other people like absolute shit for the littlest reasons. It's sad to see that
>>28106023
Nigger
>like ive never worked at a grocery store
What the fuck am i saying
>like i didnt do 8 years in the military as a fucking grunt
You are the only fucking cuck here faggot.
Sorry that "pushing carts in 100 degrees" is hard. Have you ever lived in the fucking desert faggot?
Whens the last time you watched your friends vehicle dissappear in a cloud of smoke, and sat through 3 minutes of radio silence.
Fuck you
>>28106023
Btw
Pic related
Edgy shirt or edgy edgelord
Faggot
>>28105887
this also,
>used diapers left on the baby changing table
>>28106100
Never knew you were military m8 sorry dude
>>28103635
And nothing of value was lost.
originality
>>28106100
use your GI Bill and your veteranbux dude why are you working retail?
>working in produce
>guy asks me if we sell apricots
>tell him we don't sell fresh ones but show him our bagged ones
>asks if they have seeds in them
>check the package to see
>nothing indicating one or the other, so tell him I'd assume there aren't
>tells me the government made it so you cant sell apricot seeds anymore
>say they're a cure for cancer
>say stuff like "wow, i didn't know that" because i have no fucking clue how to respond to this guy
>tells me this long analogy about how a leveler works no matter where it's used on the world
>finishes up by concluding that that could not happen on a round earth
>jesusitsafuckingflatearther.png
>try to hold in laughter
>say "hmm, you know that makes sense"
>tells me to google conspiracies
>says most people don't want to hear the truth, but that it's out there, on the internet
>walks away
>>28106100
btw sorry to hear about your friends too
>get a shitty mcjob
>other employees constantly thanking me for doing exactly what I'm supposed to be doing
it's the weirdest shit. Like there's a dude who starts his shift at the end of my shift and every day he thanks me for doing the work I would have had to have done anyway regardless of whether or not he showed up. I'm getting paid for all this shit, it's not like I'm doing it out of charity or anything. Why constantly say thank you?
>>28106251
hey man atleast they appreciate you doing your job
not everyone gets that kind of appreciation
>>28106251
they probably dealt with co workers before you who barely did their shit and had to pick up their slack, kinda had the same thing happen to me a few times
>work at walmart
>customer brings me an item with the price printed on it
>"how much?"
>gets pissed when I read it off of the box without having to scan it
>customer brings up a box of trail mix
>"does this have sugar in it?"
>gets pissed when I read the ingredients off of the box
>customer brings me a potted plant
>"how much sun does this plant need?"
>gets pissed when I read the plant label
there's no way to do these things without sounding like a smartass and offending the customer, but come on
retail workers don't have an encyclopedic knowledge on the details of every item in the store. we read labels just like customers (should) do
>>28093066
the fucking retail stasi m8
>>28106216
what the fuck is up with these people, I run into them all the time.
>tiny woman comes up with her cart
>there's a folder in the front part
>she asks if she can talk to me for a bit
>okay.jpg
>she starts handing me fliers with web links and talking about how the world needs to open its eyes
>okay.jpg
>check the links later out of curiosity
>it's end of the world angels are prepping nukes for the second holocaust shit
>>28106284
just don't be an ass about it
"oh, it should be right here on the label, let's see.."
>>28106284
>implying customers can read
they're illiterate retards
I'm surprised these subhumans even can figure out how to get to the store
>>28106201
I am. Im going to college full time.
Pursuing masters
>veteransbux
Shits a myth.
This only applies of you retire or are disabled.
You dont just "get money" from being in the military
Granted...gi bill gives me a hkusing stipend for 1000 bucks every month tbay im attending....but in the summer....nothing. so i gotta hold down a job for the summer.
Also, married, and have a kid, i have responsibilities.
But...i did retail for 4 years before military.....so besides army bullshit, its all know.
I walked into a key holder position....but it still sucks balls
>>28106251
He probably does this because hes worked with people who DONT do what their supposed to do
>>28106360
Top fucking kek omfg
>>28106081
You missed the part why I should care and you also missed the cream that dripped on the chair
I love the quaking of impotent rage that is the lowly retail/ fast food wagecuck.
>>28106201
Also. Once gi bill runs out, tuition funding and housing stipend disappear too
Serving doesnt take care of you for life unless you retire. But it certainly was a building block FOR the rest of my life. I recommend it to anyone.
>Work in a Starbucks
>It's alright, pays pretty good
>Weekdays
>Customers are pretty decent. Might ask how you are and talk to you in the morning
>No Kids
>Only tourist families (Work in a tourist spot in Sydney)
>Backpackers can be Q.T
>Weekends and Nights
>The worst customers
>Indians, Asians, and ISIS
>Almost always high
>Demanding as fuck
>" Do you have almond milk?"
>No I do not.
>" You should get almond milk. Everyone is doing it now"
>Explain that one person might ask for almond milk every 3 days and that there is literally no market for it
>Gets frustrated and leaves
>White blonde woman comes in
>Looks at food options
>" IS ANY OF THIS GLUTEN FREE?"
>Resist the urge to snap back with "Are you Coeliac?
>Only white people ask because they think it's some health food buzzword
Story time
>Working with just one other person
>Me on the bar area
>Him on the register
>Busy as fuck, school holidays so every little shit is out
>Have to make 20 drinks by myself every 5 minutes
>Customers want sugar in their drinks
>mhm nigga you can do sugar yourself.
>Guy comes up
>"Can you come out and clean my table?"
>Stop making drinks
>Tell him that there are clearly only 2 people on the floor right now, and that his table isn't important"
>Finish the rush go outside to the tables
>There are other tables that are clear
>Picks the dirty table
Without fail, everytime. They sit in the cafe with 5+ clean tables but pick the dirty one and demand someone to clean it when they're clearly serving customers
>>28106451
the reason retail is so shitty is because everyone shops, so working retail you end up having to deal with the dumbest shittiest examples of humanity that would have been killed off if it wasn't for technology and modern society subsidizing their mediocrity
to all retailbots in this thread: do whatever you can to get into a different job where you don't have to deal with customers. your mental health is at stake guys. do whatever it takes to get out!
>>28106408
thank you for your service anon, what other positions did you work in besides key carrier and price update?
>>28106216
>most people dont want to hear the truth
>but its out there
>on the internet
I dont know what to out down here. I just dont.
>>28106539
Cont
Customer Race power Rankings
God Tier:
>Black
Great Tier:
>Japanese
>Americans/Canadians
>Northern Europeans
Okay Tier
>Germans
>British
>Eastern Europeans
Bad Tier:
>South Americans
>Italians
>French
>Spanish
Shit Tier:
>Australians
>Koreans
>Chinese
>Filipinos
>Vietnamese
>Thai
>Taiwan
>ISIS
Cancer Tier:
>Indians/Pakis
>>28096077
>>28096101
>>28096163
>old women trying to force you to take a couple bucks
>cameras everywhere
>retail stasi always about
>always refuse politely
>they insist
>tell them I can't
>"I only accepts smiles" usually gets them to leave
>sometimes they try to force it on you no matter what like a self rightous liberal
why do they do this? I fucking hate it so much, make it stop
>>28097336
I can appreciate this guy's enthusiasm but I didn't come to your fucking store for a comedy show. Don't lead me around the place for your skits. Give me what I fucking asked for. I'd like to talk to your manager.
>>28106553
In grocery i was cashier and moved up to supervisor/customer service desk
>got change for tillcucks
>voids
>rang alcohol for minors
Customer service desk was cool cause i didnt have to walk around all day
Now i work small retail pharmacy (pic of ad related). but EVERYONE puts ad up.
We work 2 person shifts.
On my shifts if the store manager isnt with me, i am the manager, you feel me?
Its cool being able to make all the decisions, the bad part is....you have to make all thr decisions.
But i work with fucking awsome, competent people. Like...i cant greentext you a shitty coworker from my current job.
Made a best friend working there (hi faggot)
Manager is super awsome too.
But its a good gig. I get done what i need during my shifts and the cashiers know their shit and know how to take care of customers, always on top of it.
The ONLY good part about my job is the people i work with, otherwise i woukd have left. I fucking hate retail, but its the only place i have experience, because i chose this over fastfood (thank god)
>>28106548
The christmas season is the worst because the people who dont come out during the rest of the year finally do.
I dont care aboit the rusb, and the madness, and how busy it is.m..its the Christmas crazies that only see sunligt at christmas that bother me
>>28097416
More like a meme
>>28106772
black fucking Friday
>give thanks for what you have on thanksgiving
>the next day go beat someone to death for a cheap toaster
>>28106712
Your forgetting the bitch who keeps getting fatter. You hate her.
>>28106712
Wish walmart was like that but my co workers were lazy fucks and cuztomers were ruse, O started as a cart attendant there then moved up to a regular stocker, We had alot fo cool managers but they all quit or moved to a different store and were replaced by dumbfucks are assholes. I did make friends but they left and I left shortly afterwards. The only good thing i got from walmart was the 10% discount card and 1 employee of the month. glad I left that shit heap. We had a lot of shoplifters too
>>28106849
Yeah i do.
And shes gunna working alot more very soon.
Fuck...since shes not fucking that jihad anymore, imma let her know how i feel about her
>i fucking hate you so much
>>28097388
>people are barbarians
I know that feel anon, I find myself fixing things or putting really out of place carts away at place I don't work
>>28106712
Also hi faggot. Someone tried to return a vibrator today again. Used .
Contributed a story kind of.
>>28106858
Yeah but a Walmart store has probably what...100 employees? We have like 7 or 8 people on our schedule dawg
>>28106934
Nigger was it open or
>used
(Did it smell....and if it did.....did..did you do the return?)
am I the only one that, having experienced the horrors of retail, go out of my way to not annoy the workers when Im shopping? I know what it's like so I try not to make their job any harder
>>28106940
Mine was about 40? we were the smaller stores. Also 90% of the co workers were fat as fuck. guessing you're a local business retail?
>>28106968
Cvs
Grocery was local tho.
Id love to work local retail small time pharmacy. Id like to be able to read during my shift
>>28106896
Love you to brother.
>>28107009
Been staring at this screen for 3 hours. Havent read a word.
Fuck this thread
Co-workers and I stopped four thefts in less than two hours today
I really hate working at a pharmacy
>work at Chick-fil-A
>usually just bread chicken in the back, chillest job ever
>just listen to music and bread chicken
>can do whatever the fuck I want as long as the chicken is coming at a good enough rate
>closing is easy as hell, usually finish closing before the store closes
>sometimes have to work up front
>the fucking horror and stress
>>28107204
Do you work in shit part of town?
>>28107264
I dont fucking doubt it
Ill go homeless before working food service
>>28106960
Yes it was open and fucking smelled awful. I didn't even bother calling for backup. Just said no. Stupid immigrants.
>>28107204
What were the nigs trying to steal?>>28107204
>>28107338
Yes, it's in a really shit town with a lot of unemployment and drug use.
I used to work at another pharmacy in the middle of nowhere that had decent customers but the co-workers were really bad compared to the people I work with now.
>>28107204
what did they try to steal? isn't all the good shit behind the counter?
>>28107077
>cant take clear screenshots
>>28107421
Depends man I'm not that guy your replying to though. The only thing behind the counter in my store is five hour energy and nicotine gum. Maybe some booze but that's it.
>>28107462
uh cool but Im trying to ask pharmacybot
what are you doing lol
>>28107406
>>28107421
A bunch of makeup, lighters, and heartburn medication.
>isn't all the good shit behind the counter?
We have lockboxes and tags for specific items but there's a lot of unprotected stuff. The store doesn't have cameras and the fragrance case doesn't even have a sliding door or lock on it. We have mirrors on the ceiling to watch thieves with but at this point it's easier to just stand next or walk next to them in the aisle to get them to leave faster.
We've had one woman come in a few times in the last couple years that managed to steal a tv, ten boxes of kcups, six containers of baby formula, four sets of printer cartridges, two ipad cases, and some other stuff like makeup.
>>28107363
Working in the kitchen is great. The Mexicans are all friendly and funny, and no one cares.
>>28107504
Because we work in the same environment or maybe even store faggot.
>>28107526
What kind of pharmacy sells tvs?
>>28107556
How good of a TV are you talking about.
>>28107432
>doesnt know difference between screenshot and photo
>>28107551
>Because we work in the same environment or maybe even store faggot
pics or it didn't happen
>I'm not that guy your replying to though
then what are you doing? let the man speak
>>28107572
Fucking ANY tv
>>28107462
>>28107551
Nigger you know i dont stop thefts
>>28107556
The big ones (walgreens, cvs, rite-aid) have them as seasonal items. The thing with pharmacies is that when they're built in low-income areas the local community uses them like a grocery store, so they carry a lot of stuff in them even if it's garbage.
>>28107572
The tv's or electronics aren't particularily good.
>>28094414
Yes, we fucking hate that shit.
It's not my job to give a fuck about what you had for dinner or what you're gonna do after you leave the store.
Pay for your shit and fuck off.
>>28094444
Lol fuck you nigger
>>28107642
Yeah I know but it sounds like we work in a similar environment.
