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  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    Evil Merlin Part Deux wrote:
    LOL You're a cuter Homer Simpson! :lol:

    BTW congrats on the job. Just hang in there though, you'll be moving on up to bigger and better things soon.
    thanks :oops: (I'm so flattered to be compared to Homer simpson...seriously! :D )

    thanks on the congrats too... I'm just happy to have a job at this point!
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • Evil Merlin Part Deux
    Evil Merlin Part Deux Posts: 234
    Thorns2010 wrote:
    I think this might be in order for some in here.

    http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=5944014835

    :mrgreen:

    :lol: Awww I wish I had that kind of support when i had to quit cold turkey.
  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    Thorns2010 wrote:
    I think this might be in order for some in here.

    http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=5944014835

    :mrgreen:
    bookmarked! :D:D
    I'll be joining up soon! ;)
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • Evil Merlin Part Deux
    Evil Merlin Part Deux Posts: 234
    CHANGEinWAVES wrote:
    Evil Merlin Part Deux wrote:
    LOL You're a cuter Homer Simpson! :lol:

    BTW congrats on the job. Just hang in there though, you'll be moving on up to bigger and better things soon.
    thanks :oops: (I'm so flattered to be compared to Homer simpson...seriously! :D )

    thanks on the congrats too... I'm just happy to have a job at this point!

    Great outlook! :)

    Hey, and on the bright side...enjoy the position that has minimal responsibility right now until you move on to something else with more responsibility and you find out people work for you that can't even follow a plan-o-gram. :lol:
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    It's amazing to me how poorly some people do easy jobs though. I was at a store buying something yesterday and the check-out girl was reading a newspaper. A man came up to her to ask her where to find something and she didn't even take her nose out of the paper to answer she just grunted and pointed. It was so dis-connected! Then when she checked me out she actually had to put the paper down and she still had the hardest time looking in my face or anything!!

    I left the store thinking...she probably thinks the job is beneath her (she's so busy projecting boredom!) but she was DOING IT BADLY!! People who know how to be good check-out people actually talk and smile and interact with live people.

    It made me think even the easiest jobs DON'T just do themselves.
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  • WaveCameCrashin
    WaveCameCrashin Posts: 2,929
    I hate planograms. I m a lead sales assoc.at a major sporting goods chain and it's absolutely ridiculous how much shit we have to change on a monthly basis. It's even worse when your under staffed and the people who work for you have to get a kick in the ass every 5 min. we have these fixtures called knee walls and it's a wall about 4ft x25ft and I had to change it 3 times in one week b/c the guys in our corp office couldn't make up their freakin minds.I thought I was going to loose it. However though Im thankful I have a job right now.

    Here's one for you they consider anything over 35 hrs full time but don't pay over time (time1/2 ) unless you work over 40. WTF!!!! :x
  • NoCode_inMT
    NoCode_inMT Posts: 551
    CHANGEinWAVES wrote:
    imalive wrote:
    What the fuck is a plan-o-gram??????? :? :? :?
    plan1.gif

    See picture. Do picture.
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  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    I worked in retail for many years,, I ain't never going back there again.. I'd rather be homeless.
  • Gary Carter
    Gary Carter Posts: 14,077
    justam wrote:
    It's amazing to me how poorly some people do easy jobs though. I was at a store buying something yesterday and the check-out girl was reading a newspaper. A man came up to her to ask her where to find something and she didn't even take her nose out of the paper to answer she just grunted and pointed. It was so dis-connected! Then when she checked me out she actually had to put the paper down and she still had the hardest time looking in my face or anything!!

    I left the store thinking...she probably thinks the job is beneath her (she's so busy projecting boredom!) but she was DOING IT BADLY!! People who know how to be good check-out people actually talk and smile and interact with live people.

    It made me think even the easiest jobs DON'T just do themselves.
    alota stores just train checkout girls to be just that. so they really don't know where things are.she probably didn't think it was beneath her at all. would you wanna know what people lives are like and eating habits and everything else and stand there and try to act all happy for 8 hours a day making nothing. i worked at target for 2 months and it wasnt worth working 2 days a week for 8 bucks an hour. i was amazed when i asked other coworkers why i was only getting 2 days and they said oh everyone gets 2 days and that some people were there for 2 years and still only got 2 days. i worked the 2 worst days sundays and saturdays. i was in the beauty supply/bath section but it was fun having hot middle age girls ask me if we had a certain brand of tampons. i did cash register alot and it was boring most of the times. but i made the best of it by conversing with the customers when the checkout lanes werent so busy.oh and cash register was alot harder then working the floor. i'd never do retail again. the things ya do for people/love sometimes oh well :lol:
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  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    I currently am feeling karma's wrath in retail hell!
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    CHANGEinWAVES wrote:
    I currently am feeling karma's wrath in retail hell!



    sorry to read that!



    call me crazy, but i've always LOVED working retail. my very first job was retail....i put myself through grad school working retail....i worked retail part-time the entirety of my teaching career.....and i worked retail for 1.5 when i left teaching as a 'for now' job until i found a new direction. i also carefully chose what companies/stores i worked for, their locations, their hours, etc.....and have always loved every store i have worked for. if the $$$ and hours were better, i'd probably have made a career of it.

    bottomline....good luck! :)
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • tvismyfriend
    tvismyfriend Posts: 2,118
    CHANGEinWAVES wrote:
    I currently am feeling karma's wrath in retail hell!
    I know what you mean, next week I'm gonna be the only guy working in the store and people are starting to buy patio sets.
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    Once upon a time I thought that I was through with retail....but here I am!!!! :twisted:

    Retail certainly has its moments....good, bad and ugly moments
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    Karma got me good :(

    After all my bitching about it taking forever for so many people to do a reset according to a plan-o-gram, and saying I could do it faster... I get stuck with the reset from hell!! False eye lashes!!
    Now you'd think it would be easy at first thought but think of how small the packaging is and the fact that I did 8 ft of them (2 full sections)! I think our store now displays EVERY false eye lash in the entire USA!! ;)

    Next time I'll think before I bitch :P
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • LONGRD
    LONGRD Posts: 6,036
    CHANGEinWAVES wrote:
    Karma got me good :(

    After all my bitching about it taking forever for so many people to do a reset according to a plan-o-gram, and saying I could do it faster... I get stuck with the reset from hell!! False eye lashes!!
    Now you'd think it would be easy at first thought but think of how small the packaging is and the fact that I did 8 ft of them (2 full sections)! I think our store now displays EVERY false eye lash in the entire USA!! ;)

    Next time I'll think before I bitch :P
    Didn't you just get this job, and now you're bitching at your co-workers and calling shots already?
    Too funy... :lol:
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    EV- 08/09,10/2008.06/08,09/2009
  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    LongRD wrote:
    CHANGEinWAVES wrote:
    Karma got me good :(

    After all my bitching about it taking forever for so many people to do a reset according to a plan-o-gram, and saying I could do it faster... I get stuck with the reset from hell!! False eye lashes!!
    Now you'd think it would be easy at first thought but think of how small the packaging is and the fact that I did 8 ft of them (2 full sections)! I think our store now displays EVERY false eye lash in the entire USA!! ;)

    Next time I'll think before I bitch :P
    Didn't you just get this job, and now you're bitching at your co-workers and calling shots already?
    Too funy... :lol:
    Ohhh NO!! I keep my bitching here! I try not to complain at work... I need the job too much!!!
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • LONGRD
    LONGRD Posts: 6,036
    CHANGEinWAVES wrote:
    LongRD wrote:
    CHANGEinWAVES wrote:
    Karma got me good :(

    After all my bitching about it taking forever for so many people to do a reset according to a plan-o-gram, and saying I could do it faster... I get stuck with the reset from hell!! False eye lashes!!
    Now you'd think it would be easy at first thought but think of how small the packaging is and the fact that I did 8 ft of them (2 full sections)! I think our store now displays EVERY false eye lash in the entire USA!! ;)

    Next time I'll think before I bitch :P
    Didn't you just get this job, and now you're bitching at your co-workers and calling shots already?
    Too funy... :lol:
    Ohhh NO!! I keep my bitching here! I try not to complain at work... I need the job too much!!!
    Oh my mistake, but that would be funny though if you were complaining already.

    ...and just hope no one from your workplace reads this.
    PJ- 04/29/2003.06/24,25,27,28,30/2008.10/27,28,30,31/2009
    EV- 08/09,10/2008.06/08,09/2009
  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    LongRD wrote:
    Oh my mistake, but that would be funny though if you were complaining already.

    ...and just hope no one from your workplace reads this.
    I work with 3 other people... The odds are slim to none :p
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"

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