Retail jobs....

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.

CHANGEinWAVES wrote:

imalive wrote:

What the fuck is a plan-o-gram??????? :? :? :?

See picture. Do picture.

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

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!

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

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...

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...

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.