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Ann Taylor is a true waste
| Posted by Alucard on Monday, July 19 @ 22:20:42 EDT (508 reads)
Anonymous writes "I had the displeasure of working at Ann Taylor for a year and a half and I am flabbergasted at the asinine policies from corporate to the joke that is called management. I was located at the Rockefeller Center location on 48th and 5th ave. Year one was not amazing for me there but I did not complain because I needed the job and unemployment was becoming common for the recession dominated our economy. I must state that I have a very hard work ethic for I am know for my hard work and dedication. I am glad to say that I was in good company with my co workers because they worked as well as me and we achieved many praise and accolades, especially out performing other stores within the district on a regular basis. Most of the time when people work hard they receive some recognition but that was not the case with this company.
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Toys R Us stole from me
| Posted by Alucard on Friday, June 04 @ 01:19:40 EDT (482 reads)
Anonymous writes "I bought a $300 item from Toys R Us that came with a $50 gift card, but returned it later that day because another store had a better price. They only refunded $250 because I'd been issued a $50 card. The card expired and now I have no product (because I returned it) and am out $50. After repeated calls to Toys R Us, multiple transfers, and waiting for call backs, I get their ultimate decision - sucks to be you. I explained that it wasn’t a promo card that could expire because I paid for it (the $50 I didn’t get back). I explained that stealing was unethical, but as you can imagine, that didn't get me anywhere either. Maybe they'd understand if Geoffrey the Giraffe had stolen their wallet instead of mine."
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Counting down the days until BBV folds.
| Posted by Alucard on Tuesday, April 06 @ 23:42:00 EDT (632 reads)
Anonymous writes "This is a pretty long story, but I'm going to try my best to be clear and concise. I used to work for a very well known company that specializes in rentable entertainment as an ASM. Their profits are on an uncontrollable downard spiral thanks to the advent of Netflix, Redbox, etc. I got very tired of being the only person working a shift the majority of the time. The stress was unbearable. The phone rang every 30 seconds (almost always someone too lazy to come to the store and just look for a movie or game), checking people out, finding everything in the store for lazy morons, constant pressure to upsell whatever "flavor of the week" item we were offering, and having to complete store projects on top of that. I had enough, and had another job in the bag. I was nice enough to give my SM enough notice to interview, hire, and train my replacement. I was thinking I was being considerate and doing him a favor, but all he did was talk sh*t about me! I'm actually sorry I was so considerate, I should have just done a NCNS, I'm not using that job as a refrence anyways. Anyways, my new job is an office job with minimal customer contact. I could never go back to dealing with the lazy, snide, braindead customers from that store. I get shellshock just thinking about it."
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Retail sucks.
| Posted by Alucard on Monday, March 22 @ 20:53:57 EDT (690 reads)
Anonymous writes "I work in Australia at a very well known electronics chain. I started with the company as store manager and have been in the same store for over a year. I inherited an absolute crap hole of a store and have built it up to triple the sales and profit, while halving the shrink. At the start of this year, the store lease was up and they decided to not close the shop (as was their original plan before I got there) but to spend half a million dollars upgrading the store.
So for the past three weeks I have been doing double shifts, sometimes starting at 7am and getting out at 2am the next morning - slaving away with all the usual bullshit such as stupid, mind numbing customers. I guess my rant is really about one comment made just yesterday.. - as is the case with many of us - we're on a high, thinking "okay, I might actually LIKE my career" then one moron makes a comment (usually not even to your face) and it brings you right down. "
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We don't care economy sucks-open those credit cards!!
| Posted by Alucard on Tuesday, March 16 @ 01:00:37 EDT (482 reads)
Anonymous writes "What the hell is with DM's and corporate? The economy is in a terrible state, the last thing people want to do is open new credit card accounts, yet that is what my DM and corporate wants us to soley focus on. They are "very concerned" about the lack of new credit being opened, even though we only missed our goal by 5 this week.
Are they excited about the fact that we are up double digits to our Plan And Last Year numbers? Hello no, they are too busy complaining about the fact we aren't getting people to open charges. Do they not read the news, know all the new rules, fees, etc that credit card companied are imposing on consumers? Even if they are aware, they don't give a crap!!
It's frustrating as hell that we are busting our asses making the store look great, meeting the sales figures and doing all the tasks they require on a payroll of nothing, yet they think we suck because of one thing!
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How to get out of retail?
| Posted by Alucard on Wednesday, February 10 @ 22:20:17 EST (879 reads)
Demetris writes "This is more of a question than anything, but I've been working in retail since I was sixteen years old, I'm twenty-three now. I don't want to keep doing this at thirty. I pretty much live pay check to pay check. Nothing is dependable in retail. If sales aren't doing so well, then you won't get any hours, you don't know which customer is going to freak the hell out and get you fired, you don't know which one of you co-workers is after your job, or if you managers are truly plotting against you for what ever reason and they want you gone. That happend to me last year. i worked at Hot Topic for two years as a 3rd key and they let me go because my car broke down and I had no way to get to work that morning. After two years my manager let me go because of that?! I'm tired of not being able to have anything, because I have enough money to pay rent and thats it.
I have no college experience but I'm a hard worker and every office or warehouse job I apply for won't give my the time of day. I really frustrated with this. Then my aunt thinks it's so easy to find a job in this economy. She thinks I want to be stuck in retail and she's constantly nagging me about it but. All can do is apply for jobs and do the interview that all I can do!
Does anyone have any tips on how to get out retail? "
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Bad Bosses and Shift leaders
| Posted by Alucard on Tuesday, February 09 @ 22:59:13 EST (751 reads)
Anonymous writes "I work for a prominent retailer who has hired people that are so bad
We have a shift supervisor who treats people like crap and will just "call the manager if anything on her shift goes wrong." There are too many people trying to manage the place rather then just working the place.I am full time with no authority power and feeling threatened by this woman who is just awful. The customers get better treatment then the worker that comes in to work. What should I do? I feel like starting my own business.
I am tired of hearing about the manager and her dogs that is all she talks about and she really does not have any use for people. She looks at people as her slaves with power over them. I am really in a rock and a hard place. I figure it is not my store so why do I care so much?
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Dollar General Makes You Jump Through Hoops
| Posted by Alucard on Sunday, January 24 @ 23:25:35 EST (1093 reads)
sweetietweet writes "I have been with DG for almost 6 months as a 3rd key. I have come to realize that there are a lot of things that this company does that make zero sense (or possibly it's just my DM or RM...I'd be interested to know what other DG regions do).
For instance, we are required to fill out paperwork that shows each cashiers over/short (this is the only one that makes good sense), their total number or transactions on a shift, the average basket of those transactions, the average number of seconds in between items in a transaction and the amount of voids. If a cashier rings up more than 50 customers and their average basket is 50 cents or more lower than the store's average basket they get highlighted and circled. If this happens on 50% or more of their shifts they get written up. We have a lady that works for us that only works once or twice a week. Usually a night shift where the sales are lower, she's gotten written up a bunch of times.
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