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IS change in the air???
| Posted by Alucard on Monday, September 06 @ 22:56:42 EDT (97 reads)
JaggedEdge writes "A note to all you retail slaves out there whether in fast food,retail, or restaurant. Remember those of us who are in mgmnt have bosses too.
Now I don't condone mistreatment of employees in anyway and sometimes disciplinary action is necessary at times. But when an employee is making it difficult on others by their actions/inactions then I think its time for discipline. "
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A story you won't believe, but it's so true!
| Posted by Ramokk on Sunday, July 11 @ 08:41:45 EDT (356 reads)
Anonymous writes "I worked 4 years at this company, I was promoted to Assistant manager the second year I was there. I fell through a glass door at home and had to have 150 stitches. While I was off from work my manager hired this girl as a cashier. And this girl was a nightmare from hell for 2 years! She bullied us constantly, told the assistant managers what she would do and when she would do it. One day on truck day she came to work, clocked in and went outside and sat on her cell phone for 20 mins. at this time I was annoyed with her but said nothing. She decides to enter the store and get's on the store phone for another 15 to 20 mins. When she gets off the phone she stands there with her leg up on the counter, playing drums on the counter with her hands and looking at me like I dare you to say something. I walk up to her and said instead of standing there drumming on the counter why don't you come help us stock. She started screaming at me cussing me and said I DON"T FEEL LIKE DOING STOCK! I told her since she didn't want to work to clock out and go home. She started screaming even louder and scared my customers so bad they ran to the back of the store. They thought a crazy customer came in the store and went nuts. She gets on the phone calls our manager and TOLD her to get her ass there now! My manager comes in and was told, by me and the customers what happened. She takes this employee from hell to the back of the store and talks to her. And comes back up front and tells me to get back to work. I handed in my keys and walked out! I was not working another day with this bully! They kept the bully for two weeks after that, fired her then called me back to work. I lost 4 years of hard dedicated work and lost my assistant manager position. All because our manager letting this girl bully us for almost 2 years. Our manager never told our DM the truth about what happened. But thanks to my customers they called and told the truth, that's the only reason the cashier from hell got fired!"
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Special Treatment for Some
| Posted by Alucard on Wednesday, June 09 @ 23:36:27 EDT (464 reads)
Anonymous writes "After one year of employment as a cosmetic counter manager for Von Maur, an upscale store only in midwest like a Bon Ton/Nordstrom combo, I asked off 6 weeks in advance for a Saturday off (1st time ever,) When the schedule posted, it was the first schedule for a new electronic sheduler to make the schedules, and I was sheduled to work on the day I asked off for. Three other people had the same problem(scheduled for days they had asked off for.) In every case except mine, management took out a red pen and marked off the days asked off for by the other employees, but in my case they said, "you will have to switch with someone. Then they told me there was only one person in the entire department of 8 other associates I could switch with-and it was her scheduled week-end off. Thankfully she is a friend of mine, and switched with me. I was never given a reason why I was treated differently, and one manager tried to say I hadn't asked off far enuf in advance. (even though we were only required to ask off 3 weeks in advance, and the electronic shedule was wrong for the other employess).
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Advice for the whiner!!!!
| Posted by Alucard on Tuesday, June 08 @ 22:08:12 EDT (423 reads)
hobgoblin writes "I've worked for a "big" company that sells "lots" of closeouts for 5 years and am generally very happy with my job, but now i am lost. i started in florida and LOVED the company there and was treated very well but since i've transferred to an ohio store i have been treated very badly by the worst boss EVER (honestly, he's legendary in the area), seen him fired only to have his assistant's head grow to magical proportions and the store is not even going to her. At this point she is trying everything in her power to get me to leave and i don't know if i should give up and leave my beloved company due to this asshole, stick it out because everyone else and the job is awesome, or try to get her fired too. This is how it's been (with side notes to the shit-for-brains!):"
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Bad Grammar from Managers?
| Posted by Alucard on Sunday, May 16 @ 22:51:05 EDT (512 reads)
Anonymous writes "& Some co-workers also SUCK.
I read a funny blog about bad grammar in the workplace; I know I’ve experienced it…oh so many times. One day I noticed a note written (& I use the word “written” loosely) to a temp who was re-placing this person for a day. Well this person takes pride (control) in her area and wanted to make certain all was in order for the temp the next day…okay, nice I guess. Well one sentence stuck out for me when I read the area would be “well stalked” I had to read it a couple of times to decipher what I thought was code for the industry…no , this person meant “stocked”…wow. This from the same person (or one of the more frequent offenders) who turns their nose at me when ever possible. I feel like I am back in high school or on the set of mean girls the sequel. I think I'll be giving them dictionaries and/or "How to spell for Dummies" as x-mas gifts this year. I am amazed at not only the countless grammar mistakes, but blatant typos I often read in e-mails. E-mails, mind you that are generated for national distribution...wow...really? I guess mediocrity does prevail. It's been more than infuriating and insulting to me when I know I could run circles around these...people that are my supposed superiors...what a joke.
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HELP
| Posted by Alucard on Friday, May 14 @ 00:20:28 EDT (473 reads)
Anonymous writes "I hate when you apply to a place that seems like it would be chill. A little tiny stress, the occasional bad customer, but over all just, you expect to work with good nice managers, and due to the product being sold (arts and crafts) you might just have a good time working, and be really chill doing it. Hey the lady who interviewed you was super nice! and shes the head manager
OHHHHHHhh but no the lady who interviewed you, the first day you work with her, she is like the meanest person alive, gets down on you for not doing what your supposed to (its your 4th day working and were taught the thing wrong) gets down on you for doing what you THOUGHT you were supposed to do to the BEST of your ability, but also gets down on the nice people doing a damn good job that have worked there for 3 years. the job is not chill at all, its frantic, tons of policy's, not what you were expecting from a arts and craft store, and just all around sucky. But the economy is to bad to quit already, but im scared to go into work tomorrow"
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The irony of the christian bookstore...
| Posted by Alucard on Thursday, March 04 @ 22:51:27 EST (843 reads)
Anonymous writes "Alright, so i work at a Christian based book and teacher supply store. And i find the antics that go on here to be very ironic...if not disturbing.
I'll tell you about the manager. He is a self-important ass who cares only about money. He will regularly yell at employee's in front of the customers. Once he made this poor girl cry, and then refused to let her be excused to the restroom to clean up before dealing with customers. Here's my favorit story to tell though: One slow weekday, there were no customers and i decided to "zone". This is what managment calls it when you are straightening up the store in between customers, etc. I had only been with the company for a few months, but the disorginized state of the "teacher's supply" section always bothered me. I spent the majority of my day cleaning/organizing that area. I was so proud of how perfect it looked. At the end of the day, my manager calls me to his office, and informes me that I shouldn't have don't that because all it does is create "unnesisary added work"...what the hell?? It's not like i was ignoring customers or anything...there weren't any! And it's not as if there was anything else for me to do. To this day i don't understand his logic, and the next day when i asked the assistant manager what exactly the problem was, he said to "just calm down...he get's that way sometimes, you didn't do anything wrong." And actually thanked me for doing it.
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Best Buy Sucks
| Posted by Ramokk on Monday, February 22 @ 06:59:12 EST (640 reads)
Anonymous writes "I work at Best Buy, have for 6 months. I previously worked at Home Depot and Radio Shack, so I know retail, but nothing beats the suckiness of this job. I work in computers, and I am probably the most knowledgeable computer associate in our store. But I have to deal with people--customers and managers--all day long who treat me like an idiot.
One day I had this douche come into the department and ask me for a printer card. "You know, one of those cards you put into a printer." Befuddled, I asked if he meant an SD card or another camera card for the printer card readers. Angrily, he asked me if I even knew what a printer was. I shot him a death glare and informed him that yes, I do indeed know what a printer is, and that he's the one not making any sense. We went round and round about what he needed for about ten minutes, when it dawned on me that he was talking about a PCI parallel card for old parallel printers. The best part? His printer was USB.
I have had people ask me for an "internet USB," and then get angry when I ask for clarification (air card? USB wireless adapter?).
I have had customers insist that they are buying the $329 Acer laptop in the ad this week for playing Aion, no matter how many times I tell them this is a bad idea.
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