Welcome to my world, I work in Safeway (Morrisons next week since they are converting the store). Everynight when we close down, EVERYTHING that is expiring the next day has to be counted, this usualy takes around 2 hours. Then there are the accounts to do, these and random items that can be bought in ANY Safeway store usualy around 7 pages in small print also (whats with stores and small print anyway) and that involves counting EVERYTHING on the list and then afterwards keying the whole thing into a PDA. Then once a month we count everything in the department and key them in also. Then theres the spoilage, anything thats unsellable/fit for human consumption/out of date gets scanned and then 3 items are counted by a duety manager then thrown out.
Oh and dont get me started on how bad the pay is and what kind of ideots i have to put up with.
<!--QuoteBegin-[WHO]Them+Aug 30 2004, 04:47 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> ([WHO]Them @ Aug 30 2004, 04:47 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Maveric+Aug 29 2004, 11:58 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Maveric @ Aug 29 2004, 11:58 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I worked in a Supermarket for 4 hours. Not even a full shift, and i was bored senseless. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> I think I got ya beaten on the bored factor.
For around 4 months while I worked at CompUSA, I was basically a paid statue. I kid you not.
At the time, I was their front door greeter / security guard. But they kept changing the rules I had to follow as far as security checks. There was one point in which I literally couldn't do anything besides look scary.
Let that sink in now. Standing, at a door, not even being able to stop people, for 8 hours a day. The biggest annoyance was that I had no place to put my hands, because I wasn't allowed to keep them in my pockets. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Truth be told, that's my dream job. I have lots of experience with standing around and doing nothing for hours upon hours upon hours upon hours. In fact, I don't even go crazy!
A friend of mine who used to work retail @ Claire's asked me to help her do inventory last summer. I made the mistake of saying "yes." I was there 6.5 hours, minimum wage, and looking at that much pink is mind numbing. I actually started to lose my sense of reality, and my partner in the whole ordeal said "okk man, how about we switch roles here."
Right now I work at a storage place, which is OK, but I'm going in for my 3rd interview with PCConnection for an inside sales job tomorrow. Muahahahahahaha. To the person who said I need college to go anywhere in today's world, I fart in their general direction. GG just graduated high school in June. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-Thansal+Aug 29 2004, 08:00 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Thansal @ Aug 29 2004, 08:00 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I just started working at Radio Shack on Friday.
To day (Sunday) was Inventory....
Inventory basically consists of everyone coming in early (7am today) and we scan every single item in the store. Mind you, this is radio shack, we sell transistors, resistors, zip ties, Batteries (friken hundreds of them),dvd players, computers, cameras, radios, watches, friken everything.
My boss (new manager, this is the first time he has RUN an inventory, he has worked them many times), said we would be done by 2. He was wrong. We finished SCANNING everything around 1. from 1-3 we tried to get the reconciliation sheets to print (this included 1 hr of sitting there, and then rebooting the system).
Reconciliation consists of the computer telling us what we SHOULD have vs what we CLAIM to have, and where the errors are. We then have to go through the store and find said errors and verify what we actually have... by hand.... This obviously enough takes a LONG time, after all these are some of the ways the counts could be different: 1) Theft 2) Miss Count (human error) 3) Scanners messing up (I am rather sure they did this allot) 4) people messing up in ringing in a sale/return 5) things that have been appropriated for store use 6) The last inventory being wrong (as I am sure it was in parts) 7 etc etc etc
Now I introduce Mr Idiot, an 18yr old that acts like a 6yr old often. Mr Idiot, insisted on doing the place with the lowest $$ values. For those of you who have ever been in a Radio Shack you might remember the draws of LEDs, Diodes, Transistors, couplers, resistors, etc etc etc. Yah, thats what Mr Idiot did. He of course was SURE that he counted every single item (he claimed to have scanned each item, instead of even using quantity input to scan 5 of the same item at once). He has also never done inventory before (he has been around for like 2 or so months), so he was mouthing off (As per usual) about how we would have "Like MAX 50 items wrong, MAX!". He left at 2 am (supposedly to go to a second job, which he never showed up at, though I wouldn't put it past him to have gotten lost). We had 60+ pages (small font) of items that were wrong. Our stock clerk (guy who personally set up the area that Mr Idiot was scanning), got mostly the area that Mr Idiot had done. All those items he scanned each one of? Nope. Computer says 2 scanned, we should have 5... *finds SKU* we have... 5! repeat.
I was stupid enough to offer to take 1/2 this guys work (as I finished my work first), got that was a stupid idea.
needless to say I am still **** off, even after having dinner. Oh, and my food before Sausage And Peppers fro din din? 4 donuts, 2 cups of coffee, and a bowl of cereal (albeit it is a mixing bowl).
Oh, and one more addendum for Mr Idiot: He Cheats In CS.
Athena, you there? wana back me up on how much inventory sucks? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> I worked in Retail at American Eagle this summer before my surgery. The only reason is because I had to take some summer classes, but I wound up withdrawing from them.
Basically we had to change everything over, move a bunch of stuff around. Needless to say it was just reaffirming in my head every second I worked that job to DO BETTER IN SCHOOL.
Last year I delivered beer and made almost 700$ a week. This year I worked a crappy retail job and didn't even make 700$ the whole summer.
I am going into my senior year and I am going to need the money bad.
Oh well lessoned learned.
Also I used to work 16 hr days deliver beer in 100 degree weather, so my sympathy for you really isn't that high, I just know what its like to work a **** retail job for a 12 hr + shift.
I work at subway. It's easy, not too monotanous, but I'm still thinking about quitting it in favor of my own on-site tech support service.
Anyway, the other day some idiot spills degreaser all over floor. The whole crew is spending more time on their back on the floor then actually working.
So, I dump about a quart of vinegar all over the slippery spot, and in 5 minutes the CH3COOH in the vinegar neuralizes the KOH in the degreaser, and everyone has traction again.
Everyone's elated, except my manager, who is angry as hell that I used 2 dollars worth of vinegar, instead of letting her pay out $10k for workmen's comp from the inevitable injury.
Furthermore, I had to explain later to everyone in the store that:<ul><li>Bases cause slipperyness,</li><li>The KOH in Degreaser is a strong base,</li><li>Acids Neutralize bases,</li><li>Vinegar is an acid.</li></ul>Note that I also had to stay 30 minutes late that day, because one of my co-workers chose to eat shrooms hours before, and was so baked that she couldn't come in.
When I say I'm thinking of quitting, I mean that I'm figuring out the funnyest way to put in my 2 week's notice.
Spread anthrax on the letter then when you hand it to her [wear gloves], SET IT ON FIRE!! It would be hilarious <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
And from now until you hand it in, don't take any #### from anybody there, especially "authority figures" like your idiot manager.
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Oh and dont get me started on how bad the pay is and what kind of ideots i have to put up with.
I think I got ya beaten on the bored factor.
For around 4 months while I worked at CompUSA, I was basically a paid statue. I kid you not.
At the time, I was their front door greeter / security guard. But they kept changing the rules I had to follow as far as security checks. There was one point in which I literally couldn't do anything besides look scary.
Let that sink in now. Standing, at a door, not even being able to stop people, for 8 hours a day. The biggest annoyance was that I had no place to put my hands, because I wasn't allowed to keep them in my pockets. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Truth be told, that's my dream job. I have lots of experience with standing around and doing nothing for hours upon hours upon hours upon hours. In fact, I don't even go crazy!
Right now I work at a storage place, which is OK, but I'm going in for my 3rd interview with PCConnection for an inside sales job tomorrow. Muahahahahahaha. To the person who said I need college to go anywhere in today's world, I fart in their general direction. GG just graduated high school in June. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
My job > all of yours.
To day (Sunday) was Inventory....
Inventory basically consists of everyone coming in early (7am today) and we scan every single item in the store. Mind you, this is radio shack, we sell transistors, resistors, zip ties, Batteries (friken hundreds of them),dvd players, computers, cameras, radios, watches, friken everything.
My boss (new manager, this is the first time he has RUN an inventory, he has worked them many times), said we would be done by 2.
He was wrong.
We finished SCANNING everything around 1.
from 1-3 we tried to get the reconciliation sheets to print (this included 1 hr of sitting there, and then rebooting the system).
Reconciliation consists of the computer telling us what we SHOULD have vs what we CLAIM to have, and where the errors are. We then have to go through the store and find said errors and verify what we actually have... by hand....
This obviously enough takes a LONG time, after all these are some of the ways the counts could be different:
1) Theft
2) Miss Count (human error)
3) Scanners messing up (I am rather sure they did this allot)
4) people messing up in ringing in a sale/return
5) things that have been appropriated for store use
6) The last inventory being wrong (as I am sure it was in parts)
7 etc etc etc
Now I introduce Mr Idiot, an 18yr old that acts like a 6yr old often.
Mr Idiot, insisted on doing the place with the lowest $$ values. For those of you who have ever been in a Radio Shack you might remember the draws of LEDs, Diodes, Transistors, couplers, resistors, etc etc etc. Yah, thats what Mr Idiot did.
He of course was SURE that he counted every single item (he claimed to have scanned each item, instead of even using quantity input to scan 5 of the same item at once). He has also never done inventory before (he has been around for like 2 or so months), so he was mouthing off (As per usual) about how we would have "Like MAX 50 items wrong, MAX!".
He left at 2 am (supposedly to go to a second job, which he never showed up at, though I wouldn't put it past him to have gotten lost).
We had 60+ pages (small font) of items that were wrong.
Our stock clerk (guy who personally set up the area that Mr Idiot was scanning), got mostly the area that Mr Idiot had done.
All those items he scanned each one of? Nope.
Computer says 2 scanned, we should have 5...
*finds SKU*
we have... 5!
repeat.
I was stupid enough to offer to take 1/2 this guys work (as I finished my work first), got that was a stupid idea.
needless to say I am still **** off, even after having dinner.
Oh, and my food before Sausage And Peppers fro din din? 4 donuts, 2 cups of coffee, and a bowl of cereal (albeit it is a mixing bowl).
Oh, and one more addendum for Mr Idiot:
He Cheats In CS.
Athena, you there? wana back me up on how much inventory sucks? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I worked in Retail at American Eagle this summer before my surgery. The only reason is because I had to take some summer classes, but I wound up withdrawing from them.
Basically we had to change everything over, move a bunch of stuff around. Needless to say it was just reaffirming in my head every second I worked that job to DO BETTER IN SCHOOL.
Last year I delivered beer and made almost 700$ a week. This year I worked a crappy retail job and didn't even make 700$ the whole summer.
I am going into my senior year and I am going to need the money bad.
Oh well lessoned learned.
Also I used to work 16 hr days deliver beer in 100 degree weather, so my sympathy for you really isn't that high, I just know what its like to work a **** retail job for a 12 hr + shift.
employe discount = %10 on any normal product, and %30 on any radio shack brand
guess where I will be buying my CDRs from?
Anyway, the other day some idiot spills degreaser all over floor. The whole crew is spending more time on their back on the floor then actually working.
So, I dump about a quart of vinegar all over the slippery spot, and in 5 minutes the CH3COOH in the vinegar neuralizes the KOH in the degreaser, and everyone has traction again.
Everyone's elated, except my manager, who is angry as hell that I used 2 dollars worth of vinegar, instead of letting her pay out $10k for workmen's comp from the inevitable injury.
Furthermore, I had to explain later to everyone in the store that:<ul><li>Bases cause slipperyness,</li><li>The KOH in Degreaser is a strong base,</li><li>Acids Neutralize bases,</li><li>Vinegar is an acid.</li></ul>Note that I also had to stay 30 minutes late that day, because one of my co-workers chose to eat shrooms hours before, and was so baked that she couldn't come in.
When I say I'm thinking of quitting, I mean that I'm figuring out the funnyest way to put in my 2 week's notice.
And from now until you hand it in, don't take any #### from anybody there, especially "authority figures" like your idiot manager.