 | | Retail Hell (a short story)
| Posted by Alucard on Thursday, May 17 @ 09:58:14 EDT (24 reads)
Scribe2012 writes "I recently self-published a collection of short stories on Smashwords.com. One of the stories is about a woman who dies and goes to Hell, but can earn her way to Heaven--if she works retail. The following is an excerpt from that story, called "Retail Hell." If you like what you read, go to Smashwords.com and look for "Served Cold: Tales of Revenge and Redemption." Make sure the adult filter is turned off--my stories have naughty language!"
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How Many Do We Really Need?
| Posted by Alucard on Tuesday, May 08 @ 23:54:44 EDT (61 reads)
Anonymous writes "I have no problem with my current co workers. But I have survived so many others. My question is, why are they forcing us to have 3 associates when 2 are just fine? The one 3rd key we had got fired for stealing. The one manager we had retired, but she did nothing & blamed us for everything. One kid was too busy with school, so he was non existant. The other was lazy & couldn't catch on quick enough. The one woman was too busy trying to pick up every male customer we had. With a new worker, they don't give us more hours. We just have to divide the ones we have. So you take a rookie & give them the time the experiened people could use to get stuff done. FD wants hard workers, but doesn't give us the time to do so."
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What NOT To Do When You're A Customer (Video)
| Posted by Ramokk on Tuesday, May 01 @ 20:13:42 EDT (90 reads)
JSP writes "Hey guys
So a while ago I posted on here a link to a video I made called 'Why Working in Retail Sucks!' Due to its largely positive response I made another one titled:
'What NOT To Do When You're A Customer'.
Basically a comedic instructional video on everything customers should NOT do in a store. Here's the link!
Only goes for a few minuets so I hope you'll have the time to watch it and have a giggle at the patheticness of so many customers that we serve. Every. Damn. Shift.
Enjoy everyone! :) "
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Stop Beating Me! I'm Down!
| Posted by Alucard on Thursday, April 26 @ 22:57:37 EDT (196 reads)
Anonymous writes "FD started to employ this new thing where on every receipt there is a number you can call for a $500 prize. No one ever wins. The true power of this is so people can rate the store they were just at. At the end of every month, we get the score & it's posted by our exit. I took this survey & some customers have it out for us. I might be biased but there's no way our score should be this low. Yet, FD will listen to anything told to them by customers. Customers aren't always right, their money is. We get written up for stuff we didn't do, just because a customer calls corporate & makes crap up. People complain the prices aren't marked when they clearly are. "This sign's says blah blah" but they don't read the whole thing. We get people giving their 2 cents on how this job is so easy, like they would know anything. Most of these opinions are from housewives who never had to work with the general public. Or from retirees who got to stop working. Must be nice for them. When we get a customer score under a certain percent, they yell at our manager & continue to diminish our pay. Nothing is on the floor, shelfs are stocked as possible, we greet everyone, help every customer & trying to keep the aisles clean. Yet, they still aren't happy."
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Participate in an educational research study
| Posted by Alucard on Thursday, April 05 @ 09:39:46 EDT (177 reads)
Anonymous writes "Greetings, Please read the below notice inviting you to participate in an educational research study. Thank you for your time!
This notice is to invite you to participate in a study examining employee perceptions of a relationship between job satisfaction, training methods and applications, and company attrition rates. The survey is being conducted as a part of a research project for a student’s doctoral studies at the University of Phoenix. The survey should take no longer than 15 to 20 minutes to complete. Survey questions were developed by outside sources and compiled by the student researcher. The survey will be administered by the student researcher as a requirement to complete the dissertation process as partial fulfillment of the researcher’s completion of a Doctoral degree in Business Administration from University of Phoenix. The final results of the study will be made available to all participants. No individual responses will be published or shared.
Participation in this survey is voluntary but greatly appreciated. Should you decide to withdraw from the survey you may exit at any time. If you have any questions at any time regarding the survey please contact the student researcher at:
Heather Ponsano
707-733-0132
Hponsano.research@gmail.com
Should you decide to participate please click the following link to begin:
http://edu.surveygizmo.com/s3/754809/HPonsano
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The longest 7 years of my entire life
| Posted by Alucard on Monday, April 02 @ 22:24:01 EDT (356 reads)
beefgoddess writes "I've been in the retail business for far too long. I made the enormous mistake of sidling into a retail job with a large corporation right out the gate. I have moved around to different stores, but have remained in retail. I worked at a department store for almost 3 years, and I dreaded working my lousy 5 hour week. Not necessarily because of the customer (because customer service involves dealing with difficult people), but the management was just absolutely horrid. There was one man who worked as an assistant manager who did his work, helped store associates get their job done by lending a hand and didn't complain about it! Go figure! Every other manager would bark orders at you and expect you to kiss their butt, knowing perfectly well that you needed the stupid job. The worst manager actually had the audacity of saying my attitude kept me from succeeding (I simply told her I would try my best). Seriously??"
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Walgreens: I'll NEVER spend a penny!
| Posted by Alucard on Monday, March 05 @ 15:03:57 EST (850 reads)
Anonymous writes "Hi. I'm a pharmaceutical sales representative (seasoned, over 10 years in the industry).
I'm launching a new product and part of my job is to introduce myself to the Pharmacists, introduce my new drug, provide the clinical benefits and features for patients, plus drop off savings coupons for customers.
Walgreens has a corporate policy of "NOT ALLOWING PHARMACEUTICAL REPRESENTATIVES IN THEIR STORES".
Most of the time, and in most cities, Walgreens Pharmacists are polite and generally are polite and respectful.
In Douglas, GA, I walked to the pharmacy & introduced myself to the Pharmacy tech that was standing by the register. She said and I quote: "We're not supposed to talk to pharma reps"."
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All Sales Final Rant
| Posted by Alucard on Monday, February 27 @ 19:47:01 EST (862 reads)
Anonymous writes "Covering for a neighboring department. Customer comes up wanting to buy an item that has a NO RETURN POLICY. Customer then tells me the wrong item and pays. Customer then finds he got the wrong item and wants a return on an item that has a no return policy. B.S. ensues.
Customer: Do you have "item A"
Me: We do, it’s... (Cut off)
Customer: How much is it.
Me: Its $. $$
Customer: I take one and one blah blah.
I get "item "A" and blah blah and put them in front of the customer while I log in, I then ring him up, and he pays. [Maybe 2-3 mins total that the Items set in front of him before the "point of no return"]
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