She starts her new job next Monday, and she couldn't be more excited.
God, I want to be able to do something like that in my life. That would first require getting an absolutely hated job, though.
The sad part is, she didn't hate her job. She worked really hard and she enjoyed what she did... but the company simply didn't reward people when it needed to, which is what pushed her to start looking for other employment in the first place. It wasn't just her, for the record (just so she doesn't come off as selfish), she watched it happen to a lot of her peers.
I'm sad that she's leaving her current job because I got a lot of free stuff for my apartment from it.
You are living the exact same life I lived only a few months ago. Right down to the Webkinz thing. How long have you worked TRU/RZ? I worked there from September 05 to February 07, and the last few months were a living hell. I basically had to quit because my boss (not the store director mind you, but the bitch under him who did the scheduling) refused to accomodate my classes. I have been trying to get my last paycheck for a five weeks, my diredctor says it should be in tomorrow, but I am wary. Im interested to here more about your experience, where your store is, etc. I am happy to share also, since I no longer work there I just dont give a fuck.
Store 8302, Montgomeryville, PA. I've been working since late September to the present. It's not a BAD job per se, just has its bad days. The right employees make all the difference, and right now, everyone's pissed off at each other because someone decided to start drama and bring one of my coworker's girlfriend's personal life to work with her.
I'm still reeling over that one, but the job I have now is worlds better than the one I had before that. Retirement home, serving old people who can't serve themselves. It's a thankless job, to be sure, but all the benefits usually provided by a normal job (Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter) were nonexistent, because, well, someone people have to eat every day. I miss my coworkers and my residents there, but changes in management made me quit on the spot and start looking for another job.
For TRU, our store director is nonexistent for most of the day, making appearances only when he really has to. The managers under him constantly push BPPs, ICs, batteries, and whatever else they can think of. Initially, I felt bad asking people if they wanted this or wanted to apply for that, but now my spiels sort of come out of my mouth without my realizing. If people decline, I usually stop going through the speech immediately, but lately, I've had a few instances where a manager will see me do that and walk up and continue to ask the person why they weren't interested. It's really annoying to have someone above me completely undermine my control of the situation and make me simultaneously look bad to the customer I'm ringing up and look bad to the managers for not persuing a BPP/IC/whatever.
Oh well. I don't imagine I'll have this job for much longer. I'm changing schools in September and I don't know if I can commute to school (I do now, but this school is 45 minutes out of the way of where TRU is) and still make working there profitable.
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That's why our res and sub numbers are based on %s. If you have 50 transactions, getting 5-10 of each is pretty easy. If you have 10 transactions, it's near impossible, and people shouldn't be penalized for it.
For TRU, our store director is nonexistent for most of the day, making appearances only when he really has to. The managers under him constantly push BPPs, ICs, batteries, and whatever else they can think of. Initially, I felt bad asking people if they wanted this or wanted to apply for that, but now my spiels sort of come out of my mouth without my realizing. If people decline, I usually stop going through the speech immediately, but lately, I've had a few instances where a manager will see me do that and walk up and continue to ask the person why they weren't interested. It's really annoying to have someone above me completely undermine my control of the situation and make me simultaneously look bad to the customer I'm ringing up and look bad to the managers for not persuing a BPP/IC/whatever.
Oh well. I don't imagine I'll have this job for much longer. I'm changing schools in September and I don't know if I can commute to school (I do now, but this school is 45 minutes out of the way of where TRU is) and still make working there profitable.
Heh. I went with my brother to go buy Tales of Legendia at the Bellevue Gamestop in Nebraska.
"Did you want a disc insurance for 3$?"
No.
"Do you have an Edge card?"
No.
"Did we already give you the spiel about the Edge card"
Yes.
During the summer/winter breaks, I work in a warehouse that prints and ships Hallmark cards. The pay is fantastic, I don't have to deal with customers EVER(!), and my foreman does the same work I do without constantly supervising me. It's fantastic. The only problem is that I frequently work from 5am 'til 2 or 3pm. 7 days a week. Meh. But it's worth it to get away from customers and lazy asshole managers.
"Did you want a disc insurance for 3$?"
No.
"Do you have an Edge card?"
No.
"Did we already give you the spiel about the Edge card"
Yes.
I thought it was funny.
"My manager's right behind me, isn't he?"
Yes.
"I'm fired, aren't I?"
Yes.
Resetbutton, that sounds like exactly what I'd like to get into. But at the moment, it's looking like my next job will either involve working phones for a gov't agency or sales.
"Did you want a disc insurance for 3$?"
No.
"Do you have an Edge card?"
No.
"Did we already give you the spiel about the Edge card"
Yes.
I thought it was funny.
"My manager's right behind me, isn't he?"
Yes.
"I'm fired, aren't I?"
Yes.
Resetbutton, that sounds like exactly what I'd like to get into. But at the moment, it's looking like my next job will either involve working phones for a gov't agency or sales.
Actually, the manager was there, talking to (what i'm guessing) was a new trainee, since they were telling him he would "get his real badge in a couple of days". Also, we came into the store in the last 5 minutes before close. They noted this and one asked us if we knew what we were looking for. My brother replied "yes" and named the game, the manager goes "I love you".
"Did you want a disc insurance for 3$?"
No.
"Do you have an Edge card?"
No.
"Did we already give you the spiel about the Edge card"
Yes.
I thought it was funny.
"My manager's right behind me, isn't he?"
Yes.
"I'm fired, aren't I?"
Yes.
Resetbutton, that sounds like exactly what I'd like to get into. But at the moment, it's looking like my next job will either involve working phones for a gov't agency or sales.
Actually, the manager was there, talking to (what i'm guessing) was a new trainee, since they were telling him he would "get his real badge in a couple of days". Also, we came into the store in the last 5 minutes before close. They noted this and one asked us if we knew what we were looking for. My brother replied "yes" and named the game, the manager goes "I love you".
Also, I believe that everybody should work in the field of debt collecting at least once in their lives, even if only for a few months. It's a life altering experience and everything you do afterwards will feel like a cakewalk. It changes you man.
EDIT! The race card pisses me off like nothing else. It makes me want to go all
HA so true on debt collection. Worked at a Cell phone call center for some time, we dealt with the lowest of the low "Credit challenged customers" aka, "what you mean my phones cut off cause I didn't pay my bill!"
GOD hour after hour of people calling complaining about being cut off becuase of non payment. (really and your wondering why you can't use it?)
Then 8 out of ten times the racasit calling tactic came into play :rolleyes:
Also, I believe that everybody should work in the field of debt collecting at least once in their lives, even if only for a few months. It's a life altering experience and everything you do afterwards will feel like a cakewalk. It changes you man.
EDIT! The race card pisses me off like nothing else. It makes me want to go all
HA so true on debt collection. Worked at a Cell phone call center for some time, we dealt with the lowest of the low "Credit challenged customers" aka, "what you mean my phones cut off cause I didn't pay my bill!"
GOD hour after hour of people calling complaining about being cut off becuase of non payment. (really and your wondering why you can't use it?)
Then 8 out of ten times the racasit calling tactic came into play :rolleyes:
"But you don't understand! I can't afford it! I'm on jobseeker's allowance!"
If you can't afford £20 a month for your net connection, maybe you have more to worry about than your internet access.
"I want compensation for the time I've been disconnected!"
Compensation for the time you were disconnected due to the fact that you didn't pay your bill? I'll get right on that! :roll:
Bastards came into our drive in last night with about a minute left until we closed. I almost had everything cleaned and the bastard wanted four double cheeseburgers, three orders of tots, two orders of fries... wouldn't be bad if I could press a button like a McDonald's and have the press make my shit, but I had to actually cook the damn things.
Normally, I don't complain about my job at Gamestop. I have a great store manager, a great ASM, and the other associates I work with are fantastic. Our regular customers are great people as well, and come inside to speak with us about anything from games, to sports, to music. We play our iPods over the soundsystem, don't nag customers about subs/reserves if they're truly not interested, it's a great atmosphere.
Until today.
I got to work, and the weather was looking pretty bad. My ASM, and my coworking SGA were there, telling me that the power had gone out twice before I got there. Twenty minutes or so after my arrival, we hear tornado sirens. Our store manager calls us, tells us to close the gate, get customers out safely and quickly, and head to the back room, to turn on the Weather Channel. We do this, and sure enough, three tornados are in the area, one about twenty blocks from us. We call our store manager, he calls our district manager, who calls his on what to do.
Our DM's boss told us to stay open, and continue the day as normal. What the FUCK?! You don't pay ANY of us nearly enough to fucking risk our LIVES for your shitty buisness practices, Gamestop. I'm sure that asking Customer #5943 if they'd like ten cents off of 25 To Life with a discount card is much more important that the well-being of your employees.
I'm sticking around until August or September, so I can have a full year of retail management on my resume, but after that? Good fucking riddance.
Rule #1 of Bad Weather Retail Management is to never call the DM. I've never been at a store that said "What's that? A tornado across the street? Better close down and make sure you don't die!" At Hollywood Video, I once had the DM tell us to stay open during a tornado (we called when golf ball sized hail started coming down and there hadn't been anyone in the store for over an hour) and continue to do business even after the power went out and stayed out for several hours.
Rule #1 of Bad Weather Retail Management is to never call the DM. I've never been at a store that said "What's that? A tornado across the street? Better close down and make sure you don't die!" At Hollywood Video, I once had the DM tell us to stay open during a tornado (we called when golf ball sized hail started coming down and there hadn't been anyone in the store for over an hour) and continue to do business even after the power went out and stayed out for several hours.
The thing that got us, though, was that the DM approved of our decision if we wanted to close, he just had to okay it with his boss. His boss, of course, is a douchey douche that enjoys douching.
And you all didn't just leave anyway? I mean, I can't see any recourse they could have against you for saying "hey, we're going to a shelter to wait this out."
Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
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Would they really be able to fire you?
I'm fairly sure extenous circumstances of being worried that you might die (Fun fact malls are usually not designed as a post disaster building [a example of a post disaster building would be a hospital] and therefore aren't garunteed to stand up in a tornado or cyclone winds) would be enough reason to close the store and go home.
Also just out of curiosity as I live in Australia is a block some kind of measurement in America, is it more or less than a mile? I realise a block is the big blocks of land between the roads, but are they consistently uniform in size or something?
And you all didn't just leave anyway? I mean, I can't see any recourse they could have against you for saying "hey, we're going to a shelter to wait this out."
Honestly? I would've stayed, because I'm in a fairly tight money situation. I know, it sounds absolutely insane, but I literally needed the money, which is why I agreed to stay, even though I was furious at our DM's boss's decision. Also, I'm really gunning for a great recommendation letter, so I took one for the team, in that case.
Also just out of curiosity as I live in Australia is a block some kind of measurement in America, is it more or less than a mile? I realise a block is the big blocks of land between the roads, but are they consistently uniform in size or something?
From Wikipedia:
A city block (in most U.S. cities) is between 1/8 and 1/16 mi (0.2 and 0.4 km). In Manhattan, the measurement "block" usually refers to a north-south block, which is 1/20 mi (0.08 km). Within a typical large North American city, it is often possible to travel along only east-west and north-south streets, so travel distance between two points is often given in the number of blocks east-west plus the number north-south (known to mathematicians as the Manhattan distance).
Blocks are usually uniform in size, unless certain roads twist, turn, or other random changes happen. Most cities are on a grid-base system, so things are pretty equal all the way around.
And you all didn't just leave anyway? I mean, I can't see any recourse they could have against you for saying "hey, we're going to a shelter to wait this out."
I'd be more worried about those people who go shopping for Madden '07 in a Tornado.
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ShadowfireVermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered Userregular
And you all didn't just leave anyway? I mean, I can't see any recourse they could have against you for saying "hey, we're going to a shelter to wait this out."
I'd be more worried about those people who go shopping for Madden '07 in a Tornado.
Almost 10 years ago, we had a severe ice storm up here. The roads were closed, a state of emergency was declared, everything was just shut down.
We were closing up, and people were still coming in to buy games. Seriously, risking your life and driving illegally to get a video game... it's god damn stupid, but people were doing it!
I remember my assistant manager at the time was in the National Guard, and he was activated. The mall tried to make us stay open until 3, and he.. you know.. had to leave. I'm pretty sure the company got a month of the rent deducted after smacking a fine on us.
Our DM's boss told us to stay open, and continue the day as normal. What the FUCK?! You don't pay ANY of us nearly enough to fucking risk our LIVES for your shitty buisness practices, Gamestop. I'm sure that asking Customer #5943 if they'd like ten cents off of 25 To Life with a discount card is much more important that the well-being of your employees.
I'm sticking around until August or September, so I can have a full year of retail management on my resume, but after that? Good fucking riddance.
I have a similar story. Not as obtuse as this one, but pretty crappy all the same.
A couple of years ago, on my birthday, we were in the middle of a monster heat wave. It was so hot on this particular day that a major transformer literally blew up, taking the entire city's power down with it. Everything with an electrical current went down.
I ran around to shut down the computers, which were on battery backup. My boss borrowed my cell phone to call the home office and get the emergency back-up procedures set up. She handed me back my phone. I whipped out my Gameboy and camped out with her and my other co-worker in the front lobby area to wait it out. After about an hour, my boss was able to grab one of the electricians surveying the damage and found out about the entire city being down. And there was no ETA on when it would be back up, if at all.
During the time we waited, the "assistant vice president", aka Ghengis Cunt, proceed to call my cell phone and the land line every 10-20 minutes to get a status update on the situation. After the fifth time, I asked Ghengis to stop calling my cell and eating up my minutes.
After about an hour, my boss decided to send my co-worker and me home because it didn't look like the power would be back up any time soon. But because Ghengis is that wonderful a person, she insisted that the office had to stay open on the off-chance that the power did come back up. So my boss was forced to set in an office that was slowly getting hotter, with this bitch calling every 10 minutes and literally taunting her with questions like "Are you getting hot?", "Can you see without the lights?", "Are you bored?"
Finally, Ghengis decided to be generous and let my boss go home... at 4:30. Our normal closing time: 5 pm. And, somehow Ghengis found out that my boss had let us go home three hours early. And she had the gall to tell my boss that we had to make the time up by doing overtime. :x
We just ending up fudging our hours on our time sheets in the end.
On the subject of death and daemons disappearing: arrows sure are effective in Lyra's universe. Seems like if you get shot once, you're dead - no lingering deaths with your daemon huddling pitifully in your arms, just *thunk* *argh* *whoosh*. A battlefield full of the dying would just be so much more depressing when you add in wailing gerbils and dogs.
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Our DM's boss told us to stay open, and continue the day as normal. What the FUCK?! You don't pay ANY of us nearly enough to fucking risk our LIVES for your shitty buisness practices, Gamestop. I'm sure that asking Customer #5943 if they'd like ten cents off of 25 To Life with a discount card is much more important that the well-being of your employees.
I'm sticking around until August or September, so I can have a full year of retail management on my resume, but after that? Good fucking riddance.
I have a similar story. Not as obtuse as this one, but pretty crappy all the same.
A couple of years ago, on my birthday, we were in the middle of a monster heat wave. It was so hot on this particular day that a major transformer literally blew up, taking the entire city's power down with it. Everything with an electrical current went down.
I ran around to shut down the computers, which were on battery backup. My boss borrowed my cell phone to call the home office and get the emergency back-up procedures set up. She handed me back my phone. I whipped out my Gameboy and camped out with her and my other co-worker in the front lobby area to wait it out. After about an hour, my boss was able to grab one of the electricians surveying the damage and found out about the entire city being down. And there was no ETA on when it would be back up, if at all.
During the time we waited, the "assistant vice president", aka Ghengis Cunt, proceed to call my cell phone and the land line every 10-20 minutes to get a status update on the situation. After the fifth time, I asked Ghengis to stop calling my cell and eating up my minutes.
After about an hour, my boss decided to send my co-worker and me home because it didn't look like the power would be back up any time soon. But because Ghengis is that wonderful a person, she insisted that the office had to stay open on the off-chance that the power did come back up. So my boss was forced to set in an office that was slowly getting hotter, with this bitch calling every 10 minutes and literally taunting her with questions like "Are you getting hot?", "Can you see without the lights?", "Are you bored?"
Finally, Ghengis decided to be generous and let my boss go home... at 4:30. Our normal closing time: 5 pm. And, somehow Ghengis found out that my boss had let us go home three hours early. And she had the gall to tell my boss that we had to make the time up by doing overtime. :x
We just ending up fudging our hours on our time sheets in the end.
First rule of private non work mobile phones. You are the boss of them and the only person above you is your phone company. You had every right not to take her calls. I would've told her that it's my phone and as such I have the right to screen calls on it. If she would like me to answer the phone then she can ring on a phone that the company pays for.
Our DM's boss told us to stay open, and continue the day as normal. What the FUCK?! You don't pay ANY of us nearly enough to fucking risk our LIVES for your shitty buisness practices, Gamestop. I'm sure that asking Customer #5943 if they'd like ten cents off of 25 To Life with a discount card is much more important that the well-being of your employees.
I'm sticking around until August or September, so I can have a full year of retail management on my resume, but after that? Good fucking riddance.
I have a similar story. Not as obtuse as this one, but pretty crappy all the same.
A couple of years ago, on my birthday, we were in the middle of a monster heat wave. It was so hot on this particular day that a major transformer literally blew up, taking the entire city's power down with it. Everything with an electrical current went down.
I ran around to shut down the computers, which were on battery backup. My boss borrowed my cell phone to call the home office and get the emergency back-up procedures set up. She handed me back my phone. I whipped out my Gameboy and camped out with her and my other co-worker in the front lobby area to wait it out. After about an hour, my boss was able to grab one of the electricians surveying the damage and found out about the entire city being down. And there was no ETA on when it would be back up, if at all.
During the time we waited, the "assistant vice president", aka Ghengis Cunt, proceed to call my cell phone and the land line every 10-20 minutes to get a status update on the situation. After the fifth time, I asked Ghengis to stop calling my cell and eating up my minutes.
After about an hour, my boss decided to send my co-worker and me home because it didn't look like the power would be back up any time soon. But because Ghengis is that wonderful a person, she insisted that the office had to stay open on the off-chance that the power did come back up. So my boss was forced to set in an office that was slowly getting hotter, with this bitch calling every 10 minutes and literally taunting her with questions like "Are you getting hot?", "Can you see without the lights?", "Are you bored?"
Finally, Ghengis decided to be generous and let my boss go home... at 4:30. Our normal closing time: 5 pm. And, somehow Ghengis found out that my boss had let us go home three hours early. And she had the gall to tell my boss that we had to make the time up by doing overtime. :x
We just ending up fudging our hours on our time sheets in the end.
First rule of private non work mobile phones. You are the boss of them and the only person above you is your phone company. You had every right not to take her calls. I would've told her that it's my phone and as such I have the right to screen calls on it. If she would like me to answer the phone then she can ring on a phone that the company pays for.
I don't answer my phone if it's work. Ever. I told them this. I told them that on my days off I plan things to do, and I don't plan on coming in, so I don't answer my phone if it's not friends or family. The still try and call, I love it. It's that feeling when Peter in Office Space checks his messages after sleeping in and there's like 20 from Lumbergh.
Whoever is in charge of the library when Omaha is being violated sideways by a huge blizzard always thought it should be open during said blizzards.
Last time we had a blizzard while I was working there, the fucking mayor sent his staff home. WE WERE THE ONLY GOVERMENT BUILDING OPEN. Nobody was in it. Yet we had to stay open for no apparent reason. She finally caved and sent everyone home at 5pm, when the library was set to close in only 3 more hours.
Sure enough, I checked the library's website during our last blizzard - they had remained open until 4pm. sigh.
Our DM's boss told us to stay open, and continue the day as normal. What the FUCK?! You don't pay ANY of us nearly enough to fucking risk our LIVES for your shitty buisness practices, Gamestop. I'm sure that asking Customer #5943 if they'd like ten cents off of 25 To Life with a discount card is much more important that the well-being of your employees.
I'm sticking around until August or September, so I can have a full year of retail management on my resume, but after that? Good fucking riddance.
I have a similar story. Not as obtuse as this one, but pretty crappy all the same.
A couple of years ago, on my birthday, we were in the middle of a monster heat wave. It was so hot on this particular day that a major transformer literally blew up, taking the entire city's power down with it. Everything with an electrical current went down.
I ran around to shut down the computers, which were on battery backup. My boss borrowed my cell phone to call the home office and get the emergency back-up procedures set up. She handed me back my phone. I whipped out my Gameboy and camped out with her and my other co-worker in the front lobby area to wait it out. After about an hour, my boss was able to grab one of the electricians surveying the damage and found out about the entire city being down. And there was no ETA on when it would be back up, if at all.
During the time we waited, the "assistant vice president", aka Ghengis Cunt, proceed to call my cell phone and the land line every 10-20 minutes to get a status update on the situation. After the fifth time, I asked Ghengis to stop calling my cell and eating up my minutes.
After about an hour, my boss decided to send my co-worker and me home because it didn't look like the power would be back up any time soon. But because Ghengis is that wonderful a person, she insisted that the office had to stay open on the off-chance that the power did come back up. So my boss was forced to set in an office that was slowly getting hotter, with this bitch calling every 10 minutes and literally taunting her with questions like "Are you getting hot?", "Can you see without the lights?", "Are you bored?"
Finally, Ghengis decided to be generous and let my boss go home... at 4:30. Our normal closing time: 5 pm. And, somehow Ghengis found out that my boss had let us go home three hours early. And she had the gall to tell my boss that we had to make the time up by doing overtime. :x
We just ending up fudging our hours on our time sheets in the end.
First rule of private non work mobile phones. You are the boss of them and the only person above you is your phone company. You had every right not to take her calls. I would've told her that it's my phone and as such I have the right to screen calls on it. If she would like me to answer the phone then she can ring on a phone that the company pays for.
I don't answer my phone if it's work. Ever. I told them this. I told them that on my days off I plan things to do, and I don't plan on coming in, so I don't answer my phone if it's not friends or family. The still try and call, I love it. It's that feeling when Peter in Office Space checks his messages after sleeping in and there's like 20 from Lumbergh.
Bastards came into our drive in last night with about a minute left until we closed. I almost had everything cleaned and the bastard wanted four double cheeseburgers, three orders of tots, two orders of fries... wouldn't be bad if I could press a button like a McDonald's and have the press make my shit, but I had to actually cook the damn things.
I wasn't pleased.
I considered driving through a wendy's front glass one time when it was 11:55 and they wouldn't serve me at the drive through because they said they were closed (they close at midnight).
Yeah, I realize you got to go home n all that, but nobody gets out on time, anywhere.
And you all didn't just leave anyway? I mean, I can't see any recourse they could have against you for saying "hey, we're going to a shelter to wait this out."
"Lemme in! It's an emergency!"
"Lady, there are three tornadoes in the area. Three. That's three killer funnel clouds saying "Stay home!" as loud as mother nature possibly can. What could possibly lure you out here?"
"Do you have any Wiis?"
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Whoever is in charge of the library when Omaha is being violated sideways by a huge blizzard always thought it should be open during said blizzards.
Last time we had a blizzard while I was working there, the fucking mayor sent his staff home. WE WERE THE ONLY GOVERMENT BUILDING OPEN. Nobody was in it. Yet we had to stay open for no apparent reason. She finally caved and sent everyone home at 5pm, when the library was set to close in only 3 more hours.
Sure enough, I checked the library's website during our last blizzard - they had remained open until 4pm. sigh.
Heh, my library system actually seems much more reasonable when it comes to closing down because of weather, although we don't get blizzards around here. Instead, we get hurricanes. When we close down for a hurricane, we always lock the outdoor bookdrop and put a sign that says the drop is locked and no fines will be charged for late materials. After Hurricane Wilma, we were closed for about a week. Some fucker actually yanked the bookdrop open, breaking the lock, and dropped their library books in.
in my call center job, we were in a large room with no windows outside. When severe weather was in the area, they would tell us about an hour beforehand so people can roll their car windows up. Now, I was on a contract with internet access, so we knew what was up, but no one else was. So during said storms, and tornadoes, they had us working through it without even warning that there might be a danger to our safety.
We were happily (or not so happily) taking calls from random people across the US while a tornado went by us and missed by less than 300 feet. That is some scary shit and I am still surprised I didn't leave at that point.
It got so bad that we couldn't get the doors open so it was just 4 geeks with $50-60K worth of brand new computer hardware, some left over chinese and a couple beers.
I don't answer my phone if it's work. Ever. I told them this. I told them that on my days off I plan things to do, and I don't plan on coming in, so I don't answer my phone if it's not friends or family. The still try and call, I love it. It's that feeling when Peter in Office Space checks his messages after sleeping in and there's like 20 from Lumbergh.
I did something like that back when I worked retail - but it was my girlfriend's phone. She has NO ability to turn the fuckers down when they called her in to work until 3AM on her day off (while sick), so I'd just turn the damn thing off.
Now me personally, I got a HUGE kick of answering the phone, listening to their whole begging/threatening come-into-work speach, and then telling them to stuff it. My bosses didn't like me much, but the feeling was mutual so I was fine with that.
And you all didn't just leave anyway? I mean, I can't see any recourse they could have against you for saying "hey, we're going to a shelter to wait this out."
"Lemme in! It's an emergency!"
"Lady, there are three tornadoes in the area. Three. That's three killer funnel clouds saying "Stay home!" as loud as mother nature possibly can. What could possibly lure you out here?"
"Do you have any Wiis?"
...I love you.
Couple weeks back, we had a foot of snow drop within maybe six hours. It was the wet, icy kind of snow that's terrible to drive in. Seeing as I only had just gotten my license in August, this was my first foray into driving in inclement weather. I live about fifteen minutes away from work, but those are all back roads, and I was scheduled until 9 pm, while the snow was supposed to go into the next day. Borders next to us closed, all the stores along the strip mall chain closed, all the restaraunts around us closed, the MALL closed, but Toys R Us stayed open.
We stayed open until when we were supposed to. Luckily, after much berating, our manager let a bunch of us go home after I went over how impractical and counterproductive it was to have that many people in the store working when we weren't going to get any customers. The store was losing money and we were doing nothing but sitting on our asses.
My decision to leave came solely after I realized I would not have been able to eat dinner because everything was closed. Free money for sitting around, but no food + driving home in shitty weather = no go for me. I was in the next morning anyway, so I didn't feel too bad.
And you all didn't just leave anyway? I mean, I can't see any recourse they could have against you for saying "hey, we're going to a shelter to wait this out."
"Lemme in! It's an emergency!"
"Lady, there are three tornadoes in the area. Three. That's three killer funnel clouds saying "Stay home!" as loud as mother nature possibly can. What could possibly lure you out here?"
"Do you have any Wiis?"
...I love you.
Couple weeks back, we had a foot of snow drop within maybe six hours. It was the wet, icy kind of snow that's terrible to drive in. Seeing as I only had just gotten my license in August, this was my first foray into driving in inclement weather. I live about fifteen minutes away from work, but those are all back roads, and I was scheduled until 9 pm, while the snow was supposed to go into the next day. Borders next to us closed, all the stores along the strip mall chain closed, all the restaraunts around us closed, the MALL closed, but Toys R Us stayed open.
We stayed open until when we were supposed to. Luckily, after much berating, our manager let a bunch of us go home after I went over how impractical and counterproductive it was to have that many people in the store working when we weren't going to get any customers. The store was losing money and we were doing nothing but sitting on our asses.
My decision to leave came solely after I realized I would not have been able to eat dinner because everything was closed. Free money for sitting around, but no food + driving home in shitty weather = no go for me. I was in the next morning anyway, so I didn't feel too bad.
We were like that at Target this past christmas. Everybody in our shopping center but us were closed due to the snow, and we were normal hours. I had an eight hour shift closing. 3/4 of the employees scheduled didn't show up, there was only four of us on the floor who came to work, so they gave me all of the market and seasonal (clearance christmas, oh yay) to zone. Not a single person was in either department all morning, as nothing was done. I was done in four hours, the rest of the day I sat around and did nothing. I saw a total of four guests the whole eight hours.
Oh, and we got "disciplined" because sales were so low for that day.
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Hate to ressurect this comment, but does anyone know if it's Retail only? I support MS products at my job (Tech support for one of their largest partners) and would love to get in on this. I know a lot of companies give us employee purchase plan deals (for example, I get like 50% off anything from Logitech / Belkin / etc that I might ever want).
I was going to use the EPP from Dell at my last job to get a new computer for cheaper than usual. The discount rate? 2%. That's not a typo either, you get 2% off your purchase. But if you get their best support package for a year, they'll up it to 3%!
First rule of private non work mobile phones. You are the boss of them and the only person above you is your phone company. You had every right not to take her calls. I would've told her that it's my phone and as such I have the right to screen calls on it. If she would like me to answer the phone then she can ring on a phone that the company pays for.
I don't answer my phone if it's work. Ever. I told them this. I told them that on my days off I plan things to do, and I don't plan on coming in, so I don't answer my phone if it's not friends or family. The still try and call, I love it. It's that feeling when Peter in Office Space checks his messages after sleeping in and there's like 20 from Lumbergh.
Wait until you have a real job in the real world.
As an I.T. Manager I'm on call 24x7x365 and they will call my cell phone, home phone, work phone, email the blackberry, or anything else they need to do to get ahold of me where ever I am any time they want.
I just make them pay my personal cell phone bill.
I also charge them any time I'm called on my vacation days. I took 5 days about 3 weeks ago, they called 3 of the days costing about 30 minutes of my time total. I got all 3 days back just because they called for help.
I also let my crew take the old I.T. related gear into the field behind us and beat it into pieces. I call it a "Team Building" exercise.
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The sad part is, she didn't hate her job. She worked really hard and she enjoyed what she did... but the company simply didn't reward people when it needed to, which is what pushed her to start looking for other employment in the first place. It wasn't just her, for the record (just so she doesn't come off as selfish), she watched it happen to a lot of her peers.
I'm sad that she's leaving her current job because I got a lot of free stuff for my apartment from it.
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Store 8302, Montgomeryville, PA. I've been working since late September to the present. It's not a BAD job per se, just has its bad days. The right employees make all the difference, and right now, everyone's pissed off at each other because someone decided to start drama and bring one of my coworker's girlfriend's personal life to work with her.
I'm still reeling over that one, but the job I have now is worlds better than the one I had before that. Retirement home, serving old people who can't serve themselves. It's a thankless job, to be sure, but all the benefits usually provided by a normal job (Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter) were nonexistent, because, well, someone people have to eat every day. I miss my coworkers and my residents there, but changes in management made me quit on the spot and start looking for another job.
For TRU, our store director is nonexistent for most of the day, making appearances only when he really has to. The managers under him constantly push BPPs, ICs, batteries, and whatever else they can think of. Initially, I felt bad asking people if they wanted this or wanted to apply for that, but now my spiels sort of come out of my mouth without my realizing. If people decline, I usually stop going through the speech immediately, but lately, I've had a few instances where a manager will see me do that and walk up and continue to ask the person why they weren't interested. It's really annoying to have someone above me completely undermine my control of the situation and make me simultaneously look bad to the customer I'm ringing up and look bad to the managers for not persuing a BPP/IC/whatever.
Oh well. I don't imagine I'll have this job for much longer. I'm changing schools in September and I don't know if I can commute to school (I do now, but this school is 45 minutes out of the way of where TRU is) and still make working there profitable.
That's why our res and sub numbers are based on %s. If you have 50 transactions, getting 5-10 of each is pretty easy. If you have 10 transactions, it's near impossible, and people shouldn't be penalized for it.
When my vacation jumped to 120 this year, I was excited.
I still have no idea when I'm going to use my last week...
Heh. I went with my brother to go buy Tales of Legendia at the Bellevue Gamestop in Nebraska.
"Did you want a disc insurance for 3$?"
No.
"Do you have an Edge card?"
No.
"Did we already give you the spiel about the Edge card"
Yes.
I thought it was funny.
"My manager's right behind me, isn't he?"
Yes.
"I'm fired, aren't I?"
Yes.
Resetbutton, that sounds like exactly what I'd like to get into. But at the moment, it's looking like my next job will either involve working phones for a gov't agency or sales.
Actually, the manager was there, talking to (what i'm guessing) was a new trainee, since they were telling him he would "get his real badge in a couple of days". Also, we came into the store in the last 5 minutes before close. They noted this and one asked us if we knew what we were looking for. My brother replied "yes" and named the game, the manager goes "I love you".
It was puzzle quest, wasn't it.
HA so true on debt collection. Worked at a Cell phone call center for some time, we dealt with the lowest of the low "Credit challenged customers" aka, "what you mean my phones cut off cause I didn't pay my bill!"
GOD hour after hour of people calling complaining about being cut off becuase of non payment. (really and your wondering why you can't use it?)
Then 8 out of ten times the racasit calling tactic came into play :rolleyes:
"But you don't understand! I can't afford it! I'm on jobseeker's allowance!"
If you can't afford £20 a month for your net connection, maybe you have more to worry about than your internet access.
"I want compensation for the time I've been disconnected!"
Compensation for the time you were disconnected due to the fact that you didn't pay your bill? I'll get right on that! :roll:
I wasn't pleased.
Until today.
I got to work, and the weather was looking pretty bad. My ASM, and my coworking SGA were there, telling me that the power had gone out twice before I got there. Twenty minutes or so after my arrival, we hear tornado sirens. Our store manager calls us, tells us to close the gate, get customers out safely and quickly, and head to the back room, to turn on the Weather Channel. We do this, and sure enough, three tornados are in the area, one about twenty blocks from us. We call our store manager, he calls our district manager, who calls his on what to do.
Our DM's boss told us to stay open, and continue the day as normal. What the FUCK?! You don't pay ANY of us nearly enough to fucking risk our LIVES for your shitty buisness practices, Gamestop. I'm sure that asking Customer #5943 if they'd like ten cents off of 25 To Life with a discount card is much more important that the well-being of your employees.
I'm sticking around until August or September, so I can have a full year of retail management on my resume, but after that? Good fucking riddance.
Rule #1 of Bad Weather Retail Management is to never call the DM. I've never been at a store that said "What's that? A tornado across the street? Better close down and make sure you don't die!" At Hollywood Video, I once had the DM tell us to stay open during a tornado (we called when golf ball sized hail started coming down and there hadn't been anyone in the store for over an hour) and continue to do business even after the power went out and stayed out for several hours.
The thing that got us, though, was that the DM approved of our decision if we wanted to close, he just had to okay it with his boss. His boss, of course, is a douchey douche that enjoys douching.
And you all didn't just leave anyway? I mean, I can't see any recourse they could have against you for saying "hey, we're going to a shelter to wait this out."
I'm fairly sure extenous circumstances of being worried that you might die (Fun fact malls are usually not designed as a post disaster building [a example of a post disaster building would be a hospital] and therefore aren't garunteed to stand up in a tornado or cyclone winds) would be enough reason to close the store and go home.
Also just out of curiosity as I live in Australia is a block some kind of measurement in America, is it more or less than a mile? I realise a block is the big blocks of land between the roads, but are they consistently uniform in size or something?
Satans..... hints.....
Honestly? I would've stayed, because I'm in a fairly tight money situation. I know, it sounds absolutely insane, but I literally needed the money, which is why I agreed to stay, even though I was furious at our DM's boss's decision. Also, I'm really gunning for a great recommendation letter, so I took one for the team, in that case.
From Wikipedia:
A city block (in most U.S. cities) is between 1/8 and 1/16 mi (0.2 and 0.4 km). In Manhattan, the measurement "block" usually refers to a north-south block, which is 1/20 mi (0.08 km). Within a typical large North American city, it is often possible to travel along only east-west and north-south streets, so travel distance between two points is often given in the number of blocks east-west plus the number north-south (known to mathematicians as the Manhattan distance).
Blocks are usually uniform in size, unless certain roads twist, turn, or other random changes happen. Most cities are on a grid-base system, so things are pretty equal all the way around.
I'd be more worried about those people who go shopping for Madden '07 in a Tornado.
Almost 10 years ago, we had a severe ice storm up here. The roads were closed, a state of emergency was declared, everything was just shut down.
We were closing up, and people were still coming in to buy games. Seriously, risking your life and driving illegally to get a video game... it's god damn stupid, but people were doing it!
I remember my assistant manager at the time was in the National Guard, and he was activated. The mall tried to make us stay open until 3, and he.. you know.. had to leave. I'm pretty sure the company got a month of the rent deducted after smacking a fine on us.
I have a similar story. Not as obtuse as this one, but pretty crappy all the same.
A couple of years ago, on my birthday, we were in the middle of a monster heat wave. It was so hot on this particular day that a major transformer literally blew up, taking the entire city's power down with it. Everything with an electrical current went down.
I ran around to shut down the computers, which were on battery backup. My boss borrowed my cell phone to call the home office and get the emergency back-up procedures set up. She handed me back my phone. I whipped out my Gameboy and camped out with her and my other co-worker in the front lobby area to wait it out. After about an hour, my boss was able to grab one of the electricians surveying the damage and found out about the entire city being down. And there was no ETA on when it would be back up, if at all.
During the time we waited, the "assistant vice president", aka Ghengis Cunt, proceed to call my cell phone and the land line every 10-20 minutes to get a status update on the situation. After the fifth time, I asked Ghengis to stop calling my cell and eating up my minutes.
After about an hour, my boss decided to send my co-worker and me home because it didn't look like the power would be back up any time soon. But because Ghengis is that wonderful a person, she insisted that the office had to stay open on the off-chance that the power did come back up. So my boss was forced to set in an office that was slowly getting hotter, with this bitch calling every 10 minutes and literally taunting her with questions like "Are you getting hot?", "Can you see without the lights?", "Are you bored?"
Finally, Ghengis decided to be generous and let my boss go home... at 4:30. Our normal closing time: 5 pm. And, somehow Ghengis found out that my boss had let us go home three hours early. And she had the gall to tell my boss that we had to make the time up by doing overtime. :x
We just ending up fudging our hours on our time sheets in the end.
First rule of private non work mobile phones. You are the boss of them and the only person above you is your phone company. You had every right not to take her calls. I would've told her that it's my phone and as such I have the right to screen calls on it. If she would like me to answer the phone then she can ring on a phone that the company pays for.
Satans..... hints.....
I don't answer my phone if it's work. Ever. I told them this. I told them that on my days off I plan things to do, and I don't plan on coming in, so I don't answer my phone if it's not friends or family. The still try and call, I love it. It's that feeling when Peter in Office Space checks his messages after sleeping in and there's like 20 from Lumbergh.
Last time we had a blizzard while I was working there, the fucking mayor sent his staff home. WE WERE THE ONLY GOVERMENT BUILDING OPEN. Nobody was in it. Yet we had to stay open for no apparent reason. She finally caved and sent everyone home at 5pm, when the library was set to close in only 3 more hours.
Sure enough, I checked the library's website during our last blizzard - they had remained open until 4pm. sigh.
Office Space is the bestest movie ever maked.
I considered driving through a wendy's front glass one time when it was 11:55 and they wouldn't serve me at the drive through because they said they were closed (they close at midnight).
Yeah, I realize you got to go home n all that, but nobody gets out on time, anywhere.
Heh, my library system actually seems much more reasonable when it comes to closing down because of weather, although we don't get blizzards around here. Instead, we get hurricanes. When we close down for a hurricane, we always lock the outdoor bookdrop and put a sign that says the drop is locked and no fines will be charged for late materials. After Hurricane Wilma, we were closed for about a week. Some fucker actually yanked the bookdrop open, breaking the lock, and dropped their library books in.
We were happily (or not so happily) taking calls from random people across the US while a tornado went by us and missed by less than 300 feet. That is some scary shit and I am still surprised I didn't leave at that point.
http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/events/vicsnow96.htm
It got so bad that we couldn't get the doors open so it was just 4 geeks with $50-60K worth of brand new computer hardware, some left over chinese and a couple beers.
It was a nightmare.....
I love working when there is crazy weather
I did something like that back when I worked retail - but it was my girlfriend's phone. She has NO ability to turn the fuckers down when they called her in to work until 3AM on her day off (while sick), so I'd just turn the damn thing off.
Now me personally, I got a HUGE kick of answering the phone, listening to their whole begging/threatening come-into-work speach, and then telling them to stuff it. My bosses didn't like me much, but the feeling was mutual so I was fine with that.
...I love you.
Couple weeks back, we had a foot of snow drop within maybe six hours. It was the wet, icy kind of snow that's terrible to drive in. Seeing as I only had just gotten my license in August, this was my first foray into driving in inclement weather. I live about fifteen minutes away from work, but those are all back roads, and I was scheduled until 9 pm, while the snow was supposed to go into the next day. Borders next to us closed, all the stores along the strip mall chain closed, all the restaraunts around us closed, the MALL closed, but Toys R Us stayed open.
We stayed open until when we were supposed to. Luckily, after much berating, our manager let a bunch of us go home after I went over how impractical and counterproductive it was to have that many people in the store working when we weren't going to get any customers. The store was losing money and we were doing nothing but sitting on our asses.
My decision to leave came solely after I realized I would not have been able to eat dinner because everything was closed. Free money for sitting around, but no food + driving home in shitty weather = no go for me. I was in the next morning anyway, so I didn't feel too bad.
We were like that at Target this past christmas. Everybody in our shopping center but us were closed due to the snow, and we were normal hours. I had an eight hour shift closing. 3/4 of the employees scheduled didn't show up, there was only four of us on the floor who came to work, so they gave me all of the market and seasonal (clearance christmas, oh yay) to zone. Not a single person was in either department all morning, as nothing was done. I was done in four hours, the rest of the day I sat around and did nothing. I saw a total of four guests the whole eight hours.
Oh, and we got "disciplined" because sales were so low for that day.
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I was going to use the EPP from Dell at my last job to get a new computer for cheaper than usual. The discount rate? 2%. That's not a typo either, you get 2% off your purchase. But if you get their best support package for a year, they'll up it to 3%!
So much BBQ...
I feel bad for my Catholic co-workers.
We're having a party with an open bar!
Wait until you have a real job in the real world.
As an I.T. Manager I'm on call 24x7x365 and they will call my cell phone, home phone, work phone, email the blackberry, or anything else they need to do to get ahold of me where ever I am any time they want.
I just make them pay my personal cell phone bill.
I also charge them any time I'm called on my vacation days. I took 5 days about 3 weeks ago, they called 3 of the days costing about 30 minutes of my time total. I got all 3 days back just because they called for help.
I also let my crew take the old I.T. related gear into the field behind us and beat it into pieces. I call it a "Team Building" exercise.
See that, that is what makes you awesome.
Maybe we'll tie it to the bumper of the company truck and use it as an anchor. We can find out exactly how much drag it has.