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  • Do you really need to ask?

    a few months ago when i was putting up the calendar displays all by myself, i was dragging shelving units around. i had maybe six shelves on a giant green dolley, my nametag on, and the phone on my hip was ringing. this lady walks up to me, looks directly at my nametag, and asks "do you work here?"

    wtf do you think im doing here?

    something similar happened when i was on a lunch break. i had a plate of food and a soda in my hand and someone asks if im an employee. "i do work here, but im kinda on a break. someone at customer service will be able to help you shortly."

    "there's no one there!"

    "they're probably helping another customer. if you wait patiently, someone will be along to help you."

    "why can't you help me?"

    "because im on a break. being on a break means im taking a break. which means im not working. because im taking a break."
    Kim: She's got one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.

    I'd like to exercise my constitutional right to not give a fuck.

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    If you're not helping the customer who asks you if you work there, you don't work there.

    And I guess you didn't read in your employee handbook that taking a break is illegal. Tsk tsk.
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    • #3
      Quoth BeckySunshine View Post
      And I guess you didn't read in your employee handbook that taking a break is illegal. Tsk tsk.


      That's why I try not to stay in my store when I am on break, or I hide in the backroom. When I worked in a store that I couldn't leave, I hid somewhere. Inevitably if someone sees you, doesn't matter if you have your lunch, purse, drink whatever in hand, they will harass you. Sheesh.

      I want to ask those people if they do work when they are clocked out for their break- or if they stay late at their 9-5! I've watched the people at my BF's work- they leave in droves as soon as 5 o'clock hits (it's like a high school parking lot!) WTF makes them think I want to work outside of my scheduled hours?
      I will not shove “it” up my backside. I do not know what “it” is, but in my many years on this earth I have figured out that that particular port hole is best reserved for emergency exit only. -GK

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      • #4
        This is why I take my smock off before I leave the pharmacy to go on break or go home. Then I look like a customer, mostly, and can make a quick getaway.

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        • #5
          Once when I was working at Walmart, I made the mistake of leaving my name badge on, when I was shopping on my break. Oh the horror, of everyone asking if I can help them. I found a DVD, I wanted, so I was in line to buy it. Ofcourse that does not give anyone the clue, that I am off the clock
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          • #6
            Quoth DesignFox View Post
            WTF makes them think I want to work outside of my scheduled hours?
            Silly, DesignFox, didn't you know that they have a real job and therefore can leave whenever they want. You, however, are a retail employee which means you are their slave which means, if they want to, they could come to your house and make you work at 4 am. You aren't actual human. We all know you're a droid and you sleep in the backroom!
            "The things that I remember best - those are the things I wasn't supposed to do…."

            I'm coming back as a Schooner Wharf Bar dog.

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            • #7
              Quoth B&NGoddess View Post
              "because im on a break. being on a break means im taking a break. which means im not working. because im taking a break."
              B&N isn't here, because I... am Mojo-Jojo! For Mojo-Jojo am I! And I am not B&N! For I am Mojo-Jojo!
              "I call murder on that!"

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              • #8
                Quoth reformedwaitress View Post
                Silly, DesignFox, didn't you know that they have a real job and therefore can leave whenever they want. You, however, are a retail employee which means you are their slave which means, if they want to, they could come to your house and make you work at 4 am. You aren't actual human. We all know you're a droid and you sleep in the backroom!
                Oh Damn! my secret is out! Now I'll never get ANY sleep!
                I will not shove “it” up my backside. I do not know what “it” is, but in my many years on this earth I have figured out that that particular port hole is best reserved for emergency exit only. -GK

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                • #9
                  reminds me of the time we a c-worker was being asked a question and walked over to my area, so i walk over(the cw, was kinda new) and another cw walk over so there are 3 of us standing around the customer in the same uniform and all contemplating the question which i forgot what it was but it was about outerwear for winter something around there. well after all is said and the other two walk of, the customer still has the gall to ask me if i work there. i stammered out a answer for reeling still from the shock of the question. i stood around you for 5 mins with 2 other people that look exactly like me and yet you still ask?

                  like we say around here, what makes sense dont mean the same for the customer(or something like that, its late im tired from work.)

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