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  • Rant of Work

    Not really sure where this should be, but since I think its a general work rant, here is best?

    I will rant about work......again

    Schedule

    Last year they cut hours (no surprise). So I guess in order to do that, the manager cut the hours off from the night shift. I.E. the shift I work.

    Normally there should be 3 on at night. Me, and two cashiers. One who rings, and the other acts as backup, and helps out on the floor. (in an ideal world)

    Well it was soon 2 people at night, for most of the night. Either I would be alone with 1 other person from 3-5:20, and or, 7-9

    I remember asking the manager why she did this and she said we make more money during the day than at night. Sorta made sense. But then we have all these problems.

    1) 2 people is not safe, any time of day, especially night.
    2) its usually only the girls at night. almost never is there a guy working at night.
    3) kids come in after they get out of school. you've read my stories about them
    4) how the hell are we supposed to get work done

    THEN, just a few days ago it hit me. We aren't more busy in the first shift. I come in and work 2-9. the store is open 7-9, so i come in smack in the middle. When i get in, i usually check how much we're at and its usually at or just below $3,000 (usually just under) By the end of the night on an average night we're at around $6,500, busy day we're at over $7000. tell me, how is it busier during the day? when clearly we are making more money in the 2-9 shift. thank you.

    With summer approaching, it will get worse. All the kids will be out and everyone will be walking around the town there. She needs to either hire someone for the summer, and or, schedule 3 people on at all times. I cant keep doing all the work myself anymore.

    Getting Work Done

    I get that there are sometimes a lot of things to get done during the day. and those should get done during the day. The night shift should be : facing, vacuuming, put-backs, cleaning. makes sense, right?

    So why is it that i come in and have to to all the planograms, a months worth of price changes for cosmetics ( i guess no one wants to do them, nor did they tell me this), push overstock, and anything else but face?

    I cant tell you the last time the store got faced 100% at night. Really, I cant.

    I gotta do everything it feels like, because the backup person is always ringing because its busy. and depending on who that person is, its either a) actual help or b) might as well have a monkey working.

    D, she does NOTHING.
    M, is good and wish she was on more
    V, usually works on the backroom, never faces

    ^ DMV, didnt mean that,

    anyways...

    store looks like crap. shelves are totally messed up, in the summer aisle someone, whoever was merchandising, thought it would be good to leave about 8, 1-gallon jugs of Arizona on the floor in front of the shelves. yea, do you know how tacky that looks? but i didnt do it, im not cleaning it up.

    i would say my store is one of the worst in the district. manager thinks its just fine probably

    Truck / Overstock
    Truck sucks, becuase, well...it just does

    this i guess is more about overstock. and it really depends on the aisle.

    I rarely get overstock for cosmetics truck.

    But some other aisles seem to have some problems...

    It comes from either, truck, or pushing overstock. I go to face an aisle and there is overstock crammed onto the shelf out on the floor. so much that it starts effing with the facings. random crap is cut in, stuff that isnt in the plano, and just after the plano is done.

    Seriously...what is the point of me making the fresh new plano look good if someone is gonna eff it up less than 24 hours later?

    I actually now take pictures after i do a plano to remind myself that at one point, that section looked good.

    The overstock rooms are another disaster. the bigger overstock room is so messy, and so overflowing and so unorganized, i sometimes have trouble walking back there.

    certain cw's will work hard at fixing that, only to have the manger do w/e she wants and totally mess it up again. she has 2 aisles she does for truck, and those 2 aisles are disasters. the food/ cleaning aisle has so much overstock shoved onto shelves, i cant face it. and then the candy aisle. the overstock goes back to the overstock room,in trays, and never gets scanned for push, so the system doesnt know its there. and almost never gets worked. seriously. wtf.

    the smaller overstock room, is just as bad. its is chock full of trays. i have no clue whats in them. honestly it seems like they come out of nowhere. manager claims she and her friend cleaned it out a few weeks ago. funny, becuase you missed about...oh i dont know. 3 huge stacks of trays.

    CW J is going to transfer out, hes not happy in the store, and can not stand or work with the manager. This sucks b/c hes like the best one there.

    As much as the past few weeks seemingly get worse and more irritating, I dont really wanna leave the store. Transfers suck, and there isnt any other store i can think of, within the district, i'd wanna go to. i like my slower, smaller store. i LOVE getting out at 9, and not having a photo dept. i dont really enjoy the 20-25 min commute. We just need someone better in charge i guess. but its hard to get rid of bad managers, trust me. and its not just me feeling this, it seems everyone in the store has a problem, and most of it, is with the manager.

    I cant go into work and actually tell the manage how i feel. i come in, shes all chippy to see me and asks how i am, i lie and say im alright. because if i say im upset/tired/pissed/etc... she tells me im not, or shouldnt be, or that shes doing worse.

    because her problems always take precedent over ours.

    honestly i dont know w..t..f.. she does all day. and whatever it is shes doing...it sucks

    i deleted her off FB and made my profile private. i couldnt go home and say, "sucky night". or "i need a vacation" without her commenting on "how much worse" her day was, or that mine wasnt bad at all. screw that. mine was worse. id rather scan overstock for inventory all day than do what i had already done. thats easy crap.

    Why dont you close a friday night, be alone with a cw from 3-520. help ring almost that whole time, because its so damn busy. push overstock, do all the price changes, set up a sign kit that no one else bothered to do, attempt to face but cant becuase you gotta go do cash, and the backup has to vacuum the store. the floor is covered in garbage becuase the customers are lazy slobs, and we couldnt do it the night before becuase it was only you and 1 person between 7-9, get hit by driving school, not face because theres no one to do it. you get one aisle faced but half of its overstock. and tell me youre doing ok.

  • #2
    I'll share the cake that EQ and Lupo made... It made me feel better.
    Make a list of important things to do today.
    At the top of your list, put 'eat chocolate'
    Now, you'll get at least one thing done today

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    • #3
      It's tasty! Just plant your face right into it!
      Ridiculous 2009 Predictions: Evil Queen will beat Martha Stewart to death with a muffin pan. All hail Evil Queen! (Some things don't need elaboration.....) -- Jester

      Ridiculous 2010 Predictions: Evil Queen, after escaping prison for last years prediction, goes out and waffle irons Rachel Ray to death. -- SG15Z

      Ridiculous 2011 Prediction: Evil Queen will beat Gordon Ramsay over the head with a cast-iron skillet. -- FireHeart

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      • #4
        Quoth sarasquirrel
        whoever was merchandising, thought it would be good to leave about 8, 1-gallon jugs of Arizona on the floor in front of the shelves. yea, do you know how tacky that looks? but i didnt do it, im not cleaning it up.
        The Coke reps who service (in more ways than one) the swamp do this all. the. time. If they've got extra bottles or 12-packs that don't fit on the shelves they'll stash them on top of the freezers, or right on the floor.

        And then corporate comes in and tears us a new arse because that's unacceptable, and the receiving clerk is too much of a dishrag to tell them to take back stuff if it won't fit properly.

        Quoth sarasquirrel
        It comes from either, truck, or pushing overstock. I go to face an aisle and there is overstock crammed onto the shelf out on the floor. so much that it starts effing with the facings. random crap is cut in, stuff that isnt in the plano, and just after the plano is done.
        Overstock.

        Okay, clearance swamp corporate is incredibly anal about stocking and product placement. Some of the rules we have to follow when stocking product are:
        • Absolutely nothing can hang over the shelf edge, unless the item is so large only one of it will hang over the shelf. If it hangs even a centimeter over the shelf edge, it has to be backstocked.
        • Product on peghooks must be straight and not fishtailing out and all over because there's too much on a hook.
        • On sloped shelves with fencing, product cannot be stocked over the top of the fence--that can push the fence out of its mounting.
        • Mattress pads, curtains, etc cannot be pushing against the plastic fencing--again it can get pushed out of the mounting.
        • In apparel, only one or two items in a certain color and size can go out--rest has to be backstocked. Overstock cannot be shoved to the inside of a table; this isn't considered "shoppable."
        • Wherever there is signing at the top of a gondola, product cannot be stocked higher than the bottom of the sign--vendors pay for this signage and want it to be visible.
        • Product on endcaps must be arranged straight up and down. The basedecks of endstands are wider than the other shelves on the endstands, but you can't take advantage of the extra space to the outsides of the basedecks to fit out more product.
        • Product in speed tables cannot be stocked higher than rim around the table. Cases of product in a speed table cannot be placed in the bottom of the table (even though this is what the bottom is designed for)
        • No risers allowed most of the year, and only mass quantities of something can go on a riser.


        Okay, so corporate is picky just for the sake of being picky. Fine. We stock monkeys understand and follow these rules. Everybody else doesn't. The kids at night doing pulls and returns don't understand that just because it looks like something will fit someplace, doesn't mean they can actually put it there. Here's the cycle we've fallen into:
        • Department specialists walk off their departments, pull overstock off the shelves, and send it to the backroom for backstock.
        • Stock monkeys backstock the overstock.
        • The overstocked items go back into the autopull system.
        • Autopull requests the overstocked items because it thinks they just came in on a truck and need to be pushed to the floor.
        • Somebody pulls the autopull request and takes the product to the floor.
        • That same person shoves the product in the same place it was taken down from before.
        • Back to step one.


        We're never going to get a handle on overstock with the way things are, and it's pointless to even try.
        Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

        "I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily

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        • #5
          retail sucks lol


          so does overstock


          now wheres that cake

          nomnomnomnom

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          • #6
            Stop by my neck of the woods, mom made apple muffins and we can go camp out in front of the gates at the fair grounds and hope cars will stop for us to take pictures. That should make you feel better. If nothing else we rant about our jobs and have snacks. Hope tomorrow goes better for you.
            I'm the 5th horsemen of the apocalypse. Bringer of giggly bouncy doom, they don't talk about me much.

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            • #7
              Quoth Squeaksmyalias View Post
              Stop by my neck of the woods, mom made apple muffins and we can go camp out in front of the gates at the fair grounds and hope cars will stop for us to take pictures. That should make you feel better. If nothing else we rant about our jobs and have snacks. Hope tomorrow goes better for you.
              i wish todays weather was for tomorrow. perfect for car shows!

              theres actually 2 car shows tomorrow :/

              but with rain, those car guys dont wanna get their car wet

              a Coronet R/T pulled up next to me today

              and every sat night guys meet up and drive up and down the berlin turnpike all night. my mom said there were extra people tonite. too bad i work every sat night

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              • #8
                Yea today was great but I didn't have time to stop and snap pictures, shame I had the camera on me too. We have car shows every Wednesdays in the summer downtown. I'll let you know if anyone good shows up this year. Wait do you work in the evenings? Hmm...we have day time ones on the weekends too. We will just have to make sure to get you to plenty of car shows and other fun places to take pictures this year to make you happy.
                I'm the 5th horsemen of the apocalypse. Bringer of giggly bouncy doom, they don't talk about me much.

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                • #9
                  Quoth Squeaksmyalias View Post
                  Yea today was great but I didn't have time to stop and snap pictures, shame I had the camera on me too. We have car shows every Wednesdays in the summer downtown. I'll let you know if anyone good shows up this year. Wait do you work in the evenings? Hmm...we have day time ones on the weekends too. We will just have to make sure to get you to plenty of car shows and other fun places to take pictures this year to make you happy.
                  normally i get wednesdays off..sometimes i end up working. but usually i have sundays and wedensdays off. if not wednesday, tuesday.

                  every wednesday?
                  why have i not heard of this.

                  i almost always have my camera on me. and the day i dont, is the day i would need it

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                  • #10
                    Normally every Wednesday rain date is the next day typically. It's fairly small but if you have seen downtown you'd understand why lol. It's hard enough to shut down route 10 during the harvest, once a week would be bad. When it gets closer to the start of them I will double check what day they are on. You are welcome to park in my driveway and walk down. I'm that close We get some nice cars, there is a military jeep that I just LOVE.
                    Last edited by Squeaksmyalias; 04-25-2010, 03:33 AM.
                    I'm the 5th horsemen of the apocalypse. Bringer of giggly bouncy doom, they don't talk about me much.

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                    • #11
                      Quoth Squeaksmyalias View Post
                      Normally every Wednesday rain date is the next day typically. It's fairly small but if you have seen downtown you'd understand why lol. It's hard enough to shut down route 10 during the harvest, once a week would be bad. When it gets closer to the start of them I will double check what day they are on. You are welcome to park in my driveway and walk down. I'm that close We get some nice cars, there is a military jeep that I just LOVE.
                      im trying to think if ive been downtown where you live...hmmm

                      i dont think i have

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                      • #12
                        People pass but never stop lol it's easier for you to take the more round about ways to go to the towns next me. So you may not have. If you want good BBQ stop down there its very yum.
                        I'm the 5th horsemen of the apocalypse. Bringer of giggly bouncy doom, they don't talk about me much.

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                        • #13
                          Quoth Squeaksmyalias View Post
                          People pass but never stop lol it's easier for you to take the more round about ways to go to the towns next me. So you may not have. If you want good BBQ stop down there its very yum.
                          ive definitely been to your town before, and even taken pics? just never saw downtown

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