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  • I must be cursed.

    Been at Aid of Rite almost 4 years now and I've trained about 5 people. Every single one of those 5, without fail, have either quit, been fired or left of their volition within 3 months of their hiring.

    Case in point: I trained cashier P. P has been with us less than a month before putting in his 2 weeks notice.

    Other memorable cashiers include D, who was fired because he failed a tobacco sting (this after having it drilled into his head to card everyone!). S (boy) who left us because of problems between seeing his wife instead of working. C, a suspected drug addict who took hour long lunches.

    So, Manager S1 told me that I was not supposed to train the new girl, S3, because of my track record and "we want her to STAY with us!" I chuckled and said, "Good idea."
    Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.-Winston Churchill

  • #2
    Maybe you're so good at what you do that they just feel too intimidated after working with you for a day or two, and figure they better get out now
    "I was only LOOKING, I didn't mean to enter my card's CVV and actually ORDER! REFUND ME RIGHT NOW!!"

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    • #3
      No, it's not you. And you are not cursed.

      It can happen to anyone who trains. Unless people leaving specifically say it's because of you, it's not you. And a lot of times, you have to question people who blame you for leaving.

      *general you*
      You really need to see a neurologist. - Wagegoth

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      • #4
        I'm all in favour of carding everyone who wants to buy smokes -- it takes the guesswork out. The supermarket I worked at had a very small (and steadily shrinking) selection of smokes, sold at one register only ... I think that, despite their 'customer is always right' obsession, they were slowly edging their way out of selling tobacco products.

        Another grocery store has (at least in my hometown) a practice of carding everybody. This caused my 78-year-old mother to when she was asked for ID.

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        • #5
          I'd agree with you, blas, but the other cashiers who've been trained by other people have stayed on more than 6 months to several years. Either I have really horrible luck with the type of people I trained, the fact that I tend to intimidate people by rattling off everything I know ALL AT ONCE (hey, not much slips by me, I have the entire store memorized to the general location of items, like heating pads are in aisle xx on the right hand side top shelf before the cough drops or hydrogen peroxide is in xy on the bottom shelf right hand side below the earplugs, I don't know how but I do) or I really do have a "curse".
          Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.-Winston Churchill

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          • #6
            Quoth ralerin View Post
            I tend to intimidate people by rattling off everything I know ALL AT ONCE (hey, not much slips by me, I have the entire store memorized to the general location of items, like heating pads are in aisle xx on the right hand side top shelf before the cough drops or hydrogen peroxide is in xy on the bottom shelf right hand side below the earplugs, I don't know how but I do)
            This is me in my store. Even a week after our store wide reset in August I could do this.
            Driver Picks the Music, Shotgun Shuts His Cakehole.
            Supernatural 9-13-05 to forever

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            • #7
              Nope. Still can't convince me you're cursed.

              Shit happens.
              You really need to see a neurologist. - Wagegoth

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