You have to *GASP* do your job!

[Dreamstalker]

It's seriously annoying that they hire people who are physically incapable of doing anything but bagging, and that store policy apparently prohibits women from doing carts.

Same at my store. Even if the cart corral is empty and I'm not doing anything, I'll get thrown on a register and the guy I'm replacing is sent to get carts. If my back/shoulder decides to act up that day I'd rather be moving around (ironically that fixes whatever the problem is--probably something to do with standing in one place for too long)

I can do carts (any more than 2 at a time I need the cart strap but I've seen the guys use it too) and some days would prefer being outside. I'd think that training/allowing a few of us wimmins to do carts would mean that we never actually run out when it's superbusy.

[Thana]

-giggles madly- I work in fast food. I was hired in as a cashier. However... as a cashier I do the following: Take orders, bag orders if they're to go, grab fries/nuggets, drop fries/nuggets, stock crackers/salad items (croutons, nuts etc)/nugget sauces/ketchup packets/lids/toys and to go bags. I also stock and make coffee/hot tea when it's needed. I also stock salad dressings and various cold condiments we might need as well as sweep when needed and do the temp log. And that's just behind the counter.

As a cashier my other duties not behind the counter include: Grabbing trays out of the dining room, wiping down tables and chairs in the dining room, re-stocking the condiment stand and lid station, changing garbage if need be, changing the ketchup pumps if need be, assisting customers with the stupid pop machine (Note it's automated, polar bears love it and it's got 150+ flavors...I hate the damn thing), refilling the pop machine if a flavor is out, sweeping if need be and taking care of the bathrooms. And that's just during the day.

If I close I do all of that plus clean out the hot wells with de-limer (After everything has been moved and they're empty), clean the bathroom, change out ALL the garbage, clean the pop machine, vacuum the dining room (which involves moving ALL of the tables and chairs), and sweep/mop the floor. Our dining room closes at 10pm...the nights I close, I'm usually not out of there until at least 11:30pm. Did I mention I was hired in as DAYTIME only?

At this point I've been with Where's The Beef for 2 years and 2 months... Even though I'm still job coded as only a cashier, I do prep, I do fry station, I make sandwiches, I do back cash (taking to-go orders) and I do drive thru (putting together and handing out the to-go orders). The only thing I don't really do is grill but I will place and flip meat if need be. The thing with fast food is that you're never JUST your job title. You are your job title and whatever else they need you to be.

[Dreamstalker]

My primary job code is front end (done everything except service desk) and I've done stuff in every department except meat/deli. Night crew chief 'unofficially' trained me on the baler and pallet jack as well so I can someday make D's head explode by asking to be certified (not really required for front-end worker bees, but something I wanna learn just because).

[EricKei]

That manager needs to be cloned!

Well, he could be a dick at times, and he was one of the worst when it came to giving people free cards on questionable refund cases just to make them shut up and go away -- but he made up for it by busting more ass than anyone else I'd ever seen. If someone complained about how they were getting backed up on the makeline (due to unusually complex orders), SM would swap places with them (SM would have been slapping out dough patties, as he was literally the fastest guy in the company on those...as in, he took home multiple company-national-conference awards for it) and just straight-up embarrass the complainer with how fast and neat he was. Put simply, he demanded a lot out of us, but he demanded MORE out of himself.

[raudf]

At MW Repair, I did as much grunt work as I could handle, including lifting TVs onto carts to move to the back. That was part of the job and I knew it, but sometimes the guys (IE techs) wouldn't let me do some of it, not because I was a girl, but because the object in question (Picture tube TVs with no easy hand spots) required bigger hands than mine to handle. And it was less of a problem for them to curse if they cut their hands on the stupid things (If I wasn't an actual niece to them, I was an adopted niece, and me cursing made them wince. My daddy was a sailor, after all...)

At the mart of Wals, I fetched buggies from outside, in the rain. This was after two of our male stock associates got clipped but assholes who thought the guys were speed bumps... but I spent my formative years playing Frogger, but still so, 3D Frogger wasn't much fun when it was my hide on the line.

[Teysa]

At my winter job, I was lead cashier. Cashiers are expected to clean the dining area, bus tables, take out trash, make coffee, clean and restock the drink station, clean the bathrooms, vacuum, set up ski school lunches, and run the register too. I did all of the above plus opened the restaurant, counted down the registers, and kept my crew on task.

At my summer job, I'm a cook. I also help set up the dining area, run food, bus tables, refill drinks, empty trash, and help other cooks when they need it. The bartenders also work multiple roles. They're servers, tour guides, and gift shop clerks. It keeps things interesting.

[dalesys]

At my winter job, I was lead cashier. Cashiers are...

At my summer job, I'm a cook. I also...

P.S. We Also Walk Dogs - RAH!

[Dreamstalker]

At the game store from hell, I was the online sales department. Did I actually get to do anything related to that? Rarely. At first, I was expected to do online sales duties at the register...and the way the register program was set up it was convoluted and slow to switch to/from anything else (and I found out that switching programs had a risk of clocking me out of the system).

Yes, this guy had everything set up to run from the front register and fancied himself quite the IT guru. No clue what was going on with the time clock software, but I didn't have that problem with the office computer.