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I often mention the retail plantation where I was a cart slave. What I don't mention that often is I still have friends and relatives that work there despite the fact that number is quickly dwindling. End backstory.
I'm at retail plantation visiting one of my former coworkers who is a hell of an amazing person. She is not a front-end supervisor, per se, but that's her job duty for the night. I'm standing there talking to her when an asshat SC starts yelling at CW from the self-checkouts 20 feet away. Apparently the machine needed a supervisor key to clear out something in the system, and this is a fairly common occurrence that can be fixed in a span of five seconds. That was obviously not fast enough for the SC, and the bitch starts making personal comments about CW's appearance and looks. As CW walks away, I notice SC has made her cry over something that took literally five fucking seconds to clear.
To recap: the alarm signaling a supervisor key is needed goes off on the self-checkout, followed by bitchy SC saying she'd been waiting for someone for 10 minutes (not really--we can hear the alarm go off from the back of the store, and she stood there for maybe 25 seconds before she started yelling at my CW). CW goes over and clears out the discrepancy with her supervisor key, but SC insults CW personally and makes her cry despite the fact bitchy SC was almost immediately helped. What the hell?
A lot of us can take the yelling because it happens so often, but to get personal over something this easy to fix was completely out of line. I thought about going over to the SC and telling her to piss up a rope--I haven't been employed there for years, so I'm not worried about getting into trouble defending my friends
--but I decided consoling CW was much better than adding fuel to the fire. CW and her husband have always been like family to me, so it's hard to see people like this upset about anything.
By the way, I always make sure my CW's aren't busy if I'm going to start conversations with them. They know they can always tell me to come back later or text them after they get off work instead, and I'll happily oblige knowing what a pain in the ass management can be (separate topic coming later, since that's a whole different beast altogether). SC's just so happen to be the catalysts that ruin what little downtime CW's have down at the retail plantation. It sucks.
I'm at retail plantation visiting one of my former coworkers who is a hell of an amazing person. She is not a front-end supervisor, per se, but that's her job duty for the night. I'm standing there talking to her when an asshat SC starts yelling at CW from the self-checkouts 20 feet away. Apparently the machine needed a supervisor key to clear out something in the system, and this is a fairly common occurrence that can be fixed in a span of five seconds. That was obviously not fast enough for the SC, and the bitch starts making personal comments about CW's appearance and looks. As CW walks away, I notice SC has made her cry over something that took literally five fucking seconds to clear.
To recap: the alarm signaling a supervisor key is needed goes off on the self-checkout, followed by bitchy SC saying she'd been waiting for someone for 10 minutes (not really--we can hear the alarm go off from the back of the store, and she stood there for maybe 25 seconds before she started yelling at my CW). CW goes over and clears out the discrepancy with her supervisor key, but SC insults CW personally and makes her cry despite the fact bitchy SC was almost immediately helped. What the hell?
A lot of us can take the yelling because it happens so often, but to get personal over something this easy to fix was completely out of line. I thought about going over to the SC and telling her to piss up a rope--I haven't been employed there for years, so I'm not worried about getting into trouble defending my friends
--but I decided consoling CW was much better than adding fuel to the fire. CW and her husband have always been like family to me, so it's hard to see people like this upset about anything.By the way, I always make sure my CW's aren't busy if I'm going to start conversations with them. They know they can always tell me to come back later or text them after they get off work instead, and I'll happily oblige knowing what a pain in the ass management can be (separate topic coming later, since that's a whole different beast altogether). SC's just so happen to be the catalysts that ruin what little downtime CW's have down at the retail plantation. It sucks.
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