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Has anyone ever had to work the bottle room/redemption center at your local grocery store? As a bagger at our Hannaford working the bottle room was a part of the job description. No matter how busy it was, no matter how low the foyer was on carts, you had to stop what you were doing and go and ring up the bottle order.
What sucked, is that it was done by computer, for inventory purposes. You had to literally scan each bottle or can one at a time (unless you had a bunch of the same kind and could just scan one and times it by however many there were) and if they had fifteen different kinds of cans and bottles it could take forever. Then of course after you totalled it up and it spit out the receipt and handed it to them they would claim you added wrong, and there was nothing you could do about it at that point because you'd already tossed the bottles and cans into the bins. So many people would claim they should have $10.00 instead of the 7 that the computer claimed.
And of course, per policy we were not supposed to be allowed to accept dirty, sticky, or half full cans or bottles. But you know how that goes. Manager says refuse them, so you refuse them. Customer pitches a fit, manager makes you look like an idiot by saying you have to accept them.
By far the worst though, was changing the glass bottle barrels out. UGH UGH UGH, they were so heavy, and rusty and I got so many blood blisters trying to pry open the lids on the empty ones to put them behind the crushing machines. Crushing the glass was fun, feeding the bottles into the machine, but when they were full it was a nightmare. Especially trying to change them when the bottle bell would keep ringing.
What sucked, is that it was done by computer, for inventory purposes. You had to literally scan each bottle or can one at a time (unless you had a bunch of the same kind and could just scan one and times it by however many there were) and if they had fifteen different kinds of cans and bottles it could take forever. Then of course after you totalled it up and it spit out the receipt and handed it to them they would claim you added wrong, and there was nothing you could do about it at that point because you'd already tossed the bottles and cans into the bins. So many people would claim they should have $10.00 instead of the 7 that the computer claimed.
And of course, per policy we were not supposed to be allowed to accept dirty, sticky, or half full cans or bottles. But you know how that goes. Manager says refuse them, so you refuse them. Customer pitches a fit, manager makes you look like an idiot by saying you have to accept them.
By far the worst though, was changing the glass bottle barrels out. UGH UGH UGH, they were so heavy, and rusty and I got so many blood blisters trying to pry open the lids on the empty ones to put them behind the crushing machines. Crushing the glass was fun, feeding the bottles into the machine, but when they were full it was a nightmare. Especially trying to change them when the bottle bell would keep ringing.
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