I Hate The Human Race!!!

[chizle97]

graveyard shifts at the ice rink can get pretty enoying too but thats cause i gotta look for holes and no matter how many holes i fill there is always more i didnt see.


genicide is just looking better and better j/k

[darklord]

I read your "stories"... Isn't Wal*Mart notorious for crap like this? I remember hearing a while ago that they had people work after they punched out, or something along those lines...

My solution for you? Find a different job. Now. Start looking. Hell, if there's a Wal*Mart closer to you, and you want to work there, I don't see why you just couldn't apply. Any job you take when you're young isn't going to be glorious, 90% of the time. People suck, you have to deal with it, or else you can say goodbye to that nice paycheck of yours.

So, get a different job, or learn to control yourself. After a day like that, you should go to the gym or something so you can cool off. If you can't control yourself, don't work where you're dealing with the public. Welcome to the real world, man.

[graycie]

I started out in retail back in '95 when I started college for some extra spending money, mind you if you knew me in high school you would of never suspected that I would of ended up working in retail. Well I jumped from one retail place to another and that lasted for a total of 7 years. Then it got to the point of not only the customers annoying the hell out of me but the RETARDED management.

During this whole time I was still in school and only a sales associate, but was probably working longer in retail then some of the managers were. Some of my managers were cool and I really liked working with them, but some of them were complete IDIOTS! At one place it got to the point that the store manager (which none of the other managers liked) complained about me to them (I was working at that location longer than she has been in retail) because I never did anything she wanted, the other managers just kinda laughed in their head about it and would tell me about it a week later.

After that job I went to another place where when I had my exit interview my manager (who I hated and she hated me) said I "stole" all the sales. Now the way it worked there was that if we sold X amount of dollars divided by how many hours we worked and if was more than 8/hr we would get the higher amount, but otherwise it would be 8/hr. At that point she was talking crap about me to the other people that worked there. Plus I was only making 8/hr for more than a month, so how could I have been stealing sales if everyone else was making more than I was?! she failed to see that point. I left and moved onto another place literally down the hall and she had the balls to call that store manager and say how I was "too head strong, and assertive" and that she shouldn't hire me. I seriously had grounds to persue a law suit but was so disgusted with the being of her I never ended up doing it.

Moving down the hall... all my managers were totally cool but I did rub some people the wrong way when I started because apparently there was quite the clique going on in the workplace. Eventually the company wasn't making the numbers and people had to let go, I was one of the few remaining and was being worked like a dog. On the up side of that I was making $$$$ in commission because I practically had no internal competition. The parent company wanted to re-org the way of management and the commission program so in the span of two weeks everyone remainig from the old staff put in their 2 weeks notice or just quit on the spot.

About a month later I got a seasonal job, no biggie just something to pass the time for a couple of months and earn some money for the holidays. One of the mangers was really abrasive and when I talked to some of the other people that worked there they had problems with her too. Here's what put me over the edge and made me put in my notice after only working there not even a month. One day some ghetto biatches come in causing an uproar as usually ghetto type customers do, I was in the front while they are doing all their hollaring. I was so fed up with the loudness and rudeness I went in the back and said "they are so ghetto" not meaning "ghetto" in a racial way, the abrasive manager said "you can't say ghetto" and i'm just like are you freaking serious?! and that was a fun argument. Bad environment so I said to myself it just ain't worth it anymore.

The last few retail jobs I had were considered more upscale, but it goes to show that stupidity exists at every level. I experienced more unprofessionalism, immaturity, and ignorance at the higher level stores than when I worked in lower brand stores and thats just talking about the managers. Customers are a whole other story that I won't get into because I'll just end up giving myself carpel tunnel by typing it all. At this point I refuse to work in retail again, but am currently at my mom's restaurant where there is of course stupid people and my mom's retarded brother as a manager. I do more in one day than he does in whole week, so I try to limit my interaction with him and customers to a minimum. I've said this before but people just don't know the type of crap they dish out to people until they are on the recieving end.

[trevorjk]

word graycie

i my self have had problems with the managers everywhere i went i guess since i was faster the everyone else, stocking wise, and i was always done with stuff to do that i was always slacking off hmm so i now i have the "slacker" written on me from my previous job experiences

thats why i never list them for my present employers how ever they can just find that stuff out but im not worried so far ive only gotten good reviews from walmart even though i hate the place with a passion

i am looking but i want a full time job during the week i desperatly want to be home at nights and weekends and lead a normal life i hope thats not to much to ask at 19 anyways it seams that this thread has turned into a "lets vent" and "teach others" thread wich is kinda cool i guess im not the only one who hates most of the human race

[UltimatePaintballer]

i was at a friends house today, and everytime i get made fun of by his brother and he beats on me and crap like that. long story short, i never really hurt him or go after him cause im not that way but today was the day that they pushed me over the edge and i sat on his chest, and crushing him, watching his face get red. after knowing i went to far, i got off him. he goes and gets a belt and then tries to whip me. he got me a little with the belt, and none of it hurt, but i decide to leave. now im getting made fun of for not standing up for myself!

[Miscue]

9 out of 10 managers are buttholes and/or idiots. A good manager is great to have.

[LoveMyMagMoreThanYou]

I worked in retail for 8.5 years. When I worked for Target, I had a lady come up to me with a complaint. The vacuum that she bought didn't ring up at the price that she thought it should be. Since I was a Cashier Supervisor, my job was to run out on the floor to check out those things when we were so busy that most of the salespeople were running registers. I ran back to check the sign. It said that some Hoover was at that price and she had a Eureka. I went back to the registers and explained the situation to her and she gave me a reply that still mystifies me to this day. She said, "What do you expect me to do, read the whole sign?!?!?" When she said this, I was so dumbfounded, I didn't know what to say! It just showed me that most of the general public has an intelligence level just above sheep.

Still, you shouldn't have said what you did to the Mexicans. I'm sure that you know that. But it did need to be said.

Elliott

[Miscue]

I've had people ask me to call another store for their hours, or to see if they had something in stock... or to price check.

[LoveMyMagMoreThanYou]

Originally posted by Miscue
I've had people ask me to call another store for their hours, or to see if they had something in stock... or to price check.

I've had to do that too!

[graycie]

Originally posted by LoveMyMagMoreThanYou
"What do you expect me to do, read the whole sign?!?!?"

say yes, and ask her if she thinks she is at dollarland.

[Miscue]

70 year old man comes in, raises his cane in angst... "You sold me a POS!!!!"

I look at his receipt and the warranty was up like 2 years ago. He gave me the evil eye and just stared at me for a long time... that was rather uncomfortable. Senile, crotchety customers are the best!

"That's not what I was quoted!" "Who quoted it for you?" "I don't know." Trying to play games... with the non-existant employee who promised a better price. I know their tricks...

[MantisMag]

Originally posted by LoveMyMagMoreThanYou
"What do you expect me to do, read the whole sign?!?!?"

can you believe you're not the only one to hear that one? i think everyone should be required to work a retail job for one year including all pre-holiday rushes. otherwise they won't be allowed to shop in a physical store unless accompanied by someone with a license who will be held responsible for their behavior.

[PyRo]

Hey, i'm nice to retail people, unless they start doing something dirtbaggish to me

[.bolink]

I worked at A&N for a while...LOATHED it. All screwed up...I was making minimum wage...often left in the store for an hour or two ALONE running the register...(All at 16...that can't be legal...). MAnager was corrupt. Found out that shortly after I quit he got fired for nailing his g/f in the bathroom. Oh and the worst part is...I worked during the holiday season, and they have a district type contest to see which store can do the most sales yada yada...and we won...clearly. Everyone in my store gets the bonus but me.They feed me some crap about not having worked enough hours. Heck I geuss working from 9-9 for 5.15 an hour on christmas eve isn't enough. (I worked a lot more than that but thats just an example of the type of shifts i got). But I digress...they dicked me out of a 50 dollar christmas bonus...thats just wrong.

Next I had a temp job at Pier1...stocking a new store for opening. The job was easy, me and my friend basicly sat on our buts opening up cardboard boxes all day long and bs'ing with the other workers. Management was a problem though, had insane demands from us, and criticised my interior decorating skills (My gay boss).

Thats when i made the jump to the resturaunt business. Something I told myself I would never do. Now I wouldnt work in any chain rest. such as Fridays...but find yourself a nice private owned small resturaunt that does a fair amount of business. I work in a bar/rest now as a busboy, and it is my favorite job yet. Make REALLY good money (like 10-11 bucks an hour), the time goes by really fast, the co-workers are usually really chill, the work is EASY, and you dont have to deal with all those corporate policy bullcrap. Plus its fun talking to the customers in the bar...they never talk down to me and are entertaining (especially when they are drunk). But yeah anyways I thought I would hate working in a resturaunt but so far I love it.

[joeyjoe367]

Wow, hearning all these stories actually makes me pretty thankful for my job.

I work at Office Depot, and all the guys I work with are really cool people. Supposedly my general manager is a *****, but I've never stuck around her long enough to find out. She's never in when I'm scheduled, which are closing shifts.

What *DOES* Drive me nuts are customers. When I'm out on the sales floor and I'm not cashiering, I really do try to help people out but, as was previously stated, some people just can't be helped.

Being an office-supply store, I get a lot of older clientel(sp?) in the store.

One older woman was looking for highlighter pens. I said "Aisle 6" and she went off to look for them. She comes back to my register and says "What are these pens like? I don't know, this is a little bit more yellow, but this one looks brighter. What's the differance?"

She then continues to pull out about 3 differant kinds of pens out of her bag and grabs a sheet of paper from me to compare them and show me how one was "A bit more yellow" and the other was more florescent.

Well, thank god, I got lucky. I opened up the first package she put down and let her try it out and she was happy with it. I sold it to her and got her the HELL out of the store.

It's like these people are looking for the most god-forsakenly specific thing on the face of the earth, that it couldn't possibly exist. I had one customer female-dogging me about how they changed the font of the text on a day-timer, and she didn't like the font that they were using.

it was like, "Oh my god, if you're getting this worked up about stupid little things like this, you've got issues"

and people getting pissed off becuase of price discrepancies: 8 cents isn't going to kill you. I mean, yeah, that's your money that you earned, but is it REALLY worth your time to female-dog at me for 15 minutes, make me run back to where the product is, etc.. etc.. for that 8 cents?

Here's the top 3 things that customers apparantly ALWAYS do:

1. Customers can't read signs. no matter what.

2. Customers are completly, 100% incapable of replacing a roll of toilet paper

3. Customers never know what they're looking for, but will be angry that you don't have it.

When I'm able to find that needle in a haystack, which is the reasonable customer, I'm more than happy to help him/her, and it really feels rewarding. It's the other 99.999% of dumb-male-donkeys that make it a nightmare.