[obakasan]

Grimmons, on 03 April 2012 - 07:27 PM, said:

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I swear, the way people mooch stuff out of us and how we have to kiss their butts is ridiculous.

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At least one can be grateful that they didn't have "super soaker" buts like paragraph #1... right?

(Oh and thanks for that image I now have stuck in my mind... )



Kids and animals...

[mmy-sama]

Most of the jobs I've had have not involved interaction with the public. If I had coworkers doing some of the things in this thread then they would not remain coworkers.

But, there was this one time where I worked as a cashier at a dry cleaners. One day, there was a person wandering around the shop who was of stocky build, wore darkglasses and appeared to be of hispanic ancestry. After circling the building and looking into the windows for a few hours, he then came inside and talked to the cashiers. He asked about the services we render and the prices we charge but the whole time he was intently looking around at the rear of the rear of the store where most of the production workers where, and he seemed to have little interest in the conversation. What he did have, was a teardrop tattoo under his eye, which I've been told that in some hispanic traditions, it is the mark of a paid assassin, who gets one teardrop for every person they've killed. After he left, my boss asked me for advice and I suggested that she let all the other employees know about it as soon as possible so who ever he was looking for can either flee the country or pay off whoever they need to pay off with out involving us any further. The next day one of the production employees who was from mexico, took a sudden leave of absence to visit his family and we never heard from him again.

[nouseforaname]

At work last week I was told to use the crane. You have to be certified to use it and there's maybe five people who do, one for sure has his certification since he uses it all day. Well my boss started telling me to grab the remote and move it then eventually asked me, "You know how to use it already, right?" It's a simple remote to use so I said yes. I moved it to lift these bundles of wire for the weight, no problem. Supervisor comes in and I asked him to move the first crane out of the way so we had move to use the second. I didn't see that the two straps were holding over 3,000lbs of steel on the floor which got dragged and hit him right on the legs. He started yelling at me saying this is dangerous and such then the guy who's certified comes rushing in only to (you wouldn't guess it because it surprised me too) be yelled at by the supervisor.

I did not get why they were fighting between each other when it had nothing to do with what happened. My supervisor is awesome.

[YoungBirdcall]

mmy-sama, on 14 April 2012 - 04:08 AM, said:

Most of the jobs I've had have not involved interaction with the public. If I had coworkers doing some of the things in this thread then they would not remain coworkers.

But, there was this one time where I worked as a cashier at a dry cleaners. One day, there was a person wandering around the shop who was of stocky build, wore darkglasses and appeared to be of hispanic ancestry. After circling the building and looking into the windows for a few hours, he then came inside and talked to the cashiers. He asked about the services we render and the prices we charge but the whole time he was intently looking around at the rear of the rear of the store where most of the production workers where, and he seemed to have little interest in the conversation. What he did have, was a teardrop tattoo under his eye, which I've been told that in some hispanic traditions, it is the mark of a paid assassin, who gets one teardrop for every person they've killed. After he left, my boss asked me for advice and I suggested that she let all the other employees know about it as soon as possible so who ever he was looking for can either flee the country or pay off whoever they need to pay off with out involving us any further. The next day one of the production employees who was from mexico, took a sudden leave of absence to visit his family and we never heard from him again.

Not trying to contradict or invalidate your (admittedly entertaining) story, but the "teardrop tattoo" you referenced is also used (in some cultures or cultural subsets) as a mark of sadness, to be applied to your face when one of your good friends is murdered. If the teardrop is "open" i.e. hollow or not colored-in, then it just means that their friend died. If it's "closed" i.e. filled or colored-in, it means that the wearer of that tattoo got revenge by murdering the person who killed said friend.

I've never heard of the teardrop tattoo as a signifier for Mexican assassins (why would any self-respecting assassin worth his salt want to advertise his profession in that way?), but that doesn't meant that you're wrong. I just figured I'd provide another bit of information on the teardrop tattoo.

[bewd7879]

I use to work at a BP, and some people got arrested for drug dealing in our parking lot. I wasn't there sadly, but my co-worker said she was outside smoking and watching

I also use to work at a Toys R Us, and my supervisor got arrested while at work for doing returns without a receipt, and keeping the money. He did it more than once, and sadly I wasn't there when he got arrested. I probably got the managers curious about the supervisor though when I tried to return something, and it showed that it was already returned by the supervisor....

Also at Toys R Us, the store got broken into 2 times in the past year after never being broken into since it has been opened. First time the person took out one of the big front windows. 2nd time (might have been a different person), they broke the exit door and went in the store, but supposedly didn't steal anything.

Shortly after I left Toys R Us, some "customers" (3 people) got arrested for trying to steal some games. The security guy supposedly shoved one of the person against the wall, and one of the other person shoved the security guy. The cops had already been called by that time though

Nothing too crazy though besides those things :/

[MatsuriHino]

I work for an IT company on third shift and the one thing that annoys me the most about my job is people will drag me into chats for issues without explaining what the issue is. I have to create tickets whenever we get engaged for an incident and the kicker is my status specifically says, "Side ping with issue BEFORE group invite Please." Aside from that I have other things that annoy the crap out of me but that's a whole new world.

[Neko_master_Luna]

Was recently fired & while in the process, was told it was because they didn't like the speed of my working mountains of freight, yet they said I was fast those last couple of weeks. Witch was it, fast , slow or did I make too much money for being a long time associate?

[emii]

Okay this is kinda off topic for this thread, but I don't feel like making my own, but I would appreciate if anyone has any opinions. ;A; (I feel kinda stoopid posting this but It's been bothering me and I don't really have anyone to talk to about it.)

Basically, I just want to know if anyone ever in lower-tier job levels has felt this, or if I'm just over reacting. I really want to keep this job but the dynamic of it is stressing me out.

In vague terms, I'm just the "help" at my job. It's my first job, everyone else is trained except me. There's only one of me in this position, and I primarily work only with back staff. It's the front staff, that I almost never come in contact with that's bothering me.
I'm in a situation where when I do a lot of work, it's almost always in clear view of the front staff.
The main issue is that when I happen to screw up (which happens in a good while, thanks to a lot of mixed messages from back and front staff...), the front staff never corrects me, but instead "rats me out" to my boss(es).
And I've come to noticed that basically my boss(es) either tell me that I screwed up or not.
I don't understand why they choose to say something to my boss before at least trying to correct me.
Is this normal in a job environment?
I just get the feeling they're being petty and don't like me. (I'm really not friendly, I don't make an attempt to acknowledge them, but I'm just shy.) Add on the fact almost all of them are female and in their mid-20s. (I'm only 19, also a girl.) I feel it's relevant just because I've noticed a bit of tude with one of them especially.
I feel like I'm constantly being watched by Big Brother or something.

[Ashori]

Well, today I likely gained a horrid reputation up front with a couple of the cashiers for something I didn't even do. All because my supervisor got me involved with a price match and coupon scam that's been going on for awhile and we're just now trying to stop it.

Now, for those who may be a little unfamiliar, Walmart has a price match policy which allows you to match sale items from competitors' stores at Walmart for their advertised prices to try and make it convenient for you to do all of your shopping at one store. However, due to customers not needing to have the ad and not all cashiers are familiar with what may or may not be in each stores' ads for that specific week (plus not every Walmart may have the ads up at customer service as they likely should for associate reference), it leads us wide open for scamming. Also thanks to the show Extreme Couponing, which has highlighted several illegal couponing practices, people have come into our store and have walked away with $200-$400 in items for pennies or we've even paid them to take the items out.

Today, one of my cashiers broke one of the big rules up front by letting two of her friends go through her line. I've seen them in here before, as they seem to be in here every week or so. When I came into the picture to give the cashier her lunch break, she was about a quarter of the way through the first friend's transaction. A lot of what was being said sounded extremely bogus and out there, but since it wasn't my transaction, I really wasn't allowed to say anything. My supervisor walked past and pulled me to the side, and asked me to do something for him after that transaction was done, and of course I said yes because I'm not one to disobey my supervisors when I'm told to do something. I went back over to the register, and that's when things got crazy.

An item came up that the cashier wanted to see the ad for that her friend didn't have. However, because I'm a price matcher and couponer myself (and especially now with A-Cen coming up), I brought my ads with me and brought out the ad in question. Didn't see it, so obviously customer didn't want it, nor wanted several other items that wasn't in the ad. Both customers then started to accuse me of being sent over on purpose with the ads to watch over them and her. Well, the supervisor that sent me over didn't even know I had the ads (actually, only two of the supervisors know I have them, as well as the cashier in question, and have carried ads with me for the last six or so months since I started to get into the price matching/couponing thing), explained that to them, and stated I was only sent over to cover a lunch and nothing more.

Transaction went on, coupons started, total went down, blah blah. Then the second lady asked me she would have to go through her list with me of all her price matches. I told her yes, since I wasn't there for all of them, plus there was a whole lot of them so I wouldn't have been able to remember them all anyway (there was about 20 or so price matches; no way I would've been able to remember all of that). Both of them got pissed off and started slamming the rest of the items back into their cart so she could go another line. From there, from what I caught on, they ranted and raved about how rude I was and such to my supervisors. All because I was sent over there to cover a lunch.

Then tonight, the cashier defriended me on Facebook. Which actually hurts because she's basically cutting off what was a good work relationship and friendship over something that wasn't my fault and I shouldn't have been involved with in the first place. I was only doing my job and doing as I was told, nothing more, and pretty much everyone in my store knows I'm one of the most relaxed and easy-going people up there, and one of the few that really doesn't (or really, REALLY tries not to) break the rules. I guess call me a goody two-shoes, but still...

[Washu Takahashi]

My stories aren't nearly as good as some of the ones on here, but I'll toss them into the mix anyways xD

I used to work for an answering service run by my mother. We answered for some doctors offices, apartment complexes, etc when they were on breaks or went home for the night. Every once in a while I'd get the expected prank call "Hey, want to suck my c**k?" or something like that. My mom did have two really interesting stories though. Once someone called and asked what she was wearing. She replied nothing and he quickly hung up xD Another time someone called, again asked what she was wearing. She played along, pretending she was in sexy clothes. This went on for a few minutes (hey, we answer phone all day for rude people, we'll take any entertainment we can get) before the guy freaked out and said "OMG I thought I called my wife!" and started to apologize on end xD Good times.

For my current job, I work in an engineering office as an intern. It was a slow day only a few weeks into my job. I was still in college so I looked up "Rules of College" or something similar on google, hoping for a good laugh about nonsense rules. Clicked on the first site that popped up, called collegerules(dot)com. My work blocks pages for even having those stupid little sidebars with dating ads. But somehow it didn't block this site which was straight up porn @.@ I seriously couldn't hit the back button fast enough. Thankfully no one saw...or at least no one mentioned seeing it to me lol

[Washu Takahashi]

emii, on 22 April 2012 - 08:02 PM, said:

Is this normal in a job environment?

It's normal. People don't want to be nice and help you out, and they'd rather talk to someone they know better (I'm assuming they're on better terms with your bosses than they are you) maybe they expect your bosses to tell you what you're doing wrong instead of them? who knows, but definitely normal. When I worked for an answering service I wasn't always the quickest at picking up phones, usually cause I'd be playing on my gameboy or reading a book between calls and I'd try to get to a "good" stopping point (like finishing the sentence I'm on at the least). No one ever took it up with me, only my boss. And my boss let me know it. Granted, the boss was my mother so I'm sure the others felt I got special privileged (which in a way I did, cause I should've been fired at some point, but my mom needed the help. And they were allowed to watch tv/game/read too so long as they answered the phones. I did perfectly fine on Sunday morning shifts when I was alone ) But long story short, definitely normal. No one wants a confrontation with whoever they have an issue with, so they take the issue to someone else.