To that one Team Member I - ARCHIVED

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6 cages. 7 carts. 1 full baler.

Left for 1 backroom TM.
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Our LOD would have made Sales Floor come back and clean that shit up lol. Absolutely ridiculous.
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It was from Flow (as usual), Plano, Price, vendors, and the morning BR TMs, who cannot be bothered to stop backstocking in order to do cardboard (or anything else, let's be real).

This has been a daily occurrence every time I've closed, but that's the worst I'd seen it in a while. The carts really made it... cardboard mixed with plastic and styrofoam. Getting to where we keep IFUR was absolutely impossible.

Oh, and a few ETLs walked right by it and didn't say a word. :D
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This is nearly every day at my store. I understand that vendors are not allowed to use or place anything in the baler but TM/TL and ETL's can. It is ridiculous and I can relate.
 
to anyone and everyone who called off my store today: you have each earned individual beatings, to be dispensed at will next time I see you and as long as it takes for you to never give me a Saturday like this again. one cashier called off last night, another came in this morning but left before her shift started because she was sick, a third NCNS'd, and a fourth called in late but then hadn't showed an hour after he promised to be in... and we had so many call-offs from the sales floor that we didn't even have enough people to respond to backup, on what has been the single busiest Saturday I've seen. seriously, when we have 8 checklanes open and are STILL 1+4 or 5, that's just insane right there. and somehow we had no guest complaints...

also, I'm a bit upset with the closing GSA, because she called off too. but at least I'm already scheduled for my max hours this week so they couldn't ask me to stay on. this wasn't a day I wanted to handle after a clopen, and I have to open again tomorrow - no way in hell I'd be doing that if I had to close tonight!

BUT, to the newbie who got thrust onto a register literally half an hour after your orientation, you were so great today. you're a quick learner, you have a great attitude, and you can do percentages in your head, so you are totally one of my new favorite people. and to the poor woman who was just supposed to do service desk today and instead became my gopher and my replacement after I left, super huge props to you. and to the LOD who was very helpful and only had nice things to say even when you kept having to give me bad news and you were seeing how bad I was flailing for a while. you helped me keep my head and actually kinda feel like I did a decent job today!
 
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To my two TLs: thanks for scanning some stuff for me so I could get angry about people instocksing incorrectly instead of pushing truck freight like I was supposed to.

To whoever it is that used red dots instead of labels to flex some d-code: grrrrrrrrrrrr
 
A cashier who can do mental math? Can I have one?

I tried to teach one of my cashiers how to calculate five percent so he could take care of guests with small purchases who forgot their redcards. His reply? "Oh, it's easier just to call you over."

I believe the guest's purchase was something super easy like $20.02 or something that time.
 
Jill of All Trades said:
A cashier who can do mental math? Can I have one?

I tried to teach one of my cashiers how to calculate five percent so he could take care of guests with small purchases who forgot their redcards. His reply? "Oh, it's easier just to call you over."

I believe the guest's purchase was something super easy like $20.02 or something that time.
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Most of our cashiers couldn't do it. We consider ourselves lucky if they can count money.

But to make it easy on the TM for the guests who forget their REDcard, we stopped doing it. We tell them they can bring it back the same day. Now we rarely get the question at all. All of those who always mysteriously forgot their REDcard or have had problems since day one have either remembered their REDcard, gotten the issue fixed, or at the very least stop asking for the adjustment everytime they come in.
 
I will admit I am awful at doing percentages unless it's 10 or 50. but then, I only learned how to do percentages at all in my junior year of high school, when my trig teacher was appalled that I'd never learned it. I essentially skipped a year of math classes though... went from a 'normal' elementary school program where the last thing we learned was basic operations with fractions to an advanced middle school program where sixth grade was pre-algebra. I guess percentages were covered in regular sixth grade math. even then I'm pretty terrible at math (which makes me wonder why I bothered taking advanced math classes instead of just doing regular math and advanced everything else), so when I get called over, I either hope there's a calculator in the drawer or covertly work it on my cell phone :oops: it'd be nice if in addition to dollar amount discounts they let us put in percentage amount discounts... I can understand why they wouldn't, but it's so much quicker to let the computer do the math, and in a lot of cases more accurate.
 
To that one TM: Come over to SB one more time, yelling for me when I'm just in the back getting supplies & I will split your skull with a steaming pitcher. Seriously.
Look before you yell.....and even then, hesitate.
Far better than sporting a pitcher-shaped dent in your forehead.
 
Jill of All Trades said:
A cashier who can do mental math? Can I have one?

I tried to teach one of my cashiers how to calculate five percent so he could take care of guests with small purchases who forgot their redcards. His reply? "Oh, it's easier just to call you over."

I believe the guest's purchase was something super easy like $20.02 or something that time.
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I can do mental math just fine, but my one ETL drives me insane, he's told me flat out that he doesn't care that I took 300 level maths, that he is absolutely always going to second-guess me and check anything I tell him with a calculator because he refuses to believe anyone can do math as fast and accurately as I can.

If it were up to me I'd fire any cashier that couldn't tell me 5% of $20.02. Truncate a digit, divide by 2, $1.00 it's something I expect a monkey to be capable of calculating, and if you can't I don't trust you to handle money.
 
To that one team member who thinks they are the best cashier in the world and who does whatever they feel like doing.. Give them an inch and they want to take over the whole place..

I want to tell you that you aren't a very good cashier. You are slow, you ignore guests and you taking the time to have guests create a cartwheel account on a busy Saturday when the line are wrapping around the store causes anger. Anger with guests, anger with gstl's.. Anger with etl's

You are In your own little world and we all dread when we see your name on the schedule. Please quit.
 
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To that one team member who thinks they are the best cashier in the world and who does whatever they feel like doing.. Give them an inch and they want to take over the whole place..

I want to tell you that you aren't a very good cashier. You are slow, you ignore guests and you taking the time to have guests create a cartwheel account on a busy Saturday when the line are wrapping around the store causes anger. Anger with guests, anger with gstl's.. Anger with etl's

You are In your own little world and we all dread when we see your name on the schedule. Please quit.
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Sounds like a cashier we have on an education LOA. She's returning Black Friday, I'm so not looking forward to that.
 
TTOTM: Please use the pick labels for their intended purpose. Having to pull every single piece of furniture out of the steel really slows me down on the CAFs. Don't bitch at me when the day side 'doesn't pull and zone paper' when you can't even make sure I have a barcode to scan.
 
To the DTL today: Let me remind you the definition of "sidecap"

sidecap (n.) - A fixture placed on the side of an endcap, placed to drive impulse buys or advertise further product.

Our Maybelline mascara sidecap in market was actually doing a good job of selling, you dingbat. BECAUSE IMPULSES. I am fairly sure it will not do all to well in cosmetics where we already have the product.

Thank god you don't walk the back of market and saw the sidecap of Maybelline Baby Lips Lip Balm and try to move that because THAT SELLS OVER THERE.
 
TTO cart attendant... You got hired because we desperately needed more CAs. Actually doing the job you were hired for might be pretty cool. Otherwise it's like just not having one your whole shift. I mean I know you got asked to help work the truck this morning, so I get it, you were there almost 12 hours and you were tired, but I'm honestly not sure what you did all day except complain when I asked you to take some trash to the backroom and bring me back a flat for my defectives. This when you said you were 'bored' and couldn't think of anything to do the last 20 minutes of your shift. What did you think I was going to do, say 'oh poor thing, I'm sorry you're so bored, just chill for the rest of your shift?' Ha ha ha... And beyond that I was service desk today, not GSA. You want to be hand-held and given a task list, go find the person who's actually in charge.

And for the love of cute fuzzy pandas stop bringing me overflowing bins of reshop from the check lanes and telling me you're bringing me 'a present.' For one I happen not to mind sorting reshop and for another, it wasn't cute the first time and hasn't gotten any cuter the other 50 times. Which is why today I gleefully passive-aggressive'd you and taught you how to use sort stuff for YOURSELF and called the trash I left you to take back a 'present.' The closing GSA laughed her ass off when I told her.

(Oh yeah and of course you'd do this when the DTL was up.)
 
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TTOTM: You always complain about people taking "your lane", but it's not like you're on your lane half of the time. You're usually always just walking around talking to other team members. I don't care if you're older than me and have been at this store longer, please check your attitude before you start working.
 
To the other Teams: I'm pretty sure you're cashier trained. Please act like it. I know, you have things you need to get done in your shift. What a coincidence, so do we! And it isn't offering RedCards to guests. Sincerely, Instocks.
 
To ETL-HR and everybody else nagging me to go zone health: That is not my department. I will gladly help out though, when I am fuvkong finished with the department that I am actually supposed to br in.

You all wonder why guest survey scores are low? You keep pulling me to push thr line or zone health care.

But it doesnt matter. Youll be gone within the year no doubt.
 
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To ETL-HR and everybody else nagging me to go zone health: That is not my department. I will gladly help out though, when I am fuvkong finished with the department that I am actually supposed to br in.

You all wonder why guest survey scores are low? You keep pulling me to push thr line or zone health care.
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We have the same problem in our cosmetics department. If our brand TM could actually work in her area, the scores would be a lot higher because of her FFF service.
 
TTOTL...I truly wish I hadn't been forced to leave Instocks to be a GSA simply because of how much I miss working for you. You have no idea how much I appreciate that you still treat me like one of your girls and do whatever you can to help me, whether it's scheduling me to do 4x4s when I'm not at 40 hours or watching the lanes for me on Sunday mornings while I'm in Cash Office. Our store is so lucky to have you and I really aspire to be like you if I'm ever promoted to TL.
 
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