Honestly if I were paying rent and other bills with only $10 an hour I don't think I'd make it without a room mate making more than me that can help. But since they're seasonal, they probably can't complain lol.
I know it's Cart Attendant's duty to go and clean each and every spill... but can't someone else do it once in a while. I'd gladly do it if I had two rows of carts in on each side but every Sunday is the same way. Almost 0 carts all day on each side, busy as hell, and guests breaking and spilling shit every 20 minutes. I get yelled at because I say I have to focus on carts I can't leave the seasonal CA to manage both sides of the store who BTW isn't the greatest at pushing carts in. I'm not perfect either, not like our more experienced cart people but I can't just leave him to deal with all that.
To top it all off, for some reason our hours are also getting cut so for a bit there we were all at 30+ hours and had a good balance of CAs on site to manage carts and clean the spills/restrooms etc, but this week holy hell. I don't understand why our hours are getting cut... the store literally needs us. They depend on us to get carts in and to clean spills.. or to clean anything really. No one else will. So why is Corporate cutting our hours? Actually, I have no idea if Corporate controls who gets their hours cut, they just limit payroll? Idk.
I'm expecting to get called in early tomorrow due to the lack of a CA mid day, which I'll gladly come and work those extra 2-3 hours on top of my meager 5 hours scheduled. I'll be needing it.
Anyways, to sum it all up.
TTOGSA: lay off me and my other cart boy, man, we can't always be there to clean spills. We know everyone else has a task or job at hand but if Guests can't have carts we're only gonna get yelled at more and find guests running up to us to complain and steal carts off of our line and then they're gonna complain to the management and we get yelled at more. It's an never ending cycle of a shift as a CA.
I don't mind the disconnectiveness of it all, I guess. It's like working out, expect pushing carts and you're outside with nature, just passive aggressive management. I'm gonna laugh if they decide to fire me or any of my other CAs for problems we can't really control. I can't wait until the Holidays are over.
I don't know if anyone remembers my post last sunday about how all of our carts were gone in the backrooms and gone because a shit ton of guests had them but it was the same way today. I find myself reminding myself that once the Holidays are over it'll all be better.