Re: Hate Thread
The rant I'm about to go on may besmear the USA's neighbor to the north. I apologize and bear none of the forum members any ill will.
I hate the importance that corporate America puts on sales numbers and bonus add on crap that they require us to prattle on about at the registers when they don't take into account the frigging twenty busloads of Canadians that we get in on the weekends that have no freaking use for a $20-a-year shoppers card because they're only here in the States for one or two days out of the entire f'ing year and yet they *only* look at the fact that you had 800 transactions yesterday and you only sold 10 shopper's cards because 500 of those transactions were Canadian. Not to mention it's really hard to pitch donations to *local* charities when the people you're waiting on AREN'T LOCAL! Now, granted, it isn't always the case, but you're a lot more likely to get someone to donate if they know which hospital you're talking about than "So, what's the Shriner's hospital?" Also, why the fuck are we goaled for donations? They're supposed to be DONATIONS. They're not supposed to be about making the store money. OHyeah, and let's not forget that we cashiers have to stand there and instead of just ringing the customer out, we have to pitch: the shoppers card, ask for gift receipts, ask for gift cards, ask about the Moose, ask about books for the kids, ask about coffee for the troops and they wonder why the fuck the line goes out the queue! Because I have to spend 10 minutes on a transaction that should, in theory, take me all of 30 seconds!
And that's another thing! Staff! We don't have any! Frigging Friday during the Chirstmas season and they have ONE cashier and one person on the floor. Of course, the managers and supervisors are supposed to be picking up the slack but when the managers sit on their asses in the back room and getting them to respond to calls is like trying to find the teeth of a hen, it kind of defeats the whole purpose.
And they wonder why one of my hobbies is shooting things in the head...