DragonmasterDan
King's Dry Cleaner
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- Jul 7, 2006
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I don't shop at Target too frequently. But I'd rather go there than Wal-Mart. It's much cleaner, better organized and far less of a freakshow.
I don't shop at Target too frequently. But I'd rather go there than Wal-Mart. It's much cleaner, better organized and far less of a freakshow.
Retail is ok. My first job was at KB Toys. I worked on a black Friday once and an old woman said I looked tired and gave me money to buy a coffee. I told her my mom doesn't let me drink coffee but I thanked her and bought a yoohoo instead.
I miss those days.
Retail is ok. My first job was at KB Toys. I worked on a black Friday once and an old woman said I looked tired and gave me money to buy a coffee. I told her my mom doesn't let me drink coffee but I thanked her and bought a yoohoo instead.
I miss those days.
that's the GregN way. Just drop beefyshits of threads one after the next, like u went overboard on grandma's meatloaf TuesdayI like how Greg just drops this huge turd of a thread and then walks off.
You probably shouldn't take moe's posts seriously.
She takes my post very seriously.
As far as the "performance review" part of working retail, it's not always used in the best way.
It's one thing to ferret out lazy employees, it's entirely another to use it to foster an environment of cutthroat competitiveness for a near-minimum wage job.
My second job was working at the Best Buy tech bench, before it was "Geek Squad" and they wore black shirts. They expected you to up-sell computer services and computer parts, warranties, service plans, and drive people to buy things they really didn't need.
Now, I'm not a good salesman. I'm far too honest and have too much of a conscience to screw over 55 year old retirees on fixed incomes who just wanted their shitty computer to read emails from their grandchildren, and didn't need a Pentium 4 with 2GB of RAM and a Radeon 9800 Pro SE (really dating myself here).
I sold decently, and always had very happy customers, but my boss was always pushing us to sell more and bigger stuff and get people to sign up for in-store credit.
My area of expertise was doing repairs. I was responsible for about 70% of the repair and diagnostic work we did, and was the only person among the 6 employees there who could work on Macs, making us the only Best Buy in about 200 miles that worked on them.
Regardless, I was disciplined for not pushing enough sales and had my pay dropped by $2.00 an hour. I left a month or two later, and I kept in touch with a fellow employee there who became a friend, and he let me know that the supervisor was disciplined several months later and bumped down to a salesperson when they fell behind on repair work and the complaints started piling up.
Anyway, sorry for the wall of text. Retail work sucks.
The place I work now is pretty chill.
Except in your selling thread you said you weren't working
Wrong. I'm back the week of Labor day. Gotta pay property taxes in Oct.Except in your selling thread you said you weren't working
Gotta pay property taxes in Oct.
what the fuck does that have to do with anything
Wrong. I'm back the week of Labor day. Gotta pay property taxes in Oct.