that's what YOU think...Ninja Scooter said:they're all easy.
Flynn said:The person who puts a yellow marker line on your receipt.
MrAngryFace said:You mean like Mall Kiosks? That job would drive me nuts.
Have you all noticed the girl scouts have been deployed? They're bunkering down and creating roadblocks to every enterance of places I like to go.
MrAngryFace said:They need a way to let other girl scouts know youve already been had.
Ninja Scooter said:they're all easy.
Triumph said:Jesus Tapdancing Christ, retail is NOT all easy. Especially when your company thinks it should take a page from corporate america and "diversify" your job to the point where you're wearing 37 different hats in the course of a day and want to reach across the counter and strangle the rich white people with their own ties for being such fucking ingrates...
WHOOPS! How'd that get in there? Seriously, retail is the bomb yo. Yeah, I can't recommend it enough for someone who wants to hate their very existence with a bloody fucking passion and question everything about life. It's the PERFECT vocation. ESPECIALLY management.
OH, and YES I am bitter. And drunk!
Best Buy fucking sucked for that. The same guy kept getting nailed by the district manager for not knowing the acronyms though. I had school so thankfully I always worked too late.Dyne said:Nothing could beat working merchandising at Best Buy though. 4 am fridays? 6 am every weekday? Learning a ton of acronyms only sales people care about? Keeping track of every single thing on the goddamn floor?
NOT easy. Considering the fact, I worked in a store full of employees who didn't even know what upstocking was.
Goddamn Best Buy.
ToxicAdam said:Most dudes running kiosks just sit there and play solitaire all day.
Biohazard said:Abercrombie & Fitch you literally and I'm not playing do nothing...you stand there and say stupid catch phrases and fold jeans when no one is around.
I can't tell you how many times at the mall I've seen the same people either a. playing some windows game or b. using AIM while at work.ToxicAdam said:Most dudes running kiosks just sit there and play solitaire all day.
This man works at an anime shop, his shifts consist of little to no human interaction and much IRC chatting.bjork said:I think the #ga set can verify that *I* have the easiest retail job.
Diablos said:This man works at an anime shop, his shifts consist of little to no human interaction and much IRC chatting.
He just doesn't chat at work, no no. Chatting IS part of his work!
oof! For our merch dept. we start at 7am mon-sat and 6am only on Sunday. The job still sucks, though. All other departments dump shit on us. Most of the store doesn't even acknowledge the work we do. Not to mention we've got an asshole for a supervisor that likes the sound of his own voice too much. I wasted too much time at Best Buy and am looking to enter school and find another job. I need to get the fuck away from the place. :lolDyne said:Nothing could beat working merchandising at Best Buy though. 4 am fridays? 6 am every weekday? Learning a ton of acronyms only sales people care about? Keeping track of every single thing on the goddamn floor?
NOT easy. Considering the fact, I worked in a store full of employees who didn't even know what upstocking was.
Goddamn Best Buy.
I dunno, spending my life trapped in a cubicle is pretty fucking terrible in it's own way, and I've done both. Right now, though, I would happily exchange my shit retail management job for a degrading, dehumanizing 9-5 Monday through Friday experience in a cube. In a HEARTBEAT.SnowWolf said:I'm curious for all you guys with retail jobs: are you doing it only as a temp job until you get a solid career started in whatever field you're interested in, or is this what you plan to do for a living? Maybe it's just me, but I can't imagine voluntarily deciding to spend my life working in a retail store. Anything but that! It just seems like a completely waste.
In my experience, management and certain co-workers were most of what was wrong with retail. Sure, customers can be a pain in the ass, but at the end of the day, they're all gone. The retards you work with are still there implementing their bass ackwards logic and forcing you to go along with it.Triumph said:I dunno, spending my life trapped in a cubicle is pretty fucking terrible in it's own way, and I've done both. Right now, though, I would happily exchange my shit retail management job for a degrading, dehumanizing 9-5 Monday through Friday experience in a cube. In a HEARTBEAT.
And although customers are most of what's wrong with retail, upper management has a lot to do with it too. It's fucking RETAIL you ignorant fucks. Don't try to make it harder than it is- it's so fucking simple. ARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
iapetus said:I've never worked a single day in retail, telling people what they want to hear - telling people anything to make a sale.
ChrisReid said:This is a wonderfully naive reply. The reality goes far far beyond than that.
iapetus said:I've never worked a single day in retail, telling people what they want to hear - telling people anything to make a sale.