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Someone above mentioned about bagging, self-bagging, and the like.
At our particular retail establishment (where I work), self-bagging is actively discouraged for a combination of loss prevention, customer service, and payroll issues.
That being said, I make sure that my things get bagged thoroughly.
Other locations, though? I try to get a 'feel' for how it goes and work with the cashier/bagger team.
As far as 'self-checkout'? Burn that stuff in a fire. It's always touted as fast, efficient, and economical (as Corporates don't have to pay the extra payroll for 'x' number of cashiers).
The reality is far south of that, as typically half to two-thirds were broken (because they bought cheap and didn't maintain) and it can take two to three times as long to ring out at one of those as a conventional cashier.
In addition, they were requiring us (even those of us that were cashiers) to use the self-checkout lanes when we went to break, and were treating it as *part of our BREAKTIME* for the privilege of... doing work... ringing ourselves out (which was a violation of company policy)...
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[sings and shimmies]Happy birthday Freehold DM![/sings and shimmies]
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If they have a bagger, I just specify how I want things bagged and let them bag. And not to detail, but just general. I've had maybe three who didn't know what they were doing, and every time it was because of poor training.
If you're working as a bagger at a grocery store, you need the money a lot more than I need the convenience of doing it myself.
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The lady who hired me specifically put in my file that I don't cashier, I love her for that.
We're an elite core, on Brute Squad, there's only so many people that can cuddle a box of stuffed animals, assemble shit (but not for pushy a&#&%*!s), lug said assembled shit to the car, and not laugh at all the "I'd carry it myself, but I hurt my back" excuses.
I also secure the exits when a parent loses track of their kid (which as a parent, I know how easy it is).
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I'm posting twice, but I want this to be completely disconnected from my prior post.
I'm looking for a new career. My current one is politics-related.
Recent events are not the only reason. I'm not getting any younger or any saner. And working as deep as I do within the system is like being a permanent victim of gaslighting. I deal every day with a reality that is as connected to the real world as Wonderland, and I'm no longer as capable of the mental gymnastics needed to climb that rabbit hole.
I hear a local Fox News affiliate is hiring a fact checker. Since I'm used to dealing with insane conspiracy theorists who hold way too much power and it's a job where I could show up drunk every day and not have a bad impact, I'm considering it. I'll spend more time sweeping or sleeping on the job than correcting news stories, but at my age and mental health I could use the break.
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I'm posting twice, but I want this to be completely disconnected from my prior post.
I'm looking for a new career. My current one is politics-related.
Recent events are not the only reason. I'm not getting any younger or any saner. And working as deep as I do within the system is like being a permanent victim of gaslighting. I deal every day with a reality that is as connected to the real world as Wonderland, and I'm no longer as capable of the mental gymnastics needed to climb that rabbit hole.
I hear a local Fox News affiliate is hiring a fact checker. Since I'm used to dealing with insane conspiracy theorists who hold way too much power and it's a job where I could show up drunk every day and not have a bad impact, I'm considering it. I'll spend more time sweeping or sleeping on the job than correcting news stories, but at my age and mental health I could use the break.
Careful, you might end up a 'talking head' expert!
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Good luck! My family is entwined in the political machine so I get it, it's good to break away. :-)
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You're
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Not
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Supposed to
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Post more than.
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~hocus interuptus~
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Once.
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Or not! Take away my fun! That is not nice Captain Yesterday!
~grins~
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~hocus interuptus~
Oh, you want a wizard's duel, eh dragon!
Very well, whoever can Polymorph into a cat and shag the most other cats, which are hopefully, lady wizards that are also Polymorped as cats.
And maybe, this time we should keep it to lady cats that are also lady wizards Polymorped as cats who I didn't raise as my own. It's starting to get weird.
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Hello everyone. How is the first day of winter finding you?
(I have found that I am colder than normal since I am missing so much natural insulation)
Happy birthday Freehold!
Huzzah! A wild Wraithguard has appeared!
(She's in charge of Dire Rugrat publishing!)
Welcome! Enjoy the nonsense!
I believe you have me confused for the wonderful Kelly P. Very nice gal, she was giving away some stuff for the Angry Badger Thirdpartymas as well. She also gave out some stuff for their anniversary or something like that recently.
...(ponders feminine pronoun)...(muses the humor of it but is not offended)...
Its funny because at the moment I am sporting a thick beard. It makes me wonder, have any of you fine ladies and gents out there found offense in being referred to with the opposite sex's pronoun? I imagine that some people would, though I almost find the notion ridiculous.
Don't mean to poke fun Tacticslion, the history of my posts have been very neutral and I must admit the squirrel from the Wolf-in-Sheep's Clothing illustration isn't quite the picture of masculinity.
Freehold, since it is your birthday today, and the drawing is going on, I'll get you something off my list of stuff.
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As someone with long curly hair I get called ma'am at least once a month.
Used to happen more though.
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As someone with long curly hair I get called ma'am at least once a month.
Used to happen more though.
Yes, Ma'am!
Apologies for the long silence. Night shift work was a pain, mostly due to the unusual sleep schedule.
Job contract ended today, so now I can take some time off to get all my errands out of the way before the holidays.
Icy! Good seeing you! Go sign up for taig's thing!
Hello everyone. How is the first day of winter finding you?
(I have found that I am colder than normal since I am missing so much natural insulation)
Happy birthday Freehold!Huzzah! A wild Wraithguard has appeared!
(She's in charge of Dire Rugrat publishing!)
Welcome! Enjoy the nonsense!
I believe you have me confused for the wonderful Kelly P. Very nice gal, she was giving away some stuff for the Angry Badger Thirdpartymas as well. She also gave out some stuff for their anniversary or something like that recently.
...(ponders feminine pronoun)...(muses the humor of it but is not offended)...
Its funny because at the moment I am sporting a thick beard. It makes me wonder, have any of you fine ladies and gents out there found offense in being referred to with the opposite sex's pronoun? I imagine that some people would, though I almost find the notion ridiculous.
Don't mean to poke fun Tacticslion, the history of my posts have been very neutral and I must admit the squirrel from the Wolf-in-Sheep's Clothing illustration isn't quite the picture of masculinity.
Freehold, since it is your birthday today, and the drawing is going on, I'll get you something off my list of stuff.
Eeeeeeerrrrrrp~!
Totally did! Woops! Sorry!
*strokes own quasi-beard*
And nah - no offense.
It's the Internet: pictures are just things you chose 'cause you like how they look, and names are just words you choose 'cause you like how they sound.
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Y'know, working for a global megacorporation, it's really nice when an executive shows up to the meeting he called right on time, asks a few pointed questions, assigns appropriate action items, and ends the meeting with 33 minutes to spare.
I swear I'm going to nominate him to teach a, "How to Run Meetings When You're an Executive" course!
But for now... lunch! Half an hour early! Woo hoo!
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I think my hair is best described as cow-licked mess. It is stiff enough that I could grow a mohawk and it would hold it fairly well.
I don't think that is quite up to the 'world class' standards our Plant Manager would like. Much less one of the people that wants to get a management job.
Oh well, cut short it is.
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Happy Birthday Freehold!
Lucky you the man who gets gifts twice in one month!
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Ah yes, the joys of a voluntary work shift.
I can leave whenever I want. :-)
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Eventually I am going to have to fly to Wisconsin some evening, track down the "hippie dude" in Toys R Us, and raise a big stink when he won't build my "Lil' Suzie's First Chipper Shredder" right there on the floor of the store!
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I'll be easy to find.
I'm the only guy working at a toy store with long hair that DOESN'T put it in a pony tail.
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But your pigtails are the stuff of legends, I'm sure.
Tonight, I achieved my dream, or at least that dream where I am a super bugler.
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The country folk are invading!!
There are a surprising amount of cattle trailers parked in the lot.
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Well I have seen Rogue One.
About damn time they made a Good Star Wars film. And this was damn good. I would rank this above Empire Strikes Back.
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This week on Radio Chatter Taken Out Of Context.
Heard over the radio: [redacted], do you have a peg, lock, and hooker.
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Seriously, you came to the big city to do Christmas shopping, and yet you can't wear boots and overalls not covered in shit.
"I can't wear my fancy boots, thems for church, you know that"
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At our particular retail establishment (where I work), self-bagging is actively discouraged for a combination of loss prevention, customer service, and payroll issues.
Hm, that's interesting. I can imagine some customers trying to be slick and bag some free loot, but customer service and payroll issues? I can't immediately imagine what that's about.
I've self-bagged a couple times, when there's a sizable time gap between me paying and the employee/s bagging my stuff. Personal-space issues aside, I think I'd be insulted if an employee acted insulted by me helping. But it so rarely comes up.
As far as 'self-checkout'? Burn that stuff in a fire. It's always touted as fast, efficient, and economical (as Corporates don't have to pay the extra payroll for 'x' number of cashiers).
There's also the issue of more automation taking more jobs. I avoid those machines unless the human lines look awful.
Which they did just this week, when I went in to buy a bag of apples. While waiting for my turn at the machine, I noticed a numeric-code sheet for the produce -- never really thought about how produce is rung up until that moment -- and identified the code for my apples. When I got to the machine, there was no apparent option for inputting any code, so I thought "F this," and left the store without my apples.
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Happy birthday, Freehold!
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Reflecting on the 11 years I worked in retail, I am happy to not have to:
- Push Carts.
- Straighten an aisle full of toys that I just straightened 5 mins ago.
- Explain to people that I cannot sell them 1 chair of a set of 4 chairs.
- Shovel 'stuff' that fell out the back end of a garbage compactor back into a garbage bin.
- Climb over boxes 8 feet up in a pallet rack trying to find that ONE box in inventory.
- Stand on a shaky 10 foot ladder to get a bike down.
- Help setup or tear down the garden center since I am 1 of 4 people physically capable of strength based work.
- ....
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Guess who punched Lambie (from Doc McStuffin's) in the face.
This guy!!
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Reflecting on the 11 years I worked in retail, I am happy to not have to:
- Push Carts.
- Straighten an aisle full of toys that I just straightened 5 mins ago.
- Explain to people that I cannot sell them 1 chair of a set of 4 chairs.
- Shovel 'stuff' that fell out the back end of a garbage compactor back into a garbage bin.
- Climb over boxes 8 feet up in a pallet rack trying to find that ONE box in inventory.
- Stand on a shaky 10 foot ladder to get a bike down.
- Help setup or tear down the garden center since I am 1 of 4 people physically capable of strength based work.
- ....
Let's see... Today I did the effective equivalent of six of those items...
It sells for $80 USD for a 6oz *bottle*.
The local brewery's PR department has been liberally seeding the Internet with word that our location would have it for sale today (after the previous THREE deliveries it never even made it on the truck).
We got *1* case this morning at 0900, 12 bottles, carried in by the district manager of the larger conglomerate.
They were sold within ten minutes.
I started work at 1330. At least a score of calls *I* fielded? NO, we do not have this thing. No, we are not getting any more. Please get on social media and tell all your friends, family, and relation we DO NOT HAVE THIS THING. Contact local brewery with your concerns. Thank you. Have a great evening!
This is worse than last year, when they did a 'one and done' distribution...
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Seriously, you came to the big city to do Christmas shopping, and yet you can't wear boots and overalls not covered in s!#@.
"I can't wear my fancy boots, thems for church, you know that"
As a fellow cheesehead and someone who grew up in a small town surrounded by dairy farms I have seen (and smelt) more than my fair share of this.
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Thank you for the wonderful birthday wishes and my apologies for missing the boards after ringing the alarm. Work got crazy, and I went home and to assassin's creed in that order, where I discovered that I was related to the main character and am indeed an assassin.
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The lady who hired me specifically put in my file that I don't cashier, I love her for that.
We're an elite core, on Brute Squad, there's only so many people that can cuddle a box of stuffed animals, assemble s*%* (but not for pushy a+@*$+#s), lug said assembled s~&$ to the car, and not laugh at all the "I'd carry it myself, but I hurt my back" excuses.
I also secure the exits when a parent loses track of their kid (which as a parent, I know how easy it is).
BRUTE SQUAD BRUTE
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Reflecting on the 11 years I worked in retail, I am happy to not have to:
- Push Carts.
- Straighten an aisle full of toys that I just straightened 5 mins ago.
- Explain to people that I cannot sell them 1 chair of a set of 4 chairs.
- Shovel 'stuff' that fell out the back end of a garbage compactor back into a garbage bin.
- Climb over boxes 8 feet up in a pallet rack trying to find that ONE box in inventory.
- Stand on a shaky 10 foot ladder to get a bike down.
- Help setup or tear down the garden center since I am 1 of 4 people physically capable of strength based work.
- ....
I only lasted 8 months in retail.
Monday-Thursday were awesome. Fridays and Saturdays we had parents quite literally drop off their kids in the store (a video store) while they went across the street to watch a movie.
I kid you not. Kids as young as 6 just left at our store for 2+ hours without so much as a "by your leave" from the parents...
EDIT: I did love the owner for his attitude about such parents. After 3-4 such events, he just took to deleting the parents' accounts and banning them from the store. It helped... some...
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Hey, Freehold,
Is Assassin's Creed a button masher? I don't do well with those.
my wife just howled in agony at that assertion(she is the player, not me)
It is not a button masher, it is a qte heavy game with buttons that do very vague things. You do need timing to not die as the game goes on, the semi invincibility of assassin's creed 2 is in the past.
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QTE is evil, as my timing sucks.
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Do I really have four years of retail experience (1 year at Saint Vincent DePaul before we got married, 3+ at the toy store).
F~@% you time!!
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Which they did just this week, when I went in to buy a bag of apples. While waiting for my turn at the machine, I noticed a numeric-code sheet for the produce -- never really thought about how produce is rung up until that moment -- and identified the code for my apples. When I got to the machine, there was no apparent option for inputting any code, so I thought "F this," and left the store without my apples.
"Bwilliant" organization on their part, then. In all shops that have check-out machines around here, there is either a touch screen that shows pictures of product groups leading to screens containing the products themselves (or subgroups leading to products) so you can actual pick it and weight it at check out, or there are weighting machines with pictures on their buttons at the fruit and vegetable stalls so you can have to weigh the fruits and vegetables yourself. I think the self-weighing is more common.
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Happy Freeday!
Or is that Birthhold?
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Thank you very much!