March 2014 - Page 17 of 25 - I Hate Working In Retail

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Watch The Spread of Walmart Across The Country In One Horrifying GIF

When big box stores (I’ll leave it to you to decide just WHICH big-box stores) come to town, they almost always shut down all the mom-and-pop stores in the area they open in. And it’s a pretty simple formula:

1) Move in.

2) Open doors with lower prices than anyone else.

3) Get employees on welfare and Medicaid because you don’t want to pay well or provide medical insurance.

4) Force smaller shops out of business.

5) Raise prices, because now you’re the only game in town.

6) Rinse, repeat 15 miles down the road.

I’ve heard some say, “capitalism works this way, and great for the owners of [INSERT_BIG_BOX_STORE_HERE] that they’re able to do so well because at least they create jobs.” To them I say, “At what price?
Note: This map only goes to 2006; it’s much worse now, believe it or not.
  

 

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Waiters share horror stories about Sunday church crowd. Pastor agrees and launches his own website


Christians can be Scrooges, too. Preaching Christ Church pastor Chad Roberts admits that the church crowd is often stingy when it comes to tips. He’s apologizing for fellow believers’ actions and his website, ‘Sundays Are The Worst’ offers servers a place to vent.

By Carol Kuruvilla / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

The ‘Sundays Are The Worst’ website invites servers to submit horror stories about the church crowd.

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The ‘Sundays Are The Worst’ website invites servers to share horror stories about the church crowd.

“I give God ten percent, why do you get 18,” Missouri pastor Alois Bell famously wrote on her Applebee’s receipt in lieu of a tip for a party of 10.

Folks like Bell are why Tennessee Pastor Chad Roberts set up his website—Sundays Are The Worst— where wait staff can share horror stories about Christian ‘Scrooges.’

“It’s a way for our church to tell the serving community that we’re sorry for what you have to go through on Sundays and that we really do appreciate you and what you do for our community,” Roberts told the Times-News.

RELATED: WAITRESS SHOCKED AFTER RECEIVING $1,075 FROM CHRISTIAN FAMILY

Tennessee pastor Chad Roberts is hoping to show servers that not all Christians are rude.

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Tennessee pastor Chad Roberts is hoping to show servers that not all Christians are rude.

After launching the website on March 2, Roberts worst fears were confirmed: It gets pretty ugly on the Lord’s day.

One anonymous waitress wrote in about a Sunday experience that convinced her not to give Christianity a shot.

“For me, what made the experience so bad wasn’t just the rude behavior from these adult women, or the cheapness of stiffing me on the tip, or the sneakiness of leaving fake money on the table, or the assumption that I was beneath them because I didn’t discuss my beliefs with them, or any of the other things that added up into that experience,” she wrote. “What really got me was that I was in a place, that very day, where I was considering going to church. A friend of mine had just committed suicide, and that very church had been recommended to me for grief counseling. I never went, I worked through it on my own, but the point is, those rude, presumptuous, and honestly mean women were the ONLY thing standing between me and the church that it was so important to them that I attend.

“Now on Sunday mornings, I sleep in, and that works nicely for me.”

This waiter got a $3 tip after serving a table of 13.

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This waiter reportedly got a $3 tip after serving a table of 13.

This full-time student reportedly works about 30-35 hours every week. The poster accused the Sunday crowd of being condescending.

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This full-time student reportedly works about 30-35 hours every week. The poster accused the Sunday crowd of being condescending.

Roberts said that his church members are planning to write out apologies to every single poster. They will also send a server a Food City gift card that can be used for groceries or gas.
The campaign will last until Easter Sunday, when Roberts is asking his parishioners to double their tips.
“The two goals we have with this are number one, that Christians would begin to realize that their attitude really matters when they go to eat,” Roberts said. “The second goal is that particularly unchurched servers would understand that not all Christians are rude, impatient, lousy tippers. That’s what we want to communicate.”

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VIDEO: Shanghai bank worker caught on CCTV Laughing at bungling armed robbers…

 

A Chinese bank clerk was caught on CCTV camera laughing at an incompetent raider who threatened her with a meat cleaver even though she was behind bullet-proof glass.

Then a second after pulling out the weapon at the branch in Shanghai, dozy De Ke, 28 got a phone call on his mobile phone which he then answered – leaning against the glass to tell whoever it was that he was busy and to call back later.

Cashier Rong Ku, 41, told local media: “I might have taken it seriously if he’d had a gun, and you never know really if the security glass will stop a bullet, but I knew he had no chance of getting through with a meat cleaver. It was a bizarre situation and I just had to laugh especially when he took a telephone call in the middle of the robbery.

“He said ‘this is a robbery’ in a really quiet voice and then asked me to hold on while he took a phone call.”

As he shouted down the phone the security guard came over and asked him what he thought he was doing allowing another customer to walk up behind the meat cleaver waving robber and disarmed him, handing the meat cleaver to the security forces before throwing the man to the ground.

Police who interviewed the man said he had not been on drugs or drunk and that he appeared not to be suffering from any mental problems.

He said he had simply come up with the idea of robbing the bank to get some more money and not really thought it through carefully