July 2014 - Page 3 of 11 - I Hate Working In Retail

Jul
27

By IHWIR Admin

Waiter/Waitress Problems (23 photos)

Category: Food Retail, Just Funny Tags: Humor Leave a Comment

If you’re in the hospitality business, you’ll get it.

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Sourced from collegetimes.com

Jul
25

By IHWIR Admin

13 Things That Happen When You Walk Into A Retail Store 10 Minutes Before Closing

Category: Fun Facts, Just Funny Tags: Humor Leave a Comment

Screen Shot 2014-07-25 at 3.04.48 PM — Employee Of The Month

It’s the end of the night, you’re getting ready to tackle the mountain of sale tees that has had everyone pulling their hair out all day—you just want to make it look pretty for the morning crew. And then: a group of obnoxious teenagers, three girlfriends, a ton of children, grandparents—EVERYONE walks in. Please no, I just want to go home on time.

1. You’re going to be bombarded with “are you finding everything alright?” or “can I help you find something specific?” because you better believe this is not the time for leisure shopping

2. I will give you a dirty look when you mess up the PERFECTLY folded t-shirt table that took me the entire night to finish while everyone else was riffling through them—thanks so much

3. Why must you try on 25 different shirts? And proceed to give your boyfriend a fashion show as to which he doesn’t care so you’re really just wasting everyone’s time here

4. No, we don’t have anything in back

5. If you ask me to get something off a manikin for you and you try it on but then leave it behind as you walk out when the mall closing announcement is going off—I will hate you

6. Better yet, if you want something off a mannequin and it is closing time—just buy it and return it tomorrow because that was a HUGE waste of my time

7. If I tell you we are closing in five minutes, that doesn’t mean you bring 50 dresses into a fitting room with your bestie and have a photo shoot

8. Please don’t question every price while making your final purchase—it’s all clearance and I promise you won’t spend more than $100

9. When we finally do complete the last transaction of the night, that doesn’t mean you can spot something on the way out and run back up to buy it—sorry drawers are gone, you should be too

10. “Let me know if you need help finding something, we’ll be closing in ten minutes” does not mean I am your personal shopper in the fitting room—I’ve got other things to be doing

11. Don’t ask me to call another store and ask if they have an item for you, because they’re closing too and you won’t get there in time.

12. At lease acknowledge you’re being annoying by walking through those doors as I’m trying to shut them or that you’re transaction has caused us to stay open an extra ten minutes—it’s much more likely I won’t want to kill you if you at least know that what you’re doing is rude. Ignorance is not cute

13. I promise you, we will be open tomorrow—no need to exhaust all of your options tonight

Sourced from thoughtcatalog.com

Jul
24

By IHWIR Admin

A working mom’s Wal-Mart nightmare

Category: Retail Articles, Walmart Tags: Walmart Leave a Comment

Tiffany Beroid

Politicians love to talk about working moms managing their busy lives, particularly when those working moms managing their busy lives decide to go back to school. Add in a pregnancy, and you basically have the ideal hypothetical woman, tailor made to be praised and lionized during some campaign speech from some candidate explaining just how focused they are on the needs of women.

But Tiffany Beroid isn’t a political abstraction, she’s a real person who wanted to finish her degree while managing the demands of work, family and a high-risk pregnancy. And despite a lot of lip service from lawmakers, policies that support working mothers are few and far between. Beroid was employed at a Wal-Mart in Laurel, Maryland for about three years when she decided to go back to school part-time. She said she tried to work out a schedule that could accommodate the demands of work, family and school, but the company responded by cutting her hours. In fact, her hours — and income — were cut so drastically that Beroid eventually had to drop out of school. When her high-risk pregnancy meant that she needed to be put on lighter work, she was placed on unpaid leave. When she raised these problems to Wal-Mart, she was fired.

“Wal-Mart fired me for speaking out,” Beroid said of the ordeal.

And this is where the policy vacuum comes in. She had no legal recourse, just like millions of working women in her exact situation have no legal recourse when they show up to work only to be told that their shift has been cut, their hours reduced or their weekday schedule has been changed to a weekend schedule. But a measure introduced by Democrats in the House and Senate this week is attempting to address at least one of the problems Beroid faced — erratic scheduling that made planning to attend class, arranging for child-care and receiving a reliable paycheck nearly impossible. Put simply, the Schedules That Work Act would stop companies like Wal-Mart from retaliating against workers like Beroid for asking for scheduling accommodations, and make it easier for them to juggle work, school and family.

This is a huge issue for working families and working mothers in all industries. As recently noted by Jana Kasperkevic at the Guardian, data from ROC-United found that of the 200 mothers with young children they surveyed, 46 percent had an unpredictable work schedule, with nearly 40 percent reporting that their schedules changed on a weekly basis. These erratic schedules often result in a frantic scramble for child-care, made all the more challenging by unpredictable wages that come with your hours changing on a weekly basis.

Sourced from Salon.com