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Originally Posted by medlar
It's got to be a thankless job..I mean you wouldn't go into it to get rich so unless you really enjoy doing it..I won't say they are all idiots either, just the ones I seem to have encountered lately.I don't want to give anyone behind the counter a hard time but I also don't want a shopping experience I don't particularly enjoy to make me feel incompetent either, especially when it comes to parting with my money. It is a smallish victory for me to get my way, inspite of the manager no doubt assessing me some punk ready to hold up the cashier at gunpoint.
No doubt the clerks must be doing a lot of different things at the same time and then you have to deal with self-righteous customers like myself. I'll treat them decently enough if they can do so in return by not trying to slide one over, or just prove to be lazy half arsed and in this case an outright liar. There are stupid customers as well, but customers cannot talk too long to a stupid sales person, but they can spend alot of time yelling at, or explaining the same damn issue over and over again..I was doing the latter..I have to commend myself a bit on not starting a scene even though I was at the end of my tether.
Standing in lineups is another unpleasant part of the whole thing as well.. I was twenty minutes in queue waiting for this sad episode to unfold. I made the people after me stand there even longer..Why is that there are three or four open registers and several idiots wandering about who can't seem to handle register duty?
**So magnets to take those things off..well damn that could have helped...and how did you figure that out. I had no idea ink was inside of those things so good enough I didn't open it. I think I might just start buying onlline.  |
I work retail....pity me...
Note how a cashier removes the tags. Generally, they're placing one side into a hole or groove next to their register. That's a magnet. It will release the holding pin from the tag. Ink is not always inside them, some are simply designed to set off the sensors at the exits; the ones with ink will be marked as such. And they are generally much thicker than just the sensor ones.
There are three or four or twenty empty registers because that's how managers schedule-some stores have started a payroll bonus program for their managers in which, any time they can keep the payroll costs down or below what's allocated, they get bonuses. Those you see wandering the floors are assigned departments that they have to maintain and may not be trained as cashiers. In our store, everyone is trained and there's a revolving 'backup cashier' schedule for when extras are needed if the lines get busy. But that's not universal. And scheduling is guesswork at best. What might be statistically a slow time and thus doesn't require a heavy staff at checkout many times becomes close to madness-there's no predictability even when things are predictable.
