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Chris Irwin

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I got my first retail job, and I've been working for a couple weeks in addition to my child care job (where I was filling in for my boss for the last week and day).


So, most days of the week, I'd get up and go to work at 9 am. Get paid $25+/hr, wear a tie, treated with respect, my own office and computer and everything. I had so much fun! I felt like I was actually getting work done. But then, at 4 o'clock, I left.

At 5 o'clock, I went to work at my second job. $8.25/hr, slinging shoes. Fuckin sucks. The only bad part is the clean-up at the end. I swear that the people who shop in the store are less than human. Piles upon piles of trash that they just throw on the ground. About 20-40 pairs of shoes just left sitting out (the store is mostly self-serve, so they take the boxes out of bins and they damn sure can put them back).

Today, at least 7 shoes missing their partners. WTF???? That doesn't even make sense to steal. Did we get robbed by a 1-legged gang?

Jesus, it looks like animals came in and tried to eat our store. Pissin me off and shit.

At less than 1/3 the pay of my other job :sad:

New respect for retail people - you have to deal with a lot of bullshit. I am about ready to snap on somebody, after a couple weeks. I don't understand it.
 
Inventory is a bitch.

Anyways, have you gotten anything GOOD out of this experience? I remember your previous thread, and this was basically a solution to some of your problems... but do you see this as something that's going to help you achieve what you were looking for?
 
I have vowed never to work in retail. I couldn't do it. I have enough trouble not going apeshit when dealing with people when I'm not being forced to. I give props to anyone who can do it though.

/me hands Icarus a fake sword
 
If I saw enough upskirt to develop a fetish, maybe I wouldn't complain.

Havok, the money is right, and I haven't been there long - I have to see how it develops.
 
Working retail definitely helps give you perspective on a lot of things. I used to be one of those people who would lay stuff I didn't want anywhere in the store; I always saw it as "I don't have to put it back so why should I care?" Needless to say, once I started working at Sam Goody, I changed my opinion REALLY fast. I yell at people who do that when I'm with them.
 
;932182']Icarus, I worked retail at a Buckle store, and was an assistant manager.

a list of the worst things:

Gay dudes making your job difficult, because they won't quit flirting.

Fat girls that want to wear skinny girl low-rise jeans, and somehow you have to make it happen.

Mommies who don't like their 21-year-old baby wearing jeans with holes in them, then take him to Old Navy and dress him like a retard.

People who bitch about the prices, and then try to haggle with you and act like it's your call to make those jeans cost $100.00

Douchebags whose girlfriends have to dress them, and they dress them like faggots.

Douchebags who want to dress like tasteless rednecks.

Idiots who have never folded a shirt, pair of jeans, or used a hangar.

The list goes on and on. The best advice I can offer you is to be tactful and honest. If you can save some guy a buck, he'll respect you for it. Help some mom with a budget, and she will send more people to you. Be real with people and they will return with more money. On top of that, you can make a lot of friends, connections, and contacts.

My tactic- I would shoot the shit with them about nothing, tell them what looked decent, and if they were working with a budget- I'd straight up tell them what I could do.
 
Retail sucks, because unless they have worked retail before, people treat you like you're expected to serve them. I can't stand grocery shopping with William because he puts shit wherever and he'll leave the cart wherever. I hate it. I hated working retail because people would come up to me while I was dealing with another customer and get pissed off when they weren't waited on hand and foot.

If any of you show up to my work and get pissed off because every teller and customer service representative you see is busy, I reserve the right to bitchslap you.
 
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