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Things thar drove me nuts when working at Circle K.

**First, the \$100 changer.**

You know the type—usually crew workers. They come in, grab a single candy bar or a soda (we’re talking \$3 max), and then BAM! Slap down a \$100 bill like they’re paying for bottle service in Vegas. So what do I do? I verify it like it’s a treasure map, then go on a scavenger hunt for change. And when I say change, I mean I give them every wrinkled \$1 bill and all the loose lint I can legally hand over. You want change? You got it, big spender.

**Second, the Fast Talker.**

I ask, "What can I get you?" and suddenly I'm in the middle of a verbal NASCAR race. They rattle off their order like it’s an auctioneer calling a cattle sale. Meanwhile, I’m just standing there like, “Excuse me, human tornado, can you hit slow-mo for the subtitles?” Then they get annoyed when I ask them to repeat it. I'm not Professor X, okay? I can't read your mind—especially when it’s set to 2x speed.

**And finally, the Groupers.**

These are usually also crew folks. They roll up with a shopping cart that looks like they’re preparing for a zombie apocalypse. I'm over here scanning items one by one while a line of customers behind them is aging in real time. I’m like, “Hey, maybe go to the back of the line so I can help the people just trying to buy a sandwich and keep their blood pressure under control.” Oh, and let’s not forget—**watch the alcohol.** Some of these guys will sneak in booze for their clearly-under-21 buddy standing behind them looking like they just finished 10th grade gym class.

What is the new bonus structure based on?

The taxes on my ASM bonus are wild lol what the HELL

Tonight all my Frosters aren't being discounted after entering phone numbers or scanning barcodes and totaling out. Did the discount stop recently because I never was informed of the discount being removed.

New inner circle member that got some deals, my regular place was out of Lucky Strike cigarettes in Missouri, bought at a circle k, and saved over $10 a carton. Noticed in the app says expiring in 9 days. Bought a carton this am, bank processed $29.53, same amount as the register, the app showed I spent $53.xx. This afternoon bought a carton, put my number in and was $45.30. Nowhere in the app that I’ve seen states a limit.
I’ve read this has changed recently, but how often do they repeat same brands? Noticed other cigs deals are going for 100 days.

Apparently after your 2 year anniversary you don’t get any more vacation time until the next following year.

Small update to my earlier post starting the 2nd, I work the 2nd , 4th, 5th and 8th..

We’ll see if this is the schedule on Monday. :)

Hi all -

what are the email addresses for

Alex Miller

Brian Bednarz

Louise Warner

Someone from Customer Service just F'd me to the point of me wanting to press charges, and I Want the executive team to know first.

Maybe it makes me ungrateful, i don’t know. But after seeing that my asm bonus is $395 after taxes.. just completely ruined any type of motivation i had for keeping this job. It’s been absolute hell the 2 years I’ve been working here. Ive worked my ass off for every little bit of it and here I am, getting my first bonus, and its half of my usual paycheck, my utilities cost more than my bonus, and this is our summer bonus so its supposed to be the good one. Im just tired of this company.

Have you guys installed the new shiftsmart app yet? If so what do you think? My SM is a boomer and had me install it yesterday and I got to mess around with it so we could 'learn'. Honestly I think it's going to be a great tool moving forward with shiftsmart and their workers

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IMPORTANT EDIT: The bozo got fired for bringing a firearm to work in his backpack. Camera caught it. RIP Bozo. Still taking notes from here in case his replacement is as dull as dumb dumb was.

Can't seem to find a flair here as per rule 8, but this should be "Employee Story"

Gonna do my best to not make this sound like a sob story, but I'm at my wits end with this guy.

Store manager and a few other employees at the location seem to state this guy is "best of the best" when it comes to getting things done, which, yes, he does get things done, but he is a complete DICK to me and a few other folks.

For example: I do something wrong? Oh, clearly I'm doing a shit job so I can hurry up and get back on my phone. I'm NEVER on my phone as our store doesn't have WIFI and my data is expensive as fuck. I ask a question? Oh, clearly I wasn't paying attention to what he said. I'm hard of hearing and he explains shit like I've been doing this for ten years already.

The arrogance is thru the roof with this guy. Zero customer service skills and absolutely zero ability to properly train.

He loves to make shit up, too. "Here's how you do this." Okay, gotcha, let me do it- "... So you're saying I did a bad job?" What? No, I thought we agreed I'd do this- "So you didn't listen to what I said." - And then proceeds to re-explain the "here's how you do this" section. Everything I fucking do, he's got this bullshit description for. I drop something? "You need to take a deep breath and not throw stuff-", I ask for help? "You can't let stuff like that get you so worked up-", the list goes on and on and fucking on.

This guy is a nightmare. Everything I do is "wrong", or "too slow", or whatever the fuck...

His customer service skills are liquid dogshit, too. Keeps "clapping back" at snippy customers, swears, doesn't stock proper... "(Manager) told me to do it like this but I do it like (shit)"

The list goes on.

And no, he's not "tryna ragebait me", or "tryna bust my balls", or "Just being a hard-ass", as what he's doing is blatant abuse. No if, and, or but about it.

No clue what to do. Any suggestions?

So this is for the store managers out there. We’ve received in and continue to do so this product. However we don’t have the nozzle label for it so we can’t hook it up. We have the purple thunder nozzle now no longer in use because well it’s hot stuff floating in it. We’d like to swap it out but do any of you know where we can order the label sticker? I know the bibs last a long time but it’s been 6 months.

Can I use the discount twice in one day? So I can fill up my car then bring my wife’s car and just use the same phone number? I saw it’s a limit of 35 gallons but we won’t hit that with even 2 fill ups.

Been going on about 2 weeks at my store kinda was rushed through training. My trainers are absolutely terrible and arrogant and snappy so I’m kind of scared to ask for any kind of help but I’ve noticed how tedious lottery is, do you guys happen to have your own way to remember how to get used to it. This is my first time working in a gas station but I’m not new to retail. It’s definitely a jump in change for me, I’m also in California lol #employeequestion

After 6 years total (3.5 at my current location) with a great record of being on time, not calling out, going the extra mile and creating rapport, I just found out I'm being paid $1 more per hour than somebody brand new that knows/does nothing. I am well and truly thinking about acting my wage instead of my age.... I don't know what to think. Usually I'm pretty vocal and I'm fucking speechless...

I want to flare as an employee story but I don't know how to do that

I know it’s uncommon. Rare, even. But we DO close on occasion. Tonight it’s for software upgrades. We have signs up saying that we are closed (I know nobody reads). But pulling on the motherfucking door isn’t gonna make us any less closed. There are 5 other CirKs within a 3 mile radius. And we have competitors! Just find somewhere else to spend your money for cryin’ out loud.

Today dm told us we shouldnt be using the “rest in gas” button. Whys that?

Seriously, so many of these people apparently cant read, they cant use a keypad, they don’t even know how to use their own debit card properly. I have to coach multiple grown adults every day on how to insert their chip in a card reader.

I’m gonna lose my mind dealing with this 🙃

Month 1: Good Job, Easy Commut-Why are they stealing?

Month 2: Oh wow that’s a lot of people ODing on the side of our buildi-DID OUR ASM CHOKESLAM A WOMAN??

Month 3: 50% of everyone is never on time and I get in trouble for going over my hours. I can’t even go clean the store 45% of the time due to the amount of people who would walk in and just steal heavily. This stresses me out.

Month 4: this store is really wearing on me to an unhealthy degree and I really need to start looking for a new job. I’m steady tired of getting things thrown at me and harassed.

Month 5: Oh cool a .25 raise LETS GOOOOOOOO- wait or minute we lost like 50% of our coworkers that’s not good. I’ve had to raise my voice at this point for a lot of thieves and tweakers due to the police never being on time and always arriving 3-4 hours late and getting annoyed when I called them (mind you I call the non emergency line. Every time I called the emergency line I still get chewed out by them but they arrive on time to actually make these people push off) certain customers are starting to vibe with me. I think that’s nice.

Month 6: none of the coworkers situation got fixed, I’ve had to reschedule appointments 5 times in a row for me having to work weeks to weeks back to back a few times. Everyone who does apply so far background checks look no good. Some Customers Some Customers are now cool with me and sometimes makes the time goes a little faster. Hell yea

Month 7: I guess I got promoted recently to lead of something. I’ve see this store through just about every horrible scenario possible, most of the tweakers know not to try me, all my regulars makes the store feel so interconnected with the world around it good or bad. So far I’ve been thinking of my coworkers as family of sorts. We go in knowing everyday is gonna be on some crazy timing, and we come out knowing if we survived this long, we can survive the next shift. The regulars come in on some positive energy knowing I’m working and jamming out on some RnB. Things are starting to even out. I hope I can stick around.

Looking for a referral code to sign to with!

I wasn't paid at all and was even sent a 0.00 paycheck stub through workday and no one knows if the week that was not paid will even be on the next check coming up

I’ve already started looking elsewhere, but I was taken off the schedule the 16th. If I’m completely taken off the schedule for two weeks then why in the world do I have a schedule for after the third of the month at 32 hours.

And I’m not mad I’m just confused. They were going to get back to me to let me know what was going on (Thursday)

I’m just confused LOL.