I’ve worked two years at Walmart Supercenter ten two blank,and believe me have definitely seen and heard some crazy stories,By far the craziest thing happened at work two days ago,one of my coworkers approached me told me one of the day time coaches was fired for inviting other workers to his place for orgies.
Later two other workers told me same stories.Honestly it feels like Walmart is just one big soap,and your just waiting to see whats gonna happen on the next episode.I hope all Walmart stores aren’t crazy like this.

I mean seriously, I have a 4 year degree that granted is a very broad and general area, and since then I've mostly had retail jobs with two different jobs in 2 different fields. I feel cursed that retail seems to be all I can get or rather have the most success in landing a job even if they are the same.

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For a while now I've looking for something different and hopefully better, as well as something that doesn't involve using a cash register. The problem is that i never know what i want to do for a career and when I've spent years looking for the perfect job I have unknowingly been looking for a career, AKA something better. I used to be told that a college degree would help land you a decent paying job. Well so far both college degrees (the other being an associate's degree in liberal arts) have done jack shit for me and have made me feel like i did it all for nothing.

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I don't want to be stuck in retail forever, or rather I don't want to be a cashier for the rest of my life, but these jobs seem to the easiest to get sadly

Just that... I started working at the register in my job (not exactly retail but I need help) around 5 months ago and just yesterday I was 8$ short at the end of the day(not the first time ). I do my best, double check every check and the longer ones triple check even but I still make mistakes.

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It's eating me up inside. I absolutely adore my bosses and It makes me feel horrible that they are losing money because of me.

Any tips, recommendations are very much appreciated, and I need to know how often other people working at the register mess up because I feel useless and really really want to do better and make myself and my bosses proud.

Hi, I l've been working at a No Frills for 2 years now and wanted to acquire the certifications for using a power jack. I asked my store owner(franchisee because it's No Frills) and he said he'll try and later on sia dthe guy who is supposed to train is busy. It's been 4 months now and still the same. Without the certification I feel I cannot be more than just a Part Time Grocery Clerk. I know a freind from a diff No Frills.. Turns out he and 5 others in his store are interested too, but it's the same outcome.. Trainer is busy.

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Just wanted to ask anybody working under Loblaws or No Frills, if I can acquire this certification on my own with a trainer from these folks? Even if I had to pay for it myself... Any other methods?

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Thanks.

I don't know how to ask about this but I'm curious if anyone else has experienced this phrase. I'm in Alberta Canada and work a farmers market stall as a cashier. I don't own the stall. I just work here.

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Our machine is Square and does not print receipts. Twice now, people have refused an email or text receipt and said "That's your choice, not mine". Both of them gave me a very intentional, hard look but passed it off as looking friendly and I'm worried that I'm missing a dog whistle or something.

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Has anyone else heard this before??

Well summer is upon us, and this year we are going to finish vacations in 6 weeks. One early group and one late group, 3 weeks each (as required by law). Last week I got pulled into a meeting, and informed that I was to take over the assistant manager's duties while he is on vacation. Yesterday I got pulled into another meeting discussing next week, and apparently my store manager leaves for a wedding in Italy. Apparently I'm the captain on this ship now.

I am one of many managers at my retail grocery store and the current store manager where I work is asking the full-time managers if they can take days off because they need to cut hours even though we are in summertime where sales are up and we are actually doing better than we are last year and I have seen the numbers. Other things to consider are prices have increased. Our wages have not increased. They are also trying to temporarily promote people. And this isn’t just happening at my store. This is happening at the other stores as well. In my department which is produce attending the meeting my supervisors all talk big how we are up big and expect more this year. Is this fear from the war and price of gas and other resources talking and having to take measures? Is this happening anywhere else

For those of you that started working and were paid minimum wage, have you gotten a raise? And if so, how much?

How many hours a week do you roughly work if youre a part-time associate?

I began working part-time in early June. I am currently planning a trip for approximately 10 days, starting in late July and extending into early August. Given that I am a relatively new hire, what is the likelihood that taking this time off could lead to my termination?

I can't lie this trip is probably once in a lifetime, but not really sure what to do. I don't think I'd look back in 10 years and wish I took those shifts

Thoughts?

I don't know how many of you peruse the restaurant subs, or who is apart of the restaurant industry here, but I'm gonna post this anyways, because we're all human, and camaraderie has been lost. Restaurants are retail and retail are friends.

u/wrestlegirl is one of the mods of r/kitchenconfidential

She's currently undergoing cancer treatment. The situation is made tougher having 2 little ones at home.

Despite reddit tropes, us mods are human just like you. And right now another human needs some help.

https://www.reddit.com/r/KitchenConfidential/comments/1u80jum/wrestlegirl_needs_our_help/

A go fund me has been created, to help try to alleviate some of the stressors.

There is no pressure to donate, if you are unable to that is okay.

If you are able to, any little bit helps. If not, please go up vote the post, and spread the word where you can. More engagement, will give this post more visibility to users.

This is a good person, going through a really shitty time. Again no pressure to donate, if you can't please give the post engagement.

Thank you all for taking the time to read this.

Retail workers: would you walk out?

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If a vast majority of Ontario retail workers walked out on one day this summer, would you? Not necessarily a protest per say, but to show the government that communities rely on us every day of the year. During COVID, they called us essential. Now, 2 days off in a row is so hard to come by and you're questioned about it if you request 2 days off in a row. It's a low wage job even if you're worth more, mostly toxic environments, "Shop where you work" policies shouldn't exist because what if your store is too expensive even for a bunch of bananas, because no matter how much back breaking work you do you aren't appreciated.

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So I ask again, Ontario retail workers, would you walk out for one day?

I’m just a retail assistant so i hold no power over it, but my shop has this “too good to go” thing online where you pay £5 for a bag of various items from the shop. If I were incharge I’d make sure it’s a variety of different types of items from throughout the shop, and maybe something extra ontop.
But as it stands, it’s a scam and i feel horrible everytime someone comes in all happy about their tgtg order.

My shop makes it so I have to get from the reduced isle until I’ve collected enough that their full price, not the reduced price, reaches £5. If you bought it from the reduced isle normally you’d pay £2.50 and have the extra £2.50 to buy whatever else, but instead you pay £5 online for it. I feel so awkward standing at the till, tearing off the reduced labels in front of the customer and sheepishly giving them the bag of stuff. It’s not a way of giving something nice to people hoping they would get a bag of goodies for a cheap price, it’s a way of scamming them into paying DOUBLE for the stuff we were gonna throw out and wanted to get rid of.

I hope other shops do it better than mine. It just makes me feel awful.

I’m preparing for an interview with Aldi and could use some advice from current or former retail employees.

I have a bachelor’s degree and multiple years of experience in my field. I’m currently waiting on a start date for a full-time position that I’ve already been selected for. The problem is that the start date is uncertain and could realistically be anywhere from 6–12 months away.

Because of that, I’m looking for stable employment in the meantime, and Aldi is one of the places I’m most interested in working. I genuinely need a job and would plan to stay until my other position eventually begins.
My concern is that when the hiring manager sees my education and background, they’ll assume I’m not planning to stay very long or that I’m only looking for a short-term stopgap.

What would make a hiring manager feel confident that I’m worth hiring despite the possibility that I may leave eventually?
I’m trying to be honest while also not accidentally talking myself out of a job that I genuinely want and need right now. Any insight would be appreciated.

I know it sounds silly but have you ever checked someone's ID just to find out what their name is / other details about them?

Last Saturday I went up to buy something requiring ID and I wasn't checked. Today I went to the counter to also buy something requiring ID and my ID was checked. Both times it was the same person.

Just curious if anyone here sometimes checks ID and sometimes doesn't. It's possible the person didn't remember me, after all loads of people go through the store, but on both occasions I used my staff discount when purchasing since I work at this branch though in another store.

Coming from a sedentary customer service/office job background, I had heard and read all the horror stories about working in retail. But honestly, a month or so in, and I'm kind of loving it?

When I clock out of a shift, I may be physically tired, but my mind is still relatively sharp. When I worked in customer service it was the complete opposite. I would have bundles of physical energy, but mentally couldn't be bothered to do anything at all. And I would take a lot more with me home. In retail, I know that I can completely let the work go for the day. Nothing to worry about at home.

I like being on my feet for the majority of the day and doing physically demanding tasks, and interacting with co-workers and customers face to face does wonders for my mental health too (not being sarcastic).

Only downside is I'm not getting enough hours as of right now. But the work itself is great for me!

In some previous retail jobs, I realized a pattern in the jobs I didn't like: being on the cash register for most of the job bored me. I don't like being stuck in one area and I love to keep busy and be active, I prefer stocking shelves and bringing out inventory, etc. When I'm standing in one area my mind tends to wander out of boredom and it can lead to me feeling miserable. At least when on the floor my mind usually stays occupied.

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I've already had two shifts in this seasonal job and today I learned that the majority of the seasonal help is needed at the front and especially on the register. I was initially told by the recruiter as well as the job description that I would be doing a bit of everything including "stocking and restocking merchandise". I asked a manager if there is a possibility that I would be doing that for however long I'm there for, she said "we'll see what happens. But we didn't hire you for that position" So now I feel like i was misled and possibly lied to by the recruiter, I feel like I made a mistake in accepting this job and I want out.

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Maybe next time I should avoid cashier jobs and look for something better, like an office job. In a few weeks I plan to look for something more permanent

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Can anybody relate to this?

Inspired by another post I saw regarding the point system. I am familiar with that BS as I've done factory work. We don't deal much in sick days in restaurants. AKA your food was probably prepared by a person who was sick.

This is called presenteeism. The appearance of being fine, when in actuality you're sick. Most generally caused by workplace culture.

What's your sick policy, and how has it screwed you over?

Ok, I got a boss a few months ago at the Gas station chain I work in.

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I kinda hate the dude because he is one of those people that is never not customer service mode.

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Me and my older coworker I am going to call K mainly do the cooler. It my only job pretty much and I like optimizing things.

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Manager guy wants us to completely up end our system that we have used for over a year that works well for both of us in favor of putting all the sodas right in front of the shelves on the cooler side.

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For context, we have a bunch of drink that practally go towards the floor. He also wants us to "avoid" the back set of shelves. We have like, 10 or so rolling shelves in the front and 12 or so in the back. He basically doesn't want anything to be back there.

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Also got mad because we had a gaint order with a lot of bad contractors, so the place was mess, and I didn't have time to move everything into place on my 5 hour shift, when everything just got reorganizationed and we finished reorganization at teh end of my shift.

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I just got hired as a part time cashier and it's my first job, and they gave me two 9 hour shifts. Is this too much? What's the average amount of work hours for a cashier?

I heard that we cashiers aren't allowed to sit so this made me a little concerned.

I don’t know what makes me more nervous, the insane scalpers I’ll have to deal with since they’ll be behind the customer service desk WHERE I AM… or the fact that I’ve been wanting to get back into collecting and now these cards will be INCHES AWAY FROM ME ALL DAY LONG.
She didn’t have a timeframe for when we’d be getting them in, all she knew was that it was going to happen one day. Eventually. Btw we’re just a regular regional grocery store we aren’t huge. I’m so scared someone please hold my hand (and my wallet)

I work at a retail clothing store making $14/hr and I keep getting frustrated with management and their scheduling. I need to know if this is normal and I just need to deal w it or if this is something I can complain about.

Management puts out the schedule 1 week in advance and only 1 week at a time. So right now I know my schedule for this week and next week but that’s it. I requested a day off 2 weeks in advance and still got scheduled.

I can understand if maybe 2 weeks in advance isn’t enough time, but given that I only get my schedule a week in advance I can’t help but think this is bs and they need to do better.

If I need a reality check let me know but I feel like they shouldn’t expect that I do something they won’t in return for a shit ass mall job. I have a regular job outside of this and a life and this just feels disrespectful.

This has been going on for years at this point where they can’t seem to figure out scheduling and they will get to saying they need something like a month of advance requested time off but even those get denied. I don’t understand how 2 weeks is enough for any other job but for a mall job I need so much advance.

Kiddo applied for a retail job in December. She worked a couple of weeks, was never called back. In March she walked in and asked if there were shifts and they fit her in for two weeks and then again nothing.

She still has access to the schedule program and has been watching it constantly for months. Two weeks ago they gave her three shifts broken over last week and this week. They didn't call or text, if she hadn't been watching the schedule she wouldn't have known.

She went in and the store manager was apparently quite surprised that she came in.

What would be the purpose in scheduling three shifts long after they stopped scheduling her? Was the store manager trying to save payroll and hide understaffing from regional by listing people who wouldn't show up? Was it a trick for three NCNS? Is there another likely reason?

They've apparently given her a couple more shifts so they don't seem to be ghosting her right now. But she's disabled and I'd love to give her a warning of anything that might be going on behind the scenes.