Retail Is Hell

I’m an overworked underpaid bakery clerk in a grocery store. I’ll share stories of shitty customers and bad management

[thisretailhell]

Update 2

There bakery department is like twice the size of mine. And we’re still bumping into one another.

[thisretailhell]

So I’m working at another store today for 8 hours.

Right off the bat the people seem nice. But this store appears to not have had any updates since it was built in the 80’s

[thisretailhell]

I just remembers the time when our store manager told the cake decorators that they had to make everything fresh in the showcase every 2-3 days, and they couldn’t make frozen prep. You know because frozen isn’t fresh.

That policy didn’t even last a week.

And that on making policies in a department you never worked in.

[thisretailhell]

Update: she is still making policies in a department she doesn’t understand.

She took away our filing system for cake orders (cause it looked ugly). Has now decided to take away our small cooler for the same reason. We tried to explain that without it cakes will crack. But you know #aesthetic.

She gets mad when we sell out of stuff for the day. Yet when we make a bunch of stuff and have to distress it, she cuts our hours.

Routinely comes by when I’m busy and asks me to fill stuff (not a big deal, but I hate how she acts like it’s a priority when it’s clearly not and I’m busy with other stuff)

I’m done. I’m tired

[thisretailhell]

I find it funny that the only department still masking 100% is the pharmacy. Turns out people with medical knowledge do in fact know that the mask is important.

God I wished I worked there

[thisretailhell]

Literally every store in the mall: “no mask, no service. You will be kicked out, no exceptions. Can’t wear one, shop online.”

My store: “can you pretty please wear a mask. It doesn’t even need to be a medical mask, it can be a scarf. We’re not going to enforce it though, because we don’t want you to be mad at us”

[lizstiel]

one time a dude came into the pet store I worked at and bought nine dollars worth of dog treats with a 100 dollar bill that had clearly been made from green construction paper. when I hesitated and ran it through all the methods of testing we had (it failed all of them) he asked for my manager. she had been shitty with me all morning, and came to the register in a huff, grabbed it from me, slammed it in the register and told me to “just do my job.” this dude and I are looking at each other, both of us 100% aware that he’s getting 90 dollars from me in exchange for a piece of construction paper that had been cut a little crooked, and he’s just smiling at me and I’m standing there, overworked and tired, getting paid minimum wage, which, it turns out, is not enough to speak up any further, so I just said fuck it. When I got to work the next day there were cops there to inform us we were the fourth or fifth shop on the road to get hit by the same guy. My manager was going HOGWILD. I just looked at her like

[the-oncoming-glowcloud]

“"idc any more, take the money and godspeed”“

[unpopularvevo-deactivated202311]

[thisretailhell]

I just remembers the time when our store manager told the cake decorators that they had to make everything fresh in the showcase every 2-3 days, and they couldn’t make frozen prep. You know because frozen isn’t fresh.

That policy didn’t even last a week.

And that on making policies in a department you never worked in.

[thisretailhell]

My job is going to make me loose my shit. Our fridge is broken, our whip cream machine is broken, put cardboard baler is broken.

Today is Valentine’s Day, so

Of course it was the perfect day to get three new people in floral for training. Oh and my manger didn’t bring in enough Valentine’s Day stuff.

I hate holidays

[thelatestkate]

It matters. YOU matter. Let’s face forward and head into 2021 together.

[thisretailhell]

Had an old man come in yeasterday and asked if I could slice his bread. Told him the whole spiel about COVID-19 measures to prevent cross contamination.

Only to be told “oh, getting political are we?”

Like, no. I’m just doing my fucking job during a fucking pandemic you ass.

[thisretailhell]

I swear Some old men want to see god.

I was helping an old man yesterday. Helped him find what he needed and told him to have a good day.

He turned to me and said “good evening, you’re supposed to wish people a good evening.”

Like fuck, I was just trying to be polite

[thisretailhell]

When I say I would rather get a root canal then work closing on Christmas this year, I mean it.

[thisretailhell]

Also stop saying that the masks make it difficult for you to talk. Speak up and enunciate. Don’t take off your mask.

And six feet away please

[thisretailhell]

If I get one more asshole who comes in and is like “what do you mean you can’t slice my bread” or “why don’t you have bulk buns” I’m going to scream. Like theses measure have been in place since March, why are you acting like you don’t know.

[thisretailhell]

One thing good about this pandemic is that I will never call myself a retail worker. I am now an essential service worker.

Force me to work through a global pandemic and you bet I am going to flaunt my new title.

[thisretailhell]

It’s crazy how all of the customers who used to yell at me before COVID-19, now want to take their mask off so they don’t have to yell.

[thisretailhell]

Low-key happy that I am back in school. Now I don’t have to spend my days at the store.