A Case Of The Mondays: Vent Your Work Spleen Here

[StatisticalOutlier]

On 11/11/2024 at 12:17 PM, Bookish Jen said:

I think this happened while I was listening to a post-election podcast.

Were you on a break, or do you get to listen to podcasts while you're on the clock? 

[Bookish Jen]

On 11/13/2024 at 9:03 PM, StatisticalOutlier said:

Were you on a break, or do you get to listen to podcasts while you're on the clock? 

I get to listen to podcasts while on the clock as long as I wear my ear buds.

[Ohiopirate02]

1 hour ago, Bookish Jen said:

I get to listen to podcasts while on the clock as long as I wear my ear buds.

I can also listen to podcasts depending on what I am doing in my office. There's a big part of my job that is straight up busywork and listening to a podcast or some music helps make the task easier.

[Cloud9Shopper]

It only took me one shift today to learn that working retail during the holiday season is a special type to hell thanks to the following customers at the grocery store today:

-The lady who bought over $400 worth of groceries and then decided not to buy at least 12 other things she originally had in her cart, including four gallons of milk and roughly eight jars of pasta sauce, and probably some other things I’m forgetting. Also, the juice from the turkey she was debating getting promptly leaked on my counter by the register. (She decided to get it.) Thankfully a courtesy clerk was nearby and she was able to help me make all the returns. The customer then decided she needed to pay with three different cards.

-The lady who told me my conveyor belt was “gross” because I had had so much time to clean it (/s) with back to back to back customers.

-Also, all the people who are picky about the bills they want for cash back. I have what I have, Carol; take it or go to the courtesy desk for change. 

None of these things ruined my shift or anything but why do all the worst people come out of the woodwork for the holiday? 

Maybe I should have put my notice in a couple weeks ago after all. 🤣 I was just overwhelmed at the time and impulse reacted. My manager didn’t seem to care that I retracted it; if she was mad she got over it in about four seconds. 

[Cloud9Shopper]

Today is my last day at the grocery store. I put in notice last week and told my boss I’d be available through the end of this week (we only get our schedule a week at a time), but she just scheduled me for today because I was busy this week anyway. I got the full time job and raise I wanted and am still training on the core responsibilities of my new title, so it’s time to leave the world of retail behind and have more work-life balance again while I focus on my new job.

While I’ll miss my coworkers and the majority of the customers were fine, I won’t miss customers complaining when they had to use self-checkout at five minutes to close, the nitpicking some of them do about coupons, the ones who came through with bad body odor that nearly made me gag…and I won’t miss working on the weekend or until 9:00 on a weeknight. I also won’t miss my manager being disorganized and scheduling me when I said I wasn’t available or being asked to cover for teenagers. 

Honestly, I won’t go back to retail or entry level customer service again unless it’s a last resort due to a job loss or I have another financial hardship where my primary job won’t cover expenses. Now that I’m out of the general call center queues and will be quitting retail, I think I’ve earned the right to work a little less hard and focus on gaining experience for an even better job in 3-5 years. 

Edited Sunday at 01:36 PM by Cloud9Shopper