Work that requires to ask for credit.

[Food Lady]

So today I'm on service desk, you know, putting out fires all day. I literally at times have 2 people needing my help at once. I'm just trying to stay afloat, as there are tons of defective items being returned. So the store manager wants me to ask every single customer to sign up. While they're returning stuff. On a Saturday. I love her, I really do, but that's just totally unrealistic.

[EricKei]

Speaking of unrealistic expectations and credit cards...Retail strikes again ^__^ Their current storyline is about exactly this topic, with the new guy (an ASM who has very much drunk the Kool-Aid) finding out first hand how it all *really* works. Link is to the start of the relevant storyline.

http://retailcomic.com/comics/april-18-2016/

[WoodenSunshine]

The way it was explained to me (at Big Box Electronics Store) is that credit card companies (Visa, MasterCard, etc.) charge x amount per transaction that the store has to pay. Thus, the Company Credit Card doesn't cost anything for the company and it promotes brand loyalty </end Kool Aid spiel>

It was really frustrating for me, because the company I worked for recently started HEAVILY pushing it and it created this....environment where it didn't matter if you sold a million dollars with protection and everything, if you didn't get a credit card, you failed. I abhor being pushed to sign up for credit cards. I don't have the credit for it and I always buy stuff when I know I have the money for it. I refused to push customers to do it too.

[icmedia]

To be fair, a Kohls charge card is probably the only one I've seen that actually has a substantial discount/coupon program...

I used to buy work/dress clothes from Kohls and spend $150-$200 each time I went. My wife, using her Kohls Cash, % Off coupons, and Kohls Card, gets me the exact same amount of clothing for around $75. We even bought both my teens' school outfits last year for around $100 even, and if we had paid full sticker price it would have been over $500.

[BearLeeBadenaugh]

Interesting bit on the KotH episode. Wouldn't have flown here in WI. Years back, working as an EMT, we had to wait on more than one occasion for a tower with hazmat endorsements. To the best of my knowledge, you still need the endorsements to tow a truck with a hazardous load.

[Nunavut Pants]

One wonders if the applications have to be correct, or in any way factual, to count?

Like, would you be in trouble if all of your customers just happened to give bogus names and socials on their quota-fulfilling applications? ... Uhh, just asking for a friend...

[Trixie]

Well, I know at Kohls and probably most places now they do it right at the registers. So uh, probably not worth it?

But this did remind me of when my company was on a push to get people to sign up for emails. At the time our registers weren't capable of it so we just had a paper by the registers. Well, we had to get I'll say 10 a shift. Oh we got our 10 a shift. I'd like to apologize to anyone that got signed up without knowing they did. But we did have fun making up emails!

[Food Lady]

One wonders if the applications have to be correct, or in any way factual, to count?

Like, would you be in trouble if all of your customers just happened to give bogus names and socials on their quota-fulfilling applications? ... Uhh, just asking for a friend...

At my job they don't even have to qualify. As long as the app pushes through I get credit.