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  • #16
    At teh Depot I did nearly everything from pushing dollar bills to pulling 1/2 ton pallets of paper from receiving to the front end of the store.

    I did strictly cashiering for about 1/3 of my total tenure, and another 1/3 stocking/receiving.

    Also: Furniture, mostly covering the salespeople's breaks/lunches.
    Cash Office, I did this for a year straight, and off and on at various times.
    Technology: Just setting the occasional planogram, no sales.

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    • #17
      Quoth El Barto View Post
      In the past month:


      DSD Receiving aka babysitting the Pepsi and Frito Lay reps
      Yep . . . I think I need to charge more for that service. As it is now, I've been told I'm the head honcho of our store's Vendor Harrassment Program.

      As a side note: it can be a good place to meet guys.
      Human Resources - the adult version of "I'm telling Mom." - Agent Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo (NCIS)

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      • #18
        At my first grocery store I worked in:
        - Cashier
        - Service Desk/Office (including Acting Head Cashier)
        - Utility Clerk/Bagger (never officially was classified as one though)
        - Grocery
        - Bakery (1 day emergency fill in)
        - Deli (usually mid-shift or closer, emergency opener if needed)
        - Dairy

        If the store had stayed open I was possibly going to be up for a key carrier position.

        Second store:
        - Cashier (checklane and self scan)
        - Office/Service Desk (including back-up head cashier)
        - Utility Clerk/Bagger
        - Bakery/Deli (emergency fill-in for about two hours)
        - Produce (was the backup dept. head for about three weeks)
        - Pricing/file maintenance
        - Grocery (including Dairy/Frozen as needed)

        Third store (same company as second, just transferred):
        - Cashier (checklane and self scan)
        - Office/Service Desk (including backup head cashier - unofficially)
        - Utility Clerk/Bagger
        - Grocery
        - Pricing (including backup Pricing Coordinator)
        - CAO
        - Dairy
        - Manager-in-charge (fill in for about three hours - longest three hours of my work career)

        Pretty much I stayed out of the meat room and away from the bakery as much as possible. In one day at the first grocery store I started the day as a mid-shift office clerk, became a cashier, then deli closer, then office closer with about an hour of bagger thrown in for good measure.

        At one point at the first grocery store there was only one person I could trade hours with, since we were the only two people cross-trained in the same way (close/open office, cashier, deli). That really sucked when we would want time off, as one of us HAD to be in the store. Apparently the word "overtime" didn't mean much to management there as the two of us had enough of it.
        Answers are easy...it is asking the right questions which is hard.

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        • #19
          At Goodwill, I started as a cashier.

          Then I was moved to pricing and stocking the clothes, along with cashiering duties.

          Then add pricing everything that wasn't clothes, and stocking them, to the above.

          I also took in the donations (added bonus, had to train 5 new guys with that, and I'd never done it officially).

          I also had to train a supervisor on how to do returns.

          Yeah, I think it's safe to say I did just about everything there.
          Unseen but seeing
          oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
          There isn't enough interpretive dance in the workplace these days-Irv
          3rd shift needs love, too
          RIP, mo bhrionglóid

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          • #20
            When I worked at the EES, I was a cashier (would have been promoted on my bagging skills, too ), and one day I covered in Electronics for ½ hour or so. Pretty weird. Had to walk a video game to Lay-A-Way.
            I'm bringing disdain back...with a vengeance.

            Oh, and your tool box called...you got out again.

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            • #21
              so far ive been a head cashier, ive run the newsstand, ran the history dept, ran the bargain department, and currently im running fiction. they also like to steal me when new stores open so i can help set up.
              Kim: She's got one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.

              I'd like to exercise my constitutional right to not give a fuck.

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              • #22
                Quoth BeckySunshine View Post
                Salad bar*
                Hot foods*
                Sandwich station*
                Deli
                Seafood
                Produce
                Front end
                Floral
                Meat room (unofficially)
                Online shopping
                Add "Culinary Workshop" to this impressive list.


                Oh, and bakery, too.

                All I have left is frozen, dairy and grocery. I'd add sushi, but it's filled from the outside.
                Unseen but seeing
                oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
                There isn't enough interpretive dance in the workplace these days-Irv
                3rd shift needs love, too
                RIP, mo bhrionglóid

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                • #23
                  With my current job? Just the one I'm in (tier 3). However, at my tier 2 job, within 3 months, I was doing floor control, working tank (newbie training pool), coaching fellow employees in team, updating fellow employees in team about new policies, working break phone, AND getting back on the phones when they really really needed me...which I avoided, if at all possible. That was about the most depressing job I've ever worked (when on the phones anyway)...kinda strange how I can handle this one so well.
                  You can find me on Backloggery, Facebook, Twitch, Twitter, YouTube

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                  • #24
                    When I worked in Staples, I was the "Sales Technician". I did sales in the electronics department and tech upgrades. I also worked in every other position that didn't have "manager" in the title. Too bad I took a job with HP before they could promote me.
                    Quote Dalesys:
                    ... as in "Ifn thet dawg comes at me, Ima gonna shutz ma panz!"

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                    • #25
                      I have worked in 4 areas of my store
                      Registers, Customer Greeter, Sound & Vision and General Merch (on the floor)

                      GM is the only section I don't regularly work (some days I work in all three of the other areas)

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                      • #26
                        and we're off!


                        1.stock guy
                        2.Picker/Slotter
                        3.Garden Center Sup
                        4.Picker/slotter
                        5. Shipper/Receiver
                        6.Picker/Slotter
                        7.Upper Floor Service
                        8.Garden Center Worker
                        9. Major Home fashions
                        10. Home Electronics
                        11. Got the eff out

                        and that was my 3 years at the wonderful retail world of Zellers (haha i bet a few of you thought I was a staples workhorse )
                        Fan? This is shit. Shit? Meet fan.

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