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... is so the employees can escape from the customers for a few precious moments and mutter vile things under their breath.
Well, that's what I've been doing.
I just got my first job working in shoes at a certain department store that has a sale every freaking week that promises you to "expect great things". On my first day my computer training refused to work, so they decided to stick me in shoes and just clean up the area. All. By. My. Self. with no training
Of course I had to start working right as all the little kiddies would be shopping for new shoes to start the school year. And these precious little munchkins lack certain skills. None of them seem capable of putting lids on boxes, paper back in boxes, or even putting shoes back on boxes. The children shoe section looked as if Godzilla himself had declared shoes to be Tokyo.
At first I was blaming the munchkins, but then I remembered that in order for the munchkins to even enter the store, their parents would have had to accompanied them. This little factoid donned on me when I saw a grown woman leaving the shoes her daughter had tried on in a pile right next to the shelf they go on.
When I went home, I thanked my mom for teaching me to put away stuff when I was done. Because of that glorious woman, I grew up not realizing that the rack in front of dressing rooms was there for the clothes you tried on, since she had me putting things away where I got them from.
I'm still baffled as to why customers were getting grumpy over how long it was taking me to find things, when as soon as they asked me for help, I would apologize right then and there for being new and inexperienced. Apparently "This is my first day and have had no training" equals, "I'm not worthy of being as treated human".
Fortunately, I was eventually able to get some help, but still every person would approach the flustered looking me, instead of one of my more experienced co-workers.
Well, that's what I've been doing.
I just got my first job working in shoes at a certain department store that has a sale every freaking week that promises you to "expect great things". On my first day my computer training refused to work, so they decided to stick me in shoes and just clean up the area. All. By. My. Self. with no training
Of course I had to start working right as all the little kiddies would be shopping for new shoes to start the school year. And these precious little munchkins lack certain skills. None of them seem capable of putting lids on boxes, paper back in boxes, or even putting shoes back on boxes. The children shoe section looked as if Godzilla himself had declared shoes to be Tokyo.
At first I was blaming the munchkins, but then I remembered that in order for the munchkins to even enter the store, their parents would have had to accompanied them. This little factoid donned on me when I saw a grown woman leaving the shoes her daughter had tried on in a pile right next to the shelf they go on.
When I went home, I thanked my mom for teaching me to put away stuff when I was done. Because of that glorious woman, I grew up not realizing that the rack in front of dressing rooms was there for the clothes you tried on, since she had me putting things away where I got them from.
I'm still baffled as to why customers were getting grumpy over how long it was taking me to find things, when as soon as they asked me for help, I would apologize right then and there for being new and inexperienced. Apparently "This is my first day and have had no training" equals, "I'm not worthy of being as treated human".
Fortunately, I was eventually able to get some help, but still every person would approach the flustered looking me, instead of one of my more experienced co-workers.
(Name changed to protect the corporate.)
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