It's not like his job is that hard!

[Lace Neil Singer]

Reminds me of a teenage girl who turned up to the pet store with her mother once. She was talking to her mother, saying she wanted a job to earn some extra money. Her mother asked her, "What sort of job?" and the girl replied, "I dunno, something easy I guess, like her job," and pointed to me.

Yeah, cuz I can totally see teenage girl working hard cleaning out the rabbits and guinea pigs twice a week and the birds and rodents once a week; constantly hefting heavy sacks of cat litter and animal feed about; sweeping the floor every thirty seconds; doing the order forms and constantly having to serve customers. Yeah, my pet store job was like, totally easy.

[XCashier]

"I dunno, something easy I guess, like her job," and pointed to me.
...Yeah, my pet store job was like, totally easy.

People who've never worked in customer service always think it's totally easy. How quickly they learn otherwise when they find themselves wearing the nametag.

[NateTheChops]

totally easy.

I know some students who desperately need to read this comic.

[Sapphire Silk]

I have a friend who collected them. Said he was going to re-shingle his roof with them.

Solar roof, eh?

I know some students who desperately need to read this comic.

I put it in my list.

[EricKei]

I did an archive trawl of this one a while back. It's worthy, and it rings eerily true in many ways. Heck, I even picked up their book for cheap from Amazon ^_^ (no compliations are out yet, this is more of a retail worker's survivial guide with comics liberally mixed in)

[Mytical]

I am sad to admit, I was one of those who thought most supervisory jobs were easy. Mostly, I think, because the supervisors I had never actually pitched in at any time. Until I started working 3rd shift at wally world. Even I couldn't help but notice that one supervisor we had worked her behind off. If things needed to be done, she would jump in and get them done. Worked just as hard as the workers, and still had the supervisor thing to do.

Then..I actually became a supervisor. Yes it was dang hard work (especially because I was the jump in and get things done type myself), but it was a good job. At least until I ended up hurting myself. Probably still would have been working there if not. Sure, there were nights we didn't get everything accomplished, and yes upper management seemed to think the little red capes actually made us into super beings or something...but we managed to do the impossible nightly..and it felt good.

There are managers who wouldn't pitch in under any circumstances, and then there are MANAGERS. Those who will do for the workers are amazing, and usually have workers who are willing to do for them. While it is easy to paint management as 'spineless, lazy, etc', when you find those managers who are NOT that..it is a wonderful thing. Sadly they do tend to get chewed up and spit out by the system..because if you think WE have hard work..they do what we do AND their own jobs. So to you GOOD managers out there, thank you for all your hard work, have a great holiday, and take a vacation or three..you deserve it.

Sorry for the threadjack/offtopic

[Kristev]

I agree. My own boss was actually rather lawful/neutral. She was good she got promoted to Co-Manager in another state.

It was the morons under her, above her, and the mismanagers before her I detested, and the one after her that fired me.

Mind you, she didn't let me do anything wrong. But she didn't let anyone else, either. And she was a fair manager. As long as you did your job, you wouldn't have a problem.

[Sakka]

I've had various people and relatives over the years tell me that my job is easy. I mean, how hard is it to fix computers every day?

[Lovecats]

I've had various people and relatives over the years tell me that my job is easy. I mean, how hard is it to fix computers every day?

My daughter works as a computer programer for a major insurance company. She got a t-shirt for Christmas that says, "Computers Do Not Damage Your Thinker Thingy".

[Jester]

I was once guilty of this.

My first job as a 16 year old moron was as a short order cook in a restaurant. I worked my ass off, and after several months, thought that the servers were just making easy money. So I asked to be cross-trained as a server, and they allowed me to do that.

And that was the last time I called just about any job easy, as I found out just how hard it is to be a server!

Yes, there are easy jobs out there, but I rarely ever judge someone's job to be easy if I don't know about it. Because a lot of jobs may look easy on the surface, but in reality are not.

[earl colby pottinger]

Hard?

I've had various people and relatives over the years tell me that my job is easy. I mean, how hard is it to fix computers every day?

Relatives who I don't charge are forced to sit with me while I work, if they get up - I get up - I talk their ear off every single step I have to do. And if it is the right type of job I refuse to even touch the computer, instead I make them do the work while I give directions. It is amazing how fast they start saying "How much long is this going to take." when they are doing the work.

If you do the work and spend hours on their problem , it was 'EASY FOR YOU TO DO',
but if you force them to do it in less than half an hour it suddenly becomes 'THIS IS SO HARD, HOW SOON TO FINISH?'.

And heaven help the person who dares use the the word 'JUST' around me.

[XCashier]

Any job looks easy when the worker has trained for a long time and knows the routine by heart.

Go to the ballet and watch the dancers glide gracefully across the stage. Looks easy, right? They train daily for years, use muscles you never do, and one injury can destroy their career. Athletes, same thing.

I'm sure my job looks extremely easy to my customers. Cut fabric, easy peasy, right? You'd be surprised at how much math is involved (I love impressing customers with how fast I can figure it out). Certain fabrics can be extremely fussy to cut; one errant breeze and it's all crooked. Other fabrics are thick and leave you with cramped hands after cutting it. Frequently the factory rolled it onto the bolt badly and we have to fix it. Plus we have to put all that fabric back on the right shelf, draped or tucked a certain way to look good, reshelve fabric dumped on the floor or crammed the wrong way onto the shelf or on the wrong shelf, which doesn't look it but it is a lot of physical work.

I've no doubt that many of Jester's customers think his job is easy. But how many drink recipes has he had to learn and master to the point that he does it by memory? Not to mention dealing with broken glass, spilled food/beverages, fighting drunks, etc. Really, any one of us can say the same about our jobs; that it's nowhere near as easy as our customers think it is, we just make it look easy!

[Lace Neil Singer]

People think my current job is easy. XD Actually, any job where you have to deal with the general public is far from easy; plus we're loaded with legal considerations when selling fuel that we have to make sure we abide by. I've often had to fill out a delivery form at the same time as serving a line of customers; have to make sure the form is filled out correctly, cuz one mistake could ensure that I a) have to tear it up and start again if I notice it or b) get the PFS hit with a fine for a returned delivery if I don't. O.o

[raudf]

Oh, I'd had the "You're job is sooo easy!" comment when working at Monkey Wards Repair. I'd get a customer who'd walk in, see the tech working on an electronics (had a bay opening for the electronics so TVs could be plugged in and people could see they worked) and look at me sitting at my desk. "Oh, you have it soooo easy compared to the tech!"

Uh-huh. Right. What was I doing at my desk, so nice and pretty? Being chewed out by an SC for not being able to have the tech out to her house to fix her big screen that day. And having to repeat the policy of "if it's not a heater during the winter, A/C during the summer or a refrigerator, we can't do emergency calls." Icing on the call was that said idiot had waited a week before calling it in and wanted it fixed to watch a very important game that night. (And it needed a board, which was on back order, I found out later.)

Needless to say, the call got forwarded to my manager, who like an idiot, put it on speaker phone in his not at all sound proof office... and the counter customer got treated to an earful of what I did for a living. Cue the OMG face and profuse apologies. And the customer only saw that small portion of what I did at the job.

[downforit2008]

The spoiled teen who claimed, "His job isn't THAT hard!" wouldn't last a week in Retail, and stupid comments like that only proves that the American people don't know crap about Retail.

A bill should be passed making every American work at least 6 months to a year in Retail before they can qualify for anything else to work at. It would make for some better customers when those customers know what you're going through!