My First Year Of Retail

While my job isn’t the best; it’s better than nothing. Working in the past eight months at Rite Aid, I’ve seen employees come and go at least once a month. My job title is “Sales Associate”. This merely doesn’t describe all my responsibilities. They range from receiving new merchandise on Mondays and Thursdays, which what we call ‘truck night’ to mopping the floor of pharmacy before I am able to call it a night. We are understaffed and consequently, I am overloaded with duties and by the time the morning comes, I am exhausted to the point where I am unable to concentrate in school. During the eight months, the majority of the Monday and Thursday nights, it has been the Night Time Assistant Manager and I. this is basically two people single

Being forced to choose between what is morally right and what is legally right without the negative repercussions puts me in a tough situation. I am currently serving active duty army, with a part-time job in a retail store called Charlotte Russe. Now this store’s target audience are young females anywhere from teenagers to women trying to look trendy and chic. The employees are usually aged to fresh out of high school or early mid 20’s. At our store we have a wide variety to include well, me. A young solider raised in the west coast currently surrounded by people from Tennessee. Charlotte Russe is usually always a simple routine 4 or 5 hour shift. Clock-In, greet and assist customers, put away the go backs (unwanted clothes from the fitting

I remeber I asked my boss before for a raise, he laughed in my face and said "There have been people here way longer than you and they have been getting the same hourly wage since they got here, I can't afford to waste my money on all of you waitresses". My prime example shown owners of resturants do not care about thier waitresses.

When I was working at Target there were two mangers that I was to train and help if they needed it. The conflict was that they come in and changed everything in our stations. Which was uncomfortable due to that I had more experience and was working there longer. Nothing work well within the ream after that point.

I entered your store this evening to rent a Redbox movie at around 7:30pm. When I walked into the store, I saw a young female slouched over on the customer's side of the counter eating what appeared to be her dinner. I found this to be somewhat unprofessional and made me feel uncomfortable. I continued to mind my own business and looked for a movie at the Redbox kiosk. I then heard a female talking amongst her other coworkers and very loudly say "suck my dick" and make other comments that were very inappropriate to her coworkers. I turned around to look at the workers to make sure I was hearing this correctly. I was in disbelief that this behavior would occur in a restaurant full of customers. Upon exit of the restaurant the young female and

Most of the people that work in the front of the store are younger and are able to endure more but the ladies that work in the back are all middle aged women which have the hardest job within the company. They are all on their feet for eight

At the time, my school Grand Canyon University opened the first burger joint, Habit Burger. Again, it was a new restaurant, but this time the management was from the school. When I was there I did cash handling and operation of the cash register, served food to customers, stocked all items and took inventory, helped prepare food, and bussing and cleaned all tables. But it was not like that at first. You would think that it would be running smoothly, but wrong. Grand Canyon University was hiring new managers and students who did not know how to work cash registers or let alone machines. We all trained ourselves to work the machines and everything. I was one of the few who could learn quickly and tried to teach the other students. After a couple of months of disorganized chaos, I talked with my boss to see if there was anything to help, but he said I could not do anything. I started to tell the other students what needed to be done. We all would clock in and I would tell someone to do dining, two to count in and do cash register, one person does to shakes, two to do prep work, and two to serving. After that, we all caught on what needed to be done. I also suggested having shift leaders during each shift to help order what needs to get done. They liked that idea and started hiring and recruiting those to be shift leaders. I was not one and did not want to be one because it became stressful overtime. I only did so if the shift leader was gone. After all that, Habit was finally running smoothly and became the popular place to hang out in my

Since I don’t have a job at the moment, I decided to do this post based on my most previous place of employment. I worked for Littleton Coin Company, a local employee owned company that deals with the selling and buying of coins. It is an outcome oriented culture. Everyone is expected to do their best to make sure customers return and refer their friends and family. You are expected to do whatever possible to keep the customer happy, they even have a department that deals with the Whales so they have their own personal customer service rep. I worked in the at home order processing department, I went to the office daily and retrieved/returned work. There were many areas of conflict, especially as a homeworker. We were considered part-time but

WAL-MART changed my hours from 9a.m.-6a.m. to 7a.m.-4p.m. This job is in Dallas/Richardson area i live in the South Dallas Area.I depend on Public transporation to get to work. There are a morsel of opprutnities to take public transporation in the early morning hours. This caused me to be late on numerous occasions.I learned from my mistakes by working only in the dallas area excusevly.

As I walked back to my car, I reflected on my experience working at the mall as a cosmetics sales person. I had more intimacy with shoppers than other sales positions because I was selling them something personal. I think about the smells of the lotions, perfumes and the colorful palette of lipsticks. I remember standing behind the counter with my shoes off or sneaking into facial room to take a quick nap. I hated wearing makeup to promote the products to look pretty but you get into trouble if you didn’t promote the cosmetic line. What does the cosmetic counter represent? British journalist Deborah Ross (2011), did a story working behind the counter calls it the “hostile make-over bid” surrounded by girls putting cakey crap on your face

While I was working at a fast food restaurant I was doing a lot of long hours of surprisingly hard work. I mainly worked with adults out at the store on the high way. During this time I had strong personal power but that is something that you must leave at home or mask over during work because mostly everyone had a structural power over me. Being older and getting paid more made all the adults feel that they were at the top of the work place hierarchy, which in actually fact we were all equal apart from the managers who didn't do any labour they just did paper work out the back because the store had just opened. If I was working with just the adults then I would be the one doing all the work while the managers where doing office work. I would be told by other burger room staff to do all the dishes, work the broiler, make burgers, cook fries and

I have worked for Macy’s Inc. as a makeup artist in cosmetics for about a year now. Over the entire year my biggest and most consistent issue with being employed there is the scheduling system. The system is focused around a computerized software system. Employees are required to provide their preferred availability and actual availability. Preferred availability is the times and days that you would like to be scheduled. Your actual availability are the day and times that you are literally available. Employees are only allowed to alter their availability twice a year. In this computerized system employees have the ability to advertise shifts that they cannot work. Advertising shifts allows employees to make their shift available for other employees to cover and work. The scheduling system allows employees to do other important tasks like calling off, requesting paid time off, pick up extra shifts, and keep track of

Last semester break provided me an opportunity to work in a store of J.Crew as a part time counter sales assistant. J.Crew is a leading women fashion store, headquartered in USA but has branches in Canada, USA, and in Europe. Due to the economic crisis, the store was facing profit declines in last two years period. The store manger was a middle aged qualified but a rigid person as far as work distribution and performance monitoring was concerned. Due to the pressure from top management to increase profits, manager put extra pressure on every employee. The shift timings were increased, bonuses were stopped, and un-necessary work load was forced on every employee.

This summer, I got my very first job as a cashier at a local grocery store. On my first day, I held the enthusiasm and zeal equal to that of a child waiting to open presents on Christmas Day. That excitement drained pretty quickly because as it turns out, grocery shopping is NOT a pleasant experience for most people. Needless to say, by the time they’ve struggled through the store, picked out their groceries, and dragged their cart with the one wheel that turns wildly to the left, these people are not happy campers. And who has to deal with them? I do. In my few short months in the grocery biz, I learned that the worst customers EVER are the Mr. Know-It-Alls. “This price isn’t low enough.” “Are you SURE that’s the right code for apples?” Yes, lady, I’m sure. Yet, nothing takes the cake like Queen Know It All, the customer who felt the need to aggressively offer lifestyle advice. As I scanned her protein bars, bottled waters, and “healthy” fruit smoothies, she said “You know… you should really try some of this stuff. You might even lose a few pounds. From the looks of you, paired with your young age, you should probably lose about a hundred. How about I come back after your shift and pick out some new food for you?” I respectfully declined her offer with a nervous laugh and went on with my day. But I just could NOT get her… helpful advice out of my mind. When my shift was over, I went and picked up one of the fruit smoothies she had bought. Looking at the

Since 2000, Walmart has been fined numerous times for not complying with labor laws for employees under eighteen years old. They allowed these