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I've mentioned I'd talk about this and so_vayne just reminded me of it, so here it is: what I do at my job.
...A 99 cent only store! Yea. Laugh it up and just give me that 'omg are you serious?' laugh. That's the same reaction to it, but its actually not that bad, at least not at my store. I'm one of four younger people and I'm the second newest person (a new stock person joined us and I rarely- if ever, see him) and I work cashier. If you've talked to me for awhile or known me for awhile, you know that I over think/don't see things right/right freak out over nothing, so needless to say I was nervous when they told me I was going to be cashier.
It's a really simply job, I thought it would be more complicated! Since everything in the store is at max .99 cents, if someone doesn't scan I can either push two buttons 'taxable' which is .99 cents that has tax on it and 'nontax' which is like the other button except no tax. XD The longest part and probably the hardest part is just bagging everything, but apparently I'm a natural at it. A lot of the customers seem to like how I bag their goods and sometimes ask me how I do it. I'd love to tell them but how do you tell someone that bagging reminds them of Tetris? XD I love the game and so when I have to figure out how how to put so many items in and how to do it without smashing stuff, I think of the game and viola!
For the most part I think I've met everyone and everyone is actually extremely nice to me, which I found surprising. The first two days I felt awkward and just generally clueless, because I knew no one and it felt rather isolating to be at a kiosk by myself but now I feel like I have people there to help me out. Though I still can't remember some names for the life of me. >_<; I think the only person that still makes me edgy is the night shift manager, I can't tell half the time if he's being serious or if he's joking. He always tells me, without fail, that he wants me to stay later and after going to work yesterday, I learned that he always asks/tells people to stay later but none of us rarely, if ever do. It would be one thing if he asked when it was actually needed but its every damn day. :/ It's just annoying. It's not that part that bothers me, it just you really can not tell if he's serious about that and everything else. That and he's slow as all hell. If you need customer service or you need anything, if you call a '99' or '____, to the front, customer service' its guaranteed its going to take at least a few minutes for him to get over there and he can just be in an aisle and you can see him. You really get the feeling he doesn't care though, because he's not the one dealing with an irate person telling you for the fifth time to page him when you can both clearly see him ignoring you.
On the topic of customers I think I generally get three types: the older generation, adults/kids and homeless. I think I might prefer the older generation at times then the other two categories just because they don't or can't get in my face that often (note: except one person I'll talk about later) and they're generally more easy going. That and its entertaining to be called a 'lass' or 'darling' every so often. XD; They're generally nicer but at times, I do get frustrated at them because they are the ones that without fail. Will have the exact change for you, the problem is, it takes awhile to get to that change and having to recount it and then having to dispute it with them. Which leads the other people in line to be RAWR when they get to me or make comments.
The second group of people I have a love/hate relationship with. Either they treat you like a human being or they treat you like your stupid or better yet, that your god of the store and that you don't need a manager when in fact you do. I can do a lot more then I thought previously with just my register but I still can't do everything without a manager- what would be the point of a head cashier or manager if I could? So far my biggest pet peeve dealing with this group is the fact that they'll buy in bulk, lets say, 26 things of ramen. Oh noez! The ramen apparently is suppose to be four for a dollar but is only ringing up for three (I think its more like 6 but for the hell of it, work with me)! They'll then tell you, after you've rang up everything else, that guess what, they don't want it. Normally if we ring something up twice and its close and we haven't rang anything else up, we'll give them the next item for free since they're the same price but if its that many I do have to call someone to get the key so I can scroll up and void things. I have no problem doing this, its just people think that a manager or a head cashier is going to magically teleport to my location and hand over the key.
Which brings me to my last group of customers: homeless. Sad to say but its true if you don't give someone food, they're more than likely going to use it on things they don't exactly. IE liquor they can happily purchase at their neighborhood 99 cent store. Company policy says we don't have to card anyone that looks under 30, so we don't. That and I think we all don't want an irate homeless man that smells like he bathed in said alcohol to cause a scene. Generally the people are as nice as they can be, its the smell they leave behind which is the problem and usually they get out fast, because we already know what they want. What kills me is that they can be spending the money they get on something more productive. You have no idea how annoyed I got that one of them actually gave me $20 dollars to buy several bottles, when they could be using said money for something better. :/
This entry is so long, I'm going to shut up now. XD;
In other news, my cell phone died. Permanently. Finally. The glee that the piece of shit is dead is probably going to fade away once I realize I can't text any of the people who have this number. >:
It's really killing me not to have my manga folder from my old computer, but every time I try to boot it up now it immediately blue screens, even in safe mode. :/ And I believe I have finally discovered my majors and minor. I may major in English, and minor in History or vice versa.
...A 99 cent only store! Yea. Laugh it up and just give me that 'omg are you serious?' laugh. That's the same reaction to it, but its actually not that bad, at least not at my store. I'm one of four younger people and I'm the second newest person (a new stock person joined us and I rarely- if ever, see him) and I work cashier. If you've talked to me for awhile or known me for awhile, you know that I over think/don't see things right/right freak out over nothing, so needless to say I was nervous when they told me I was going to be cashier.
It's a really simply job, I thought it would be more complicated! Since everything in the store is at max .99 cents, if someone doesn't scan I can either push two buttons 'taxable' which is .99 cents that has tax on it and 'nontax' which is like the other button except no tax. XD The longest part and probably the hardest part is just bagging everything, but apparently I'm a natural at it. A lot of the customers seem to like how I bag their goods and sometimes ask me how I do it. I'd love to tell them but how do you tell someone that bagging reminds them of Tetris? XD I love the game and so when I have to figure out how how to put so many items in and how to do it without smashing stuff, I think of the game and viola!
For the most part I think I've met everyone and everyone is actually extremely nice to me, which I found surprising. The first two days I felt awkward and just generally clueless, because I knew no one and it felt rather isolating to be at a kiosk by myself but now I feel like I have people there to help me out. Though I still can't remember some names for the life of me. >_<; I think the only person that still makes me edgy is the night shift manager, I can't tell half the time if he's being serious or if he's joking. He always tells me, without fail, that he wants me to stay later and after going to work yesterday, I learned that he always asks/tells people to stay later but none of us rarely, if ever do. It would be one thing if he asked when it was actually needed but its every damn day. :/ It's just annoying. It's not that part that bothers me, it just you really can not tell if he's serious about that and everything else. That and he's slow as all hell. If you need customer service or you need anything, if you call a '99' or '____, to the front, customer service' its guaranteed its going to take at least a few minutes for him to get over there and he can just be in an aisle and you can see him. You really get the feeling he doesn't care though, because he's not the one dealing with an irate person telling you for the fifth time to page him when you can both clearly see him ignoring you.
On the topic of customers I think I generally get three types: the older generation, adults/kids and homeless. I think I might prefer the older generation at times then the other two categories just because they don't or can't get in my face that often (note: except one person I'll talk about later) and they're generally more easy going. That and its entertaining to be called a 'lass' or 'darling' every so often. XD; They're generally nicer but at times, I do get frustrated at them because they are the ones that without fail. Will have the exact change for you, the problem is, it takes awhile to get to that change and having to recount it and then having to dispute it with them. Which leads the other people in line to be RAWR when they get to me or make comments.
The second group of people I have a love/hate relationship with. Either they treat you like a human being or they treat you like your stupid or better yet, that your god of the store and that you don't need a manager when in fact you do. I can do a lot more then I thought previously with just my register but I still can't do everything without a manager- what would be the point of a head cashier or manager if I could? So far my biggest pet peeve dealing with this group is the fact that they'll buy in bulk, lets say, 26 things of ramen. Oh noez! The ramen apparently is suppose to be four for a dollar but is only ringing up for three (I think its more like 6 but for the hell of it, work with me)! They'll then tell you, after you've rang up everything else, that guess what, they don't want it. Normally if we ring something up twice and its close and we haven't rang anything else up, we'll give them the next item for free since they're the same price but if its that many I do have to call someone to get the key so I can scroll up and void things. I have no problem doing this, its just people think that a manager or a head cashier is going to magically teleport to my location and hand over the key.
Which brings me to my last group of customers: homeless. Sad to say but its true if you don't give someone food, they're more than likely going to use it on things they don't exactly. IE liquor they can happily purchase at their neighborhood 99 cent store. Company policy says we don't have to card anyone that looks under 30, so we don't. That and I think we all don't want an irate homeless man that smells like he bathed in said alcohol to cause a scene. Generally the people are as nice as they can be, its the smell they leave behind which is the problem and usually they get out fast, because we already know what they want. What kills me is that they can be spending the money they get on something more productive. You have no idea how annoyed I got that one of them actually gave me $20 dollars to buy several bottles, when they could be using said money for something better. :/
This entry is so long, I'm going to shut up now. XD;
In other news, my cell phone died. Permanently. Finally. The glee that the piece of shit is dead is probably going to fade away once I realize I can't text any of the people who have this number. >:
It's really killing me not to have my manga folder from my old computer, but every time I try to boot it up now it immediately blue screens, even in safe mode. :/ And I believe I have finally discovered my majors and minor. I may major in English, and minor in History or vice versa.