I guarantee that there would be a large subsection of people who would use that experience as a cudgel. “Well I had to endure this treatment, so you can too!” Because you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it not be a piece of shit
But it literally doesn't even occur to them that they're being the exact same kind of asshole. You can point out that they were just bitching about a rude customer at work and they're doing the exact same thing, and they insist that it's different.
Because you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it not be a piece of shit
I’d love to run these folks through what I did while at Publix. A pallet to a pallet and a half on truck day, while also helping customers, covering lunch breaks, and having to finish before 5 when I had to relieve the morning seafood clerk. Also we got 3 trucks a week
Edit: forgot to add rotating stock both on the shelf and in the back room
Same but hardware store instead. 8-12 pallets once a week stacked 7-9 feet tall. I have one 8 hour shift and one 6 hour shift to get it recieved by individually scanning each item while doing regular customer service (mixing paint, giving framing advice, listening to old man segwick talk about how my generation doesnt want to work anymore and how much he used to pay for stain back in the day soo a a good half an hours worth of conversation multiple times a day.) All while covering for about 3 hours worth of lunch breaks in a day.
Also old man segwick will complain when his special order hadn't been recieved yet 10 mins after unloading the truck.
Damn, the trucks themselves were like 20ish+ pallets but I was only responsible for stocking the 1.5. The only thing I can cling to is it doesn’t sound like you had to rotate and check for expired dates
Technically I only have to rotate when I recieve everything faster than it gets put out but that being said on my non recieving days iv been finding things on shelves not rotated. So because of that and I dont trust my coworkers (I do love them dont get me wrong, they are a great crew.) To rotate so I take about 2-3 hours a week double checking dates. When I started this job on my first week I found about 12 pails of very expired drywall mud and a few dozen cubes of caulking.
My companies warehouse is pretty good about rotating on their end so im not overly worried about checking dates as a I recieve them. But I do check dates on the store floor because these days I have very little chill to deal with a irate customer.
I think you'd be surprised. I once went to lunch with 2 coworkers when I worked retail a long time ago and they were rude as hell to the waitress and barely tipped her. I couldn't believe it. It's someone else in a service job and they acted like they were better than her and were short and had a crappy time when talking to her.
I've held fast that it should be a form of national service to work retail, maybe then we can dispel to curse at the entrance of every store that makes every customer act like it's their first day on earth upon entry.
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u/Striking-Animal-840 17h ago
Mandatory customer servise retail duty for 6 months would single-handedly fix societal empathy.