[84LX89GT]

Originally posted by 0h n0 5.0
thank you, 5.0. i know retail isn't exactly brain surgery, but i like my boss, the people i work with, an the fact that I HAVE a job. as for 84lx89Gt's comment about his experiance workin for the "bulls eye" the only thing i can ask is where did you work in highschool? shopping cart attendant? cashier? because the only people allowed to work 40hrs and up are 19yrs + employees..which excludes most high school kids out. even then we prefer you to have some other job history. and if you're like any of the highschool kids we have working here an you only work 3-days a week, hello! of course your gonna get pay cut, your lowest of the low on the totem pole; an frankly, calling out of work on weekends when we do most of our weekly revenue dosen't exactly push you to the front of the promotion list in the eyes of a supervisor... sorry, but you reap what you sew. an if you don't give a crap about your job, your gonna get crapped on.

I worked during and AFTER i graduated high school, not for very long (around seven months) because i moved. Also you ASSUME i didn't give a crap about my job and that i called in sick on weekends.....well i NEVER called in sick and i worked all the hours available, plus 40 hours a week after i graduated (while i was 18!). I worked as a cart attendant/cashier/stocker so i was at the bottom of the totem pole, but that doesn't make their "system" any better. you have a negative attitude towards teenage kids just like my employers did, which may be understandable, but sucks none the less which was part of my point. Even hard working employees at the store that had been there for years were treated like crap.

"sorry, but you reap what you sew. an if you don't give a crap about your job, your gonna get crapped on." You don't know me OR my work ethic, i was nice to customers and other employees and when someone needed a day off i would step up and fill in. Don't assume because i had a bad experience it was my fault, i had a good experience with the Seattle Times even though i made EVEN less money and worked everyday plus 3:00 morning deliveries on weekends, and i also have worked for Firestone and they were a much better company to work for in benefits and treatment. The reason i left was because i was moving 20 miles away (i'm not going to commute for a poor paying job with bad management) and most of the people who had reviews got denied raises. Maybe it was ****** management at this one store, but i wasn't impressed with the individual store or the corporate side either when i read/had to deal with their policies. Just like you don't seem to trust your teenage employees, the store had a 5 person loss prevention team each day that not only would FOLLOW the employees into the back rooms but follow them with the cameras and watch them with hidden cameras in the backrooms. A company with that little trust of employees generally treats them like garbage, which is of course my opinion.

Again, Just my opinion, didn't mean to say you haven't had a good experience, i just didn't have one myself.