I agree with this. If they’ll let you back down to part-time, do it. Seriously, you’re health is not worth the miniscule amount of money. Do what makes to happy because in the long run, it’ll save you money.

-L

How do I submit anon?/There’s no button to submit anon.

If you have a tumblr, just log out and enter a fake email. If you don’t have a tumblr, you’re already anon! Go right on and submit away! Same goes for anon asks, you just dont have to enter a fake email.

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That’s the most common question/issue that we get here, but if any Robins can think of anything else, feel free to let me know.

-L

I’m not trying to call anyone out or make anyone feel bad, but to submit anon, log out and enter a fake email. I’m going to try and put up a FAQ page about it because I’ve had to restate this so often.

-L

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If there is a way this can be submitted anonymously I would greatly appreciate it since I could be fired over it, but I really, really need some advice from some other Robins but it was too much to put in Asks.
If this can’t be anonymous, please do not post this, but thank you for looking.

A little over a month ago I was promoted to full-time after 7 years with this company under the guise of actually doing what was in my job description. I was aware that I would be doing some returns and aisle cleaning, but my main focus was doing demonstrations and customer service/product knowledge (of which I had already proved I was good at).

So far I’ve done little to nothing of what was described to me (they’ve actually given a lot of my demonstrations to others to ‘alleviate’ me). I’m alone on a hot sales floor for 6 of my 8 hour shifts (if I’m not on the register, of which I’m supposed to be the last call but we’re too understaffed) either trying to help customers, checking a price/getting a SKU or answering the phone (sometimes called for all three at once) and returns/cleaning has become my sole responsibility until the evening shift comes in. I cannot keep up with the traffic and my managers have not given me any hope of this changing nor is there any room to move further up. I’m pretty much doing the work of what should be for at least two people.

While the money is better than before it’s still under the poverty line and I still can’t afford to live on my own even if I split rent with people. I would have to move out of state and in that I would have to leave my job anyway.
I have no time/energy to do what I once loved, there’s no room for a second job and and I feel that, if it hasn’t already, it will begin to affect my health. The exhaustion is beginning to extend beyond physical.

Before this I was getting by with the part-time position and having a craft shop on the side, which proved lucrative before but I didn’t take it as seriously as I should have. Now that I’ve seen what full-time here is like, I want to go back to part-time and re-open my shop and take it seriously as I had once dreamed after paying off what little debts I have left. I also plan to go back to school and be certified in Business Management to better support it. I wouldn’t mind working a part-time job and have my shop if it meant living on my own even with room mates; crafting brings me so much joy, but with this job now I can’t even bring myself to sew a single stitch or string a single bead.

My worry is that I would be throwing away something good that I just need to ‘suck it up and deal with’ in this bad economy. Or am I just setting myself up for further misery by trying to stay? Should I just seek out another workplace entirely? Is my alternate plan even realistic? 

Thank you for reading and offering any advice as I will not be able to reply or favorite this post. It’s all appreciated and heeded.

Some people are old fashioned, but the thing is, if you don’t like tattoos/piercings/colored hair/styles/whatever, don’t look. Let the person who’s body it is, to do with it as they please. And for god’s sake, don’t make someone feel like shit over them, that’s just dickish.

Just remember, in the next few years, it’ll become to norm and the old fashioned people will be the odd ones.

-L

Submitting from my phone so anonymous and there might be spelling errors, I apologize in advance.

This literally just happened to me and Im shaking Im so furious. This guy walks in and immediatly is rude towards me. I say hello and he looks at me and ignores me completely. Okay… So he gets breakfast sandwiches, three of them. Which I only make six in the morning because we are quite slow. He puts them on the counter and I start to ring him up when he just walks away. This is one of my biggest pet peeves. Do NOT come into my store leave items on the counter when there are other customers waiting. I am a little ticked off by now. He returns with milk and before he even gets to the counter he tells me to get him an item from behind the counter. Didnt say please. This pissed m me off entirely. He then walks away again! He walks over to the coffee area, his stuff all over my counter space and I have a customer waiting. Fed up with it all I move his items to the side and ring up the second customer. The guy comes back and before I can say anything he demanda a receipt, which I explain I have to complete the transaction for, he looks at me like Im pulling the biggest prank on him right now and reluctantly gives me the money. He then proceeds to tell me to put his stuff in a bag before my register is even open. I put his things in a bag and print the reciept and before he can even walk out the door a friend of his walks in. Now a normal person would take their shit from the counter to talk but no, not this guy. He stands there, in the way and talks for-fucking-ever!!!! His friend gets coffee and the guy comes over and says ‘can I have a pen and paper’ and I respind politely that I really dont have it readily available seeing as our pens are pretty muh on lockdown because people keep stealing them and the only paper i have is the register paper which is running dangerously low anyways. I give him something to use just because I want this guy gone and out of my store. His friend sets his coffee down and talks more and more then they finally get ready to leave. The friend grabs his coffee and sets for the door…without paying. Im so done with these guys that I blurt out in the most frustrated tone ‘You need to pay for thay’, the original customer gives me a glare and I dont even care at this point. They pay and leave and end of story.

Just…….ugh e.e Oh, I work at a gas station by the way, In case of any confusion.

I live in a city in Illinois that is really close to the state line, so we get a lot of people from both our state and the next one over (Iowa) in our store. Occasionally, people will buy something at one store and return it at the other, in the other state, and there is a tax difference between the two so they’ll either be refunded a few cents or have to pay a few. Usually, that’s not a problem.

But no, tonight it was a problem. I was already the only one working in my department for the last 4 hours of my shift because my coworker went home sick, so I was really stressed about having to close by myself as it was. A nice-enough looking woman came up and asked to exchange her sweater for another of a smaller size. I rung it up and it came up with a 5 cent difference for her to pay, so I asked if she had bought it in Iowa and she said yes, and I informed her of the difference of 5 cents. Seriously, just a nickel. But her response was, “I’m not paying that! They always waive the charge for me in the city I live in when I bring things from here.” The city she lives in was also in Illinois, so as politely as I could, I said “that’s because that store is also in Illinois, just like this one..” and she flipped out and demanded that I call my manager, also proceeding to lecture me the whole time I was on the phone. The manager came down and told her there was no way to waive it, but she wouldn’t give up so the manager ended up having to pay it instead.

I just.. I fucking hate people.

Technology ranter here. Only I’ve been moved from the front end into produce (which is really nice and I really like it and the pay and hours are better). This time I’m here to rant about tourists.

The town I work in is a very seasonal town—everything revolves around the lake, so in the summer the whole town is booming with tourists and out-of-towners. The streets and stores are packed and traffic is sometimes ridiculous. During the winter, however, the town is almost a ghost-town, and really quiet (it’s a small mountain town with few locals).

Working in the local grocery store, I can understand the love/hate relationship local businesses have with the tourists and summer people. Business booms in the summer, sales are great, but these people are rude and annoying. It being Memorial Day Weekend (the weekend in which most people drive up here and put their campers/RVs in and set up their summer camps) one could only imagine how crazy it was today, and will be again tomorrow.

Today I sat in my car on my lunch break and watched an out-of-towner drive over what little grass the market has on it’s property twice, and then park on it. There were more than plenty parking spaces available. I then watched people walking off company property with the shopping carts and pushing them into the field at the edge of the parking lot rather than the corrals less then 10 feet away.

Produce was ridiculously busy (yay, great sales!), but people were acting like animals. I brought out a cart of boxes to fill the cases since everything was picked over and our shipment truck was really late, and people were literally taking things off the cart without asking and opening boxes when I had my back turned. I had to ask them to stop because it was potentially dangerous the way some of the boxes were stacked (not to mention incredibly rude). Someone dropped a bag of grapes and before I could clean them up, people trampled them and made a bigger mess. Bananas were on the floor, people were apparently “sampling” fruit because I found some out of place apples and pears with bites taken out of them mixed in with other fruit.

And then, of course was my biggest pet peeve of the day: the corn. Of course corn was one of our top sellers this weekend, since they’re great to cook over a camp fire or grill. We have ears of corn on a big display just as you walk in the door, and above it we have pre-shucked corn which we do in the back where we take the husks off and wrap them in packs of three so you can see the inside. It all comes out of the same case as the regular corn though.

But for some reason people kept making a huge mess of the corn. People were just tearing the husk off random ears of corn, scattering the silk and leaves EVERYWHERE and leaving the ears looking awful, and just leaving them there. Who does that?! Who walks into a market and rips the sides off of half the ears of corn and then leaves them there when there’s already corn above it that you can see the kernels on!?

I wonder if these people act like animals when they’re at their local stores, too, or if they just save it for when they come up here. Either way, they’re rude and ridiculous and disrespectful to company property, and they can’t drive for crap (which is a whole other rant by itself).

Dear Women of the Retail World,

PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE THE HYGIENIC LINERS FROM BATHING SUITS AND STICK THEM ON THE FITTING ROOM WALLS, FLOORS, OR BENCHES. THAT IS DISGUSTING. KEEP THEM ON. THEY ARE THERE FOR A REASON. 

Sincerely,
Frustrated Ladies Department Employee. 

For any of you Wendy’s robins, I’m sure you’re well aware of the coupons that were sent out last month that are soon to be expired. And I’m sure you’re all very well aware of how many  people can’t read a coupon to save their goddamn life. 

I don’t have much of a rant today, I’m just not how happy I am that the coupons expire on the sixth. At first, I was ecstatic knowing I no longer have to deal with these imbeciles… Then I started thinking about how many people will still continue to try to use them, how many people will scream at me when I tell them they’re expired, and act like I’m deceiving them because I “don’t want them to have a discount” or some shit. 

Not only do our coupons expire in the beginning of June, but our signature sides are also to be finished by the 3rd. Yay, lots of angry customers. 

And of course, the only thing of the three we’re keeping are the Chili Cheese fries… my worst freaking nightmare. 

My sister was fired from her job, she and the manager’s wife have never seen eye to eye. One day my sister started dating another worker there (not against the companies rules) who was another woman. The manager’s wife had a huge problem with it so one day another employee told her my sister called her a bitch the other day.

Thinking this was the perfect chance she pretended to cry and be heard and got her husband to fire her. Long story short the wife told all this to a dishwasher (my best friend from high school) thinking he would side with her because they talked often. He told me I told my sister and now I’m telling you, that was BS and she’s a cruel woman. No wonder he husband is cheating on her.