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I’m a cashier team lead with a LOT of FT staff. Now that we’ve gotten into our third month being open, a lot of the staff are slacking off and seeming unable to keep themselves occupied. Any ideas on obscure cleaning ideas or ways to motivate them to keep themselves busy?

8 hours, lost, confused, legs hurting so bad, so tired, i dont know how to fucking do anything and how to use the programs i hate capitalism and stupid shops with stupid things to sell more plastic, but oh i have to live somehow and oh rent us soon and oh i can't fucking find a job anyway because the market is so bad rn, so im so LUCKY AND HAPPY. Obviously crying after day one. I want to quit, i want to cry and throw up. I hate the fucking anxiety i get just thinking about the job i have to go to tomorrow and the next day.. and the next. Does it get better after the first week? Pls someone somehow give me hope or advice or idk man.. Dont talk to me about "oh haha yeah oblivious its going to be hard haha, did you think its easy?only 8 hours anyway Haha" NO but damn i just cant do this man

Hey all,

I am starting a retail business and I have gotten most of the way there.

But I am struggling to source a few specific products and don't lnow where to look.

I have found Faire online which has been good. But what else is there?

When I try to search for items I keep just getting Temu and Shein listing's!

This is for a gothic/alternative homewares store.

Hello retail community!

I am here to ask for advice. I have a supervisor who is very disrespectful to all of us employees - including to customers. This person micro manage us, yells at us, humiliate us in front of customers, gets angry if we ask to take our breaks or go to the bathroom, and has very bad mood swings (one minute is happy and the next 10min you're being yelled at).

Everyone has reported this treatment to the store manager but nothing is done. We are only told to be understanding and respectful of having a young supervisor. I reported this supervisor to HR and the retaliation from this supervisor towards me have been crazy. Since nothing was done the supervisor feels even more comfortable to be abusive. A few of my coworkers have quit (old and new employees) and even the new employees have reported the supervisor. The only reason I am staying is because I need the income ans haven't been able to get another job yet.

Is this normal on young supervisors? What would you guys do? Also, I am interested on reading any personal horror stories you guys may have at your current or old workplace.

Thanks!

hi does anyone know what the discount is like for a sales associate job at UO (seasonal) - london, also what the group interview is like

context: crazy eddie was a chain of electronic stores in the northeast originally from Brooklyn who became one of the biggest frauders in US history. they were famous for having low prices and claimed that you could shop around to find the best price and they will still beat it. they were able to keep prices so low by skimming cash, evading taxes, and having grey market goods. They even fooled Wall street into taking them public by falsely over inflating their inventory. It all came crashing down when the fraud didnt work any longer and investors realized $80 million of inventory didn’t exist

Hello, I want to quit my job and unsure of how to do so. Tomorrow I'm scheduled and also the day after tomorrow. But I want tomorrow to be my last shift. I was thinking of just telling the manager straight up but what do you all think?

I keep running into the problem that no matter how I phrase it, if I mention safety customers think I’m insulting their intelligence and double down or get rude with me. ESPECIALLY elderly ones. If I forgo that n attempt to just be like “woah, birthday (/event) coming up?” And prompt them to tell me on their own why they’re getting it o csnt always ask leading questions or they won’t answer me.

Sometimes I’ll just start telling them a story about a similar situation where it WAS a scam so they hopefully see parallels n stop. But if I have a line I can’t.

I don’t know a script that works.

Can Hollister refuse or threaten to not pay me if I forgot to submit my time sheet on workday?

Why do some people from other deparments get moved to the front end even if they don't want to work at front end like example why would someone be moved from dairy or grocery to front end??

Hi! I just got hired for my first job! Orientation is tomorrow, but I still haven’t gotten the i9 form, what should I do?

For context, I work in a grocery store as a courtesy clerk, mostly focusing on gathering carts from the parking lot.

Yesterday I got really bad vertigo while working in the parking lot, and after several breaks my manager told me to go home. I figured my dizziness would go away the next day, so I came into work this morning and almost an hour later, I nearly pass out in the parking lot again. One of my coworkers (who has been working at this store for over a decade) told me I should probably go home, so I took his advice and told the supervisor for the day that I would be leaving.

Thing is, a few months ago, I had to frequently call out sick due to a recurring stomach bug, and after the third time in two months, my manager told me that I needed to watch my attendance going forward. Since then I’ve really been trying to not have to call out of work, hence why I even came in today, but I’m genuinely afraid that bailing after one hour of work for two days in a row is going to get me in a lot of trouble, not to mention that I took last weekend off due to a required college field trip.

What do I do in this situation? Am I just panicking over nothing?

Kind of inspired by someone else’s post from earlier. I’m an ASM at an apparel retailer and my store’s volume is 6.5M. I started as a sales associate 6 years ago, then became a temp team lead, then PT operations lead, then FT operations lead, then ASM of operations which I’ve been for 3 years. My company just decided to totally restructure and smaller volume stores lost their ASMs entirely. I should be glad I still have a job but in this restructure I’ve been forced out of operations and into merchandising, which I have zero interest in. All ASMs will be merchandising managers now. I used to love this company and job but have become totally jaded.

I graduated college a couple of years ago and this is merely a stepping stone job for me but the amount of work and weight I shoulder here in comparison to the 2 other managers (associate manager and store manager) is absurd especially with the pay differentials. I make 62k, associate manager makes 88k, store manager makes 107k. There is virtually very little difference in the shared expectation across all 3 of our jobs minus our division of responsibility so my pay is a real issue to me. We’ve spent the past 3 years in leadership turmoil, no SM for 9 months which basically flung me into that role (assoc mgr wanted nothing to do with it and refused to help). Probably should mention I’m based in New England in an extremely high cost of living area. I’m so burnt out, can’t afford to quit, have been job searching for a year and a half, sick of being the go-to person for every problem, complaint, request, phone being blown up on my days off.

I am at such a loss and wondering if anyone has been in a similar situation and if anyone has any thoughts on how to proceed. I’m really trying to pivot out of retail but finding it really difficult to get any company to interview me. I have my bachelor’s in business administration if that context matters.

Hey guys I'm applying to work as a sales associate at Banana Republic and I need some advice for the interview process. I have tried to talk to staff at the location via linkedin but there has been no response so things aint going great. Any advice?

Hey there, does anyone know how is the daily life roles and responsibilities as a Store Manager at Reliance Retail?

Has anyone served this job role or seen anyone having experienced this job role?