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Synesthesia
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Once again for the 90th time I have asked my manager to please move me to something else.
I am so tired of bagging groceries I could scream. It has been almost a year. Since being moved from dairy I have done nothing but bag and clean up random messes. I have had enough.
I suggested he move me to gas station. He said the machine (cash register) would be too difficult for me to learn.
JUST WHAT THE HELL IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN? [Mad]

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I think it means that he doesn't want you around for personal reasons but can't get rid of you because he doesn't have cause and because of the union. I would guess that "it would be too hard" is his way of saying "I don't wanna".

I think it also means that it's high time to find employment elsewhere. Of course, that's probably exactly what he's hoping for, that you'll leave willingly rather than suffer through the <bleep> that he's putting you through. Unfortunately, I don't know if you have any kind of recourse on this one through the union, but it might be worth having a discussion with your steward just to be safe.

{{{{{Syn}}}}}}

[ September 11, 2004, 10:17 PM: Message edited by: Goody Scrivener ]

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Woa! [Eek!]

((Syn))

Goody, I think you've hit the nail on the head.

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*seppuku*
Can I REALLY, really be that bad a worker?
I am friendly towards the customers, I don't growl and snarl at them. I'm nice to my fellow employees...
I just can't understand why I can't get moved to something else... or why I even have to wear out my wrists on this job only to have it implied that I am too dumb to press a few buttons...
[Mad]
[Frown]
[Grumble]
[Wall Bash]

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is your manager the only one? in a different department would you be under a different manager?
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Syn --

Think I've said this before... but check out an intentional community sometime -- ones in the FEC (Federation of Egalitarian Communities) are secular/democratic/egalitarian/non-cultish -- www.thefec.org -- you'd probably esp. like Twin Oaks Community in Virginia -- www.twinoaks.org -- lots of interesting folks to live with, huge variety of work, chances to learn new stuff, etc...

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I'll try that someday...
I am trying to get extra hours in another department, but it seems hopeless even with the teenagers going back to school...
Hopefully I can get a job at a video store opening up a few blocks from my house. *crosses fingers*

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How much do you need to work? Do you need to save $, or are you paying off any debts, etc? Do you have time to do any volunteer work that could lead to other opportunities? etc...
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Syn that's awful! You definitely need to check out other employment options. If you can handle things being up in the air for awhile, you might try a temp agency. They can sometimes lead to decent jobs! Though having office experience helps. Happened to me. [Smile]
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I am caught in a wheel of samsara...
I also have no phone which will make things harder.
I only pray and hope I can get a decent job close by...
Which is why I wouldn't even bother quitting this job until February if I can't get something better before then.

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Ooo, don't quit till you save up for a phone and a few months of phone-bill. [Wink]
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Maybe I could get a cell phone...
There's some deal they advertised on my job for $35 a month...
But would they have to check my credit?

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Most do but you could buy a prepaid cell then you don't have to worry about it. I have prepaid through Virgin Mobile. The nice thing is when things are way too tight I don't have to pay a cell phone bill. I just add money when I can. With Virgin the first 10 min. are 25cents each minute and after the first ten the rate drops to 10 cents a minute.
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Synesthesia
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there's an idea...
I just need something I can get phone calls on...
Unlike my net phone.

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quote:
I am friendly towards the customers, I don't growl and snarl at them. I'm nice to my fellow employees...
I just can't understand why I can't get moved to something else...

Maybe that's your problem..you're so good at what you do now he doesn't want to move you somewhere else.
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quote:
Can I REALLY, really be that bad a worker?
I am friendly towards the customers, I don't growl and snarl at them. I'm nice to my fellow employees...

It has been my experience that none of that counts for much out there in the real world. I once worked in a store where I showed up on time all the time (even the day my car broke down on the way to work, for cripes sake), I showed up every day I was supposed to work and actually did my work while I was there, I was nice to the customers and to my fellow employees (much nicer than some of them really merited, if you want to know the truth), and I did my work quickly and accurately.

Despite all of that, the employees who the manager did favors for and let get away with stuff were the ones who called in sick all the time, showed up late half the time, and most of the time they didn't come in to work, they didn't bother to call in until an hour or two before their shifts were supposed to start - if they bothered to call in at all. These were the same people who spent more time and energy trying to figure out ways not to have to do anything than they did actually doing their work.

The one day I called in sick, I was informed that I had to come in anyway. Even though I had gotten sick at work the day before, even though I had laryngitis so bad that I had a rasping squeak instead of a voice - when I had a job in which I had to talk all day long. I finally sqwaked out that I would not be there, that I had a doctor's appointment, and I would be back when I could talk again. When I went back to work a couple of days later (a bit surprised I even had a job, still), the manager treated me as if I was a criminal of some kind.

Go figure.

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Synesthesia
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He's lucky I don't have a metal gauntlet...
Would have freakin' GLOVE SMACKED him...
Now I must sit and wonder if it is somewhat racially motivated...
I can't really tell when people are being racist at me...

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wow, out of curiosity, what race are you Syn? The only mental image I've ever been able to come up with for you is swirls of color, because I know that you hear things in color.

AJ

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I am black.
Cool! Swirls of colour!!!!!!! [Big Grin]

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Is your manager white? I mean, it's a hell of a rude thing to say no matter what the races of the participants. But if this is any kind of a chain, he must be disregarding some pretty specific training on this issue.

What a jerk.

Dagonee

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Just after I graduated high school I worked at Wendy's for a while. I was there several months and the entire duration of my job they never let me on the cash register either. I thought it was just because I was the new guy, but they let people who started after me take the register while I was in the back changing the grease and mopping the floors. That job was the worst. And I never quite figured out why they wouldn't let me on the cash register. I don't know if they thought I was too dumb to handle it or that I'd steal money or that I'd be rude to customers (actually, if it's that last one, they may have had a point. But they didn't know that.)

I find it ironic that 10 years and $100,000 dollars worth of school later I now work in a retail pharmacy where everyone spends all day trying to avoid the cash register. I don't know why I was so enamored with the idea in the first place. Maybe I wasn't. Maybe I was just annoyed that they didn't even offer me the option. Anyway, I know how you feel. The corporate food chain is a wicked pain in the arse. Good luck.

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I don't even want to work cash register, at least not in front, in the gas station would be cool because I'd be away from supervisors.
I hate to handle money. If any goes missing, I get blamed.
It's the principal of the thing.

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When I worked at the store I referred to in my other post on this thread, I was given next to no training before being put on the register. I mean, they had me stand there and watch another cashier for about ten minutes, then had the cashier stand there and watch me for about ten minutes, and then I was on my own.

But, as far as being on the register versus doing other stuff...everywhere I've worked in retail, being on the register is considered the low post on the totem pole. New employess progressed from being on the register to other jobs out on "the floor". So, I'm not sure whether not being on the register is considered a punishment or a compliment.

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It has been my experience that if you express any profiency in a job where people normally slack off (bagging at a grocery store) you will be stuck there forever. If you show that you put effort into something nobody else puts effort into, the managers will be reluctant to move you. I know I've been stuck in this circular reasoning a few times.

Maybe you should start putting people's canned goods on top of their bread and chips. Then people will complain of crushed things and you will get moved. [Wink]

--ApostleRadio

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littlemissattitude has it right anyway. The register is awful. Everyone tries to avoid it. I worked at a department store once where my position was the only one that didnt have to work a register. Everyone was always gunning for my job....

It was a pain. Good thing I did my job so well they brought in people from other stores to watch my method and learn it.

Heh, sometimes it does pay off to work hard, other times it doesn't. Funny world.

--ApostleRadio

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