Random Rants
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The selling market in denim and workwear is generally much fairer than the streetwear and sneaker market, i’ve tried to buy a few things from recent Supreme drops for my boys birthday, it is literally insane.
the time i knew about supreme was right about 2008 or so. but i never liked that brand from the moment i knew it. maybe it's because i'm not a skater. but i was more into visvim than supreme..
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almost 3 years in my first job in australia and i'm calling it quits in 2 weeks. it's a bloody shame i have to leave because i've progressed along from only doing PT while in uni to going full time and getting more responsibilities in the past year since i graduated.
i don't want to sound entitled but the circumstances have forced me no choice but to leave. sundays for me are for soccer and church. i've been on this tuesday to saturday work week since a year ago. right up till about 2 weeks ago, coming from our head office, telling us that we can't be on that anymore and it has to change to one weekend on and off.
there's only 2 of us that's on that roster because we put our hands up when it was asked if anybody wanted to do it a year ago. people bitched that they couldn't because they relied on sunday pay (penalty rate) a lot but they are also the same people that started bitching that it was unfair.
i've even offered not to have consecutive days off like most other staff or even move to a further location on a PT basis but yet have been told that all require sundays availability. i believe that most other places out there in the retail industry i've seen require 5 days availability not like the full 7 that we require. (FYI part timers get to choose their availability) even dropping down to PT in my own store now is not a possibility because we're over-contracted.
i hate leaving without another job in hand but i've got 2 weeks till my season starts. i know this sounds like i'm rather sour about the whole thing and probably sound like an entitled millennial. but i feel that with most companies focusing on a work life balance in this past few years, asking for a sunday off isn't too much especially when i'm not just demanding and i'm offering solutions around it.
the one thing i don't get is that, you've got plenty of uni students who are more than willing to work the weekends, not paying me the penalty rates to work on a sunday/monday is saving the company more as a whole, especially when most public holidays tend to fall on a monday. and yet they can't make an allowance or an exception for this.
i don't know if this is a rant or not but it's been frustrating me for the past couple weeks. the final straw was that finding out i can't even drop down my hours in my own store even when they said it could've been a possibility.
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I’m sorry man. It sucks that they’re not willing to work with you, since you’re obviously a solid long-term employee. Retail, hospitality, restaurants, and bars are industries that will ALWAYS demand your availability on the weekends. The fact that you’ve gone this long having the same two days off in a row, including a Sunday, was definitely a special circumstance that you will be hard-pressed to find again. Good luck with the search!
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I’m sorry man. It sucks that they’re not willing to work with you, since you’re obviously a solid long-term employee. Retail, hospitality, restaurants, and bars are industries that will ALWAYS demand your availability on the weekends. The fact that you’ve gone this long having the same two days off in a row, including a Sunday, was definitely a special circumstance that you will be hard-pressed to find again. Good luck with the search!
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the sundays off was given to me by my old manager as he didn't have any problems because most part timers are keen on working sundays. so he decided to make my RDOs sunday and monday and offered it to a couple more employees.
i understand that weekends are part of that whole industry but at the same time, that's where your part timers and casuals come into effect. especially now that i've started looking elsewhere, i've never seen any body advertise their job requirements as having a full 7 day availability. (for the retail market i mean) the F&B/ hospitality markets can be quite different. and on top of that perth's a really quiet city on sunday trade compared to friday and saturday.
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I'm sorry to hear about your job woes @louisbosco, and I hope that you find something else soon.
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cheers @Graeme
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Why cant bloody ParcelForce/Customs just put a link or an amount next to the tracking info for duties to be paid. No… I have to wait for a letter to arrive to pay anything owing.
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^ job security amigo. if they automated with a payment tab there is a letter opener out there in the ether who would lose his or her job. thats my hypothesis.
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Time to pay the tax man today. My CPA isn't very good at his job ::)
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^^ Made my tax payment today….. Let's just say it was the equivalent of a shit ton of Iron Heart. I wouldn't feel as bad about it if I knew it wasn't going to be squandered by the man.
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^^ Made my tax payment today….. Let's just say it was the equivalent of a shit ton of Iron Heart. I wouldn't feel as bad about it if I knew it wasn't going to be squandered by the man.
Same. I thought I was going to even out for the year but my divorce and the claiming of my son had my CPA confused which was frustrating. I'd rather even out at the end of the year because I dislike the idea of giving Uncle Sam an interest free loan. But yes, I could buy a lot of IH with the money i'm paying
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Snowpocalypse part 3 has arrived. A foot of snow already. This really, really sucks
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Snowpocalypse part 3 has arrived. A foot of snow already. This really, really sucks
I'm right there with ya. After yesterday's foot+ of snow we are expecting about the same today, but of a mix of snow/ice/rain.
I'm just planning on power going out at some point today now…
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Snowpocalypse part 3 has arrived. A foot of snow already. This really, really sucks
I'm right there with ya. After yesterday's foot+ of snow we are expecting about the same today, but of a mix of snow/ice/rain.
I'm just planning on power going out at some point today now…
Luckily no power outages here. I just spent the last hour digging my car out of 2 foot snow drifts, and I cracked my shovel to boot.
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Bought an iPhone SE on Sunday.
To be fair I should have told the guy from the outset that I was going to buy a phone, I knew which one I wanted and that was what I would be leaving with.
So a sales guy comes over from the back of the shop after the front of house guy had been asking for 5 minutes, which I found to be a pretty long time. Yes it was fairly busy but 95% of the people in there were just pawing at the merchandise. Asked me what I was after and I pointed to the phone and said I'd like to buy one. He seemed quite shocked that someone would just straight up ask to buy a phone.
"Oh yeah, that's the one I'd buy." (This is completely unnecessary, I felt like saying. I'm going to buy the phone. You don't need to sell it to me. But the next sentence was fantastic)
"If I didn't have the latest model free, because I work at the Apple Store."
So, this big glass box with all the Apple merchandise and branding that I've been standing in for oh 15 minutes now is the Apple Store. Well that's good to know. And you'd buy the cheapest phone that Apple currently stock. But, you haven't, because you don't need to. What was the point of this conversational gambit??
"That's a really good choice, I'd definitely buy the exact same model. But I don't need to because a massive perk of the job is I get the latest phone free of charge to try and up sell to customers like mad!!"
It just baffles me - I know I'm not the target audience at all. I buy for the ease of use, I've always had Apple products. I don't chase iteration after iteration because I can't see the point and I certainly don't have the money. The last iPhone I bought was the 4. It cost me £50 more than the SE I've just bought. When I told the guy the last phone I had was the 4, he looked stunned :o
The juxtaposition between me being hugely monosyllabic and the sales guy trying to wow me with stuff I had no interest in was pretty funny.
"What do you use your phone for?"
"Not much"
"Oh, well (launches into most of the features)"
I stand there being bored
Then he mentioned the camera
"This will be a big step up from what you're used to!"
"I'll still take terrible pictures with it."
"Well we have these (launches into spiel about the free workshops they run)"
"I won't be here then."
I cut him some slack after that, to be honest the free workshops sounded pretty good. It just seems that there's a massive disconnect between a customer who goes into a shop for a specific item and someone who has a vague idea of something they might possibly buy at some point, and the sales team makes absolutely no distinction between the two whatsoever.
Then - predictably - my sim wouldn't fit. Although the sight of this poor guy trying to get the side of the phone open was hilarious
massively red in the face, sweat almost pouring down his face
"So, this hasn't been opened since you got the phone?"
Pulls out Orange sim card, a company that got taken over by EE (more on them another time) I don't know how many years ago
"No".
After paying, I headed off to the local EE shop…
The next time I have to buy a phone I'm going to just...
... curl into a ball and start sobbing.
Sorry for the wall of text.
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And EE can just fuck right off with the way that their staff get treated by the higher ups…
"In a while you'll get a text asking you to rate my service, 9 and 10 are good. Anything less than that is a passive"
Which means that after so many non-perfect scores, they can be called into a meeting and well judging by the tone, probably "let go".
So the text came through... There was no way to expand on why you'd enjoyed the service (until after the survey had been completed) straight 1-10 "how likely are you to recommend EE to friends and family?" Not, you'll notice "Thanks for your custom which we greatly appreciate, how well were your needs met today?" (I could write this shit for a living, probably
Does anyone want to hire a cynical, anti-social, pessimist for their Customer Service?? No :(.) No mention of the sales assistant until the all important 1-10 score has been clicked on. That comes after in a whole slew of "Did the sales assistant mention x number of things that nobody really wants but we try to sell anyway."So I just clicked yes to everything and left it at that.
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Indeed, maybe 25oz is too much.
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