Nooooooo I’m so sorry. I delivered for Amazon (as a female) sometimes out where there were no public restrooms anywhere to be found and there were times where I literally just had to suck it up and pee in a plastic bag. Love your profile pic btw
@@spraycandy01 I’m out of that trash heap now thank Christ. I had to leave work to go to the ER for the first one and begged them to give me as many days off as they could on the hospital note so I would be able to heal and flush all the bad stuff out on my own time. Genuinely your experience seems so dehumanizing I am so sorry that you had to go through that. Thank you for the compliment though.
@@Kay-cp8tg That’s horrible. After one too many bad experiences working for large companies because of corporate greed, I hope I never have to work for one again. I work for a smaller company now selling hot sauces and I couldn’t be happier. Good luck with wherever you’re at now, I hope they treat you much better
@@spraycandy01 It brings me joy to read that you’re with a smaller company now that values you and makes you happy. Genuinely thank you for the good wishes. ❤️
As a retail worker I told my manager that if I had to hold it in I’d pee on the floor and shed have to clean it up. We haven’t had any problems since ❤
When. Worked at Walmart they pretty much monitored my bathroom activity asking what took so long like I have Ibs I won’t flush the toilet next time and you can take a peek if you need proof like Jesus Christ get off my back
I’m so bad at folding but also work retail so I usually make sure I’m either buying or trying it on before I ever pick it up. That way it stays folded until it’s leaving the shelf and I don’t have to fold it ever again lol
And trust me, us retailers appreciate that more than you know. I saw this other comment that was like “yeah but people need to be able to look at it or they won’t buy it” but that doesn’t mean you have to unbutton every single button, turn it inside out, and throw it on the floor? Lol
Taking breaks was so damn complicated. Where I worked you HAD to take a break legally at the 5 hour mark. One day I was working I was never told when my break was or when to go but when I did finally ask for my break after working 5 hours, I walked to my manager and asked "hey can I take a break?" And he said "yeah but first I need you to take care of this" and sent me to the women's pajama table and it was a complete mess and it took me almost 2 hours at that point and I reached 7 hours. Then I asked again if I could take a break and he asked "when did you clock in?" And I think I clocked in at 1 and at that point it was 8:45 and almost closing time because we closed at 9:30. He said "oh shit girl, you needed to take a break. Go clock out" and I just thought "-_- yeah... I asked if I could do that earlier but you made me do something else"
that's when you clock out for break on your own. and walk outside and they can deal with it. they're legally required to give you a standard break and a longer meal break if over so many hours.
I got stuck working the juniors department ALONE during back to school. I asked for a bathroom break and the manager wouldn't let me go until someone could cover me...I ended up peeing my pants, waiting for a replacement. I hate working retail.
I work at a JCPenney and cannot get over the way they fold their shirts. Also Jcp is really good about letting us use the restroom and making sure we take breaks.
As a retail worker as well I can agree with this....I've had a fully recovered and clean table and then in the matter of an hour everything from both top and bottom table ends up in one pile....or you've recovered an entire denim wall and then you come back later and its a huge mess and takes another half hour to clean back up
We had a lady come and just pick up one color pile and put it in the fitting room floor with a big pile of clothes she tried on and left inside out 😮💨
Customers won't buy it if they can't look at the item and what do you expect? For the customer to fold it back nearly? Lol that's what you are paid for.
Some of that stuff is flat out illegal like not getting a break after certain hours or not being allowed to go to the bathroom I’m sure. Sometimes you gotta give yourself a break or go to the bathroom and just let them know. Don’t ask, tell lol. I started learning this because if you’re too compliant they use you
Or the opposite customers need to be better people. Because actually I like retail I love my job I don’t like the people they literally come in at Macy’s and destroy the store from top to bottom. They shop like animals the adults act more like children. It’s so sad they bring a lot of clothes in the fitting room leave it all over the floor. There’s so many things I could see with my experience they literally come in and make our jobs a lot worse and because of them we have to spend more time cleaning up after them and actually trying to sell because we want the store to look nice but it’s hard to keep it up when they come in and destroy our store. Not just Macys but stores in general.
@@curtisdrummerellerbe9544 Usually customers will make or break your day. BUUUUUT terrible management will always ruin your day. My bosses were at a wedding and we were 2 people(staff) in the store (usually it's just me) so I took the advantage of the situation and decided to eat at 4pm when nobody was at the store. I was on my phone while eating (for 10damn minutes total). Straight before the 5pm overcrowd in our store. My boss called me to scold me ?? Even though I explain him as a normal human being and he said idc do that. Few days later he catched me watching my phone when I was waiting for a customer to get his stuff from the store while I was holding his back (I was holding it because we had no free space). Legit watched my phone for 10 seconds 😂😂😂😂. The maniac called me again to scold me for that. "Well you can put more cigarettes". Well you can stfu and pay me more than minimum wage. Legit morons
Add on, your co worker called in so you have to cover their area as well. Also make sure that you work out any items that didn't get finished by the prior shift.
Bruh, waiting is real. I worked with dogs once and it was 15 per person. Need to wait for someone to switch with you, I went 6 hours without a break once, very long day
Yep 100% accurate 😅. I only ever asked about the credit cards if a manager was behind me because we cant help them with it anyway, and now just I go to the toilet when I need too
Ive thought about working retail but Ill get fired with the whole holding pee thing. If I gotta go, Im GONNA go regardless on if twinkle toes is back or not.
Some places aren’t like this. I’m a cashier and we can go to the bathroom whenever as long as there is at least 1 cashier left. I don’t have to ask anyone before taking a break but I do ask the other cashiers if they are fine with it.
@@scrub3359 Yall have more than 1 cashier 😂 ? I was responsible for the whole store (not that big, but not too small either). It was a hell trying to eat, go to the bathroom and even do your damn job properly. With insane standards from the bosses. Like n166a you pay me minimum wage. Shut yo goofy aaa up
I worked at Kohl's once, the manager said if I can't get 60 credits every month or if I can't "fling boxes" she didn't need me. I never came back, but everyone there was snooty anyways so it was just the second rudest thing I'd ever heard at a job before. First was when I worked at academy and my dad had a heart attack so I had to call out (I was working and Starbucks and academy and my Starbucks manager was super nice about the situation) I came back after my dad almost died with a doctor's note and his hospital band. I was told I needed proof to get the attendance waived. I walked in to turn it in and the manager said "it'd be different if your dad died but we won't waive this, if he died we'd give you two days off but since he's not dead 🤷🏻♀️" I was so pissed
I love organizing and everything but I would go insane with the messes(I have OCD so i would legitimately have a mental breakdown in the middle of the store just because the clothes are slightly messed up-)
@@peptheforeversuperiorbeing3000 uhm- OCD stands for Obsessive compulsive disorder and it’s having a tendency towards excessive orderliness, perfectionism, and great attention to detail. So I’m having trouble understanding how that’s not what it is-?
@@flower_pot2011 my room was bothering me for a really long time(more like a few days-) so day before we were leaving for vacation I reorganized everything and my mom got mad at me for doing that instead of packing. I have come to the conclusion I need better decor since the way it’s setup now there is still a shelf that is driving me insane……
“YoU gEt YouR luNcH WhEn I SAy YoU gEt YoUr luNcH” “reMemBEr tO AlwAys TaLk To tHe CusTomErs aT seLf chEcKouT (the customers don’t even respond to me)” “YoU cAnT hAvE yoUr PhoNe!!!”
These people will pay you minimum wage (wouldn't even pay you if they could) but will a straight mind expect you to do the most insane requests. Working for 50$ a day but working like you're getting 150$ out of it
No. I wasn't worker at the stores. I was just disgusted and really bothered by the messy clothes so i was folding it everytime i was shopping there 😭🤣 People were like.. Are you working here? And I'm like.. No! I'm folding here 🤣
@@jacksparrow2351 Or train the customers how to be better customers I know I do because I work at Macy’s and I literally when I see a customer bring in a lot of clothes to try on in the fitting room and I see them walk out empty-handed I will be like could you please bring those items back out and put them back where you got them from instead of leaving it on the floor balled up into a corner
I wish I would hold it for a bathroom break! I’m going to tell you I’m going rather than ask & if you protest my statement, I’m walking straight to the ladies room.
I felt so guilty about pushing the credit cards but they don't give you as many hours if you don't sell. It's a bad feeling and I stopped doing it after a while. They did not like that 😂
I have been in a very toxic retail environment for the last 6 years but I have worked for this company for almost 14 years. My boss is just so naive and stupid, not educated, should of never got the position etc. She intimidates, guilt trips, power trips, treats people like shit, makes ppl cry. I had to take a sick leave of 4 months. I lost so much weight, hard time just eating, sleep is consistently disrupted, really bad stomach and digestive issues. The turnover is extremely high with staff. And it boils down to the store manager. People get hired and find out what she’s truly like and quit. I don’t blame them. My days are numbered.
I worked retail and lady comes to the register with an opened box and wants a discount. I said I can't do that. I walked over and saw a stack of unopened boxes and said take one of these. She didn't want them, she wanted the opened one at a discount. She obviously opened it herself expecting a discount.
Oh my! You don't have to hold it in. What if you can't! They usually have a restroom in the back, only available for employees. It doesn't take that long anyway!
I worked at jcpenney and the break thing was annoying. One time they had me doing breaks for every department, which included a 30 & 15 min at separate times. People were always late coming back so it would just keep adding minutes to everyone. So, this old guy that worked in men's kept calling me to come break him but I wasn't done with the other breaks, he had to call me at least 3 or 4 times. When I finally got to his break, he was 10 minutes late and I kept calling him on the overhead speaker. He got back all pissed.
As a cashier, this is pretty accurate. However you have co workers that don’t care about their job and you’d have 3 cashiers and one goes to lunch on schedule and someone leaves for 25min without saying a word and I’m stuck with 500 customers, they get mad at me for being the only cashier. The other comes back. “Where’d you go?” “I was just in the bathroom for a couple of minutes.. anyway I’m scheduled for lunch now so I’ll take my hour break now.” “The other person isn’t back tho.” “But I’m scheduled to take my break now.” And more customers are mad bc now there’s 2000 in my line.
When I was working at a store and had to use the bathroom, I just went quickly and got back to work. I'm new to working, are we not allowed to do this or something?
You might get in trouble if you are missed and should let someone know you are leaving the floor BUT never ever let someone try to tell you you can't use the restroom. Ever. Manager or not.
I know this is JCPenney 😢no matter how much stressful and rude annoying customers being mad because of coupons not qualified for their items it was I still love the job because of the schedule flexibility 😊😅
out of all the things that drove me nuts during my time in retail, asking for credit cards was the number one frustration? I could ask until I ran out of oxygen most customers won't take one. besides, I already do my finances at a credit bank/financial institute, why on God's green earth would I want to do my banking at the same place I buy my toilet paper!! stop forcing us to do the impossible!!
Oh my god yes! 😂 I barely started yesterday and I could just feel the bad vibes by some of the workers including young ones. I just roll my eyes at them or I walk and smile back with my head up high. They think they’re all that 🤭 and it just seems like no one wants to help new workers. I swear I was put by myself at the front on my first day of work and some of the workers would literally turn around or walk away.
I worked at target before and this is accurate lol especially after u made an area all neat and clean only for someone to mess it up a min later and then the manager is like weren’t u supposed to do this I’m like ……
i’ve never worked in retail (only the food industry) and i’ve never understood why managers have to force their employees to push credit cards/rewards programs onto their customers? now, i know it’s not the employees fault because i’m aware that they’re required to ask, so i will just politely decline when they offer. however, i don’t understand why the employees are made to like REALLY push these credit cards and stuff onto the customers; they’ll ask if you want to join, you say no. they proceed to tell you that you’ll receive benefits if you sign up. you still say no. then they ask if you’re sure. again, for the third time, you say no. i just don’t understand, i wanna know why these poor employees are forced to do that when it’s like very clear that the customers don’t want it and tend to get annoyed about it, it puts the employee into an uncomfortable and awkward situation sometimes. can somebody explain?
If you use a store credit card versus just a regular Visa the store has less fees it has to pay. So it's simply for the company to save money. If a customer uses their store card it's less fees they have to pay towards Visa or Mastercard. Furthermore, the rewards program is so they can get your email and such to send you ads so you buy more.
Dude if somone is still takeinf there break when MY break is happening IDGAF I'm takeing my fucking break. Its the other person's job to take there break and come back before my scheduled break is. And if the manager can't fucking schedule shit properly thats there fucking fault.
