Corporate hate

[veronica_rich]

Just one more reason to be glad I don't have any kids: No impetus to shop at Toys R Us.

I mean, fucking hell. I live in a fairly major city and there were THREE registers open. On a Saturday night. Three weeks before Christmas. I went in on a very rare trip to get something I had to for work or I would've just left.

I don't blame the cashiers. This is a management fuck up, likely at the corporate level. They have enough money to hire some extra seasonal help to work 17 goddamned days before THE major toy holiday.

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Comments

[bayliss.livejournal.com]

They might have actually had enough help scheduled but half of them called in. Kids these days do not have a work ethic. They will call in simply because they don't want to work on Saturday night when their friends are out partying.

[finding-neo.livejournal.com]

Yep. I work with young people and out of the 12 we hired for the holiday season, 2 of them worked 1 or 2 shifts and never called or came back. Not all of them are like that, we have 2 high school students who work harder than the college age ones. But you have to interview 8 to find one who might be like that.

All retailers are like this now as for the upper management responsibility. Just like every other industry they are trying to get by with less work force and making the people who are hired do more work. I have noticed this at every retailer I shopped at recently, Wal-Mart included. After work hours are the worst. My suggestion, go as early in the morning as possible. Although they may have only 1 cashier then, there may be 5 customers total in the whole store. Toy R Us is going to justify their lack of cashiers by telling you they are open later, basically, come back when there's less shoppers, not more cashiers!

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

For where the store is located, it's not feasible to get there in the morning; I'd probably like it better, but the traffic would still be congested on weekends, and I'm having to go back to 5 days in the office (that's a whole other post) so I don't have any day to get there during the week.

[a-silver-rose.livejournal.com]

Yep. I did the retail thing, where I was scheduled pretty much every Saturday night because I was the responsible adult who actually listed the hours I was available to work, not just the hours I wanted to work, not the teenager/college-age kid who was only there for the check. (To be fair, there were younger kids who were responsible and worked Saturdays, but they were in the minority.)

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

I did that in school because I needed the money, and I was abused a lot, yes. I think that's why now, while I'd like to volunteer for things, I won't sign up for anywhere - so much of my adult life, my night and weekend time was not my own to regulate, and I hate to lose it now that some of it is. Plus, I really don't want to get stuck covering for someone else who also signed up and should damn well be there unless there's a medical crisis.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Oh, there were plenty of young shirkers when I was a teenager too. I know, because I was in a pretty small town and still got called in to cover shifts when kids didn't show up, quite a bit - extrapolating, there had to be even more incidences of it in wider society, I'd think.