Recent content by Cel

Yeah, what PTS said. I definitely used my GSA experience to my advantage at my interview for my current job. It has nothing to do with retail whatsoever, but being able to manage people and deal with high stress high responsibility high workload in a leadership position is still valuable...

At my store that fistful of cash deal would've never flown with AP. Thing is, when you're rifling through the change drawer, there's a camera with a perfect angle to peer over your shoulder, same with everyone at a register on a lane. Once that cash is loose elsewhere, there's not a brightly...

Your red phones actually dial the operator? I think ours just made the indyme lady start squawking, just like the buttons.

I always just kept it in my armpit. The skim bag, that the money is inside of, which is zipped closed, whenever it's outside of the change fund, a register or the CO....Please tell me you guys aren't walking around with fistfuls of cash? A couple coin rolls, ok, but paper money, no.

Arizona allows open and concealed carry without a license, so I used to see it on probably a daily basis. Never saw any whackjobs with a rifle at low ready or anything though, just holstered handguns.

Yeah I used the over-the-ear headset every GSA shift for 6 months...along with the walkie that plugged into it, both of which I kept in a locker. Didn't like having to beg borrow or steal one half my shifts, and without the earpiece I couldn't hear half the crap I needed to unfortunately. When I...

The yellow bags are known as skim bags. They're for high volume stores or during high volume times when you get a register so overloaded with funds that you need to take some out and bring them to the CO (hence skim) so that it's not an AP liability. They're also to be used for advances to any...

Yeah so basically to make it easy, paygrade differentials do transfer to the new payscale. Merit based raises do not. So if you are an N03 (sales floor, cashier), and the minimum wage increases to more than you are currently making, expect to be making the new base pay which will probably = the...

Not this guy! Well, that plus the fact that the only apple product I have is a fullsize iPad 3, and the hilarity that would ensue if someone tried to pay with that would be pretty amazing.

I think technically ULV describes C or D volume. B would still be low volume as far as I know, just not Ultra Low Volume. What it really comes down to is the individual store. How they allocate payroll for the front end in response to the workload. My store had some of the very worst front end...

Please take note that this in no way, shape or form applies to GSA at a low volume store. That wonderful team? On a good day it's 3 other people, all 3 of whom are constantly inundated with other tasks and guests to have any time to do anything you delegate them to anyway. In my (D-volume...

Gotta ask, what is Elimin-x? Never used it in p-fresh.

Umm Consume I think that's Brand Attendant. Brand TMs tend to be sales floor TMs tied to a specific area (shoes, RTW, electronics, MMB, etc. depending on store volume and what's needed) that they basically own and run themselves. At least in my experience that's what they are, my store had a...

Love some single malt scotch myself, unfortunately I stopped being able to afford it around when the economy hit the skids and I stopped making 35/hr as a contractor...

They do retrieve the advance fund, and sign off for receiving it. Opening safe count is done by the GSA doing CO whenever they come in, which was always at least 15 mins after the opening GSA (unless they were the same person, then we'd come in at 7).