Recent content by Fumbling

You could always just take your break when you get off the register. Missing lunch seems to be the only thing they really care about. And if you're with a guest when they call for backup point it out so they don't hound you about it. 'This is so-and-so, I'm with a guest right now, can someone...

I get the feeling that keeping the lid on that kind of information just isn't likely to happen. Our store is a gossip mill so most of the time about 20 minutes after something is made official, everyone already seems to know. Hell half the people knew about my promotion before I did, so...

I've only had something like that happen once on the register. Had a woman buy about a half dozen shirts with clearance stickers covering the upc's. Keyed in the dpci's and noticed right off the bat the brands didn't match. On top of that, she wanted an additional 50 percent off the fraudulent...

If we only get 2 people in softlines and there isn't anyone at the fitting room, calls get answered by HR and the TM's knock out whatever hung and folded reshop is available, then hit each section as quickly as possible. As for backstock, it almost never happens. Any clothing that gets sent to...

They were just trying to bully the TM into staying (mission accomplished), especially since so many people in the store are quitting (they almost always just stop showing up, bypassing that 2 wks notice completely) and the store just doesn't want to hire more workers. I would have told HR...

My store will flat out refuse to acknowledge a person's two week notice. We have a TM who spent 3 weeks trying to quit. They wanted the TM to tell every LOD and even after they did, some LOD's claimed the reason for leaving wasn't good enough. They ended up giving the TM 90 days off to...

The hours at our store are a joke right now. It's gotten to the point where anyone on the sales floor scheduled before noon has to call in because odds are, if they show up for the shift, they're going to get sent right back home. Or, if they're lucky, they show up, work for three hours and then...

My Christmas eve consists of nothing, nothing and more nothing so getting assigned a shift that day wasn't much of a problem for me -- it was why I made it clear I had open availability. But for those who saw they were working that day, why not track someone down who was willing to take the...

We do the free food events but only for major holidays; birthday cake is a no-go. Our only current promotion consists of getting 'target cash' for pushing REDcards -- after about twenty, you qualify for a target shirt. So...yay?

Most of the longer-term employees at our store ended up working Thursday, Friday and Saturday too. The ones, like me, who got just Friday and Saturday, whether it was the morning shift or the closing, were seasonal employees who had just gotten hired a few weeks ago. Kind of glad I didn't get...

I've got tomorrow's closing shift so I didn't have the pleasure of working the black Thursday rush, though from these posts, it seemed pretty tame for most. However, I do have a friend who was working today at one of the Targets downtown and she ended up getting an elbow to the eye when two...

This has got to be the best advice! Checking the bottom of the cart was the one thing I kept forgetting to do, so walking around and putting those things in the cart is def. something I will be doing if/when I'm working the register. I'm not even sure why that one part of the job is so hard...

I've only got that one day under my belt on the no-limit lines and with my trainer throwing information at me like a madwoman for the first twenty minutes then sending me on my merry way to handle things solo, I admit it was a bit overwhelming. I did do some cashiering on the express lane when...

I will preempt this by saying that I have a total lack of cashiering experience, at least on systems found in bigger stores like Target and Walmart. The only cashiering I did was for a small little corner shop whose cash register was basically a giant calculator with a roll of paper attached to...

Ah, I see. Thanks for your responses and clarification! I almost always hear those two getting called for together over the walkies and just figured they were one entity. Though I can say when I did my training in softlines I was a little wowed with how well my trainer knew exactly where...