Board 8 > So what are some tolerable retail jobs?

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I need out of Home Depot immediately and need another retail job that isn't god awful. The problem is finding a place that is hiring.

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I'm wondering this as well, restauration isn't my thing so retail might be better for me.

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That depends on what you find bad about Home Depot. If it's the customers, then try to find something on the back end; unfortunately, that usually means you'll do maintenance, and that means wiping **** off the walls of the bathroom stalls.

I can't comment as to how great of a job it is relative to Home Depot, but Walmart is almost always hiring.

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I fairly enjoyed working at Target.

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Books-A-Million wasn't too bad when I was working there. Honestly the biggest problems there come from the higher ups rather than the in-store management or the customers.

Though the person who'd come in and turn any biography of a liberal they found face down was insanely annoying because that crap took forever to clean up.

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I've had great experiences with kroger. Union job, yo.

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Why do you need a retail job?

I had a good time working at Sears as a sales associate in electronics but that was like 6 years ago.

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What is so awful about Home Depot is how it is run, the management, ridiculous lack of respect and mistreatment, and the pay not matching the labor. Oh, and worthless people too.

I want to stick in retail because I like it, despite the crappy way this store is run. It also seems to pay better than say restaurants and such. Problem is I can only work on the weekend now because of how I'm student teaching. I will be home free to work whenever after this semester though.

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I've worked at Radioshack, Sam's Club, and JCPenney, greatly preferred JCP. It doesn't pay great but at least at the one I worked at it was laid back and had a pleasant atmosphere. The management was all cool and it wasn't stressful.

Bump for more opinions.

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What do people have against unions?

Union dues suck, but overall they make any given job a LOT better.

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OctilIery posted...
What do people have against unions?

Union dues suck, but overall they make any given job a LOT better.

Unions promote only doing the bare minimum of what is asked for in the job since there is no way you can get raises outside of the already structured ones from the contract. As well as making it near impossible to get rid of bad employees who in no right should have a job there.

I was in a union job for a little over 6 years and i can say i really hope i never have to be in one ever again. Yes some perks are nice but the fact is unless you are one of those lazy slobs, you end up having to other peoples work as well as your own with no added benefit. In my 6 years there i only saw 1 person get fired due to work performance and it took them 3 months to do it, only for the person to get hired back a month later because the union took the company to court and won.

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Petco was a pretty cool place to work. The customers there were the least stressful out of all the retail places I've worked at. Hard to be stressed when everyone is going DAWW at all the animals.

Costco

seriously

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Walk across the street and take your directly applicable experience to Lowes.

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Grocery stores are pretty good. Retail stores in general are the bottom tier of jobs, though.

I enjoyed foodservice better than retail, though. It's easier to get hours and you aren't as bored.

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Grocery so long as it isn't some crummy third-rate or uber-proud first-rate. Look for the middle. The golden middle.

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Unions promote only doing the bare minimum of what is asked for in the job since there is no way you can get raises outside of the already structured ones from the contract

and non-union jobs tend to encourage doing much more work than you're realistically being paid to do, if you love getting taken advantage of and being a glorified indentured servant, then yes, non-union retail jobs are great

also tolerable retail job is an oxymoron, I used to work in what was basically a sweatshop that blatantly violated labor laws left and right and this was preferable to any of the retail jobs I've ever had, particularly if you have to deal with customers. if you can avoid retail I'd recommend it

I worked at walmart for two and a half years and I pretty much had the exact same problems you did. The customers usually weren't that bad, but most of my co-workers was what really kept me there for that long, they were mostly pretty great, and I really miss them. Even so, working there was f***ing awful, being a cashier was the worst. I luckily moved to the Service Desk after a year and it was much more tolerable, but the management and corporate still pissed me the f*** off.

My best friend works at Lowes and he doesn't seem to hate it at all, in fact I think he actually likes it. He's grown a lot of hatred for Home Depot too, so I assume you should take the advice of going to Lowes instead, I assume you'd be a little happier there at least.

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People leave the Lowes across the street to come to the Home Depot because they hate Lowes so badly.

Of course, they quit the Home Depot after a while of working there too, so I can't imagine Lowes being that much better. We get complaints about the Lowes close by too, so I doubt that it would be too much better.

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Well maybe it's just where you live then. I've heard people say they actually enjoyed working at walmart, certainly not where I come from, every one of my coworkers hated it as much as I did.

So, I don't know. Retail is pretty crappy, but unfortunately it's either that or restaurants, and I understand your un-willingness to be a waiter, I certainly wouldn't do it either.

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Waiters make lots of money. Seriously look into it.

I worked at a grocery store and the only reason it was terrible was that it was 5 miles away and that required a bus ride there and a walk back. The actual work was decent, and I was making over $9.50 at the end. But I've heard that Home Depot is supposed to be one of the best stores to work for so maybe you should just try to get a skill that isn't retail.

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tolerable
retail
job

pick two...

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From: MarvelousGerbil | #028
tolerable
retail
job

pick two...

tolerable retail?

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there are no jobs for that...

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WhoopsyDaisy posted...
Waiters make lots of money. Seriously look into it.

I worked at a grocery store and the only reason it was terrible was that it was 5 miles away and that required a bus ride there and a walk back. The actual work was decent, and I was making over $9.50 at the end. But I've heard that Home Depot is supposed to be one of the best stores to work for so maybe you should just try to get a skill that isn't retail.

There's a decent chance it might be better at other areas, but our district is all kinds of f***ed up. The district manager and store manager are completely insane about money and give people a 25 cent raise for busting their ass for a year.

People who start out in the lot for $7.50 can get moved to an associate position where they are supposed to get paid $9.10. But they refuse to give them a pay raise. They literally tell them "Sorry, there's nothing we can do." Meanwhile, they'll hire a new associate and pay them $9.10 instead of giving these guys a pay raise.

Other insane stuff is that one guy was going to take our department head position and told them that he wouldn't do it for anything less than $16 an hour. So they came up and told them they could only give it to him for $13. He tried to even level with them and say $14, and he was refused. So they held a grudge against him and brought in a guy from another store who gets paid +$20 an hour to be the department head.

They also run it under the bare minimum of workers. Millwork department has three people in it now. Which means that they have one person coming in an hour after the store opens, and another person working until an hour before the store closes every night. On Sundays, they only let one guy work there. They are in desperate need of more people in that department and have for over a year, but they don't do anything.

Due to stuff like that, my department, which is the biggest department in terms of what we need to do, how many aisles we maintain, and what we need to stock, is trying to cover other departments. One day I was alone and covering four departments at once.

And they refuse to hire more people to cover that, because they are so insane about money. Because the district manager and store manager get a bonus in their paycheck if they only have so many people employed. It's insane.

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From: ShadowHalo17 | #029
tolerable retail?

I find shopping at Wal Mart to sometimes be a tolerable retail experience, but I'm not getting paid for it.

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SantaRPG posted...
uhh unions are pretty much thieves that take money out of your paycheck.

they literally do nothing a decent hr manager couldn't do. In fact I'd be stressed to say they do a lot less since they're a third party and not really involved outside of "$"

Except they do a lot more. They protect workers and make jobs generally a lot better for them, while enforcing the many legal portions that non-union employees can't enforce themselves.

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