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lordtopcat

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Also your cost of stock allows your Department's GP to be calculated correctly. Fresh Food departments do one every Sunday whereas Grocery (correct me if I'm wrong) is once a year?
 

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Speaking of stocktake, I'm doing the cigarette stocktake this week. I've never done it before but the casual we only kept on for the smoke stocktake has finally quit.

I've got the storenet document about doing the smoke stocktake, but has anyone got any other tips?
 

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Wouldn't you have to do tickets early monday morning for the new specials?
 
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Whose had to watch that Work Safe Home Safe video?
with the person getting out of there car dancing to woolworths and them doing those stretches with the baskets, I watched it yesterday and laughed and cringed at how dodgy it was.

Plus our rosters were not printed out till saturday night then put on the wall yesterday afternoon!
 

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Hahahhaaa! didnt have to do stock take this time =D

Because I LOVE getting up at 3.45 in the morning.

P.S My whole suburb was on "standby" for evacuation cos of the tsunami warning...so I could have come home from work with no house..lol.
 

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Haha they asked me today if I could get out of my Monday bakery shifts in bakery to do a 9 hour shift every Monday doing tickets. I told them to speak to my manager. He said no. Lol.
They asked me, though, on a srs note, if I'd be interested in being trained fully in systems to be the SSO's "backup". Reeeally want to :eek:

Also I'm getting omg pay this week... ch-yeahHhhhh! I told the STM that I was glad to fuck up the department/store's budget.... My extra pay this week will mean that bakery is 25% higher on wages than normal >_< He was - understandably - pretty grumpy about it. Especially as it wasn't factored in for the budgets!
 

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That's awesome, why so much pay?

I got plenty of pay the other week by working 11 hours on the public holiday, awesome!
 

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The thing is though, I hate checkouts on Saturday afternoons. The whole vibe is awful. Also my SM has said if I give up tickets I also have to give up cash office, which I quite like.
So I guess I'm stuck with it for the time being.
Yeah they were always horrid at Launceston as well....must be global.

AGH WHAT A PATHETIC DAY!!!!!
it was so busy today and we had litterally 0 express alerts and all afternoon the grids were 2 under forcast! Had so many complaints, someones gonna get there ass kicked tomorro....... ANYWAYS
i didnt hear the tsunami warning either, but then again Maitland alot further inland than Jesmond. Maybe it was just a Jesso thing?
So the forecasts actually do mean something? They are always so whacked I stopped looking at them long ago. 2 under forecast is bad? On saturday we were like 5 under between 10 and 12. I remember we used to be like under every single day but now we're mostly half under, half over throughout the days.
 

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just so you all know, i had the shittest day ever. i'm not even sure that i'm exaggerating.

brb getting food though. :D
Glad i'm getting paid today for not being there. They were probably massively understaffed yet again on a public holiday.

Btw my house is getting attacked by snakes, we have caught two so far and theres more lurking.
 

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Labour Day in W.A. today.

Just realised it's 8 Hours Day next Monday. I hope I'm working, I don't know how but we usually seem to be pretty well staffed on checkouts on Public Holidays.
 
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labour day = shit. noone has anything to do, its like a zillion degrees, so they come to the shops.

My day started terribly, and ended terribly. I got there just before 9, expecting my 2IC to come in around 9ish, maybe a bit later. I started doing food safety/other open jobs until I noticed that everything had been done. So I didn't think anything of it and just presumed she'd gone to get papers.
Then one of the grocery boys tells me she came in at 6.30 and did everything, went home, and was going to come back around 9.30ish for tills.
Weird. But then when she did come back in, she saw me, and then went "well if you're here I'm going home". And off she went.

Then there was absolutely no change to order.

Opened at 10. I jumped on express at 10.10, called my first express alert at 10.15, those staff did not leave checkouts until 2pm. The express line had actually split, half the people had continued the line straight towards liquor and the other half had split around the corner, alongside deli and meat. So there were massive fights in the middle of the express queue. And the lines for mains went down the aisles.
I taught our DM checkouts out of neccessity. She had no clue. She couldn't even remember her password to sign on to the checkout.

At around 11 I noticed we didn't have many bags. So I started ringing other stores to try and get some. But of course, being WA and a public holiday, something like 8 stores only in the metro area were open? And only three of them were within 40 minutes of us.
Noone had bags to give us.
Also at 11 I had one of our operators tell us she was doing her entire shift in bakery :| Like you could have told me this morning, I honestly thought she was only there until 10 (like it had shift 1 6-10, shit 2 11-3, i thought the second shift was us). And the afternoon supervisor rang to say that she got her uni timetable mixed up and couldn't come in after all. :(

By that stage my DM told me to ring ALL the afternoon operators and ask them to come in early. Two did, thankfully.

I went to lunch at 2.45, and took around 25 minutes before I got a phone call from the DM asking me to come back.

Then at 4pm we finally ran out of bags, no problem we thought, we'll just give out boxes and green bags.
EXCEPT THERE WERE NO BOXES AND ONLY ONE BOX OF GREEN BAGS.
so in the end we made people pay for the green bags. I got so many complaints that we ran out of those 'Serving you Better' forms.

Finally, 4.30, the centre's power went out. Woolies, being the only store with a reliable generator, got slammed. I cried, literally. By that stage we had run out of the boxes that we did have as well.

Before close, I rang our 2IC to explain that there was no bags until tomorrow lunchtime and there was nothing we could do about it and that we really did try. She hung up on me.

But today really showed that I have some amazing amazing young kids in my department. I have some new favourites, and old favourites that well, are fucking brilliant.

And noone wants to tell me if I have to work thursday or not!

Sorry for the epic epic post. But how was everyone elses day?
 

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That sounds terrible, I kinda hope your 2ic gets slammed over that.

Bet you're glad it's over tho. :p
 
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Worst long weekend ever.

9-6.30 saturday, 9-7.30 sunday, 9-5.45 today.
On the brightside we were something like 60% over budget.

My CSM will probably have VERY stern words with our 2IC.
 

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Is your 2ic a salary worker? because surely working public holidays is voluntary for all eba employees, but not salary, they kinda have to if they are rostered it.
 

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