But in regards to my CSM's point of view, would she be benefiting at all by putting me on PPT? I think I'll wait if and/or when my hours get cut down. Also, I think I'm going to join the union during the summer break so that I can apply for the textbook scholarship and get myself $1000. Apparently like everyone who goes for it gets it. Could be $2000 a year, would help out a lot.
With SDA, I keep getting told that you can 'claim it back on tax'. By this, do they mean that the percentage of payments made to SDA that are tax are given back at the end of the financial year or the actual majority of the lump sum paid over the time period is returned to you as you'd be a low income earner. If the later is true, how would the SDA make money if you get something like 90% back when most of their members might possibly not even be full time workers? I guess it would be the earlier of the two, like most other things, you just get a percentage of the tax paid back, not a percentage of the 'fee'.
I did try to talk to my SDA representative today, but it was 4pm and it was so busy.
Another random question, do you guys have different priorities? We always have level 1 priority for service (very busy but small store), but I'm never heard any other 'levels'. Guess it sounds better?
And why is it that we aren't given the reason why EFTPOST cards are rejected (bar incorrect pins)? I recall when I worked at Kmart, similar to that of a giftcard, we would be told the reason in which the card was rejected. Perhaps Coles has more issues with privacy or it was introduced between me being transferred from check-out to general merchandise at Kmart and beginning work on registers at Coles.
One last thing, split clearances. These are so crap, when I started (never trained), I was only told that clearances simply couldn't exceed a certain limit. Hardly anyone at my work does clearances, so when I started (usually 3/4pm and I usually end up changing registers 2/3 times to work my way back closer to supervisors section as they bag up) I kept doing clearances until there was a 'safe' amount of money in the tills. No one told me that you can't do more than one clearance in an hour. So then I got a heap of those excessive clearance forms, haha.
The bit that's more retarded is, I start late in the day, and it's pretty much guaranteed that there'll be a shitload of 50's and sometimes like 6+ 100's. If the person did a clearance before I started but there is still one needed (many of my co-workers are scared of doing clearances I think, because you can't count the notes, have to guess, and they're afraid of getting an excessive clearance form?) and I do a clearance within an hour of the last person doing one, I'll get an excessive clearance form. Like I'm supposed to know when someone did a clearance before I started.
I'm not bitching or anything, just, I'm not really sure what I should do sometimes. I don't want to have my CSM or the store manager for example see my till and be like: "wtf, why haven't you cleared it?" when it's not my fault. Although, my CSM hasn't talked to me about my excessive clearances (had over 10 for sure), perhaps she knows that I'm not being a retard.