babikakez said:
Yeh, my 2.5 hour shift was wednesday 4-6.30, works on that loophole mentioned. My store closes at 6 on weekdays (except Thurs).
Also, we were never able to order $20 notes in change orders, were you? But otherwise I don't have a problem with the new change order system, except that I didn't know how to use it on Saturday and had to wait ages for a supervisor to help.
I was also wondering, how many stores have express lanes in the "next please" format, (if you know what I mean). Because once our refit is done (scheduled for completion by September), we're losing ours. The only other stores I've been in have actual lanes for express. I don't want new express lanes, it will take all of the fun out of being on express. :mad1: :burn:
There are a few newly refurbed stores that have the staggered express like how theres one queue and generally the registers are staggered.
Joondalup has that system, they were only refurbed a few months ago. We lost ours as well and is a pain in the ass more than anything, as i used to be able to chuck all my staff on big checkouts and run lotto/s.shop and express and it was cool now i cant just hop on and off express and its a pain in the arse trying to close off especially when its busy, now we just get other staff to takeover.
Why they felt the need to get rid of that express system beats me?? it was alot more efficient as if you have to do a price check or something it means everyone in that lane has to wait.
Not sure what the new new stores are like as the layouts have changed dramatically. Are you guys getting the Brown look? With wood style floors and brown shelving and purple walls with silver writing? or the Green look? would assume the brown but interesting to know anyway
And yeah we are able to order $20 notes, shit we go through more of them than any other note we have 5-6 change orders a day and generally most tills have to order $400 worth for each change order, yes we go through that many!! and we run out of $10 notes all the time as the bank doesnt send us any
funny you say that as all the people who have come from city stores never ordered 20 dollar notes yet we can but we need them.
Had our biggest sales week since xmas last week, pretty close to xmas sales so i guess everyone is back in town. Like saturday we done 270k for the day and after 7pm i had 2 staff on the front end with me and had to close express and had queues of 6 people on the 2 checkouts, quite amusing anyway. Most people know understand that having unreliable 13 year olds on checkouts isnt the best but its the only option otherwise we are screwed for staff. With Coles chaning their trading hours its going to get worse for us meaning we are going to be alot busier at night so hopefully they look at our trading hours also........
CieL said:
Unfortunately, even the dumbest piece of shit can become manager/supervisor.
Oh how true that is!!! lol theres this one chick that our stupid whore faced ssm picked to be trained up, she is a dumb cow that we all hate! wish she would hurry up and fuck off back under the rock she climbed out of, she thinks shes all high and mighty because she is "Store services manager" and makes note to point it out to EVERYONE.
Like if theres a customer asking for something, "Im the store services manager, so i cant help you there but i will call the grocery manager for you"
"im the store services manager, just helping get all these customers through"
She only ever helps when shes sucking up to the store manager, like i ended up doing an 18 hour day a couple weeks ago when i was in liquor because that fucking whore faced cow wouldnt let me call someone in to help me.
Yes as you can see we as in the whole store hate the mole. Shes all nice and rosy to me and acts like we are best friends but we arent.
Rant over, its great because everyone on here can understand what we are going through lol
See woolies made public those "Everyday Rewards Cards" which they hope to phase out all paper fuel dockets and store them on this card, which is a good idea, same happens with staff discount too comes up as "Everyday Rewards Card" and staff discount also voids the fuel offer so it doesnt print out since you get it with your discount card anyways.