Chihuahua Update 1: Work
I know its been a long while but here are some updates on my life broken up in parts. I'm still a substitute teacher but during the summer, I tried looking for a better job to not only replace being a substitute teacher but to bring some income during the summer. The only place to call back was Wal-mart; fucking Wal-mart. I took the job seeing as I needed the money, I also thought it would be easy since it was in the electronics department. The duties was easy enough: put things way, get things for the customers that were in the back or locked up, answer questions, and check out customers. However, I worked at probably the most ghetto Wal-mart in the valley that attracted very ignorant customers; though I'm sure most of the world fall in this category and since most of the world shops at Wal-mart...
Anyways, I had to put with people asking me the stupidest questions like if new digital televisions need a digital converter box to service the digital cross-over or asking if the pay-as-go-phones have come with a charger. Then there was the stupidest request, customers would ask me to either activate their pay-as-you-go phones and/or add their minute card to their phones. First off, its a do it yourself cell phone, and that's what you do. Second, if you need someone else to do it something that simple with technology, how do you survive in our society? It's one thing if its some senior who can't keep up with the times but its another when its adults who are perfectly able to learn and should know how to do something that simple. This brings me to another thing I hated about the customers, most of these people were Hispanic and always came to me because I look Hispanic and would either assume that I spoke Spanish or ask if I spoke Spanish instead of going to any other available associate (for the record, I do speak Spanish and if I hadn't said that on my application or just be a nice guy, I would have pretended not to).
Another problem I had working at Wal-mart was the double-standard in the electronics department; the wireless part of the electronics department had to know everything about electronics but I, who just works for electronics, didn't have to know anything about cell phones or activate contracts. I also thought that it was stupid to drop what we were doing as long as its not attending customers at three in the afternoon to go to the grocery side and zone the area. I know it probably a way Wal-mart saves money but wouldn't it just be easier to just hire a person or two to do that for a shift so you're not taking man power way from other departments? Some of the managers were nice but others came off as paranoid rulers of a nonexistent Wal-mart empire.
In the end, I quit the job before I went back to school and got my job as a substitute teacher back. One thing I liked about my job at electronics was that I felt knowledgeable in that department verses babysitting a classroom but being a sub pays more per hour, it lets me set up my days of work and I don't have to work weekends.
Anyways, I had to put with people asking me the stupidest questions like if new digital televisions need a digital converter box to service the digital cross-over or asking if the pay-as-go-phones have come with a charger. Then there was the stupidest request, customers would ask me to either activate their pay-as-you-go phones and/or add their minute card to their phones. First off, its a do it yourself cell phone, and that's what you do. Second, if you need someone else to do it something that simple with technology, how do you survive in our society? It's one thing if its some senior who can't keep up with the times but its another when its adults who are perfectly able to learn and should know how to do something that simple. This brings me to another thing I hated about the customers, most of these people were Hispanic and always came to me because I look Hispanic and would either assume that I spoke Spanish or ask if I spoke Spanish instead of going to any other available associate (for the record, I do speak Spanish and if I hadn't said that on my application or just be a nice guy, I would have pretended not to).
Another problem I had working at Wal-mart was the double-standard in the electronics department; the wireless part of the electronics department had to know everything about electronics but I, who just works for electronics, didn't have to know anything about cell phones or activate contracts. I also thought that it was stupid to drop what we were doing as long as its not attending customers at three in the afternoon to go to the grocery side and zone the area. I know it probably a way Wal-mart saves money but wouldn't it just be easier to just hire a person or two to do that for a shift so you're not taking man power way from other departments? Some of the managers were nice but others came off as paranoid rulers of a nonexistent Wal-mart empire.
In the end, I quit the job before I went back to school and got my job as a substitute teacher back. One thing I liked about my job at electronics was that I felt knowledgeable in that department verses babysitting a classroom but being a sub pays more per hour, it lets me set up my days of work and I don't have to work weekends.