A Little Coherency?
Whee! I think I need a little more than a one line entry to feel comfortable with mageraine linking here, so I'll share some of my thoughts from work today.
One thing that it is critical to remember when shopping at Wal-Mart is that shelf-stocking employees are like rocks. They may be insightful, charismatic, incredible conversationalists and athletic enough for the olympics, but they're still like rocks for several reasons.
1. You can outsmart a rock, but it's harder than you would think. You can sit a rock down to a game of chess and beat it every time, but only one of you is losing.
2. It is pretty easy to foil a rock's malevolent plots. You don't need to do anything, really. You'll probably hurt yourself more by spending the effort.
3. Sometimes a rock may hurt you, but getting angry at rocks has not yet been clinically proven to heal injuries. Or stop other rocks from falling on you.
The critical message here is that like rocks, Wal-Mart shelf stockers generally have practically no control over the conditions they are in. If they don't have the product you are looking for, the problem lies with the person ordering the merchandise. The stocker cannot pull fresh inventory from his rear end. Only a few very rare employees are actively mean or mischevous and hide things (another way we're just like rocks.)
Rant brought to you courtesy of some lady who believed I was hiding the 2% milk and went out of her way to send two other employees back to make sure.
One thing that it is critical to remember when shopping at Wal-Mart is that shelf-stocking employees are like rocks. They may be insightful, charismatic, incredible conversationalists and athletic enough for the olympics, but they're still like rocks for several reasons.
1. You can outsmart a rock, but it's harder than you would think. You can sit a rock down to a game of chess and beat it every time, but only one of you is losing.
2. It is pretty easy to foil a rock's malevolent plots. You don't need to do anything, really. You'll probably hurt yourself more by spending the effort.
3. Sometimes a rock may hurt you, but getting angry at rocks has not yet been clinically proven to heal injuries. Or stop other rocks from falling on you.
The critical message here is that like rocks, Wal-Mart shelf stockers generally have practically no control over the conditions they are in. If they don't have the product you are looking for, the problem lies with the person ordering the merchandise. The stocker cannot pull fresh inventory from his rear end. Only a few very rare employees are actively mean or mischevous and hide things (another way we're just like rocks.)
Rant brought to you courtesy of some lady who believed I was hiding the 2% milk and went out of her way to send two other employees back to make sure.