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The excuse I used to use about this journal was that I was waiting for Interesting Things to Happen before I bothered to write in it. For starters, I got sick of scrolling through endless entries about video games when I wanted to look through my own diary to see when something big happened and what I thought about it at the time. After all, with
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My hate on for company policy was more at the front-end of the store, where they tried to get me to sell worthless warrantees to customers who were already bottoming out their pockets to give their kid a computer for school. I didn't sell a single plan in the 3 month summer that I worked there. You would not believe how proud I am of that.
All I can tell you is this. Decide now that you want to work somewhere else. Instead of quitting, spend your remaining time blatantly ignoring company policy and helping out the customers. Load up a card with 10 bucks, and then just let people pay you cash to use the card. If someone asks you which computer they should buy, do what I did: Tell them there's a better one at CompUSA for half the price (or equiv, since CompUSA closed down.) Quietly push them out the door, and when your floor manager slips out of a shadow to ask if they bought the plan with the computer, tell him no, they bailed on the deal before you could even pitch the warrantee. Tell people which coupons they can double-up with a local price-check against circuit city to get something crazy expensive for half the price.
Don't ask for anyone's personal information, ever again.
In my experience this is the most harmonious way to leave staples. You don't have to quit, and they're too chicken to fire you. You'll just get fewer and fewer hours, until one day you're just not on the weekly schedule sheet, next to the red-sharpied poster of employee stats that attempts to pit you against your coworkers in a battle for sales.
The most important thing is that you leave office supply retail forever, and that you do it soon. You're better than this. We all are.
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They make me work the front end quite often, because it gets them out of allocating hours to (or, y'know, hiring) an actual cashier... aside from the suckiness of working the front end, this stresses me out because when I'm stuck at the front, that's time I can't use to finish the backlog of orders at the copy center. And guess who gets blamed when those orders are late? (Oh, I could go on and on.) I haven't sold a single warranty either. (Thankfully, the copy center is very far away from the tech area.)
Believe me, I'm on the same page as you here. I've long been activating those cards for the customers and getting chewed out for it (because that, like everything else, is tracked)... the Mystery Shoppers are telling them I don't use the Order Envelopes... and of course they've already threatened to cut my hours. The exit seems inevitable.
The problem is that I have no exit plan. Yes, this job is shitty but it's all I could find after months of unfruitful, financially disastrous searching. I have physical limitations that eliminate a lot of jobs (like, say, waiting tables) available to people like me with no degree, no useful experience, no specific skills and a somewhat spotty job history. It's true that I am better than this. I just need to figure out what I am good enough for... and how I'm going to get there.
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