From: XxSoulxX | #018
A lot of times, good employees turn terrible because of terrible work conditions. I'm going by my store (Toys R' Us) as an example. After Christmas, a "full time" employee will get 32 hours a week. A veteran employee (one who has been there more than 2 years) will get 20 hours. Everyone else will get between 4 to 16 hours. Every year it's the same thing. No hours because we didn't sell enough, even though we received a record amount of product in our store (we usually get 1 truck a week in dead months, last year there was a minimum of 3 a week, with close to 7 during the lead up to Christmas). Every year the annual raises get cut back because our inventory is terrible, and every year more and more great workers yell at customers/managers because of all the stress they get for working minimum hours for minimum wage.
I know it's not the same everywhere, but I guarantee just about every major retailer/grocery store in Ottawa is in the same boat.
I was actually so miserable when I was in Lumber because literally one person in there worked and did not have the s***tiest attitude about working. I had to constantly clean up after the crap everyone else didn't do or the messes they would make and got so bogged down with it while I was student teaching. This was after three people who actually did stuff peaced out by retiring, quitting, or changing departments. I was just sick of it all, especially since doing Lumber is about five times amount of the work you'd have to do in any other department for the same pay as everyone else.
So I told them that if they didn't move me, I was going to quit. They took two weeks and then started to shift me over to Hardware. Since then, I've enjoyed my job sooo much more. I'm not dreading going in and miserable all the time.
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