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Topic Started: Dec 6 2012, 10:58 PM (213 Views)
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I still can't believe it's not butter!

Has anyone worked in retail before?

I am currently working in retail, it's a whole different ball park when you actually work in retail, rather than just shopping. XD
I like working in retail, although I could do without the nasty customers, those people just need to be pushed off a cliff.
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Yea I used to work in retail & for where I used to work in retail (I won't mention here) the same could be said for some of the upper management that other people I knew there had to work with.... As a lot of those people were nasty from how I heard it.

It wasn't too bad for me & I had a pretty nice time because the upper management was pretty good aboutgiving me decent scheduled hours & what not. But from what I heard from a LOT of people I could have had it much worse too. ^^; XD
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I still can't believe it's not butter!

It also works if everyone, is nice and or at least understanding. All of my co-workers are very nice, and the managers and higher ups are nice and understanding too.
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I've had good and bad experiences with Retail!

My first real retail job was Wal-Mart....First, the management was horrible. Unforgiving, disrespectful and UN-organized. Sometimes you'd have the manager who knew what was what, that would be 1 out of 5 managers (and they have a habit of hiring a lot of them)

Wal-Mart is also a good place in terms of pay and hours, they are pretty flexible on where in the store you work!

I worked some restaurant jobs and fast food places, also a mix of good and bad.

Mostly, it depends on who your working with, and how you manage working. If your a people person, then front sales and reception are better, if your not then stackign shelves, cart boy/girl (usually they hire girls for front and guys for back which I've noticed but not always)
Or you could do cooking/baking in some places or whatever.

Retail is never the most fun job you'll have, but it pays bills.

I am no longer in Retail as it's not for me, plus retail is more suited for younger people who are just starting in the work place.
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Recreation has a mix of good and bad as well,some customers(the nasty ones)don't appreciate what your service does and some even think your overpaid and under worked,it's usually people who never worked in that line of work in their life and have jobs that pay more and in some cases cushy jobs.

I don't know about retail but,in Recreation i find tourists are more appreciative of what you do then folks from your own town and region,must be the grass is always greener on the other side kind of thing.

Even Management can be both good and bad,guess it depends on how that person acts in a position of power.
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