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[GlyphGryph]

walmart

Actually, wal-mart loves when employees take the initiative, and you've just given an example why - they need good managers, badly. If you've got a decent head in your shoulders, it shouldn't take you more than a couple weeks to get your own department, and a couple months to get a management position.

It definitely involves mastering how to deal with the emotions of your coworkers in a productive way though - when to push, when to give, when to do what your told, when to do what's important, who's reliable, who's not, and when and who to pass things off to.

And most importantly - don't leave messes. If you don't have someone you can absolutely trust to take care of something, assume it won't get done, take charge, and take responsibility. I'll note that your manager seems to have screwed this bit up royally, but it was your initiative, so you did too.

Of the many members of my family who've played the walmart game (and ended up with the owners practically begging them to join management) I'm the only one who didn't pull it off. And that's because I a) worked back room for more than the managers made and b) when they eventually shifted me to the front and cut my pay in half, I spent six months sleeping through my shift in the bathroom.

I was not an ideal employee, heheh. The rest of my family was, though. (All at different stores, no favoritism going on)

[Tellemurius]

Did i tell you that when i apply for walmart i failed their employee test when i literally was a brown nose

Literally? Telle, is there something that you'd like to share with us?

basically i took the test with doing everything my boss tells me to and keeping a clean plate without risks. Thought it was funny when it said i failed. I assumed that they wanted to bind your soul to the company till the day you died. Wasn't the greatest moment of my life and one of the reasons i had to abandon colorado and move to utah, i forgotten what i was doing anymore and needed to get away again.

[Shadowlord]

There's an employee test?

[kaenneth]

Did i tell you that when i apply for walmart i failed their employee test when i literally was a brown nose

Literally? Telle, is there something that you'd like to share with us?

basically i took the test with doing everything my boss tells me to and keeping a clean plate without risks. Thought it was funny when it said i failed. I assumed that they wanted to bind your soul to the company till the day you died. Wasn't the greatest moment of my life and one of the reasons i had to abandon colorado and move to utah, i forgotten what i was doing anymore and needed to get away again.

Sounds like you were overqualified.

[Knight of Fools]

walmart

Actually, wal-mart loves when employees take the initiative, and you've just given an example why - they need good managers, badly.

Our management is special. Not bad people most of the time, but anyone who's in a management position right now has been there for five to twenty years and isn't planning on going anywhere, so management positions open up very rarely around here. Considering that it's probably one of the highest paying gigs in this town besides owning your own business or working for the military, I can't really blame them. Unfortunately, they've become rather jaded and assume the worst of everyone in the store and seem to have a hard time connecting with their employees. I'm the complete opposite. I'm far too trusting and empathetic to work well in the retail industry, which is part of what lead to this is the first place and part of the reason I wouldn't make a good manager in most stores.

Irregardless of my puppy-like personality, they didn't need to threaten, badger, and grill me for making a mistake. I respond to that kind of attitude in the most self destructive manner possible. It brings out the depression, mindless rage, and emotional instability that I've mostly been keeping down successfully the past few months. The funny thing is at the end of the interview they were all, "if you have any personal issues, just tell us, we're here to listen". I looked at them and thought, I can't even trust you to treat me like a human being. You just lied and threatened me with punishment if I didn't roll with your lie. I'm not trusting you with jack squat.

So I'll be keeping my head down and avoiding them for a while. I don't want to become cynical and distrusting, but even a puppy's going to avoid people who kick him.

And I read it.

I was honestly surprised when two people actually posted a response. My mindless rage is of the mindless quality.

[Akura]

Almost getting hit at a street crossing, and the bitch driving giving me a dirty look because I have the nerve, nay, audacity to have the legal right-of-way.


Also, that crossing goes from WALK to blinking DON'T WALK in about a second, and it's 4 lanes wide. And that was the safest place to cross.

[Loud Whispers]

Almost getting hit at a street crossing, and the bitch driving giving me a dirty look because I have the nerve, nay, audacity to have the legal right-of-way.


Also, that crossing goes from WALK to blinking DON'T WALK in about a second, and it's 4 lanes wide. And that was the safest place to cross.

"HOW DARE YOU GET BLOOD ON MY CAR!"

[Knight of Fools]

"...and that's how I painted my car red."


I don't know about you guys, but have drivers been getting worse over the years? I haven't been driving for particularly long, but I don't remember people being quite as stupid as they are now-a-days.

[GlyphGryph]

Almost getting hit at a street crossing, and the bitch driving giving me a dirty look because I have the nerve, nay, audacity to have the legal right-of-way.
Also, that crossing goes from WALK to blinking DON'T WALK in about a second, and it's 4 lanes wide. And that was the safest place to cross.

I never understood why my city flashes the "Walk" sign at the same time it gives cars green light permission to drive through the crosswalks.

It just seems like a bad idea. I've actually been avoiding crosswalks lately, or at least crossing when I'm told to, because every one of my close calls have come from obeying those signs.

[Akura]

Probably a time-saver, which coincidentally is possibly one of the worst reasons for it(just under "trap and kill off some of that pedestrian traffic"). Obviously, it wouldn't be neccessary if there wasn't anyone crossing.

Unfortunately, people don't realize(or don't care) that there are sometimes people crossing. After all, who would win, the person crossing, or the half-ton of plastic, metal, and precious, precious fossil fuel?

[Frumple]

Depends on what the courts decide once they get a hold of the hurtling junk heap's controller... and what you'd consider a "victory"

[greatorder]

Did i tell you that when i apply for walmart i failed their employee test when i literally was a brown nose

that was the image I got when I googled 'brown nose.'

[Darvi]

That's what brown nosing means. Figuratively crawling inside somebody's behind.

Of course if he did it literally...

[kaijyuu]

I think the term comes from the term "butt kissing." Butt kiss too much and your nose would turn brown from being shoved up their behind.

[Hanslanda]

"...and that's how I painted my car red."


I don't know about you guys, but have drivers been getting worse over the years? I haven't been driving for particularly long, but I don't remember people being quite as stupid as they are now-a-days.

This. This so much.