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gravytrain009

BROOKLYN/NY
Joined: 04/24/07
Posts: 5009

July 10th, 2008 - 6:24 AM

with an anecdote somehow related to the highs and lows of my 3 month experience with Borders/Seattle's Best.

beardofdoom

seminole, florida
Joined: 04/24/07
Posts: 2678

July 10th, 2008 - 6:38 AM

bring it on.

stare2clearskie

HARRISONBURG/VA
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Posts: 4616

July 10th, 2008 - 6:40 AM

xxx

innocentlust

ALBANY/NY
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Posts: 1991

July 10th, 2008 - 6:41 AM

oh okay

jubs

SANFORD/FL
Joined: 04/24/07
Posts: 4974

July 10th, 2008 - 6:49 AM

rate me based on the knowledge that you got fired cause you suck.
but then once you are done rating me, stop knowing that

gravytrain009

BROOKLYN/NY
Joined: 04/24/07
Posts: 5009

July 10th, 2008 - 7:13 AM

beardofdoom Said:

bring it on.

You are vegan, right? Here is a story about special dietary requirements.

Once one of my coworkers came in the back and asked me what kosher means. After trying to communicate my own vague understanding of it to her for about 5 minutes, I asked her why she wanted to know. She said a customer wanted to know if any of the food we sold was kosher. I told her there was no way that any of the shit we sell was kosher and she should tell the customer to not even bother. I was all about turning away the customers.

stare2clearskie Said:

xxx

Since you have been having the trouble with getting all the responsibilities and none of the promotion....

The cafe manager Jason hates to do anything involving actual physical labor. He doesn't realize that it was part of the job description. Once a huge delivery of bottled drinks came in and he could not be bothered to haul it upstairs and put it away. He scanned the schedule and chose the most able candidate: Sam, the 5'4" and 95 lb 18-year-old from small town America. Sarah, the cafe supervisor, call Jason back and said something like, "Really? Sam? Really?"

Jason brought the cases up himself.

innocentlust Said:

oh okay

Since you have such moxie yourself....

Samantha (not the previously mentioned Sam) somehow pissed off Jason. It's not hard to do. So he went through the security tapes looking for some way to get her in trouble. He called her to a disciplinary meeting and tried to get her to sign the paperwork saying she had been reprimanded for talking on a cell phone while on shift. She asked to see the tape. She had them zoom in on the shot of her talking on the phone until they could see that not only was she on the cafe phone, the call was coming from the security manager himself. Zing.

jubs Said:

rate me based on the knowledge that you got fired cause you suck.
but then once you are done rating me, stop knowing that

This is how much I sucked at my job. Once I got mixed up about the schedule and thought I had off on Wednesday and worked 2 to close on Thursday and not the other way around. Around 3 pm on Wednesday I got a call from Jason presumably asking me where the fuck I was. I could have answered the phone then and made it to work by 3:30. I didn't answer my phone though because I was too busy buying a vibrator at the Babeland in Soho with the guy I am dating. Oh well.

beardofdoom

seminole, florida
Joined: 04/24/07
Posts: 2678

July 10th, 2008 - 7:27 AM

gravytrain009 Said:

I was all about turning away the customers.

i can definitely respect this.

fastdivide

CAMBRIDGE/MA
Joined: 04/24/07
Posts: 6738

July 10th, 2008 - 7:28 AM

[x]

marriedpunker

NEW YORK/NY
Joined: 01/16/08
Posts: 653

July 10th, 2008 - 7:44 AM

yes, please...since i am at work right now.

Nadbash

MANCHESTER/NH
Joined: 04/24/07
Posts: 8798

July 10th, 2008 - 7:47 AM

Go for it.

gravytrain009

BROOKLYN/NY
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Posts: 5009

July 10th, 2008 - 7:48 AM

fastdivide Said:

[x]

For your future reference:

If you buy a sandwich at one of Borders' Seattle's Best Cafes, here is what you get. The sandwich in question was delivered to the store in a plain cardboard box sometime in the 2 months prior to your visit. This box went into one of the large freezers. Sometimes these freezers don't quite work, and it is often uncertain at what temperature they are actually running. No worries though.

The sandwich was removed from the freezer, given a "day dot" (a sticker indicating when the sandwich left the freezer and how long it is okay for sale), and placed in a refrigerator to thaw. These stickers are conveniently water soluble. Sometimes this means the stickers melt away when the ice crystals that have collected on the sandwich package melt. It's okay though. We are pretty sure we remember when the sandwich was pulled.

Then the sandwich sat in the milk crate in the fridge until it was ordered. Normally it would also have been moved to the mini fridge beneath the ovens in the cafe, but that broke last week. If you hadn't ordered it, it might have been thrown away when the day dot said it should have been (assuming it was still legible). But since Borders recently changed the shelf life of the thawed sandwiches to 2 weeks instead of 1, this is even more unlikely.

Enjoy!

symphony

NORWICH/CT
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Posts: 7805

July 10th, 2008 - 7:57 AM

rate away

gravytrain009

BROOKLYN/NY
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Posts: 5009

July 10th, 2008 - 8:03 AM

marriedpunker Said:

yes, please...since i am at work right now.

Being at work often sucks but not always. One time I had a really awesome day. I had to close, and there were 3 of use closing instead of 2. I got to be the extra person, which meant I got to start early (around 8:30) on closing the back. I got my ipod and plugged it into the shitty little boom box in the back corner of the storage area. I finished everything that needed to be done by about 9:30, so then I just found other things to do so I wouldn't have to go up front to look busy. I played whatever music I wanted and was able to leave 45 minutes early because there was nothing left to do. Then I got a train out to Brooklyn where I got some food and had some wild sex probably.

Nadbash Said:

Go for it.

Every Friday at Borders is "Bean Friday!!!" This means they try to get us to sell as much of the bagged coffee as possible to tourists who don't really give a shit and just want their $2 small cup of coffee. A few weeks ago, Jason had an idea. His idea was to start a promotion where customers could buy a bag of coffee to donate to the troops in Iraq. So he made a flyer and started preying on the sympathies of every customer who crossed his path. We sold a record amount of bags that day, at least 2 dozen! I bet those troops can't wait to get that coffee! Maybe it was a bit of a political move for a store whose company policies specifically strive for neutrality, but it sold those beans.

If only the bags weren't still sitting in an unmarked milk crate in the back of the store room with no prospects of ever being sent anywhere except maybe back on the shelves.

gravytrain009

BROOKLYN/NY
Joined: 04/24/07
Posts: 5009

July 10th, 2008 - 8:37 AM

symphony Said:

rate away

Jason is kind of a dick and so most of the cool regulars have been scared away. All that's left are the assholes. The other day, this woman who is consistently obnoxious came up with a handful of change. She wanted a bagel but didn't have enough. She knew this though and told us it was okay, that she had a plan. She would just take some money from the tip jar and use that. That's cool, right?

My coworker Rowena told her we get disciplined if we touch the tip jar.

emilectrique

WOODBRIDGE/VA
Joined: 04/24/07
Posts: 4719

July 10th, 2008 - 8:57 AM

please and thank you

RubyDooby

Nottingham
Joined: 07/08/08
Posts: 10

July 10th, 2008 - 9:17 AM

ummm okay dokey.. if your offering

gravytrain009

BROOKLYN/NY
Joined: 04/24/07
Posts: 5009

July 10th, 2008 - 9:21 AM

emilectrique Said:

please and thank you

Apparently since the new cafe manager started the turnover in the cafe has gotten pretty fast. Before I got there, there was a girl named Andrea who worked there. She got fed up and quit as so many have done the past few months, but she went out with flare. On her last day, no matter what anyone ordered, she charged them for a 54¢ coffee refill. $4 lattes, $7 sandwiches, whatever. She did it all with a smile, cleaned out her locker, and went home.

vanusempty

HARRISONBURG/VA
Joined: 04/24/07
Posts: 3868

July 10th, 2008 - 9:26 AM

yes please. i'm also at work. boo.

also: you know I love you but i'm pretty sure your thread title was in no way grammatically correct.

emilectrique

WOODBRIDGE/VA
Joined: 04/24/07
Posts: 4719

July 10th, 2008 - 9:27 AM

gravytrain009 Said:

emilectrique Said:

please and thank you

Apparently since the new cafe manager started the turnover in the cafe has gotten pretty fast. Before I got there, there was a girl named Andrea who worked there. She got fed up and quit as so many have done the past few months, but she went out with flare. On her last day, no matter what anyone ordered, she charged them for a 54¢ coffee refill. $4 lattes, $7 sandwiches, whatever. She did it all with a smile, cleaned out her locker, and went home.

that's my kind of girl. :)

gravytrain009

BROOKLYN/NY
Joined: 04/24/07
Posts: 5009

July 10th, 2008 - 9:29 AM

RubyDooby Said:

ummm okay dokey.. if your offering

I don't really know you, but no problem. Here is a story about a girl who I knew. I didn't know how she managed to function as an adult human being however.

Chantell was fucking batshit crazy. Not fun, wacky next door neighbor crazy but paranoid and psychotic crazy. Once she left her apron and hat on a storage shelf when she went home. No one is supposed to do that, but she did it anyway. An order came in the next morning and someone moved her stuff to put the order on the shelf where it belonged. When she came in that afternoon, she flipped a shit because someone had obviously stolen her stuff. Even worse, she had paid a ridiculous amount for embossed flower stickers that she had used to decorate her nametag that was on the missing apron. OH NOES! She called the cafe supervisor, who was on her lunch break, and basically threw a fit about how everyone hated her (they didn't then at least) and how she was going to need to be reimbursed for the lost stickers.

Then someone found her apron on the next shelf over.

cat_scat

FAYETTEVILLE/AR
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Posts: 1480

July 10th, 2008 - 9:30 AM

x

emilectrique

WOODBRIDGE/VA
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Posts: 4719

July 10th, 2008 - 9:32 AM

vanusempty Said:

yes please. i'm also at work. boo.

also: you know I love you but i'm pretty sure your thread title was in no way grammatically correct.

grammar does not apply to the recently dismissed!

elizaelectric

NEW YORK/NY
Joined: 07/05/07
Posts: 3807

July 10th, 2008 - 9:36 AM

yes m'am!

jubs

SANFORD/FL
Joined: 04/24/07
Posts: 4974

July 10th, 2008 - 9:36 AM

so you rated me by buing a vib w/ur boyfriend in the past? and you couldnt just rate me with a picture of said vib?

Nadbash

MANCHESTER/NH
Joined: 04/24/07
Posts: 8798

July 10th, 2008 - 9:45 AM

gravytrain009 Said:

Nadbash Said:

Go for it.

Every Friday at Borders is "Bean Friday!!!" This means they try to get us to sell as much of the bagged coffee as possible to tourists who don't really give a shit and just want their $2 small cup of coffee. A few weeks ago, Jason had an idea. His idea was to start a promotion where customers could buy a bag of coffee to donate to the troops in Iraq. So he made a flyer and started preying on the sympathies of every customer who crossed his path. We sold a record amount of bags that day, at least 2 dozen! I bet those troops can't wait to get that coffee! Maybe it was a bit of a political move for a store whose company policies specifically strive for neutrality, but it sold those beans.

If only the bags weren't still sitting in an unmarked milk crate in the back of the store room with no prospects of ever being sent anywhere except maybe back on the shelves.

Well, I do enjoy screwing soldiers out of their coffee...

gravytrain009

BROOKLYN/NY
Joined: 04/24/07
Posts: 5009

July 10th, 2008 - 11:29 AM

I promise everyone who's posted so far I will rate you with an anecdote soon but I really need a break from thinking about work for a bit.