Hey all, NC Tony here again.
Now I know this is the time of year when a lot of seasonal hires and extra help are coming into most retail outlets to get ready for the nightmare holiday rush that will drive each and every one of us over the brink of madness, wishing every asshole crusty/NAT/piggy shopper to have a shitty Christmas and a fucked up New Year.
Allow me to cover the piggies first.
Our rug section looked like, as my father liked to put it, "Who did it and ran, came back and did it again". Which means it looked like a fucking hurricane hit it... twice.
So there I was on ad-set. I get to the rugs and wanted to shoot someone in the face.
Rugs were all over the floor, laid out as if the custys had put them down just to see how big they were... and just left them there.
I swear, there were at least three of them, laid out like that. Big ones too, not the huge area rugs, but still, big rugs in the middle of the floor.
Then there was the mother/daughter team who pulled down a cushioned kitchen mat, walked back and forth on it, decided they didn't want it, and left it in the middle of the fucking aisle!
I wanted to set them on fire with a flaming arrow.
This was a well traveled aisle, not some little side aisle that hardly anyone walks down, so I had to pick the damn thing up, and put it back. Not so bad you think, these fuckers are long, awkward, difficult in an aisle where I barely have any room to maneuver and surprisingly heavy. It doesn't help that I pulled a muscle in my back a week ago.
It only got worse when I went to the next aisle.
Rugs were literally falling off the shelves, making the aisle a nightmare to walk down, and these were the outdoor rugs! They're a lot heavier than your standard living room rugs. Since ad-set is a time sensitive job (we have a time goal we're supposed to meet), I didn't have time to try and fix them.
I did however warn my co-worker who would have to, and she agreed with me that someone needed their arms broken.
Now normally I can't bitch about my co-workers.
But like I said in my opening, we have a lot of new people, especially on the ad-set team.Three experienced people not counting my supervisor. Six to seven new people a night. New people who are still learning the ropes. On a night we had an ad-set audit (checking to make sure the signs and toppers were right), we got one of the worst scores ever, our last audit score was 98%. We were never told the score this time, that's not good. My poor supervisor and her boss had to stay for nearly an hour after everyone else had left and rescan three sections.
But one girl I don't think paid any attention on how to do ad-set.
There's a way that we're supposed to scan to make it easy if someone has to cover for you. She does not use this method. I don't know what the hell she did, but I got lost FOUR TIMES in her section! I had done all my stuff. I always see if my supervisor wants me to help someone else out when I'm done. So I go to help the new girl (she had to leave early because she had to catch a ride with her roommate), and her signs are all out of order, half of them are missing and... BGFKLGKLGKLKBFLKGL! If I had hair, I would have pulled it out.
Everyone else had gone except for me, another long time ad-set co-worker and my supervisor. An hour later (an hour after we SHOULD have left) we finally finished her screwed up section, and got to leave.
Not since my days at Target have I wanted so badly to brutally beat one of my co-workers to death as I did last night. The good news? They're already talking about taking her off of ad-set.
Whoo! I feel better, thanks for letting me rant!
-NC Tony
