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Korea (South)1897 Posts
Nice tips, its good to get this kind of work under your belt, builds the right work ethic as well as interpersonal skills that come naturally as well as the ability to relate to all levels of management and your work force; plus, customer service, routine work and operations is always good experience regardless of the level of 'prestige'.
I've seen a lot of guys who have never done such work and while in finance or as a consultant, they won't deal very much with the front line people, when they do take on more of a management role they usually end up not appreciating the staff who have worked their way up from an operational role or they aren't aware that they are projecting a kind of elitism/prejudice and the secretarial or middle management tends to not be cooperative (as they think the guy is an asshole).
I worked at my parent's convenient store for about 4 years, waited tables for about 3 years and worked as a sushi chef for about 5 years (and helped with dishwashing about 3 times a week), builds character and keeps you in touch with reality. Actually in my industry, a lot of casino executives all started as dealers, you'd be surprised to the actual percentage and executives are proud that they worked their way up, I think its a unique thing about casinos.
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On December 29 2010 07:04 Stenstyren wrote:I've never understood the concept of packing the bags for the customers. Wouldn't that add a ton of staff needed and thus more expensive food? Also, the plastic bags you guys use are such low quality, you can keep like three products in each bag. Very, very annoying 
This. Crazy Americans  And if you have to ask all the time what the preferances of the customer are it's in most cases also faster to have them do it themselves. I know I can pack my groceries very fast and even put the heavier things first on the conveyor belt so I can start packing as soon as the first articles are scanned. I finish about the same time as the checkout scans the last items. It also helps I have my own big sturdy bags with me.
And that thing used by new mothers is called a buggy (just remembered Americans call it a stroller but imagine my confusion first reading about you constantly talking about buggies). Grocerystores have a shopping cart.
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Good read. Never had a job at a grocery store so always interesting to see what the people go through.
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On December 29 2010 23:07 Golden Ghost wrote:Show nested quote +On December 29 2010 07:04 Stenstyren wrote:I've never understood the concept of packing the bags for the customers. Wouldn't that add a ton of staff needed and thus more expensive food? Also, the plastic bags you guys use are such low quality, you can keep like three products in each bag. Very, very annoying This. Crazy Americans And if you have to ask all the time what the preferances of the customer are it's in most cases also faster to have them do it themselves. I know I can pack my groceries very fast and even put the heavier things first on the conveyor belt so I can start packing as soon as the first articles are scanned. I finish about the same time as the checkout scans the last items. It also helps I have my own big sturdy bags with me. And that thing used by new mothers is called a buggy (just remembered Americans call it a stroller but imagine my confusion first reading about you constantly talking about buggies). Grocerystores have a shopping cart.
the extra staff are called 'bagboys'. Basically its the shittiest job there. What you do is go around doing random tasks that people assign you, picking up messes, stocking shelves, collecting carts, or helping people do their jobs when its busy or needs to be done asap.
When there is a down time they just default to bagging groceries, they often hop from lane to lane bagging nonstop to speed up the checkout process so the cashier doesn't have to multitask. Its probably better on company losses when people handling money have less things to do.
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