I've never worked retail, but it sounds similar to my daughter's first job. It makes me really mad, because these jobs are marketed and geared to young people - often as their first job. It can give a horrible impression of the working world, and then we in non-retail management wonder why young people come to us with such horrible attitudes and no sense of "relationship" between worker and management.
If you need the job for the holidays, my advice would be to just stick it out and know that you will need to just let stuff roll off your back. But if you need to work, I'd keep an eye out for something better. The one thing I found with my daughter (who by the way was their outstanding employee that customers requested but who got NO recognition EVER) is that there is little that you can really do to get in big trouble because they need the workers so badly. So they're basically all bark and no bite.
Good Luck and I hope you can either find it to actually be a good job after orientation or find something better!! |