don't get fired about socks

I'm sure everyone faces a little verbal abuse from the tyrants that exist above them in the employment food chain. It's not uncommon for the higher-ups to abuse their power every now again to their underlings.

I was never one to sit there and take it. No matter how it sounds, I'm way too good to take any manner of verbal abuse. I feel too intelligent to get yelled at for minor things. And I definently do not want to be compared to another worker when I'm doing a good job as well.

Retail sucks. No matter what job you get in retail the managers always pick favorites who slide by and pick on others no matter what they do. The same thing happens in other job industries as well, but right now I'm currently working retail.

Do you think I get a good job when I successfully meet my goal during the day? Or consistently greet customers? Or stock ALL the shipment? Unpack the boxes quickly? Straighten the shelves when someone messes them up? Clean that nasty ass bathroom?

No.

I only get acknowledged when something goes awry in my diligent work effort. Perhaps I took a quick break on my cell phone - which we're all allowed to have out. Or I broke a bag. Or maybe I was trying to do a special order and messed up a bit because someone is breathing down my neck as I do it.

Or I don't sell a damn pair of socks.

And, today, its all about socks.

I was basically threatened - or so I felt - to be fired or to "find another job" because I wasn't able to force our customers to buy some expensive socks. No matter how many ways I tell a person the socks are great, and wonderful, and don't show when they wear them with certain shoes...its all up to them whether or not they purchase them. After I suggest them once, twice, or even three times and they say no there is nothing I can do about them. I can't go in their purse or wallet and get the money for the socks. I can't keep badgering then to buy them. I can merely suggest them - which is what I do.

This is partially reason why I hate shopping myself. The workers are always in my face when I'm just looking. Or they're never there when I do need them. I make myself available to the customers but I'm not all on their backs either. And perhaps that is the way to make sales but it is an awkward as hell way to do it. And makes me and probably the customer very uncomfortable.

It's also difficult to make a sale, whether it be socks or shoes, when you have a coworker who manages to jump in the way all the time. If I'm zeroing in on someone you would think my coworker would back and let me have the sale. But, no, they'd rather take it for theirselves. I am able to step back and let someone take a sale but everyone else is so damn vicious that it doesn't make much sense to me.

The whole incident just ruined my day. If I made more money or got more hours then I can see putting up with bullcrap, but its not worth it when you don't make quite a bit.

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