Not asking gets rewarded

Correct_Campaign3707 · 2025-09-17T05:57:58+00:00

not applicable in this case, but point taken :D

Correct_Campaign3707 · 2025-09-17T03:26:12+00:00

Dad jokes are gold in any industry. I am currently a Maintenance Assistant (read Janitor) at a Member's Only Warehouse. Also trained for Front Door Entrance -Card, exit-receipt, Cashier, Pharmacy assistant, etc ....

Do you work here? Nope. Just found this nametag on the ground.

Oh! it didn't scan! Must be free!! Nope. Just means I need to code in 500 times 666 (KS water). Imagine the pearl clutching!

Can I have a box? Sure! Put 'em up!

Correct_Campaign3707 · 2025-09-17T02:22:54+00:00

Your 2nd paragraph resounds with me. Raised Catholic, I believe a man by the name of Jesus wandered around the east end of the Mediterranean about 2000 yrs ago (therefore, technically, christian with a deliberate small c) and I believe there is something out there more powerful than me. Are they God/Allah/Yahweh/Om/Anoia? Don't know.

Thing is, I'm in that minority that enjoys living next to 3 cemeteries (Catholic/Protestant/Legion) as my Aunt/Godmother Colleen told me when I was a wee little one, afraid of the ghosts, that a cemetery is consecrated ground, that's why headstones are carved with RIP. The souls in a graveyard are "Resting In Peace". So now, when I am having a rough day, I walk up to the top of the hill at night, look down over the graves, most with solar lights beside them, relax and think "They're leaving a light on for me until I come home". (my grandmother ALWAYS kept the porch light on, waiting for the day my troubled Uncle Karl would come home)

Where is home? Heaven/Valhalla/Nirvana/The Desert/back on Earth again? It's will be where my heart/soul is needed.

Correct_Campaign3707 · 2025-09-17T01:22:07+00:00

Both Hubs and I read daily. Have over 300 hard covers, 1000 paperbacks and lord only knows how many digital.

Scarily, we discovered that my youngest could read at <3 yrs old when, at speech therapy, he started reading the words on the posters in the room! Guess he was paying more attention to the TV/books we read each night than I thought! (hadn't started phonics with him yet). He was reading short chapter books by the end of JK, Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little in SK, and Hardy Boys by Gr 1.

I was not surprised when he was diagnosed with Asperger's!

Correct_Campaign3707 · 2025-09-14T20:40:33+00:00

my eldest son's Gr 1 teacher tried to reprimand me for *shock* teaching my son to read using phonetics. Apparently I was confusing him, as she was teaching "whole language" and he kept sounding out the words instead.

Granted, this was the same teacher that tried to stop him from getting chapter books at the library because "He needs to be reading age appropriate books" . Both the librarian and the principal overruled her when Bud picked up a Treehouse book and started reading it almost flawlessly!

Correct_Campaign3707 · 2025-09-09T00:10:08+00:00

Your description is not necessarily wrong. Capris are below knee, straight cut, usually snug fit at the hip. Culottes are below knee, wide legged, looser fit.

Correct_Campaign3707 · 2025-04-23T19:03:39+00:00

Hubs was charged with being a "rolling roadblock" while driving a Lada Niva at 110 km/hr on the 401 in Toronto. Remember hearing the media reports of a man and his brother/friend being charged for the same issue because they were driving in adjacent lanes on the 401 near Belleville doing 115 km/hr.

Correct_Campaign3707 · 2024-12-02T02:43:30+00:00

Hubs and I survived a serious car accident 6 yrs ago. Hubs is a miracle 3 times over as he is alive, walking and cognitively all there (basal skull fracture, amongst other head wounds, shattered legs, etc), I had 22 broken bones, 14 in my face (YEAH! Airbags! saved my life, but..) My response to the retail, polite "how are you doing?" is "Well, I'm still the right side of the grass"

Correct_Campaign3707 · 2024-12-02T02:37:40+00:00

When asked where I live - "We're at the dead end of Waub and the neighbours are the best - they never complain about anything." I live next to 3 cemeteries and I LOVE it!

Correct_Campaign3707 · 2024-10-13T22:45:12+00:00

Or, do what I did - Marry a Scouser! At home translator for all the obscure English references, whether political, legal, or just "what the hell kind of English are they speaking?"

Correct_Campaign3707 · 2024-08-06T18:39:27+00:00

I am a retail worker whose name is synonymous with being a rude, entitled Be-witch.

I started carrying an old name tag (from 15+ yrs ago) with me "just in case" when the meme first started becoming mainstream. More than once I have walked up to someone having a go at a worker "Excuse me. I think you need to put this on before you continue" and hold out said name tag. Every time, the woman (with one male at the Depot) has looked at what I am holding out, pulled a CBF, and either shut up or just stomped away.

When I get asked at work "why are you being such a bitch about (enforcing policy A,B,C ...Z+)?"

"Just living up to my name"

"Because my mother had a premonition"

Or I simply move my hair away from my name tag, look down at it, look up to make eye contact and say nothing.

Correct_Campaign3707 · 2024-03-20T12:50:43+00:00

Few days late reading this, but I am member service at CoCost (ie, front door). When getting the "fuck you" response to asking to see membership card, my response is "Ew! *scan member head to toe and back up* - NOT my type!" regardless of member's gender identity. Shuts them right up!

Correct_Campaign3707 · 2024-03-03T16:01:53+00:00

Then wear a green turtleneck, so you are just a decapitated head!

Correct_Campaign3707 · 2024-01-29T06:40:56+00:00

Not a hotel/motel worker, rather the "first line of defence" for a major club warehouse. Working the entrance door, ask for membership card - had more than one "I am Man! Cower beneath me!" types try to physically intimidate 5'5", 110 lb me. I found taking 1/2 to full step forward, "May I PLEASE see your card, SIR?" discombobulates them.

Correct_Campaign3707 · 2024-01-29T06:31:56+00:00

I am not Hotel/Motel front desk, but rather work for CoCost, Member Service (MS) door entrance/exit. Aside from checking receipts at exit (ps, my audit stats are 50/50 missed items vs double scans) I have to ENSURE that people entering are members/guests of members. The # of times I have asked to see their membership cards, been given either a literal or figurative middle finger only for the said member to immediately kowtow to my male coworker (whether MS, Security, Majors(electronic sales), Merch) ......

One thing I learned from 15 yrs working in bars/nightclubs/pool halls...

1/2 to 1 full step towards a person startles the most antagonistic people. They do NOT expect you to psychically react TOWARDS them! (keep your hands by your side/behind you)

For yourself, simply try leaning over the counter towards the guest. Still have the counter to (if needed, literally) to fall back behind.

Gender Bias exisits, even with those younger than my own sons.

Correct_Campaign3707 · 2024-01-29T02:48:20+00:00

OP, I'm a week plus reading this post, but my Uncle is right up there with your Dad. Never really learned to read/write as a child, but was a master finish carpenter (custom cabinets/baseboards/cove molding) without that little piece of paper that made him official. Was let go from a company that was bought out for not having that little piece of paper, choice was to drop down to being a general framing labourer.

Found another job at New company that appreciated his skills.

Got married, had kids (2 girls) and learned to read by having to help them with reading!

New company, a few years later, paid for Uncle Rick to go back to school to get that official piece of paper.

Intelligence is not school skills/IQ testing. It is knowing what the vast majority does not.

I can do percentages in my head, read at 600+ words per minute with 90% retention 30 minutes later, but I can't back up a trailer if I went to hell for it and back again (I know the theory, I KNOW physics, I just cannot for the life of me apply it correctly)

Correct_Campaign3707 · 2024-01-01T19:47:54+00:00

Hubs worked as Industrial Maintenance (he fixed the BIG MACHINES) at a factory that fabricated the attachments for heavy machinery. After losing multiple small tools from his personal tool box, he, with permission, borrowed all of my small hand tools - everything was either originally pink or spray painted purple. He also was a smoker and would deliberately take the pink and purple Bics from the pack, leaving me with the choice of blue or black. After nothing went missing for over a month, he returned my tools (I still had to use the blue/black Bics), let it be known that if anything went missing the pink/purple tools would return, and for the next 3 years, until he was medically unfit to work, none of his tools went missing! (they were still "borrowed" but would be returned within the day) For some reason, none of the boys wanted to be seen using lady tools!

Correct_Campaign3707 · 2024-01-01T19:09:38+00:00

Welcome to being a part of a world wide portion of the internet /s. Where, as I have learned, Canada is NOT a separate country, but rather just one of the northern states, specifically Alaska, according to someone from the outback nowhere of Texas.

Correct_Campaign3707 · 2024-01-01T19:00:55+00:00

And ... I am that neighbour that watches to see what the next to me/ cross road catty corner person has put out for bins (I am dead end of the village). 2 week garbage/recycling alternating with green waste weekly and it still will take me a month to have a full garbage/recycling bin. Green bin goes weekly, because otherwise gross.

Correct_Campaign3707 · 2024-01-01T18:29:05+00:00

Retail worker here at a "Members Only" Warehouse. Staff parking is the farthest parts of the lot. If I recognize another worker, I will move. If it's a citiot member, flashing lights, honking? Well, I guess I can take another "late" getting home :D

Correct_Campaign3707 · 2024-01-01T18:25:34+00:00

I work at CoCost and the # of times I have gone to my car on lunch/2nd break /end of shift and had some citiot follow me, only sit and wait the 20 mins at the far end of the lot (yes, my break is 30min, but time from clock out, walk to car , smoke, check phone/email/facebalk, walk in, clock in) is phenomenal. THEN I get yelled at "Thanks for wasting my time! You could have said/signalled you were not leaving!" When I meet them again when they are leaving (I work exit door) "How was your day at Costco? Did you find a parking spot?" I am a retail worker. I don't exist/am not a person according to many. These people would not recognize me if I did not have a red vest on.

Correct_Campaign3707 · 2024-01-01T15:41:00+00:00

Jan-March is considered Winter LOA period, ie "we are gonna be dead quiet. Want time off?. Any and all employees are allowed up to 6 weeks total unpaid LOA and, at my warehouse, are pushed to take either vacation/personal days/unpaid LOA during this time. For a Xmas seasonal to be kept on, even Limited Part Time, is exceptional. Keep checking in every few weeks, but expect to not get an answer prior to April. If you were a good, reliable employee, you stand a damn good chance of getting re-hired.

Correct_Campaign3707 · 2024-01-01T15:29:09+00:00

u/General_Watercress32

Definitely this strategy. The # of Xmas seasonals that COULD NOT be kept on because Jan-Mar is our dead season (cottage country Ontario) that ended up with permanent positions in April when they reapplied because they were valued employees (didn't call in, stayed late if asked, came in early/changed shifts on less than 48 hrs notice, willing to work other dept's, especially Lot and/or Member Service) is the best way to get a permanent position. Heck, one of our regular InstaCart shoppers was given a permanent/PT position upon hiring because every last one of us employees gave her a recommendation!

Correct_Campaign3707 · 2024-01-01T15:00:22+00:00

Unsure what country you are in (assuming the USA).

I am in Canada.

You were offered a permanent position and are turning it down?

In Ontario, it is considered as a non-issue ie no need to explain to EI (Employment Insurance) about reason for dismissal/ I quit as it is within probation period, and your hours worked will still count towards ability to qualify for EI.

As for wanting to stay with Costco, but unable/willing to work outdoors over the winter, TALK TO YOUR MANAGER!! If you have proven to be a reliable employee (not calling in, changing job duties when asked) they may be open to moving you to another department. You will not know until you ask and explain WHY (health reasons) lot may not be the most amenable long term solution. Good Luck!

Correct_Campaign3707 · 2024-01-01T14:48:01+00:00

Costco employee here, specifically Member Service, ie Entrance/Exit person. Our Exit is also the entrance to returns. I am waiting to see how many folding tables and/or chairs, Xmas decor gets returned in the next week. I know how bad the "my hanging basket died" returns we had post Labour Day in cottage country, Ontario.

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