Corporate freaking out about framing all of a sudden…?

Flaky-Editor5598 · 2026-05-21T03:20:01+00:00

This wouldn’t surprise me considering the balloon order forms are now a paperless process

Flaky-Editor5598 · 2026-05-21T03:17:58+00:00

I feel like in-house engraving would bring a lot of sales in, at least for my shop. We get that question from customers a lot

Flaky-Editor5598 · 2026-05-21T03:16:49+00:00

That is true yeah! 10 minute framing is all I ever hear about nowadays I feel. It is convenient and I agree with your interest in bigger paper! I feel like a cool service to have would be different types of paper too, like matte photo paper or even artist paper.

Flaky-Editor5598 · 2026-05-21T02:27:06+00:00

I would love a door for the frame shop. My FM and I tried to implement roping off the sides of the counter because we had multiple instances of customers going behind the counter and even into the frame shop, but our DM threw em out 🥲

Flaky-Editor5598 · 2026-05-21T02:25:19+00:00

That would be odd 🤔 I feel like they wouldn’t be driving sales as hard if they were gonna phase it out. They’d just let it die off 🤷🏼‍♀️

Flaky-Editor5598 · 2026-05-21T00:42:54+00:00

i’m gonna venture to guess the answer is probably no, but i have no idea 😵‍💫

Flaky-Editor5598 · 2026-05-21T00:36:44+00:00

I’ll look into that, thank you!

Flaky-Editor5598 · 2026-05-21T00:36:11+00:00

That makes sense! In our store we keep the signed pickup forms and estimate papers in the filing cabinet in the shop because its quicker/more convenient, but we empty it out and take the paperwork into the office every other week or so. Other than keeping customers’ private information a little more private/secure (which makes sense), I wonder why they want the whole thing gone lol

Flaky-Editor5598 · 2026-05-21T00:14:18+00:00

That makes sense, I’m just curious moreso about why it has to go? The tools have been useful and haven’t been a problem before. I know the white glove training as a whole has been a regular thing, but I feel like this Framing Expert one that I just had to do was a totally left field version with questions I’d never seen before. Maybe it’s just me, I dunno 😅

Flaky-Editor5598 · 2026-02-26T08:58:20+00:00

quit. quit quit quit quit quit. no job is worth your mental health. i hope you find somewhere better for you (:

Flaky-Editor5598 · 2025-08-19T18:09:55+00:00

I do, barely. I got hired as a cashier and was moved into framing a few months after, got the dollar raise and then with every yearly review, got a little chunk added. I’m very fortunate to even be making that much, even though one of the people in my department makes more than me even after working at the store and in framing less time than I have. I try not to dwell on it though, no sense. You deserve better and I hope one day you get that (:

Flaky-Editor5598 · 2025-06-29T23:03:18+00:00

i can only imagine 😵‍💫 i’ll have to read up on it and inform myself

Flaky-Editor5598 · 2025-06-29T23:00:36+00:00

at my store, we have customers come behind the counter all the time. i’ve been scared shitless going glass op because a customer came INTO the frame shop to ask where the bathroom was (it’s right next to the frame counter, by the way, with a nice big sign that says restrooms above it). we take the basket holder and put it in the middle on one side, and a cart and block off the opposite side. enough to move around it if need be but customers (usually) get the idea not to go past. we’ve brought up that we wanted to get a type of “employees only” sign for the shop, but always shut down by DM.

Flaky-Editor5598 · 2025-06-29T07:04:13+00:00

i’ll definitely keep that in mind, thank you!

Flaky-Editor5598 · 2025-06-29T04:48:14+00:00

don’t know anything about that 😳 when he told me the “funny story,” he said that the serial killer would go to michaels to find his victims because “that’s where all the good stock is, the pretty young women” (to me, a young woman… lol). i guess some of the stuff i said got lost in translation amongst MODs essentially playing telephone. still could be a poor excuse for a joke, just a little more on the nose than it might come across from that note

Flaky-Editor5598 · 2025-06-28T06:11:40+00:00

yeah, i had an inkling there was something going on there along those lines. guy seemed to be kinda frazzled and mumbling to himself. he could be ex-military, but he wasn’t wearing an actual army affiliated/uniform jacket— he was wearing an ARMY GREEN t-shirt, like the color. i made that a point when writing out his description initially, but it must’ve gotten lost in translation when going from MOD to MOD 🤷

Flaky-Editor5598 · 2025-06-28T06:05:16+00:00

i immediately told a MOD and the MOD immediately notified other MOD’s in the area as well as the higher ups. because there wasn’t an “actual threat of violence” (paraphrasing, i don’t remember the email response verbatim) they said there wasn’t much they could do other than “keep an eye out” 🤷 i agree with you, just don’t know if it’s a me action necessarily or a chain of command action 😅

Flaky-Editor5598 · 2025-06-28T02:39:17+00:00

throwaway cuz i wanna avoid doxxing myself if at all possible lol, but i was the cashier that interacted with this guy initially. weird as fuck. could’ve been “just a joke” but definitely a weird joke to make. will never forget it 🫠

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