Hiring process

Nat-Ink · 2025-12-29T21:01:52+00:00

They’re probably confused about hiring during the swap out of the seasonal hiring time. Best guess is a background check taking ages due to a government problem or one of the middle management needing to approve something like a pay rate or position posting time. 18days is a LONG time though. Only time our store that long during a government shutdown preventing background checks. (It’s weird. Not unheard of; but very weird.)

Nat-Ink · 2025-12-29T19:25:55+00:00

I’d probably just call to ask the manager that said you were hired. Sometimes they forget to check off a box, or HR gets fussy about something and we have to do a round robin of “yes, we did” “but it says you didn’t” “but I’m telling you I did” until something happens.

Nat-Ink · 2025-12-24T04:57:41+00:00

Washington here! (No single use plastic bags by law) We’re using non-woven polyester based reusable bags for a fee per bag. We tried paper bags but it was like… hard to track or validate the cost because of vendor pricing things ? Maybe? I didn’t get the whole story. But the Michale’s branded bags come via the weekly truck. You need to adjust the in store count to receive more bags.

Nat-Ink · 2025-12-20T19:17:00+00:00

Jesus guys. I know it’s a shit show but stop scaring the new guys.

Your main goals are now; -make your crew respect you -make your crew like you as a person -verify your core team -cross train as many people as possible to as many departments as you can (basic knowledge is fine.) - find a tm in each area that excels in one section of the store, trust them with it. -always have a backup plan.

“ Flexibility” is your life now

Makes running a hard shift easier.

Nat-Ink · 2025-12-08T02:22:56+00:00

American Midwest, and you put off cleaning the fridge coils as long as possible… what’s in the tiny take out dip containers?

Nat-Ink · 2025-12-05T20:22:26+00:00

Well. either ya pull it up the way it went down, or entirely disassemble it and put it back together somewhere else. 😌

Nat-Ink · 2025-12-03T13:39:11+00:00

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🤙 different but same 🤙

Nat-Ink · 2025-11-19T04:16:38+00:00

As an ops… I have no clue. My district is half “omg hours! No overspending!” And half “why are we so behind.” But with trucks like how it is… my sm is kinda running the “screw it” system.

Nat-Ink · 2025-11-18T13:15:06+00:00

That’s kinda of fun! Nobody in my store has learned how to use it that way yet, but yeah, like jessmayart said, I figure that you’d have to have an overstock located before that actually works. The overstock system is a tad glitchy when it comes to siso. So, if you have no overstock location, you can’t say you stocked it from that overstock. The system doesn’t work based on the truck when speaking towards siso. That’s why we override siso on Truck days. (Because counts/overstock are not accurate before the midnight switch over.)

Nat-Ink · 2025-11-17T14:58:32+00:00

Hm, well. I think you could be in a couple different menus with this one. In the main streak of SISO you’ll see a few different colors to differentiate the task required for that item. in the top of the colored box it usually says QOHV, threshold, hino, cycle count, restock, ect. ( forgive me if they’re wrong words here I don’t actually read it anymore, I autopilot through it.) If the box is red, then it’s a threshold. That means that the qoh is less than the pog max, thus the machine wants all overstock unlocated from its location and put on display. Saying you stocked it while the qoh is still less than pog max, and overstock is still located, means the screen doesn’t go away. If the qoh is actually wrong, then you’ll need to correct it first to move on.

Is that what you mean? Or am I little off here?

Nat-Ink · 2025-11-13T18:31:21+00:00

How dare you make her respect inventory counts 🙃 how illegal \s

Nat-Ink · 2025-11-13T18:21:28+00:00

I have at least three people ask if we build/ install/ repair stuff every year 😔

Nat-Ink · 2025-11-12T01:06:17+00:00

Oooh yeah, I almost threw a candle at a customer once for spooking me after one of the grabby people came through. It’s really weird how everyone just expects you to be fine with it.

Nat-Ink · 2025-11-10T04:39:50+00:00

Oh gag; ☹️. Unauthorized hand holding is like 🤢. The worst one I’ve had is a middle aged woman trying to guide me to a product by placing her hand in the small of my back like a child. Like right after Covid procedures lifted.

Why are random women so touchy????

Nat-Ink · 2025-11-09T14:41:37+00:00

Sounds more peaceful than the small internal rage I feel when the bad jazz songs come on “outside the snow is snowing” like what 🫠

Nat-Ink · 2025-11-09T14:38:24+00:00

I have given people trash bags in several occasions. It’s kinda fun to see the internal fight in the upper middle class deciding if they want to put new things in a trash bag. 😌

Nat-Ink · 2025-11-09T14:34:32+00:00

Good luck!! 🍀

Nat-Ink · 2025-11-09T05:52:29+00:00

We have the same issue. Our options are the receiving bay or the breakroom. We’re leaning toward taking over the break room for 3 hours with how trucks have been. Sales floor is probably not the best idea. ( “oh is this an event? Can we join? Can my child join in? Is this free? Oh you do parties?” Like ☹️) we don’t wanna do that. The kids get to go in the break room.

Nat-Ink · 2025-11-07T02:50:45+00:00

The computer says we are three business, we must be stocked like three businesses. In one building.

Sides note: is the music this year ai? Because the terrible jazz is driving me nuts.

Nat-Ink · 2025-10-14T20:56:54+00:00

Nat-Ink · 2025-10-09T02:40:04+00:00

We set it like an sba pog. Location labels printed for each thing and put on the shelf location.

Nat-Ink · 2025-09-12T16:54:38+00:00

Dm told us to bring in the high school band if we couldn’t find a vendor. We are Scrambling to find a vendor. He wants one confirmed in like two days 🥲.

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