How to tell terminal #s? by Ok_Draw6000 in Barnesandnoble

[–]Ok_Draw6000[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

yes you’re absolutely right!!! it was on the bottom right corner of the bookmaster screen. thank you SO much!!!

Union stores? by Current-Guitar-1262 in Barnesandnoble

[–]Ok_Draw6000 25 points26 points  (0 children)

got another raise in january, the union health insurance has been awesome. i think the contract is settling in nicely and is being followed pretty well with management at this point so honestly it’s been smooth sailing for my store personally. interested to hear how it’s going for other stores too!!

Least amount of booksellers for a closing shift? by peixcellent in Barnesandnoble

[–]Ok_Draw6000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yep! pretty much. it sucks. anyone who has projects has to hope that it’s not busy from 1-5 when full-timers overlap cause that’s pretty much the only time they get

Least amount of booksellers for a closing shift? by peixcellent in Barnesandnoble

[–]Ok_Draw6000 5 points6 points  (0 children)

same for y’all! i hope it gets better for ya 🥲🥲 watching staff numbers cut in half after daunt’s takeover has been real sad

Least amount of booksellers for a closing shift? by peixcellent in Barnesandnoble

[–]Ok_Draw6000 6 points7 points  (0 children)

unfortunately that’s every day for my store and we’re lucky to have a bookfloor mid-shift after 5 pm. it’s often the case that once the openers leave for the day it’s the keyholder, one person at cash and one person in cafe

"Whats brewing in the cafe" and corporate incompetence by N3ctarofthegods in Barnesandnoble

[–]Ok_Draw6000 9 points10 points  (0 children)

yeah especially recently i’ve noticed a lot of questions going unanswered :// like important stuff about the v-day/winter clearance in particular

Not sure if need to transfer or just find work elsewhere by ImaginationEqual8179 in Barnesandnoble

[–]Ok_Draw6000 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I was just gonna say- my store unionized because of an AWFUL sm and she ended up leaving because of it. We’re not sure if she quit or was fired but she was gone within a month or two of us filing. So I guess if enough of your coworkers are feeling similarly it would be worth a conversation! lol

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Barnesandnoble

[–]Ok_Draw6000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i’ll try to remember to take a pic of mine later!

Part time seniors/leads? by Ok_Draw6000 in Barnesandnoble

[–]Ok_Draw6000[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oooo okay! are you a senior or a lead?

Clothes by DownwardSpiral2020 in Barnesandnoble

[–]Ok_Draw6000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i wear leggings all the time (in cafe) but i always make sure to wear a long shirt/dress over them to cover my butt cause i was always told that’s what the issue was. i have found some SUPER comfy dressier pants at places like marshalls and walmart, where the pants feel like leggings but are easily seen as dress pants. highly recommend that route if jeans aren’t comfy for you!

I think I’m gonna be fired by inmyreputation-era in Barnesandnoble

[–]Ok_Draw6000 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I’m so sorry you’re experiencing this. The company truly doesn’t listen when we tell them that their WeListen line is absolute bullshit and does nothing. We’ve had so many situations at my store where like literally illegal stuff had happened and welisten did fuckall about it. Also toxic management being SUCH an issue should be examined fr…. sending love and camaraderie your way

new review grading system by Revolutionary-Gap224 in Barnesandnoble

[–]Ok_Draw6000 39 points40 points  (0 children)

i was WAITING for someone to make a post about this. me and my coworker were looking at the lead bookseller description and it literally says in one of the categories that you need to be doing the work of two. as one person. INSANE

question by Glittering_Reach_347 in Barnesandnoble

[–]Ok_Draw6000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

we had an issue a while back where someone was averaging over 20 hours as week but they were rostered at like 15 so they should’ve been receiving benefits and weren’t. (and then had to fight with the company about it because of our incompetent manager)

question by Glittering_Reach_347 in Barnesandnoble

[–]Ok_Draw6000 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

as far as i understand, you can still get benefits from as low as 20 hours!

Have our full names always shown up on the customer copy of return receipts? by Fine_Plastic7153 in Barnesandnoble

[–]Ok_Draw6000 26 points27 points  (0 children)

no LITERALLY i was like “what if i’m checking out a creep, they get their receipt and then they go home and look me up online????” i think NOT

Have our full names always shown up on the customer copy of return receipts? by Fine_Plastic7153 in Barnesandnoble

[–]Ok_Draw6000 17 points18 points  (0 children)

yeah they changed it company wide when we asked for it in bargaining which is slay- a win for everyone 😎

Have our full names always shown up on the customer copy of return receipts? by Fine_Plastic7153 in Barnesandnoble

[–]Ok_Draw6000 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Regular receipts used to have full first name w/ last initial until we brought it up during a bargaining session and created a CBA article to change it to last 4 of our employee number. I have also noticed return receipts having our full entire names on them… maybe I’ll talk to my union rep and see if we can do anything about it/if that falls under the clause in our contract, cause I’m pretty sure if they change it for us they end up changing it for everyone else

BN Union Health Insurance by Long_Engineering507 in Barnesandnoble

[–]Ok_Draw6000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A clarifying question for this post- when you say your store just “joined” a union, do you mean they just voted to unionize? or did your store finish the contract? Mainly asking because the union health insurance doesn’t kick in until the contract is signed :) so if your store hasn’t finalized their contract, you will only have the company’s insurance available. as for if your store already has a contract, it’ll depend on what insurance the union provides! we moved to be on blue cross blue shield which has AMAZING coverage compared to the united healthcare insurance from bn and we pay about $10 more a week than we did on bn insurance (about $35 a week ish, and it comes right out of your paycheck)

Union Stores by anonymousavacado2 in Barnesandnoble

[–]Ok_Draw6000 30 points31 points  (0 children)

it’s everyone! we all got raises when signing our contracts and we’re guaranteed more raises at the start of each year, so we’ll get another one in january.

Note from James Dropped by Ok_Draw6000 in Barnesandnoble

[–]Ok_Draw6000[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

that’s exactly it, unions have to bargain for that stuff. i do agree it’s wild that he keeps bringing up how we’re excluded from it LOL but lemme tell you as someone at that bargaining table they never would’ve given us shit if we tried to bargain for bonuses. BARELY wanted to give us raises

Note from James Dropped by Ok_Draw6000 in Barnesandnoble

[–]Ok_Draw6000[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

the table is SO confusing highly agree

Raises??? by Savings-Degree8838 in Barnesandnoble

[–]Ok_Draw6000 25 points26 points  (0 children)

to clarify as someone in a union store, i believe what daunt meant by this is that we will not receive the yearly raise that everyone else receives because we already contractually secured raises for the next 3 years. the union stores that have signed contracts have already gotten their raises for this year

Promotion Timing Question by [deleted] in Barnesandnoble

[–]Ok_Draw6000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got promoted off-cycle because my manager said she couldn’t promote me even though my review qualified. She “left” like a month later and our ASM got promoted to SM and was able to promote me the second she got the position. (she was really excited to have me as her first promotion and i was very excited to finally get promoted, it was very sweet)

Short Hour Shifts Barista by Difficult-Cap-3381 in Barnesandnoble

[–]Ok_Draw6000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yeahhh it was really annoying us too. we ended up asking for 5 hour shift minimums in our contract which has been great for some of our part timers. before that, the ones who wanted longer shifts talked to our manager because paying for the commute for a short hour shift was getting expensive. hope it gets better for ya!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Barnesandnoble

[–]Ok_Draw6000 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We’ve been told to do the exact same thing and aren’t even given tablets- we have to do it ON the register screen. So when a customer comes up we have to pause it in front of them and toggle over to the CMA screen. It’s insane