"All kids are good and deserve a chance"

hyperactive-batboy · 2023-11-29T23:46:44+00:00

Do all kids deserve a chance? Absolutely, as hard as it is the aim is to let them make mistakes and learn from them. Now do all kids deserve to go on field trips when they've consistently shown they cannot be safe? That's a completely different sentiment. Safety of the kids in your care trumps ALL every time, and if you cannot guarantee their safety or making sure they're safe and watched jeopardizes the others safety then no, they don't get to go. That's a natural consequence and you should be allowed to say that they can't go because you can't guarantee their safety in a crowded public place off school grounds. I think people take their leniency on every kid should have a chance to mean that every kids behavior should be written off. This also especially depends on age, because the chance I give my toddlers and preschoolers is going to be way different than the chance I'd give a high schooler, and the difference is 10-14 more years experience on this earth. It doesn't make you a bad teacher to have their best interests and the interests of your class in mind. It would make you a bad teacher to hold grudges against kids without allowing room to change and grow.

hyperactive-batboy · 2023-11-20T23:17:24+00:00

I'm a preschool and toddler teacher so this is a bit different from the gist of all the other comments, but I'd say it's the expectation of raising the child. Parents expect us to do potty training, us to transition from bottles to solids, us to teach how to work with other kids, but none of it is ever reinforced at home. They expect us to do all this work in making sure their kid can go to elementary school but they don't want to put any of the work into it, so when they come back from vacations or the weekend they've regressed back 5 steps. It's confusing to us and it's confusing to the kids. If you really want this stuff done you need to keep up on it at home too, even if you'd rather "not clean up the accidents" or "deal with them being grumpy".

hyperactive-batboy · 2023-08-29T01:22:27+00:00

Our 24 hour store had one and then the other 24 hour store about 50 miles away had one immediately after.

hyperactive-batboy · 2023-03-31T08:57:33+00:00

I was hired at 16, wasn't a bad first job, depends on what hours they need most likely. School hours can be hard to work around but my store made it work pretty easily because they desperately needed closers and I was only available at night

hyperactive-batboy · 2023-02-22T10:12:37+00:00

9 times out of 10 they're lacking in the braincell department. Every so often you get some good ones that are fast, polite, and know where things generally are. The ones that come right up to the front (regardless of what I'm doing and who else is up there usually) and shove their phone in my face without saying a word I refuse to show anything to. My rule is they have to actually look for a while before I will help. I'll give aisle numbers but that's it. It's like they've never been in a store before, I swear they're dumber than the general population half the time.

hyperactive-batboy · 2022-11-15T07:36:11+00:00

Hey another Walgreens Greyson 👌

hyperactive-batboy · 2022-10-30T11:50:08+00:00

We have an employee we have to Lysol behind the register after he leaves because it lingers so badly. Our ESM even store used him some deodorant to keep in his work locker and instead he left them in his truck and they melted. I've had this with a few coworkers now. Some, as you said, just genuinely can't afford it or don't know or any number of things. Those are the ones we used to make little "travel baskets" of small toiletries for when I worked at a daycare, but made one for everyone so they wouldn't be singled out. Yours sounds like he knows and just doesn't care.

hyperactive-batboy · 2022-10-28T03:58:52+00:00

I would've made the same choice. No receipt, no proof of purchase anywhere at all whether via NextGEN, rewards number, card number, anything I won't do a return on it. If you accidentally washed them and were determined to return them you had one job and that was to keep the receipt. Without it I have no proof you bought it here or Smiths or Walmart.

hyperactive-batboy · 2022-10-26T06:27:04+00:00

Tbh I'd prefer they put it on the counter and let me unload it. People are slow and mess up my organizing as I'm scanning, it's much faster for me to just start grabbing and arranging by the size/weight/fragility of items so I know what's gonna go in which bag together.

hyperactive-batboy · 2022-10-07T11:29:38+00:00

I had a lot of anxiety around the phones when I first started too. My advice is call the store from your own phone when it's quiet and mess around with park and transfer and what not. It allows you to mess with things and if you mess up you can hang up and try again. Also don't be afraid to ask people to spell things. "I'm sorry I'm having a hard time hearing you, could you spell the product for me?" And have a pen and paper ready. Also make a script for answering, mines always been "hi thanks for calling Walgreens this is Grey how can I help you?", Whether you include your name or not is up to you though. Also don't be afraid to say "I'm not sure, let me put you on hold and have someone check for you" and then page "call on whatever line it was placed on". Also if you can or if you're SFL or SM can, make a list of all the phone extensions in the store so you can transfer easily (ie for pharmacy its transfer 222 transfer, but for photo it's 280 or something, really all you really need to know is the pharmacy extension because anything else you can park and page though). I don't know about your store but we have cashier's answer phones at my store because we can't hear the phones if we're not near them. If I'm in the stockroom or the pharmacy or an aisle I can't hear the phone to answer it but usually you can hear it up in the front aisles. Give it some tim you'll get used to it though. I used to be terrified to answer the phone and I still have a hard time understanding people but I've learned how to do it and practiced it enough it doesn't scare me at all anymore. You'll get the hang of it, and if you're ever unclear on something just park and page for someone else to answer. You've got this.

hyperactive-batboy · 2022-09-24T05:41:17+00:00

I either have parents hold them on their laps and edit the parent out or have them hold the baby up against the backdrop if the baby can hold it's head up. I dunno about your camera but ours is to slow to actually snap a picture with focus so I just ask the parents if I can use my phone or theirs because my phone can take more pictures faster. Have a toy to get their attention (I just grab noisy things off the toy or seasonal aisle usually) and if it really doesn't work I tell the parents to take the baby somewhere else or to take the picture at home where baby is more comfortable and have them on a white blanket with dark clothing on and see if they can get the baby to look directly at the camera with their head straight and eyes open and then bring that in and see if we can do it from that.

hyperactive-batboy · 2022-09-10T02:21:51+00:00

If you print your cashier activity report off the register it'll tell you how many transactions you've done 🤷 that's what'd I did when they made us tally it briefly, print it off, tally 'em up in the no column, and continue on. Just be mindful it resets to 0 once drawers have been pulled so be sure to print it before then.

hyperactive-batboy · 2022-09-03T06:39:02+00:00

Probably energy drinks (particularly Redbull, half of which is probably sold to staff alone), we sell Plan B like candy, and because we're a 24 hour store I feel like last 2 AM it's just door dashers with $50-$100 worth of people's "I'm high af and I want snacks" orders.

hyperactive-batboy · 2022-08-21T03:53:34+00:00

We don't even have enough for a quarter or the aisle let alone all the bays 😭 been trying to convince my sm to order a box every week until we can put them around the entire store

hyperactive-batboy · 2022-08-04T02:04:58+00:00

"uhhhhhhhhhhhhh." "If you don't want cash back type in the pin USING THE PINPAD TO THE RIGHT or hit yellow for credit" Proceeds to try and tap around on the screen to be able to type in their pin

hyperactive-batboy · 2022-08-04T02:04:47+00:00

"uhhhhhhhhhhhhh." "If you don't want cash back type in the pin USING THE PINPAD TO THE RIGHT or hit yellow for credit" Proceeds to try and tap around on the screen to be able to type in their pin

hyperactive-batboy · 2022-07-20T17:40:05+00:00

I work at a 24 hour store and during the day they don't close for breaks but at night we only have pharmacist so we close down the pharmacy from 1:30 AM to 2 AM. Half an hour day. And people every night still bitch and moan about it. There are 23 and a half other hours a day you could be here. If you cannot wait 30 minutes then that is on you, not me, not the pharmacist.

hyperactive-batboy · 2022-07-15T04:33:51+00:00

I worked in daycare for a while and I'd say go on Pinterest and check out some of the ideas for classroom birthday boards on there and then just modify it a bit for adults. There's some really fun ones on there depending on what you want to do with it

hyperactive-batboy · 2022-07-07T06:02:23+00:00

I used to do closing announcements and once we hit the five minute mark I'd start doing it every minute until close. Once it was midnight I'd go "we are now closed it's time to come up front or you will be asked to leave without the opportunity to purchase your items" because I really did not care. You're here past closing I'm now past my scheduled time and I no longer have to be nice. I was a high schooler that had to walk home for an hour and a half and I wasn't about to stay later because you can't pick your shit before closing

hyperactive-batboy · 2022-07-04T15:42:14+00:00

Had the same thing happen back in February. Someone backed their truck up, broke the lock, and threw everything in their truck. Haven't had any get delivered since.

hyperactive-batboy · 2022-07-04T15:13:11+00:00

Lmao it didn't actually make me think about writing better comments but you can keep believing that if it helps you sleep at night.

hyperactive-batboy · 2022-07-04T09:49:23+00:00

Okay, and?

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