Dossers

aujopimur

A friends wife got a temp. job in Dunnes for Christmas, 13 started on the same day as her.
Within a week 8 packed it in, reasons included, no smoking, no mobiles, couldn't hack being told what to do, stupid customers, missed their friends, breaks were too short, WTF.

Temptamperu

Working in a store aint for everybody. Usually there is a little despot running show and people have to quit as its easier than a fine of the coppers for beating the **** out of said boss.

wp_rathead

surprissed wasn't qutting over the music in Dunnes.. that is what 2 of my friends quit over

kneemos

Temptamperu wrote: »

Working in a store aint for everybody. Usually there is a little despot running show and people have to quit as its easier than a fine of the coppers for beating the **** out of said boss.

It's just stocking shelves presumably for the Christmas period.How hard could it be?

Dubl07

I can't even park out the back of Cornelscourt Dunnes for the smoke-cloud generated by staff smoking their lungs out but I felt very sorry for a cashier with her legs crossed up to her neck the other day. The supervisor appeared to be avoiding the woman on the till. I was queuing/paying beside her register for perhaps ten minutes and wanted to intervene but didn't want to make matters worse. Retail workers are people too.

Rabelais

Supermarket managers usually strike me as being a special type of cunt. You see some pale-faced man in a pair of cheap trousers and with his manager badge proudly on display, hectoring and micromanaging staff on the floor. It's very off-putting for the shopper.

Real smack of David Brent off most of them.

Temptamperu

kneemos wrote: »

It's just stocking shelves presumably for the Christmas period.How hard could it be?

Have you ever done it? I have plenty of times when i was younger. Its a horrible job compounded by the 3 Christmas songs they crank out all day.

FearDark

In fairness, I've worked in Dunnes and it has to be the most degrading horrible job I've ever done. Your managers are assholes, the customers are assholes, the job is **** and the pay is worse. Going in every day for two years to be degraded by my 22 year old manager made me go "Falling Down" when I left. My only consolation is that he's still there working 70-80 hours a week putting up with his asshole manager for not much more than 300 euros a week.

kneemos

Temptamperu wrote: »

Have you ever done it? I have plenty of times when i was younger. Its a horrible job compounded by the 3 Christmas songs they crank out all day.

Worked for a short period in Dunnes.Just a job like any other.Do this,do something else.
What do people expect?

chopper6

Worked in Dunnes many years ago and it was teh most horrible place i've ever worked bar none.

There is widespread,systematic bullying,managers picking on people,staff picking on each other,theft on a large scale,lazyness,incompetance and everything else in between.

I've seen managers roar at people in front of customers and a fistfight in the messroom over agame of cards,people stealing from teh stores and a manger stealing a bacon slicer by hiding it in his car.

I duunno what it is but *nowhere* is as bad to work in as Dunnes and that includes washing pots in a hotel and shovelling cement.

Luap

**** hours, pay, co-workers, managers etc.

Tasden

If some of the women working the tills in dunnes are anything to go by I don't blame anyone for leaving. Every single time I've bought something in there I've thought "jesus they must hate their job" the way they go on. No please or thank you, barely look at you, made me take my own receipt from the printer. I've worked in retail, hated every second of it but I'd never feel that bad that I couldn't be decent to the customers. And having dealt with horrible customers myself I'd never be a dick

chopper6

Th3ey also revel in being unreasonable.

They once hauled a guy into the office for being five minutes late clocking in.

The office was nearly 5 minutes away from the deli where he worked and the dressing down took another 5 minutes...then he had to walk back to his dept.. 15 mins wasted for teh sake of 5 minutes.

Themanager in the dept i worked in used to cultivate informers and backstabbers...these were weasly,simple-minded people who squealed on colleagues for the slightest thing in order to curry favour with the manager.

Of course the manager himself was a prick..he would never tell you the day before if you were due to do a stock take so you could be ready to go,looking forward to the weekend (or in my case a 21st) when you'd be told you were staying back for another hour.

Absolutely appalling way to motivate staff...the mamagement thought the staff were cretins or,as i was told at my initial interview "like something out of planet of the apes" and the staff all that the management were cnunts.

Being a manger there was no sinecure either...the asshole in my dept was told he's be starting in Newbridge or wherever the following week...no notice,no appeal,just boom...off you go!

anncoates

Worked there when I was in school. Didn't bother me too much. Part time is a part time job especially in the 80s. There were some muppets there but no worse than any other workplace.

Maybe the thousands of supposed dictators in "cheap trousers" weren't in that particular store.

AnonoBoy

aujopimur wrote: »

A friends wife got a temp. job in Dunnes for Christmas, 13 started on the same day as her.
Within a week 8 packed it in, reasons included, no smoking, no mobiles, couldn't hack being told what to do, stupid customers, missed their friends, breaks were too short, WTF.

Missed their friends?

Are they ten?

kneemos

kneemos wrote: »

It's just stocking shelves presumably for the Christmas period.How hard could it be?

Not hard at all, but the amount if people who can't perform the simplest tasks without f***ing it up would amaze you.

wandatowell

Tasden wrote: »

made me take my own receipt from the printer

Tesco staff always do this. Wrecks my head.

krudler

wandatowell wrote: »

Tesco staff always do this. Wrecks my head.

Just leave it, I do, what am I gonna do return a box of cereal?

ArnoldJRimmer

Brings me back to when I worked in McDonalds for a summer. The managers were unreal in their pettiness. I had a particularly hilarious argument with one of them as I was rotating the fries from left to right instead of right to left. My punishment was to be taken off fries for the day, and not to be awarded the first star on my badge

Nearly everyone I knew who worked for Dunnes didn't stick it out, I just assumed it was this particular branch that was full of cnuts, obviously not

Cantona's Collars

My first 'proper' job was there,staff were fine as well as most of the management but there's always one or two who make everyone despise working in the place.
One particular manager who wasn't a whole lot older than me was the epitomy of the word asshole,several staff threatened to leave unless he did.Push came to shove with me one evening when I had to attend a very important meeting,he had plenty of notice of this but of course decided to act the cnut.I threatened to throw him down the stairs and walked out,senior management heard of this of course and he grinned smugly at me as I walked into the office the next day,what he didn't know was that there were 2 witnesses who sided with me.He was moved on 2 days later.

I notice a few staff in the new store who'd be better employed as far away from the public as possible.

wandatowell

krudler wrote: »

Just leave it, I do, what am I gonna do return a box of cereal?

I eat more than cereal though, I keep my receipts for budgeting purposes.

In January (very sad I know) I will add up all my reciepts from the last 6 months then freak out when I work out the % of my yearly income I spent in Tesco. Its not very accurate but its a rough calculation.

kneemos

wandatowell wrote: »

I eat more than cereal though, I keep my receipts for budgeting purposes.

In January (very sad I know) I will add up all my reciepts from the last 6 months then freak out when I work out the % of my yearly income I spent in Tesco. Its not very accurate but its a rough calculation.

Should be deadly accurate surely?

happyoutscan

aujopimur wrote: »

Within a week 8 packed it in, reasons included, no smoking, no mobiles, couldn't hack being told what to do, stupid customers, missed their friends, breaks were too short, WTF.

These are pretty pathetic excuses, those 8 quitters sound absolutely useless.

Sky King

wandatowell wrote: »

I eat more than cereal though, I keep my receipts for budgeting purposes.

In January (very sad I know) I will add up all my reciepts from the last 6 months then freak out when I work out the % of my yearly income I spent in Tesco. Its not very accurate but its a rough calculation.

Just pay with a card and tot it up from your statement to the nearest cent in like one tenth of the time at the end of the year

Triangla

wandatowell wrote: »

I eat more than cereal though, I keep my receipts for budgeting purposes.

In January (very sad I know) I will add up all my reciepts from the last 6 months then freak out when I work out the % of my yearly income I spent in Tesco. Its not very accurate but its a rough calculation.

Pay by card.

Copy transactions from online banking to excel spreadsheet then analyse from there.

johnny-grunge

anncoates wrote: »

Worked there when I was in school. Didn't bother me too much. Part time is a part time job especially in the 80s. There were some muppets there but no worse than any other workplace.

Maybe the thousands of supposed dictators in "cheap trousers" weren't in that particular store.

They probably weren't born yet :pac:

boobar

wprathead wrote: »

surprissed wasn't qutting over the music in Dunnes.. that is what 2 of my friends quit over

True....worked in Dunne's many many moons ago, Jimmy Nail's Crocodile Shoes played on repeat will break the strongest spirit.

zcorpian88

aujopimur wrote: »

A friends wife got a temp. job in Dunnes for Christmas, 13 started on the same day as her.
Within a week 8 packed it in, reasons included, no smoking, no mobiles, couldn't hack being told what to do, stupid customers, missed their friends, breaks were too short, WTF.

Don't know why people bother with temp jobs in Dunnes Stores, a lot of them go hoping they are kept on after Christmas.

I worked for them for 2 years and it never happens when the temps come in around September/October on the run come to Christmas.

As some of reasons for quitting you highlight aren't good reasons like smoking and no mobiles. That to me is dossing, if you like having a fag break every few minutes in Dunnes, tough shyte, you will only get one on your tea break and lunch hour. Or if you are one of the blokes that works the goods inwards, you might get a sneaky fag in then, or if you're on security, the security in the Dunnes I was in I often caught them out smoking.

Mobiles while working also is a bit unprofessional. Have it in your pocket if you want but don't be seen on the floor with it texting away, or you are not going to have a good day if a manager sees you, they want you to not even have them on your person going by the rules they gave me on induction day. One wanker of a manager was standing behind me during a stocktake and I was up on a ladder counting tea and coffee and my phone buzzed away in my pocket, didn't even look at it and this wanker says "Turn it off or you'll lose it" like the way a teacher would say it. Was very degrading. Annoyed me very much as this manager was only a young guy, he was only a manager for 5 minutes I would say and talks to me like that.

Most customers were alright, but all it takes is one bad one to ruin your day and make you despise the job in an instant. Had a woman at my checkout one day and the law against selling alcohol after 10pm was just after been brought in, I was just about to sign off the till and bag up the float and the last of the customers were leaving. Woman comes up to the checkout anyway with a bottle of bacardi, I try to scan it thinking it was still before 10pm, turns out it was 10.01 the bacardi couldn't be put through because they updated the system that that couldn't be sold after 10pm. I told the customer this and its now the law. The woman just bit my head off, didn't care and just blamed me for not taking her money. I even demonstrated that the system won't let me and turned around the monitor and scanned it again, she still didn't give a toss and bit my head off. Had plenty of others, like pretentious middle aged women that give out for not having their bottle of wine.

I can get the "missing friends" bit, when I worked there I always had to work Saturday's and could never hang out with my friends who got most Saturday's off, or if they were going out for drinks a lot of the time I'd have been too wrecked to go out as I finished at 8, 9, 10 or sometimes even 11pm. Rarely ever finished at 6pm thanks to their shyte hours.

Don't get me started on the management also, they had me in the office for being 1-2 minutes late clocking in. Well forgive me if I like my bed the odd morning especially when I was in till 11pm putting stock into a freezer when I should have been done at 9, and they roster me in for 8 the next morning, makes you feel like you never left to go home. The hours spread to all times of the day and night just done my head in, either have them in early or late and not all over the place. Also had this sarcastic c**t of a manager follow me around all day, watching my every move, standing behind me just looking at me put dog food on a shelf and every time I asked him a question I got a sarcastic response, total muppet he was.

Anyone I know that wants to work for them I instantly try to stop them, I hated working for them that much. They just don't value their staff, simple as.

Tiddlypeeps

Rabelais wrote: »

Supermarket managers usually strike me as being a special type of cunt. You see some pale-faced man in a pair of cheap trousers and with his manager badge proudly on display, hectoring and micromanaging staff on the floor. It's very off-putting for the shopper.

Real smack of David Brent off most of them.

This reminded me of when I worked in an Aldi over the christmas period when I was in college. The area manager was a total arse. One time he actually stood watching me for a few minutes while I changed out the milk cages. While I was doing this a customer stopped me to ask where something was so I took them to the product and then got back to the milk. When I was done he came up to me and said "do you know it took you 5 minutes to change out the milk" in a really snide manner and then walked off. I have no idea how I managed to stop myself from punching him in the face.

I don't envy anyone working in a supermarket. It's a really tough tankless job.

Artful_Badger

Rabelais wrote: »

Supermarket managers usually strike me as being a special type of cunt. You see some pale-faced man in a pair of cheap trousers and with his manager badge proudly on display, hectoring and micromanaging staff on the floor. It's very off-putting for the shopper.

Real smack of David Brent off most of them.

The assistant/trainee managers are worse as they are mostly idiots trying to impress said pale-faced man in his cheap trousers by mimicking his micromanaging in the form of simply badgering staff because they havent the first clue of what needs doing or how it should be done.

dxhound2005

Life is tough too for the modern shopper. Some of them are not being handed their receipts. Next thing shops will install equipment to make shoppers scan their shopping and bag it themselves. And nobody will come along to tear off their receipt for them.

BillyMitchel

Used to work in the old Crazy Prices and all the managers early 20s were complete tools. Power trips the lot of them.

Think I packed it in after about 3 months when he shouted at me in front of customers for not washing the floor right or leaving it too wet. I was just gone 16, maybe even 15.

Ginger cûnt, I hope he's packing bags and married to Mary Harney.

road_high

Tasden wrote: »

If some of the women working the tills in dunnes are anything to go by I don't blame anyone for leaving. Every single time I've bought something in there I've thought "jesus they must hate their job" the way they go on. No please or thank you, barely look at you, made me take my own receipt from the printer. I've worked in retail, hated every second of it but I'd never feel that bad that I couldn't be decent to the customers. And having dealt with horrible customers myself I'd never be a dick

Sounds exactly like the MacDonagh Junction branch in Kilkenny. Some very surly staff in there, look like they would take the head off ya at the drop of a hat.
Dunnes really put the customer last. Can't even buy a small bloody plastic bag in there, thanks to some stupid row they had with Revenue. It's shame because they could be a really great store (and do some things well, they are cheaper for many things) but shopping there is not a great experience. Often when it's busy they just leave a couple of tills open, really penny pinching. Actually that happens all the time I go there!

johndoe99

I regularly shop in Dunne's and Tesco's, Dunne's is the worst, I've never seen a single staff member with a smile on there face, they all have that look where they've just got the worst news imaginable. With a bit of makeup they could be cast as extras on TV series 'The Walking Dead'. Don't blame them, it looks like real dreary work.

zcorpian88

road_high wrote: »

Sounds exactly like the MacDonagh Junction branch in Kilkenny. Some very surly staff in there, look like they would take the head off ya at the drop of a hat.
Dunnes really put the customer last. Can't even buy a small bloody plastic bag in there, thanks to some stupid row they had with Revenue. It's shame because they could be a really great store (and do some things well, they are cheaper for many things) but shopping there is not a great experience. Often when it's busy they just leave a couple of tills open, really penny pinching. Actually that happens all the time I go there!

That used to be the one I was in! I said thank you after the close of a sale anyway. Noticed the bag thing myself a few weeks ago, then asked for the brown re-useable bag thinking it was 37 cent like in my day working for them. How wrong was I. 70 cent!

And you're right they let the place run on skeleton staff, and they have since they opened. I was there for their first 2 years. Wouldn't go back if you gave me diamonds.

Mint Aero

Wouldn't blame them. Dunne stores have some amount of sappy rules the saps. Also, they don't employ anyone full time :rolleyes: you'd nearly be better off on the dole like

road_high

Mint Aero wrote: »

Wouldn't blame them. Dunne stores have some amount of sappy rules the saps. Also, they don't employ anyone full time :rolleyes: you'd nearly be better off on the dole like

Never understood that mentality? Surely it's better to have a cohort of reliable full-timers. They're clearly so paraonoid they see short hours as some further way to control staff and get rid of them if they slack.

wandatowell

kneemos wrote: »

Should be deadly accurate surely?

You are correct, but my record keeping isn't spot on. Lost/thrown out till receipts are a curse in this game.

zcorpian88

road_high wrote: »

Never understood that mentality? Surely it's better to have a chort of reliable full-timers. They're clearly so paraonoid they see short hours as some further way to control staff and get rid of them if they slack.

Sure I was a flexi timer. Asked for full time a few times when people left. They wouldn't bump me up. It just hastened me jumping ship. Then had the cheek to ring me whenever they wanted me in when I was rostered off. Most of the time half an hour before they wanted me in. In the end they spread out my 15-22 hours into 4 days so I couldn't even sign for it. I just got fed up of getting paid peanuts and been treated like something on the end of managements shoe and handed in my notice.

The HR manager was a miserable cow saying with a smirk on her face "Oh you're not leaving are you?" when I handed in my notice in favour of going and doing a course. She couldn't have been happier that I was leaving, so they can get some new skivy in to take my place.

languagenerd

Do people seriously quit jobs after a week because they aren't allowed use their mobiles or take more than two smoking breaks in 7 hours? FFS, just do the job you're being paid for! Emergencies aside, you can go without a phone for 3 or 4 hours, surely?

That said, I've never understood the logic behind treating staff like crap. I've had a few retail jobs and I've seen how treating staff well makes them do more work and be more dedicated to the company (in the sense that they care about good customer service and making sales). If your business is all about the public and having a good reputation for customer service, why would you make your staff miserable?! They're the ones who could make or break a business...

A couple people mentioned that they were given out to in Dunnes for being 2min late - I once worked somewhere where you'd be docked pay for every minute late you clocked in. In the mornings, everyone would be starting shifts at the same time, so you'd frequently be 2 or 3 minutes late clocking in due to a queue at the machines, and you'd be docked for each of those. But... if you worked extra minutes at the end of a shift to finish a job or help clear a queue, you wouldn't be paid for them (unless it went over a certain length of time). Seriously unfair and not exactly motivational...

Skill Magill

Really sounds like The Stanford Prison Experiment

road_high

Dunnes really sounds like one of those classic nightmare work places.
Do many people stay there longterm at all?

zcorpian88

languagenerd wrote: »

Do people seriously quit jobs after a week because they aren't allowed use their mobiles or take more than two smoking breaks in 7 hours? FFS, just do the job you're being paid for! Emergencies aside, you can go without a phone for 3 or 4 hours, surely?

Think the love of the smoking break is more of the automatic entitlement in the heads of middle aged/more elderly staff. Comes from jobs they may have worked before that were more free spirited and let people do whatever.

Well I am guilty of texting say if I get a minute, used to do it really quick while looking for mops and buckets in the cleaning rooms, but never on the shop floor where the gereral public/managers are, that's only looking for a verbal warning that can be avoided if you know the right time and place.

zcorpian88

road_high wrote: »

Dunnes really sounds like one of those classic nightmare work places.
Do many people stay there longterm at all?

Not many left in MacDonagh from my day anyway, maybe a handful left. All the people under 30 that I knew quit. Students and a few that legged it to Australia.

Evan DietrichSmith

Tiddlypeeps wrote: »

This reminded me of when I worked in an Aldi over the christmas period when I was in college. The area manager was a total arse. One time he actually stood watching me for a few minutes while I changed out the milk cages. While I was doing this a customer stopped me to ask where something was so I took them to the product and then got back to the milk. When I was done he came up to me and said "do you know it took you 5 minutes to change out the milk" in a really snide manner and then walked off. I have no idea how I managed to stop myself from punching him in the face.

I don't envy anyone working in a supermarket. It's a really tough tankless job.

It really is, the public can be total weapons in this area.

Wanderer2010

What about some of the women in the small counter (lotto, cigs etc) in Dunnes? Some of them have been there 10+ years and they are easily some of the rudest, downright miserable people I have ever been served by. No hello, thanks, holding out a bag in front of you roughly with a scowl when you ask for a bag (I hate that- you work there so YOU pack it :mad:). I can understand some customers can be hard work and its not the best job but my God how could you stay there over 10 years, its not a real career, no wonder they are so bitter, it would be hard to hack that for 10 months.

Afroshack

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

What about some of the women in the small counter (lotto, cigs etc) in Dunnes? Some of them have been there 10+ years and they are easily some of the rudest, downright miserable people I have ever been served by. No hello, thanks, holding out a bag in front of you roughly with a scowl when you ask for a bag (I hate that- you work there so YOU pack it :mad:). I can understand some customers can be hard work and its not the best job but my God how could you stay there over 10 years, its not a real career, no wonder they are so bitter, it would be hard to hack that for 10 months.

You know what goes a long way in shops? Not having a superior attitude to them.

kneemos

road_high wrote: »

Dunnes really sounds like one of those classic nightmare work places.
Do many people stay there longterm at all?

Seems to be quite a few long termers in my local Dunnes.

The place I worked for a brief period wasn't that bad.
The older workers would certainly give what they got from the managers,perhaps some of the younger ones weren't as able.

dd972

aujopimur wrote: »

A friends wife got a temp. job in Dunnes for Christmas, 13 started on the same day as her.
Within a week 8 packed it in, reasons included, no smoking, no mobiles, couldn't hack being told what to do, stupid customers, missed their friends, breaks were too short, WTF.

Sounds fair enough to me, shall I watch another DVD/crack open another can/watch You Tube cat videos

....... or work the till at Dunnes in Blanch 3 weeks before Xmas, sounds a tough choice to me :pac:

Dartz

Customers are the worst.

They assume that the price of a coke allows them to treat a person as a serf for 30 seconds. Or worse. There's no ****ing respect at all from so many people that eventually people just give up.

Wanderer2010

^ Its not superior. Its their job to pack your items into a bag, thats one of their duties and an extremely basic one at that, just as what you would expect in any Spar or Centra etc. Its like a secretary expecting a client to answer the phone when its their job. Nothing superior about expecting decent customer service.