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Double Checking

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  • #32
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Where to, are you trolling?
    No, Miss.:(


  • #33
    Dave0301
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,939 ✭✭✭Dave0301


    Where To wrote: »
    What's unrealistic about being able to do your job properly?

    Well if in a supermarket you expect a member of the floor staff to know the stock levels of each and every section of the shop without been allowed to consult the system, that I would say is unrealistic.


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Where To wrote: »
    No, Miss.:(

    I was really hoping you were.

    Take Penneys for example. They get new stock every single day. They stock hundreds and hundreds of different items, people buy those items, return those items, try on those items and leave them in changing rooms, pick up those items and leave them down on the other side of the shop, all day, every day. You expect each and every minimum wage member of staff to know where every single item of stock is at any given time.

    Go on out of that will you, you have more cop on than that.


  • #35
    Where To
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    Dave0301 wrote: »
    Well if in a supermarket you expect a member of the floor staff to know the stock levels of each and every section of the shop without being allowed to consult the system, that I would say is unrealistic.
    Yeah in a busy supermarket I would agree with you, but then again, busy supermarkets existed before computers.


  • #36
    Dave0301
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    Where To wrote: »
    Yeah in a busy supermarket I would agree with you, but then again, busy supermarkets existed before computers.

    Yes they did, but if that was the case the stock inventory would be a hard copy and a list of that day's deliveries would be on file. The staff could check this against what the customer inquired about.

    I worked in retail for 8 years, I would always have a good idea about what was missing from my section for the day but I would be frequently queried about other sections too. Am I meant to learn off all stock levels and off sales for every section before my shift in case I am asked about other sections?


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  • #37
    Jimminy Mc Fukhead
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 305 ✭✭Jimminy Mc Fukhead


    Lando Griffin wrote: »
    she said she would double check.

    Fucking bitch.


  • #38
    Where To
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    I was really hoping you were.

    Take Penneys for example. They get new stock every single day. They stock hundreds and hundreds of different items, people buy those items, return those items, try on those items and leave them in changing rooms, pick up those items and leave them down on the other side of the shop, all day, every day. You expect each and every minimum wage member of staff to know where every single item of stock is at any given time.

    Go on out of that will you, you have more cop on than that.
    You see Whoopsa, this is the bit I have a problem with, why should what wage you earn be related to what's expected of you in your job? I worked a lot of sh1t jobs for sh1t money in my time but I did my damndest in every single one of them. I don't expect staff to be like Rainman, but I do expect staff that try to be the best they can be. In a busy environment I know it's unrealistic to know the exact number of every item in stock, but is knowing to the nearest 10 as unrealistic?


  • #39
    Where To
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    Dave0301 wrote: »
    Yes they did, but if that was the case the stock inventory would be a hard copy and a list of that day's deliveries would be on file. The staff could check this against what the customer inquired about.

    I worked in retail for 8 years, I would always have a good idea about what was missing from my section for the day but I would be frequently queried about other sections too. Am I meant to learn off all stock levels and off sales for every section before my shift in case I am asked about other sections?
    Working there for eight years, would you not have a general idea of what is going on in other sections without having to learn off anything?


  • #40
    Dave0301
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    Where To wrote: »
    Working there for eight years, would you not have a general idea of what is going on in other sections without having to learn off anything?

    Absolutely, I worked in every section at one stage or another. However, why would I know off by heart the stock levels of the whole shop for any given day? If I did an order for my section I would but people get moved around.

    Would you expect part time staff who come in to work at the weekends or evening to before hand learn off all the stock levels?


  • #41
    [Deleted User]
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    Where To wrote: »
    You see Whoopsa, this is the bit I have a problem with, why should what wage you earn be related to what's expected of you in your job? I worked a lot of sh1t jobs for sh1t money in my time but I did my damndest in every single one of them. I don't expect staff to be like Rainman, but I do expect staff that try to be the best they can be. In a busy environment I know it's unrealistic to know the exact number of every item in stock, but is knowing to the nearest 10 as unrealistic?

    Fair enough, forget about the wages. Everything else in my post stands. It is entirely unrealistic to know how much of each item is in stock in the whole store. It is ludicrous to expect that of anyone.


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  • #42
    Where To
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    Dave0301 wrote: »
    Absolutely, I worked in every section at one stage or another. However, why would I know off by heart the stock levels of the whole shop for any given day? If I did an order for my section I would but people get moved around.

    Would you expect part time staff who come in to work at the weekends or evening to before hand learn off all the stock levels?
    I wouldn't expect them to learn by rote the stock level of every item, no.

    However, I would expect them to have a reasonably good idea of the stock level of every item in store.


  • #43
    Where To
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Fair enough, forget about the wages. Everything else in my post stands. It is entirely unrealistic to know how much of each item is in stock in the whole store. It is ludicrous to expect that of anyone.
    We'll have to agree to disagree then.


  • #44
    [Deleted User]
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    Where To wrote: »
    We'll have to agree to disagree then.

    Just one question. Take Penneys again as an example, you're a Dublin taxi man I think so say Mary St Penneys - big store.

    How do you think a member of staff would go about finding out the levels of each item of stock?


  • #45
    kneemos
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    Where To wrote: »
    We'll have to agree to disagree then.

    Hate it when people agree to disagree.


  • #46
    juan.kerr
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    OP, I believe ther is poster here called 'fact hunt' or similar. He may be able to help.


  • #47
    Where To
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Just one question. Take Penneys again as an example, you're a Dublin taxi man I think so say Mary St Penneys - big store.

    How do you think a member of staff would go about finding out the levels of each item of stock?
    By knowing what stock comes in, and knowing what stock is on the floor. As you say, due to returns, walkabouts, soilage etc. it would be impossible to have an accurate figure, but a reasonable estimate isn't beyond the realms of possibility.

    I'm in Donegal by the way, but know Mary St. very well.:)


  • #48
    Czarcasm
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    Where To wrote: »
    By knowing what stock comes in, and knowing what stock is on the floor. As you say, due to returns, walkabouts, soilage etc. it would be impossible to have an accurate figure, but a reasonable estimate isn't beyond the realms of possibility.


    Ah here Where to, the OP was trivial as far as I was concerned, taking umbrage at the use of a common expression could've gone in the "things people say that annoy you thread", and I was with you as far as a small shop was concerned- say in a woolen shop where you might have only two of said OP's jumpers in stock, but to suggest that the best in Tesco, working in the fruit and veg section should know how much digestive biscuits stock is on the floor and how much is out in the back room; that's a bit like expecting you to know some backwater back road that only the locals in say a town like Charleville would know.

    I know you're probably going to be the one exception to that rule that navigates by the stars or something! :D


  • #49
    [Deleted User]
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    Where To wrote: »
    By knowing what stock comes in, and knowing what stock is on the floor. As you say, due to returns, walkabouts, soilage etc. it would be impossible to have an accurate figure, but a reasonable estimate isn't beyond the realms of possibility.

    I'm in Donegal by the way, but know Mary St. very well.:)

    So even taking into consideration your logic, it's not unreasonable for someone to "double check" if an item is in stock?


  • #50
    Where To
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    Czarcasm wrote: »
    Ah here Where to, the OP was trivial as far as I was concerned, taking umbrage at the use of a common expression could've gone in the "things people say that annoy you thread", and I was with you as far as a small shop was concerned- say in a woolen shop where you might have only two of said OP's jumpers in stock, but to suggest that the best in Tesco, working in the fruit and veg section should know how much digestive biscuits stock is on the floor and how much is out in the back room; that's a bit like expecting you to know some backwater back road that only the locals in say a town like Charleville would know.

    I know you're probably going to be the one exception to that rule that navigates by the stars or something! :D
    Only know the main roads around there, although you could call them back roads heading by Kanturk and Liscarrol and places like that.:pac:
    Deleted User wrote: »
    So even taking into consideration your logic, it's not unreasonable for someone to "double check" if an item is in stock?

    In busy place like Pennys and Tesco? Not at all unreasonable

    In smaller more specialised stores? Different story, in my opinion.


  • #51
    Scanlas The 2nd
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    whoopsadaisydoodles wrote: »

    So even taking into consideration your logic, it's not unreasonable for someone to "double check" if an item is in stock?

    Sounds to me like that is checking if an item is in stock. If he went back again after checking and checked again that would be double checking.


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  • #52
    Lando Griffin
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    Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

    Sounds to me like that is checking if an item is in stock. If he went back again after checking and checked again that would be double checking.
    I agree with this point.
    I hope people who are reading this thread dont start hearing this every time they ask someone to check something for them.
    Very annoying IMO.


  • #53
    [Deleted User]
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    Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »
    Sounds to me like that is checking if an item is in stock. If he went back again after checking and checked again that would be double checking.

    And we're back to the OP's original question :p


  • #54
    passremarkable
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    Lando Griffin wrote: »
    There before the Christmas I spotted a lovely jumper being displayed on the shops window so I went in and searched for it but to no avail.
    I asked the (very pretty ) attendant if they had any and she said she would double check.
    This got me thinking, if she hadn't checked once how could she double check it and if she went off to double check it was she incapable of checking it once and showing signs of incompetence.
    They didn't have any anyway but it seemed from there on at work and in the service industry everywhere where I went people have to "Double check" this and" Double check" that.
    It really is annoying that the next time someone says it I am going tell them to just check it once and Ill be on my way.
    Have you noticed the overuse of this phrase.
    Discuss.

    OP...Me thinks you need to get a little action if you no what im saying:)


  • #55
    Scanlas The 2nd
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    From now on I'll just say "I'll triple check that for you".


  • #56
    Pottler
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    Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »
    From now on I'll just say "I'll triple check that for you".
    Pah, that's just settling. I demand my shop-type people quadruple check to see if my items are in stock. Double checking is for wimps. I also have no idea what the thread is about. I got lost after the first post(whinging because someone was bothered enough to go check again for you??) Wut??


  • #57
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Where To wrote: »
    I agree OP. A shop assistant who doesn't know what they have in stock should be sacked on the spot. I'm not joking.
    Bit like a taxi driver not knowing every road ?


  • #58
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Bit like a taxi driver not knowing every road ?
    Yep.


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