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I had to push that crap for 6 years in a previous job. A lot of our customers were on low incomes (we had to get all this data to fill out their applications), a lot of them in social housing and living off benefits, and we had to push. We had a lot of pressure to get these, and having high anxiety at the time, I let them doormat me into being the one who had to pick up the slack for underperforming colleagues. Some would outright just refuse and the manager would come to me (the same manager who victim blamed me when I was physically assaulted by another manager) and tell me I needed to make up the shortfall. And I would because my anxiety was just too high to start a confrontation.

Ours was with barclaycard, and not only was the commission ridiculously low, they also pretaxed it before we got it. Either that or the company was creaming a bit off for themselves, because it was never a round number in the payslips.

That business deserved to die.

When I switched to be a repair agent at geek squad where I had no time in front of customers I was still given shit daily for not getting cards.

When I worked at CompUSA, everyone had sales and card metrics. Including the warehouse crew. Who were virtually never on the floor during operating hours. They were often called out during store meetings, and the manager didn't like their "excuse" of always being in the back.

Its kinda wild that we let retail establishments offer credit cards. Like maybe only dedicated and regulated financial establishments should be allowed to offer financial instruments

Yo Ive got to try this, I usually just start adhd thought paralysis and awkward my way through it 😭

Now that is a masterful sterile technique. You must teach us more of your ways.

BPA baby

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5453537/

Most stuff that's not designed to be ingested is bad if it is ingested but there's this one simple trick to avoid any problem. Don't ingest it

it's true, but the amount of BPA one picks up from handling receipts, even as a cashier for years like I was, is negligible. Much less than people pick up from other sources, and not enough to disrupt hormones. I'm not worried about it.

I used to work in the housewares, "as seen on TV", and Assembly Furniture departments. Shit, for the minimum wage I was making, I knew what knives were worth it, what kind to use for what, what pressboard furniture would hold up to a house full of kids and what was just for show, and that everything in "as seen..." was a scam.

Almost all retail is a waste of time now.

I tried to go shoe shopping last week. I went into a shoe store and was dismayed that I couldn’t find what materials any of the shoes were made from. Until now, I’d always seen a tag somewhere on every shoe that would say something like, “All man made materials,” or “Leather upper.” But this time, nothing I saw had any indication of what they were made of… and that troubled me.

So after meticulously studying a shoe, reading everything written on it, I asked an employee about it. I wanted her to see if the box (which wasn’t on the display) had more information.

Instead she took the shoe, pulled up the same label I just read (which only indicated where the shoe had been made), and lazily read the tag back to me before handing it back.

I responded, “Yes, I know,” and held back from saying what I REALLY wanted to say, which was, “Yes, I know how to read.”

Utterly useless. She claimed there was no other information even on the box (without going to look.) I put the shoe back and left, resolved to just buy something online.

Right? They completely neutered the rewardzone/my best buy points system. It used to be worth something. Now my amex gives me way better points and I'm not locked into one store either.

Probably the first purchase.

This post is super fake because no card gives you 15% back. That’s insane.

I think the rewards are in best buy points, which is something I guess but not 15% cash back

Sounds like a chargeback situation to me. And making sure never to do business with BestBuy again.

I know next to nothing about how this all works, but I would assume you go through DoorDash to get everything sorted in this situation, not Best Buys.

@Talaraine @bamboo Oh definitely not! That’s awful!