[dicemanrules]

Originally Posted by AaronT

Now for my jobs. When I use to work at wal-mart (markham markville to be percise)

- Milk sometimes sat in the back unrefridgerated after a delivery for several hours due to short handed staff to get the job done. The freezers in the back are not big enough to pull the whole skid of milk in so it took 2 employees 1 hour of heavy lifting to get all the milk in there. And like i said, sometimes the job did not get started tell several hours after delivery. And from friends who still work there, it STILL happens today. Do not buy milk from wal-mart.

- Often the frozen foods freezer (the on floor one) used to break down. Once time I helped in the clean up and basically we had to take all the food, file it, and throw it in bins to be disposed of. I threw EVERYTHING I got a hold of out, but there were like 10 of us working on it and the 3 managers kept lots of stuff (like yogurt and maple leaf meat packages which had clearly gone bad because of the broken cooling.) Anything to keep the store budget up of course, cause thats there sole job as managers.

- Employees are told when re-stocking shelves to bring older expiry dates (not expired yet tho) to the front of the shelf and place the new products behind. This makes sense, but it was often hard work to do that and no1 really did, thus the new stuff was usualy at the front. But just incase you shop on a day when an employee is doing their job properly, check behind your products before you buy, you can possibly snag ones at the back which have an expiry date futher away (new stock).

- Mostly all returns listed as defective (despite still working condition) are trashed. I always loved throwing out the defective returns cause it was easy to pocket any items I wanted. Free stuff I got over the years were A PSP, various video games, art supplies, a digital tire gauge and more. I always told the managers that it was wrong to throw out so many returns and that we should be donating them to a charity (Mostly everything was in good working order. Like if a pack of 105 pencil crayons was missing 1 pencil, it would get tossed, rather then being donated). They said they could not donate anything because they needed to trash it so the companies would refund them the money once they write it off (hence why the return policy is so lax)

-All Bicycles that come into wal-mart come in a box. The store hires a guy to build the bikes. The guy has x ammount of bikes to build and hes done his job. Thus he rushes through the building as fast as humanly possible and often builds infiror quality bikes with missing parts, backwards pedals, upside-down training wheels, etc etc. To make matters worse, he builds them all in the back room. Thus its the employees who need to bring them out onto the floor. And all of use use to ride them out to the floor. No big deal on the bigger bikes, but we used to ride the kiddy bikes out too, often crushing them. So yeah, expect infiror quality bikes when buying one from wal-mart.

- 10% off day is EVERYDAY at wal-mart. Tear up the box (not the product) of something your about to buy and ask the manager for a discount. They will always offer you 10% off (employee discount). Never more, never less. So if you want to buy a barbecue lets say, just cut the box open at the top and make a few tears at the side. Instant 10%. On big box items like barbaques, just an open box will suffice for 10% off. So just open it, then tell the employee that one and to ask a manager for a discount cause its been opened.

- End of summer patio sets always have missing/ left over parts. Ask the employee whos working there what sets are sold out but have parts remaining. I once had a guy who picked up 10 chairs from one set cause that all that was left, a table from another set cause thats all that was left, and an umbrella from another set cause thats all that was left. He got the whole thing for like $100 and the stuff was worth at least $800 (was the high end set) So yeah, the 10% deal is only broken on buying parts from incomplete patio furniture sets.

- Dont be rude to the employees. They have a really ****** job and if your rude, they will make you wait hours to get your stuff or help you with a carry out. If your nice, they will go out of their way to help you first. Also, When getting a carry out, we also helpped those who were more likely to tip before others. So make sure you TIP the guy for helping you (regardless if hes lifting a tv into your car, or weeling a second shopping cart for you to the car. $5 a person is a fair rate. $10 if your generous and $1-2 if your cheap but still want to show appriciation. $10+ and you will ALWAYS be remembered by the employee, as it rearly happens. So yeah if 2 employees help you, give one of them $10, they will split it up. Whats another $10 on that $1000+ tv you just bought right?

I've posted a couple things here about WalMart and everything the poster said here is true except the last thing. "if your rude, they will make you wait hours to get your stuff or help you with a carry out. If your nice, they will go out of their way to help you first." It makes no difference if the customer is a dick or not at my store, they will likely have to wait for a carry out. Usually the only people to help carry out is the cart crew and they are often pushing carts for a while before coming back to help. Also, associates can get fired if a manager sees you tipping them, so if you do tip try not to make it obvious. The thing I noticed with helping customers is if you help a woman and she is greatful, she'll tell the manager you did a great job. If it's a man, he'll tip... About the 10% for a ripped box, this is complety true. Even an expentive BBQ like he said, just rip the box and you'll get a discount. Good deal.

[ZGSON]

Originally Posted by Ravener

Give your mailman a tip for Christmas. Within 3 months I will be delivering your tax return check. Wouldn't want anything to happen to that now, would we?

You already get paid a decent salary I'm assuming, why should I feel obligated to tip you?

[gasguzzler]

Originally Posted by ZGSON

You already get paid a decent salary I'm assuming, why should I feel obligated to tip you?

Yeah, I thought tips were for minimum wage workers like pizza delivery people and waitresses. I've never heard of tipping the mailman. However, if I see one during the holidays, I may say, "Keep up the good work."

[GroundNPound]

Patio bricks are really heavy...

Middle school kids smell all the time...

Most digital cameras are the exact same product with different prices...

Beating up goths is really rewarding because they look even sadder than usual...

[Hammer_Fist]

Another scam in the heating and cooling industry is when someone tells you that your air conditioner is low on freon. Your air conditioner should NEVER be low on freon, unless it has a leak in it. Freon isn't like gas in a car. Your air conditioner should never have to be topped off. It's a sealed system, and should not be leaking. If someone says that your system is low on freon, ask if they're going to find and fix the leak. Your system may have a tiny leak in it, and it will work fine for a year or longer without you noticing it.

Almost all heating and cooling guys are too lazy to find where your system is leaking from, and would much rather charge you 20 dollars per pound of freon. That and they'll probably guesstimate how much they put in. And a lot of technicians don't even carry a scale with them when they recharge your system. They'll hook up a tank of freon, let it charge, then tell you you needed 4 and a half pounds of refrigerant. Your total bill ends up being something like 150 dollars for maybe 15 dollars worth of freon. Then a year later when your system stops cooling, they'll come out again, and charge you the same 20 dollars per pound to re-charge it. Also, freon only costs 3-5 dollars per pound, so you absorb the huge mark-up.

So if a technician ever tells you that you are low on freon, tell him to find and fix the leak before adding the freon.

[Art Vandelay]

Originally Posted by gasguzzler

Yeah, I thought tips were for minimum wage workers like pizza delivery people and waitresses. I've never heard of tipping the mailman. However, if I see one during the holidays, I may say, "Keep up the good work."

People remember $. If you stiff the mailman when everyone else on the block leaves a gift, you'll be much more likely to get the "crease, crumple, fold" treatment, and who really wants a pissed off mailman? They are already psychotics. Do you really want them to have a grudge?

Same goes for the garbage men. They make a solid salary, but they expect $ during the holidays, and if you stick out as a stiffer, expect dented cans, strewn debris, and cans blown over by the "wind."

[gasguzzler]

Originally Posted by Art Vandelay

People remember $. If you stiff the mailman when everyone else on the block leaves a gift, you'll be much more likely to get the "crease, crumple, fold" treatment, and who really wants a pissed off mailman? They are already psychotics. Do you really want them to have a grudge?

Same goes for the garbage men. They make a solid salary, but they expect $ during the holidays, and if you stick out as a stiffer, expect dented cans, strewn debris, and cans blown over by the "wind."

I didn't know everyone else in the neighborhood was leaving a tip for the mailman. I'm guessing you are a mailman? Do most people on your route leave a tip during the Holiday season? How does one determine an acceptable tip?

[jahred]

Originally Posted by GroundNPound

Patio bricks are really heavy...

i used to work a building supplies delivery truck, and these fucking things always get ordered by like the hundreds. they're so annoying to get off the truck if you don't have someone else with you.

[kvolcom]

arby's roast beef comes to the resturant as a big block of mush.

[jahred]

also, if you're ordering 6x6x12+'s from a building center, do everyone a favor and don't fucking just haphazardly guess that 'they look about the right size' and then order an amount that 'should do the trick'.