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Vic wrote:

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:

Angharrad wrote:And you can now call me "Captain Foxx"

*Salutes*

Location: In the big chair, finally, swinging my feet 'cause I'm short. Lower the chair Scotty DAMMIT

Scotty; It's a low as I can get it Mum....I can'na violate the Laws O' Physics.

Well, holidays are almost over. The retail season has not been kind to me.

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Well, holidays are almost over. The retail season has not been kind to me.

I smell what you're cooking. Good news this holiday season: Mikey got hired as a store manager in training! Less-good news: after three weeks of a five-week training program, Mikey was asked (read: involuntarily volunteered) to take over a $1.1 mil store - that was down one assistant manager - two weeks before Christmas, while reducing shrink and improving both volume and margin.

Could still be out of work instead of running my own one-mil-plus store, though, so I guess I should probably shut my cake-hole about now.

Mikey wrote:

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Well, holidays are almost over. The retail season has not been kind to me.

I smell what you're cooking. Good news this holiday season: Mikey got hired as a store manager in training! Less-good news: after three weeks of a five-week training program, Mikey was asked (read: involuntarily volunteered) to take over a $1.1 mil store - that was down one assistant manager - two weeks before Christmas, while reducing shrink and improving both volume and margin.

Could still be out of work instead of running my own one-mil-plus store, though, so I guess I should probably shut my cake-hole about now.

I wonder if I can mail you a twelve-pack...

Mikey wrote:I smell what you're cooking. Good news this holiday season: Mikey got hired as a store manager in training! Less-good news: after three weeks of a five-week training program, Mikey was asked (read: involuntarily volunteered) to take over a $1.1 mil store - that was down one assistant manager - two weeks before Christmas,

Congrats! Despite the possible stress. What sort of store, if you feel comfortable saying?

while reducing shrink

Is that assistant manager talk for theft and robbery?

sunnyside wrote:

Mikey wrote:I smell what you're cooking. Good news this holiday season: Mikey got hired as a store manager in training! Less-good news: after three weeks of a five-week training program, Mikey was asked (read: involuntarily volunteered) to take over a $1.1 mil store - that was down one assistant manager - two weeks before Christmas,

Congrats! Despite the possible stress. What sort of store, if you feel comfortable saying?

while reducing shrink

Is that assistant manager talk for theft and robbery?

It sounds a bit like it feels like this actually



But I've had those days too. Congrats (or maybe good luck or a bit of both).

sunnyside wrote:

Mikey wrote: while reducing shrink

Is that assistant manager talk for theft and robbery?

General retail talk for it, yeah. It 'shrinks' our profits.

Some pidgeons have moved into the loft above my bedroom, and they won't shut the f**k up

Teaos wrote:

Happy birthday, man.

sunnyside wrote:Congrats! Despite the possible stress. What sort of store, if you feel comfortable saying?

It's a Dollar Tree. If there aren't any in your area, it's a chain of true $1 stores (unlike Dollar General or Family Dollar, which have long since gone to more general discount retail of merch up to about $15 or $20.) One assistant manager, two part-time assistants, and a permanent staff of about 10 part-time associates.

sunnyside wrote:Is that assistant manager talk for theft and robbery?

Any losses, really. Theft is certainly a large part of shrink, what's termed as "external shrink." There is also "paper shrink," which means virtual losses due to improper receiving procedures, cashiering items with incorrect identifiers, failure to properly mark down clearance or defective items, etc... as well as "internal shrink," which is employee theft - either direct or by facilitating theft by others. In the store I took over, shrink wasn't a huge issue but was slightly higher than the average in my district. It seems that a fair bot of the problem is simply in freight processing.

Yeah, the back receiving area where I work can be a friggin' nightmare. It's a wonder screw-ups don't happen more often.

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Yeah, the back receiving area where I work can be a friggin' nightmare. It's a wonder screw-ups don't happen more often.

We don't get really big trucks, compared to some places I've worked - at the height of the Christmas season, we were 1200 cartons or so once a week - but we receive right into the stockroom, which has about 300 - 500 sq. ft. of usable space set up as a galley... with a baler right by the back door. So, we have to sort and throw outdoors and then hand-truck the freight in by category. Unfortunately there was so much flux in management before I got there that a "last in, first out" mentality took hold because of the difficulty in getting to old stock in that hallway of a stockroom.

Mikey wrote:

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Yeah, the back receiving area where I work can be a friggin' nightmare. It's a wonder screw-ups don't happen more often.

We don't get really big trucks, compared to some places I've worked - at the height of the Christmas season, we were 1200 cartons or so once a week - but we receive right into the stockroom, which has about 300 - 500 sq. ft. of usable space set up as a galley... with a baler right by the back door. So, we have to sort and throw outdoors and then hand-truck the freight in by category. Unfortunately there was so much flux in management before I got there that a "last in, first out" mentality took hold because of the difficulty in getting to old stock in that hallway of a stockroom.

Oh, I;m trying to imagine that and all I can do is wince. Literally, too. 1200 here would be considered a slow night for the overnight crew.

Happy New Year from Brooklyn!