Walmart

[morganhead]

nope, no joke. all real. he never should have said that, it's that simple

next time, duke, keep your opinions to yourself

 

[Matt R]

Someone feels like getting BANNINATED today!

 

[Scaff]

nope, no joke. all real. he never should have said that, it's that simple

next time, duke, keep your opinions to yourself

Duke has the same rights to an opinion here (as long as its within the AUP) as any other member, the fact that Duke is staff makes no difference.

Not only do I agree with him, but I have actually fired people for actions almost identical to this. I also fail to see why you are taking offence, when the comment described what action Duke (and I honestly believe 99.99% of employers) would take in the described situation. In addition Duke actually ask you to explain in what way you consider yourself to be the victim here, your explanation was to simply shout at him.



Now take the following on board..

one more post like the above and you will be 'fired' from GT Planet, the terms of the AUP are quite clear on the subject of personal attacks on any member. Yet you seem to be of the belief that you can post anything you want and people should accept it without question.

When the dare to disagree with you or post an opinion of there own you resort to personal attacks. This is not acceptable and consider yourself warned. One more offence no matter how small and it will be your last.

Scaff

 

[Duke]

i'm offended just by that statement alone.

HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT TO ME. HOW DARE YOU. I HOPE YOU BURN IN HELL FOR ALL I REALLY CARE

Why are you offended by that statement - because I disagree with you? I believe, in fact, that you've just proven me correct - you have quite a lot of growing up to do.

I dare say that to you because I feel it's perfectly appropriate that the manager should discipline an employee whose behaviour is out of line. Swearing on company property is out of line, and I'll bet the employee orientation materials they gave you covered that. Regardless, all employees in a public business are expected to behave professionally. It's the manager's job to ensure that his employees do so. In fact, if the manager didn't take disciplinary action against you for the incident, I'd expect his superior to take action against him.

Swearing at a cop on the store's time or property does NOT constitute professional behaviour in any way.

I also asked you to explain why you felt you were a victim, which you haven't bothered to do. You claim to be 21, but you do not seem to take a remotely adult view of the world. You seem to think you are entitled to act however you wish, and you are offended when people suggest that there might be valid consequences that you won't like.

nope, no joke. all real. he never should have said that, it's that simple

Why is it that simple? Why should I have never said that? It's a plain statement of fact, coupled with my opinion. And I am condemned to eternal damnation for expressing it? Again, you seem to prove that you're not the age you claim.

Please explain WHY it was not an appropriate comment on my part. I'm waiting to hear it.

next time, duke, keep your opinions to yourself

As I said in your Lindsay Lohan thread: If you don't want to hear people that disagree with you, don't post YOUR opinions in public. Now, it really is that simple.

Someone feels like getting BANNINATED today!

Duke has the same rights to an opinion here (as long as its within the AUP) as any other member, the fact that Duke is staff makes no difference.

I'd like to stress that no one will ban morganhead for simply disagreeing with us. However, he will find himself banned if the manner in which he disagrees continues to be abusive.

 

[Matt R]

Simply disagreeing with you? For a second there I thought he told you to burn in hell.

 

[Time_Attack]

I rather like not having a real dress code. It makes things easier. At my last job they only gave me one shirt so it was hard to make sure it was clean for work everyday.

 

[Delirious]

I guess the more "professional" and "higher standard" the store is to you, the more you should expect out of employees.

Someone can work out an equation that the more higher standard and professional a store is (e.g. tuxedo store or even a car dealer) the more you should expect out of your employees. Would you buy a tux or even a car from a person who could care less on how he looked and how he gives out proper customer service?

 

[YSSMAN]

I rather like not having a real dress code. It makes things easier. At my last job they only gave me one shirt so it was hard to make sure it was clean for work everyday.

Well the point is to make everyone identifyable by the customers I suppose, and I guess thats allright. When we switched to our new DM a few months ago he required that we wear jeans and our S&B yellow "Staff" shirts, all while preferably wearing S&B brand clothing, if not clothing with logos that aren't that noticeable.

Hopefully with our new DM we can go back to shorts and chinos, as wearing jeans all year long is a bit odd. It sucks when it is 80 degrees outside and you look like a total douchebag walking around in Levis with your Merrel boots and bright yellow "staff" shirt.

 

[Time_Attack]

Yeah I know why uniforms are good and all. It makes the employies look better and it helps the customers find them and all that good stuff... I just dont like to wear something that says "how may I help you?" on the back when I dont really know where crap is in the store so I'm not help at all.

 

[FoolKiller]

I see no problems with dress codes. In fact I currently refuse to wear anything less than khakis at my current job even though jeans and sometimes even shorts are accepted. We are a back-end production office and are never seen by clients. but I have trouble coming in to work in less than khakis and button-up shirt.

I have seen some dress codes that go to far. I knew some people that worked in mall clothing brand stores, such as Abercrombie, and they were required to wear whatever the latest fashion in their brand was., With new things coming out every 1-2 weeks half their paycheck went to keeping up with teh dress code. If I had worked there I probably would have gotten up and walked out during orientation.

As for the Wal*Mart/Sam's dress code I don't expect much more considering the store itself. And then knowing some of the employees I wonder if they could even get some of them to wear nicer clothes.

 

[Pupik]

Eventually the supercenter idea will become mundane and everyone will want service focused stores. The market will flow back and forth a bit until eventually you will have supercenters that focus on customer service. This will mean slightly smaller stores than we have now and a neighborhood will be able to support a handfull of businesses that use this model. At least this is how I predict things to work. I may be wrong, but it will take a generation or two to see and I will probably be dead by then.

Sometime a larger corporate giant is stifled by its own success; sometimes customer service is difficult in a larger physical environment, sometimes the policies of a company have to be enforced "by the book" or my the laws, or as to not offend anyone, political correctness, et cetera.

Customer service is generally not as high a priority by those of a lower income than those of a higher income, but that's not because neither poor nor rich wants to be treated badly, but because a weathlier person or one with more disposible income towards a certain interest (a hobby, for example) usually has more options to chose from if they don't like their service.

The more places that provide "all-in-one" services are usually valued above all else, since it saves some people time and money, which are generally the items people value most in any type of marketplace. Many people are willing to forgo the formalities and extra touches involved in customer service.

There's more to it that; Wal*Mart may try, but they can't sell everything! If it's not popular, or not profitable, they won't sell it, obviously. Local places that specialize in certian specialties, or places that are willing to special-order will win the hearts (and hopefully dollars) of that consumer.

This is not to say my local Wal*Mart is good at any of those things in my region, but theoretically, it works, and sometimes they've gotten the formula just right. They still haven't earned my money in several months, though.