by Sarah Wood

Created on: July 21, 2010

Retail bites. Quite frankly, I would rather work at fast-food restaurants than ever step into another retail store. Maybe it is just my experience at one store that made me not ever want to sign up for retail again. My schedules were constantly changing and they wouldn't let me take Sundays off because I could not find literally, anyone to watch my daughter on Sundays. They told me that if I don't find somebody they would fire me for that specific reason. Where I live it is a right to work state, meaning that if you don't come in looking your best or if you give a manager a funny look that they didn't like they could fire you for any particular reason. It makes it harder for us normal folks to hold a job at these retail giants.

So let me begin with some few opinions of my own: I am not just bashing on retail, most jobs unfortunately bite. The amount of hours you put in school, life, work and socializing. Unless you are doing your dream, your passion, you will hate your job. It is all about your attitude on life and yourself. Now that we got that out of the way let me tell you about my resent job history.

I love people, I love helping people. Their is nothing like a feeling when I am just working at the cash register and somebody wants to give me a tip for being the best cashier that they have ever met in their life. Not only did I have the right attitude, but I got them the help that they needed and I kept them company for a limited time. That is not why I hate retail. I hate retail because most people that get promoted to management do not know diddly-squat about management. Every time I called up for a manager they would look at me and in front of ten customers ask me why someone voided an item and told me I need to do my job better. I was a hard worker at this particular retail/drug store giant. Working night shifts, day shifts, back-to-back shifts, Sundays, weekends, holidays, birthdays, when I had hangovers, when I had plans, I would come and cover other coworker’s shifts so I could make some extra money.

I found out after a year of working their and doing basically everything in that store, not only did I not get promoted to management but a 19 year old kid was making 8.00 an hour and he was only part-time and getting promoted to management. The first job that he ever had and he got promoted to management! Me on the other hand, after all the hard work I did and because some of the managers did not like me because I have quite the mouth

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