Who Sees Being In Retail As Being A Deadend Job?

[Bobbisox1]

Re Teacakes comments in her own thread re Football scum, we wondered off that slightly when I mentioned Mike Ashley and Philip Green and retail, I said Retail was now a thankless task through people like the afore mentioned who treat staff with contempt , minimum wage, Sundays and BH at flat rate, no holiday increment and daily abuse from customers, TC reckons we retail workers are / were dead end job people who play with their phones all day??
what do you think ? truth?

[teacake44]

:0)))) Now your getting the idea, its thankless and always has been, and always will be.

[Bobbisox1]

why is it thankless? because of the low wages and abuse?

[teacake44]

Now your questioning your own post??

[ummmm]

I've never thought about it before.

[Bobbisox1]

No, I am asking you, I quoted those reasons as being thankless, should people just accept them then ?

[Mamyalynne]

I loved my time working in retail, it was very different to the swiping barcodes and electronis tills we have today.

My job was a personal one to one with the customer and getting the right product for the task in hand, it was extremely rewarding if not in the financial sense.

[david small]

It suits some people perfectly. They are people people.
Regular hours, team working, security. I’ve done it and didn’t like it. But that’s a personal opinion.

[Bobbisox1]

Mamy, so was mine in Customer service, it was bad back then but I told by friends still working , the abuse now off customers is terrible

[Mamyalynne]

My Daughter has done Customer Service and yes, people can and do get abusive.

Rarely in my time behind the shop counter did anyone get nowty, plus we all had sharp implements;-)

[NeedToKnowPlease]

Why should we expect thanks for a job we're paid to do? Get your head down and crack on with it. Probably no thanks because you spend too long thinking about what the customers owe you rather than the work you owe the store.

Of course it's not a dead end job. Go from managing the stores stock to owning the store.

[teacake44]

OP, I said retail was now a thankless task.

[Bobbisox1]

love *get nowty* haha

[Bobbisox1]

TC, you said:

/// Hear say. The retail industry has been a stepping stone for years, or a drop out option, if you didn't do well at school, the same as factory work. Aldi or Lidle will not keep anyone who is not prepared to work, but if you do so, the pay is very good, other than that you are out the door. If one is happy to doss about in a dead end job and play on ones phone all day, tuff, take whats on offer or do without.///

[teacake44]

There's countless jobs that are abusive, being a doctor nurse, more so on the night shift in hospitals, police trying to control football fans, sorry idiots, they all risk getting killed never mind abuse.

[Bobbisox1]

quoting yourself, Have you been in a shop and seen people playing on the mobile phones all day?

[teacake44]

15.42 Your dead right, that's what I said and still say. I really think your objective at the moment is to see if you can muster up some x shop workers on here to gang up on me. But most of them if there is any will agree 99% of the time a shop job is dead end, and I know that from a very young age, I was used and used to get the most out of me for as little payment, but I still earned money to pay my way, and got on with it.

[teacake44]

15.46 Yes!!!! every time I go to the shops

[Bobbisox1]

TC what a ridiculous thing to say, I have little idea what anyone here does in their working life, I left your thread because it wandered off track and because it was in News I started this one in CB

[Buenchico]

Surely the definition of a 'dead end job' is one that doesn't offer any form of career progression, isn't it?

So if you're working in a retail position, say stacking shelves or on a checkout desk, where there's no way forward to a supervisory or managerial position, then (by the very definition of the term itself) you most certainly are in a dead end job. That's not a denigratory statement, it's simply a factual one.

However someone doing exactly the same job with a different company might be offered the chance to become a supervisor and, perhaps, from there to move on to management training. So that person isn't in a dead end job.

I've never understood why anyone should expect to be paid more for doing a job at night, on a Sunday or on a bank holiday. It's the same job, so it should be the same pay. (I've worked on Christmas Day in a pub on several occasions, always just for the regular rate of pay).

By the very nature of their job, anyone working in a 'customer service' role is bound to encounter dissatisfied customers from time, who may well have every reason to be irate. So, as I see it, handling a bit of abuse now and then is simply all part of the job. (When I ran a railway station, I was sworn at almost every day and occasionally physically threatened too. I was never bothered by it and I fail to see why others should be bothered by it either).

[Bobbisox1]

strange shops you go to , have you said anything about them playing on their phones? you don't seem they type to hold back?