Vic wrote:Location: In the big chair, finally, swinging my feet 'cause I'm short. Lower the chair Scotty DAMMITRK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:*Salutes*Angharrad wrote:And you can now call me "Captain Foxx"
Scotty; It's a low as I can get it Mum....I can'na violate the Laws O' Physics.
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.RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Well, holidays are almost over. The retail season has not been kind to me.
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, while reducing shrink and improving both volume and margin.RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Well, holidays are almost over. The retail season has not been kind to me.
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.
Congrats! Despite the possible stress. What sort of store, if you feel comfortable saying?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,
Is that assistant manager talk for theft and robbery?while reducing shrink
It sounds a bit like it feels like this actuallysunnyside wrote:Congrats! Despite the possible stress. What sort of store, if you feel comfortable saying?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,
Is that assistant manager talk for theft and robbery?while reducing shrink
General retail talk for it, yeah. It 'shrinks' our profits.sunnyside wrote:Is that assistant manager talk for theft and robbery?Mikey wrote: while reducing shrink
Teaos wrote:
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:Congrats! Despite the possible stress. What sort of store, if you feel comfortable saying?
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.sunnyside wrote:Is that assistant manager talk for theft and robbery?
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.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.
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.Mikey wrote: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.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.
