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Retail & Hospitality

A community for retail & hospitality professionals

  1. Sales Associate
    First time poster

    I have applied to so many part time positions (86 so far this year), I’ve only ever got one interview and I’ve been applying regularly for the past two years. It’s gotten to the point that I’ve re-app...

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  2. Bakery

    my manager(s) treat me so horrible for no reason at all, and there’s a very small select of us that are treated this way. my managers tell me off even for the slightest thing even wearing the wrong sh...

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  3. Customer Service Representative

    What is your company's policy when it comes to allowing customers to cuss, yell, or threaten you? I've never worked for a company that was so willing to let customers freak out on us. It feels like I ...

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  4. Hospitality Staff

    I was offered a new job, but they want me to start next Tuesday. Is it wrong for me to give my current job less than a week's notice? I don't want to lose this new job.

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  5. Senior Security Specialist

    If you had the choice of being paid salary or hourly which would you pick and why? I'm currently hourly. I make $30.93 an hour on regular time and $46.70 for overtime after. I realize that sometimes m...

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  6. Store Associate

    Opinion Poll! The customer is always right, do you agree?

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  7. Retail Sales Specialist

    I don't know if my manager's expectations are unrealistic and he needs to hire more people or maybe I'm just too slow to handle the workload. But in addition to helping customers and checking them out...

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  8. Merchandiser
    First time poster

    Why is it so hard for a man with over 40 years in work force to find a new job ? Age discrimination is what I think .

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  9. Assistant

    Retail and hospitality really teach you emotional regulation fast. You can be having the worst day and still have to create a positive experience for someone else. What’s something this industry taugh...

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  10. Kitchen Porter

    Got a Tesco interview on Friday and I'm so nervous 😭 I'm 17 and work at Greggs, been there about 6 months now. I have pretty bad social anxiety so I'm overthinking everything. I've had a few intervie...

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  11. Still Unemployed
    First time poster

    Honestly being 16 and trying to find a job feels impossible

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  12. Associate

    My manager often has me do a task or two after I clock out. They're not anything big. Take the trash out as I leave, push a couple carts up to the door, etc. They take 5 to 10 minutes at most. Is it w...

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  13. Sales Assistant

    Is it ok to lie on your resume to make you sound more experienced. I know people do it but could they catch you out!! I'm from Reading , England

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  14. Food Journalist Assistant
    First time poster

    Anyone else having a hard time finding serving jobs lately? I have 16 years experience in fine dinning, fine dinning casual, and James Beard-winning restaurants and I can't get a single callback or a ...

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  15. Senior Security Specialist

    Have you ever been aware of team members actively conspiring to get a team mate or leader fired? How did you handle it? Were you in on it? Was it justified? I know of two recent scenarios of people wh...

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  16. Community Manager

    💸 If you found out a coworker made significantly more than you for the same role, what would you do about it (if anything)?

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  17. Community Manager

    💭 How/when do you disclose that you were let go from your last job in an interview?

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  18. Chief of Staff
    First time poster

    Well I am on the verge of being fired because my pursue of a degree doesn’t align with my current job and now I’m on the edge of trying to hurry up and find a job before I get cut off 😐

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  19. Sales Associate/Key Holder
    First time poster

    How do you guys deal with mean individuals, where there is a few of them who group up acting like some high-school bullies? I don’t really want to report to the managers, one of “bullies” is of hi...

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  20. Community Manager

    👀 What's the pettiest thing a manager has ever done to you or someone you know?

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