Whoo!

[S-Gray]

I was the main part in my Shop (Farmfoods) winning this "Mystery Shopper" Competition.

Basically this "Mystery Shopper" goes to your store at anytime between certain dates and does one report on how...

Clean it is
Staff Well Dressed
Staff Polite

etc etc and the mystery shopper also ask' some questions which you answer correctly thus giving you more points.

Well anyway, i had the honour of actually serving this Mystery Shopper, she asked if she could bring in a coupon for money off, because she left hers at home, i instantly knew she was actually the MS so i went into high gear and remembered all the questions to answers she might ask and did the usual stuff like smile, please, thankyou etc and accepted the IOU for the coupon.

Today we was told and when he said i was the one who did it i just cried with laughter. Everyone thinks im a hero now!

Btw, the prize was an extra weeks wages, so im on near £200 a week so thats like... almost £400! And our store came joint top in our division.

I am so well fucking chuffed!

 

[Teh Krypt]

Gratz!

 

[WPKenny]

Originally posted by S-Gray
I was the main part in my Shop (Farmfoods) winning this "Mystery Shopper" Competition.

Basically this "Mystery Shopper" goes to your store at anytime between certain dates and does one report on how...

Clean it is
Staff Well Dressed
Staff Polite

etc etc and the mystery shopper also ask' some questions which you answer correctly thus giving you more points.

Well anyway, i had the honour of actually serving this Mystery Shopper, she asked if she could bring in a coupon for money off, because she left hers at home, i instantly knew she was actually the MS so i went into high gear and remembered all the questions to answers she might ask and did the usual stuff like smile, please, thankyou etc and accepted the IOU for the coupon.

Today we was told and when he said i was the one who did it i just cried with laughter. Everyone thinks im a hero now!

Btw, the prize was an extra weeks wages, so im on near £200 a week so thats like... almost £400! And our store came joint top in our division.

I am so well fucking chuffed!

Tis a good feeling.

I won it three times in a row for our O'Neill's pub. We got a crate of champagne out of that from head office and a ton of money towards a night out at a nightclub for the staff.

 

[Testin da Cable]

hey hey well done laddie

 

[Tom]

omg hax

 

[PR.]

See thats how its done! S-Gray feels good, he feels he has done something that has not only benefited his company not only his store but the people he works with and himself!

Its a shame more companies don't do things similar. I mean how difficult is it?!

Happy and motivated staff = more work done = more money.

Pissed off staff = (less work done + more sick leave + less chance of staff going out of their way to help the business) = less money

I've seen it first hand I worked at a Scottish Power that had the best store performance, with the top performing sales staff. The manager ran competitions usually out of his own bonuses to get the stuff to compete with each other and work harder, sometimes it was only a cheap bottle of champers but it was the feeling the staff got from their success. That manager was moved on to a less performing store and we had a shit boss who wasn't willing to 'muck in' expected people to work their hardest, stopped posting peoples personal sales so staff rivalry vanished and within months it was the worst performing store in the company and wasn't even making enough money to cover the building rent and staff wages after about a year the manager moved on and things picked up a little but as some may no Scottish Power pretty much vanished and was eaten up by Powerhouse and we all know what happened to them

 

[~Mobius~]

How could you tell? I work in Tesco's and it'd be nice to know incase one ever came to my till.

 

[S-Gray]

Well, as i say, we was told a couple of weeks beforehand that a Mystery Shopper was going to come to our store/region between 1st August and 14th August.

Somewhere inbetween a woman come to my till, who at first i thought was just an ordinary customer, but i greeted her in the normal manner, i packed her bags and then she said (as i read on a sheet manager gave everyone) "oh.. it seems i have forgotten to bring in my Money Off Vouchers, could i possibly bring them in later?"

Then i thought, right! This has to be her, so i'll just make with all the answers.

Know what the funny thing was though? When she gave me her debit card for cashback (£20) i completely forgot to give it to her! She did have to come back at 4pm to pick it up.. and she still forgot the vouchers

 

[.Cask]

Yer they do that at sainsburys too. Spotted the mystery shopper a mile off cos he asked for some tuna and I picked up the palest, mouldiest piece and he said, "Yeah that looks lovely" while not even looking at it. Then did the same thing for some steak and he didn't notice the shade of green on his sirloin. After that he was straight onto the deli.

I've got some infested floor-fluff covered chicken stored away which I'll try and shift onto the next one.

 

[Xtro]

Crosses Sainsburys off list of places he shops.

 

[Testin da Cable]

yetch indeed

 

[S-Gray]

Well... i was gonna make a new thread but decided against it coz i remembered i had this one.

Anyway... the past few days ive been thinking hard about moving on to get a new job.. And something involving security has tickled my fancy...

I on occasion get put in charge of where i work as unofficial "security". Its good that i found i scare off a couple of shoplifters when im around the store watching...

I suppose training to become a proper security guard would be a hard job, but im pretty willing to do it... plsu the money is good yeah?...

 

[Ono]

Does the Mystery Shopper know about how you got duped by the £20 note trick not long ago?

You think you would have got such a high rating if he had known how dumb your were?

 

[Tom]

Security is shit money, and will probably turn you into a tinpot Hitler.

 

[Xtro 2.0]

Originally posted by S-Gray

I suppose training to become a proper security guard would be a hard job, but im pretty willing to do it... plsu the money is good yeah?...

No No No No No No No No NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO.

One of the shittiest paid jobs and you'll be treated like shit too. Do you want to get shot/stabbed/beaten up over someone else's property/money? Fk that.

Think a bit higher, find out what quals you need, get 'em and apply. Careers office?

 

[Mr.Monkey]

Originally posted by Tom.
and will probably turn you into a tinpot Hitler.

Sounds like a good enough perk. Go for it!

 

[Ch3tan]

Originally posted by Xtro 2.0
No No No No No No No No NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO.

One of the shittiest paid jobs and you'll be treated like shit too. Do you want to get shot/stabbed/beaten up over someone else's property/money? Fk that.

Think a bit higher, find out what quals you need, get 'em and apply. Careers office?

They get paid more than shop assistants, plus it opens the door to better paid security jobs, such as door work.

Security firms get paid anywhere up to £30 an hour for supplying a security guard, the guard sees about £8-£10 of that.

 

[Jonny_Darko]

Why don't you join the TA at the same time?

 

[Xtro 2.0]

Originally posted by Ch3tan
They get paid more than shop assistants, plus it opens the door to better paid security jobs, such as door work.

Security firms get paid anywhere up to £30 an hour for supplying a security guard, the guard sees about £8-£10 of that.

I'm trying to encourage him to do some vocational studying and you want him to be a bouncer FFS

We must know different people, most I've talked to get minimum wage and really don't want to get stabbed over a bottle of whisky belonging to Mr Tesco.

Its a world of grief but if thats what he wants to do...

 

[S-Gray]

heh yeah.. somethin ive wondered about for a while...

Sure there is a risk involved, but i dont mind that.. I think security work would be a big step for me... i have considered (not much tho) something like the Army, or police, but i know im nowhere near fitness of what they would require, its just the training/learning aspects of it all.

Its all wishful thinking maybe... but still, no harm in dreaming

 

[tris-]

well SG its not hard to get in shape, look at the benefits you will get - better job, more pay, dont get a heart attack going up stairs etc

 

[Xtro 2.0]

Originally posted by S-Gray

Sure there is a risk involved, but i dont mind that.. I think security work would be a big step for me... i have considered (not much tho) something like the Army, or police, but i know im nowhere near fitness of what they would require, its just the training/learning aspects of it all.

Its all wishful thinking maybe... but still, no harm in dreaming

Its not a dream, go for it.

You'll find that most new/potential recruits for the Armed Forces have a crap level of fitness. When you have an initial appointment with the recruiter (they'll decide in 10 mins if you are suitable but won't tell you this) they'll give you a very basic fitness program such as run or jog X amount of miles building up to xxx etc. This is to get you started on the road to being fit.

I can't tell you about the Army exactly but in the RAF we had to take two mental tests, one quite general, the other more maths specific. You're also asked to indicate which trades you'd liked to do and your marks are taken into consideration for this. Basically do crap and your choices will be more limited.

You'll have a physical and if you are underweight or overweight you'll be told how much you need to gain or lose to join. IIRC target date was 3 months to shift or gain weight, but dont take this as gospel it was a long time ago.

Anyway your basic training in the Armed Forces is all about getting into shape so don't worry about it.

Bear in mind if you're colourblind you're pretty shafted for choice of trades and last I knew you couldn't even join the police at all if you were.

AFAIK you're about 16-18? Ideal age for recruiters, they'll lap you up. Don't accept second best, if you want to join the Police or Forces, talk to them now mate.

HTH

 

[S-Gray]

19... plus i never was good at basic subjects at school, got shitty marks in quite a lot of my GCSEs. Im no good at maths, but some other subjects i dont mind.

Im not colourblind, or have any disabilities apart from, well beings a tad OW, which is what i was workin on before i got this poor job

 

[Xtro 2.0]

You're the perfect age then mate.

Give it a go, you've got nothing to lose. If your test marks aren't amazing not to worry you can still be Infantry, Logistics, Nurse, etc etc etc. Good pay, good career mate.

I hope you think about it but do whatever you feel comfortable with.

GL

 

[7th]

Originally posted by PR.
...Its a shame more companies don't do things similar. I mean how difficult is it?!

Happy and motivated staff = more work done = more money.

Pissed off staff = (less work done + more sick leave + less chance of staff going out of their way to help the business) = less money...

I'm sickened by the number of companies I see or hear about operating policies which seem to really piss their employees off... my girlfriends current employer has just upped their basic pay and given them what they call "unlimited performance related pay".... what it boils down to, is that most of them where hitting £14k with the previous PRP package anyway, and the new PRP levels are near unobtainable.. on top of that they've introduced stupid "automatic diallers" to increae efficiency (sadly she works in a call center, the bane of my existence. how people survive in there is beyond me and they are a better human than i if they can endure it)

these so called automatic diallers, automatically dial numbers of customers.. the customer care adviser doesn't have to do a thing, they dont have to pick up the phone, dial a number. nothing.

what they get instead is someone picking up the phone and going "hello?"... this is the only time they know they're now on a call, when someone answers... but the little info screen in front of them doesn't flash up any info on the customer until they answer, so its a mad dash to wait for a "hello?" and then quickly read the screen, find out their name, find out the reason for the call, all in the space of "hello?"

end result: pissed off employees, high turn over of staff

how fecking daft are these people?

in contrast, at my previous company....

we had:

a.) huge huge huge bins of sweets / crisps, re-stocked every other week

b.) regular drinks after company meetings, once a month, paid for

c.) regular 'team building trips'... paid for (generally an excuse to go to the pub afterwards, again, paid for)

d.) weekly "directors lunches" where 8-9 people would go to lunch on a friday afternoon with a director.. again, paid for

e.) free coffee and tea in the mornings and afternoons, with cakes on pay day

end result: I'm still loyal as hell to my old employer and im still in contact with people there... i'd bend over backwards to work for them again

THE MESSAGE: TO ALL YOU NASTY EVIL MONEY GRABBING EMPLOYERS OUT THERE, WISEN UP GODAMNIT!

7th

edit: stoopid bold tag shenanigans

 

[Ch3tan]

Post this here rather than start a new thread.

Got a 12 year old shoplifter today, her and her mates had been stealing from loads of shops. Only managed to catch her, she ran away while I had her by squirming out of her school jumper, then she got caught again as she tried to walk past myself and 5 secuirty gaurds in another shop.

It's a long story, but to get the main point, she was 12. She was carrying a knife, she was stealing cause her friend told her to. Her (foster) parents didnt want anything to do with her because she had stolen from them, she showed no remorse, she wasnt scared of the police so she was arrested. Seeing a 12 year old girl put in handcuffs by police is when you realise that the youth of today truly are undisiplined shits.

She was given many a chance, I followed them out of the store, gave her lots of chances to leave the stuff behind. The police officer kept asking her if she felt sorry or knew what she had done wrong. She just didnt care.

On top of all that, I had to go to the police station to give a statement after work. I was there for two hours! Got home at 8:30pm :/

I bet I don't get a weeks extra wages (she had about £40 from our shop alone, god knows how much her mates had). I doubt I will get paid for the time I spent at the police station on behalf of work outside working hours.

 

[Tom]

What fuels this criminal activity is apathy amongst the general public. For every item stolen from a shop/home, there is another person willing to buy the same item. Buying from 'the man in the pub' is asking for trouble.