Real “undercover” boss type stuff

[Lineman]

Being winter and the economy as it is I decided to work part time at one of the stores. I plan on reporting a lot of activity here for amusement for everyone.
First day
I showed up on time like I was advised at 11, no manager and asst manager didn’t know how to process paperwork and said to come back later and the manager should be back. I had some stuff to keep me busy so got my stuff done and went back around 3. Still no manager. I showed up to work not stand around and BS so I picked up a broom and started sweeping. Store hasn’t been deep cleaned in a while and later you’ll see why. About 10 minutes into cleaning the disaster area the asst manager hollers to help him. Swept my pile up to get to later and helped him with some returns(a one person job mind you).
Finish helping him and then finish sweeping, bored. Bathroom is nasty so start cleaning it and still have not been told what I need to do; it’s been over an hour now.
Manager shows up and finds me cleaning, says we can do paperwork now. Im deep in bleach and have maybe 2 mins and bathroom will be spotless so I try and finish. Manager comes back to me about a minute later and says let’s do this paperwork. Im still finishing up the sink so I wipe it down and go with him.
Do the paperwork, do a walkthrough and then shown how to ring things up. Manager leaves for the day(was there an hour total) so I ask one of the other guys what needs done. “Pretty much nothing” was blurted out.
Around then the “kids” shift has started and the store is getting busy so with little “knowledge” I start helping people out. Stayed consistent for about an hour then it slowed to a crawl.
I can’t just stand so I go back to cleaning, cleaned the back and on the way to the front past the kid I thought heard “over achiever” lowly voiced.
So now I’m pretty much out of stuff to do and go to the counter where one of the kids is talking to her self.
Well I thought she was, customer needed alternator tested so went to get the tester and I look on the counter and my mug is live action on a phone sitting on the counter. I look at the phone and it goes black other then the window my face is in now completely in. Weird. I look over and the kid is pretty embarrassed grabbing her phone quickly. I test the guys alternator and go and put the tester up. One of the guys working with me is probably in his mid 50s so I ask what the deal is with that phone. He says oh she’s on the phone with her boyfriend, he is obviously fine with it. Seriously!! It’s dead at this point but from 4-8:30 this kid has been at work and on the phone with her boyfriend the entire time. What work other then answering the phone and checking people out has been done by them, zero.
Closing time I take the broom and make sure the front is clean and again I hear “over achiever” being said, I’m assuming the kid is telling her boyfriend but honestly don’t care.
At the end of the shift the older guy tells me I’ve been working to hard and need to slow down. I ask why and he tells me cleaning is pointless and I would be the only one cleaning so…
I ask what that meant and he just said I’d find out if I kept cleaning.

So to save people that don’t want to read about my boring first day I will list the highlights.
Cleaning is a no-no.
While at work it’s ok to voice call with your boyfriend, even while dealing with customers.
You will be called names for doing normal everyday work things like cleaning or eating in the break room instead of the front counter.
Totally the opposite when I was young at my first job but we didn’t have cell phones back then so maybe this is the new normal for some but not me one bit.

I’ll post again after my next shift, supposedly the kid that worked last night is the “best one” of the three so things should get interesting.

I’m just waiting to see all the jaw drops when they find out who this new guy is…

 

[swampratt]

I read every word and I have also seen it.
Bunch of no goods making way more than what we made back before cell phones.

Being late by almost an hour is actually being on time.
I was early by at least 15 minutes to every job I have had.

Can't wait until you get some more shifts in and read about it
Cheap entertainment .

 

[OkieMoe]

Send me the location. If its close I'll apply and we can both show them how its supposed to be done.. I was laid off two months ago. They kept the office drunk and its two ass kissers. Those who wouldn't work a second over normal time. And removed the first in. last out actual over achiever. But I did make a lot more than they did. And that's why I was on that hit list. so i think.

 

[Letfreedomring]

I can see this "scenario" at every restaurant we've been to in for the last couple of years, which isn't many due to the less than desirable environment. The last one was at the "dark grizzly diner" (name changed to protect the snowflakes). The dining room was a mess and after we received our drinks we overhead one waitress asking a waiter if they were really out of silverware... Oh dear. We order finger foods to work around issue and while eating noticed the waiter bussing a table by taking a couple of items back to kitchen in about a dozen trips. I commented to other half that it would probably go quicker with a cart or even a bussing bin to take less trips, but remembered they said they were out of silverware and assumed all bins were full sitting in back waiting to be washed. Then the waitress that was either on the spectrum or stoned off her a$$ was attempting to vacuum the filthy floor and had to verbalize every action she had planned with the other workstaff and asked where the outlet was in that section to plug in vacuum. Guess she couldn't find the YouTube video that shows every step of her job requirements... SMH! We're SO doomed!

 

[TinkerTanker]

Sounds like the OReillys a few blocks over from me. God Bless you for putting in the time and effort, and putting up with them. It's like the movie Idiocracy has become real life.

 

[cowadle]

my first job was to just keep the job site clean and organized. the old man that had to be pleased with me or i would go made sure i knew that. as a note all of the guys that i worked with were staunch WW2 and some korean retreads. work started at 7:30 and i was expected to have my bowel movements and all that stuff already done and not show up to work eating a honey bun drinking a cup of coffee. i came to work a couple hours early that first day and got the job site organized and cleaned up while OFF THE CLOCK!!!! when the guys all showed up and the old man with them they didn't know what to do with me so they put me to work.

 

[sklfco]

Whole damn world is fillin up with lazy freeloaders. Darn worthless kids

 

[THAT Gurl]

This is gonna be fun!!

 

[OK Corgi Rancher]

This is why I hate going anywhere. Most people these days can't even do the minimum required of their job. I've said it before... When I'm out somewhere and someone does "just their job...and nothing more" it's seems like they should be nominated for employee of the century.

 

[jakeman]

If I owned it and went undercover like that, I wouldn’t have lasted thru the first hour before everyone was fired. I wouldn’t let my customers suffer thru 1 more minute of that.

The manager and I would run it until I found replacement help, then I’d find out if he really wanted a job or not.

Keep us posted.