Day In, Day Out...Nothing New To Talk About

So my current Facebook status is: Cassie Yost is really getting frustrated/irritated with my job.

Why? Keep on reading.

I like my job, the people I work with are awesome, however I feel like I'm stuck behind this stupid cash register and not gaining any sort new experience (or building on the little I have) in different areas of the store that I could use to find and establish myself in other future jobs. I am no longer allowed to take shifts for anyone in the store unless the Manager has enough people to move around so that I end up at cashwrap AGAIN. I feel like I'm being treated like a newbie with zip training, but I've been there for almost a year! Hello, its not my fault that I don't know how to do anything anywhere else in the store anymore, or that I've lost all my previous experience because...well, nobody lets me do anything! This has been going on since early this year! If not longer. I've lost track, kind of like the tallies on a prison cell wall. What do they literally expect to have happen when I don't get practice anywhere else? It can't be good for them either, because they lose flexibility with me.

There is nothing more frustrating for me than to feel like I'm accomplishing absolutely NOTHING with the hours I put in at my job. Day in, day out, its the same old thing:

Hellooo, how are you?

Great, did you find everything okay?

Do you have a members card to save 10% today?

Have you at least heard about it? Saving up to 40% off some purchases?

Do you want this all in one bag?

Please sign.

Receipt with you or in the bag?


And any other random chitchat I can come up with. Gaaaahhh!!!

I'm seriously ready to pull my hair out. Almost EVERYONE knows I hate where I'm at, that I want to be moved around.

I want to be trained in Customer Service because then at least I can walk around the store and being doing stuff besides just standing behind the cash register, trapped in a little area, tidying it up until there is no more tidying to be done.

I want to be trained in Music&DVD because I really enjoy both those things, music is a passion for me, I like helping people find new music and finding new music myself.

I want to be trained in Café because it would be fun to know how to make all those awesome drinks, recommend my favorites and then have that training already if I ever decided to apply at Starbucks or Cup of Joe (I LOVE Cup of Joe, I really want to work there).


But no. When I ask directly about being moved around, I feel as though they are just trying to humor me by putting me on Nook for 1 hour, Kids Customer Service for another hour, and then throwing me back up at cash wrap for the rest of my shift and leave me up there for all my future shifts until I bitch again.

Seriously?

I'm really getting fed up. I've been looking for a new job, because I really need to be working full time. However, I don't know how much longer I can last behind a cash register asking every smiling face (or not) "Would you like the receipt with you or in the bag? Have a nice day!" when my day is as gloomy as the raincloud over Eeyore.

But yeah, just felt the need to vent a little. Thanks for reading. :)

~Julia

P.s. In case you're wondering why a lot of the posts on here have different sign off names at the bottom, its just because I like to change it up and sign off with different names I really happen to like at the time, usually more than my own. :)