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When I started this work, my only previous experience was in retail and I was desperate to excel so I could have a professional future. I am basically maxed out on compensation, and because my work is so niche, any promotion would result in me supervising others instead of doing what I am good at. I have zero desire to do that.
I am a college student working part-time at a retail job that I absolutely love. It’s really, really normal to switch shifts with people at part-time retail jobs, as is needing to call in sick or ask for specific days off. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. Will my mental health get in the way of a promotion?
This isn’t like someone who goes all “let me speak to your manager” on a retail worker — you’ve been extraordinarily patient and given him multiple chances to respond to you, and this is a serious problem that warrants escalation. In trouble, yes, and that’s warranted. Fired, unlikely.
She knows that she would find jobs that require a lot of contact with the public torturous, and therefore did not apply to any openings for fast food or retail outlets, although that is the type of job that is most plentiful for her age group. She is an introvert, and quite shy on top of that.
You train people well enough that you trust them to carry out their work without constant supervision, and if you find that’s not working, you take it as a flag that they either need more training/guidance or there’s a performance issue you need to address. I’m a 17-year-old girl, and I’ve been in a retail job I love for a year and a half.
It feels too soon to put them on a resume (one of my life improvement goals is to get out of retail work), but when would be the appropriate time? Who knows, maybe the thing that would make the biggest impact on their happiness is “solve the bottleneck with accounting” or “stop sending us urgent work at 6 pm when you knew about it all day.”
I almost wonder if they want me to supervise her without being a supervisor. I’m currently working my first ever job, part-time hourly in retail, and I’m not sure if what’s happening is normal or not. I don’t want to seem like I’m saying “not my job” but … it’s not my job anymore. No, this is not normal.
I had a brief career in IT consulting, after which burnout caused me to hop around for a few years to decompress, doing mostly warehouse and retail. I worked for him in high school, between summers in college, and even as an “internship” right out of college. Every attempt to put something together was rebuffed by my parents (I’m 30 now).
I recently started working in a high-end retail setting selling a luxury item. But you’re certainly right to be concerned if he could be promoted into a position where he’d be supervising someone he’s dating. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. Coworkers are leaving love notes for each other.
She’s on a work trial so I’m meant to do supervision meetings with her every other week. I recently switched industries entirely, from a tiny retail environment to a national corporate company with headquarters in another state. But she keeps bringing it up. Is my boss’s advice making me look bad?
I work for a small retail business cofounded by my sister-in-law. The number agreed upon for part-time workers was 50% off retail. Technically she is my superior, though she does not directly supervise most of my responsibilities. Do not spend 30 hours preparing work as part of a try-out unless you’re paid for it.
We receive little supervision and I don’t expect that to change until the new year at the earliest, so I may be the only person catching his errors. I’d also look at retail, food service, and even call centers since those can be easier to get jobs in without experience.
I supervise a team of six. After this time, I took a five year break where I worked in retail, where I received many promotions, was responsible for training new hires, and walked away with some great work experiences and references. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go….
I was working retail before all the Covid stuff started getting crazy. I supervise a staff of college seniors who are all bummed to finish out their college career without the traditional graduation celebrations. No one is going to forget the outbreak, lots of transcripts will have this, and it won’t hurt you.
On one occasion, after months and months of nagging, I applied at my brother’s company as a retail sales rep. The hiring manager seemed baffled that I would be willing to give up being my own boss to come and work retail. He wrote that one of his patients had her dog die five months in a row because of his use of this.).
I didn’t get in trouble, but I was very well supervised from that point onward. I saw an opportunity to move out of retail by applying for the more professional positions in the store (HR, marketing specialist, and educator). It didn’t matter which job it was – I just didn’t want to do retail anymore! The wrong word.
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