By: Jeff
Why is that a bad thing? Most professional retail workers do not have good judgment, hence the retail work. It makes sense to tell them that they must avoid certain things if for no other reason than...
View ArticleBy: Invid
Interesting that Jeff thinks retail work is the result of bad judgment. Same could definitely be said of many lawyers.
View ArticleBy: John Burgess
I’m with Invid. I went into retail sales when the company I had been working for went bankrupt. Any job is better than no job. I used that job in sales to bootstrap my way into progressively better...
View ArticleBy: D
Since when do employees read handbooks of rules and regulations? I work for a very large company that by policy communicates all directions in writing. Very little reading happens. Even though we...
View ArticleBy: ras
Jeff, I’ve known many retail workers with judgment enough not to make so foolish a comment as yours.
View ArticleBy: Chris Hoey
Handbooks do provide defenses in employee legal claims, such as sex harassment, when the company spells out procedures for reporting instances of alleged abuse. I have personally seen instances when...
View ArticleBy: The Sanity Inspector
The handbooks and such are for “I told you so” purposes. Training, of the best kind, comes from supervisors with the heart of a teacher. Even, or maybe especially, if the workforce is the type that has...
View ArticleBy: Jack Olson
Jeff, when a retail worker does something asinine, in all probability it isn’t his idea. Most likely, it wasn’t even his boss’s idea. When a cashier at a chain store asked me to state my residential...
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