Everyday Trials of a Retail Employee !

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Retail jobs must sound very easy for the people ,not working in retail , but u ask anyone in the front end operations of retail organisation ,u will find their cup of woes ,which they have to go thru day in day out .


Pain no #1 :: Standing can just drain you off , for those who havent experienced it and are used to chairs and computer browsing , try a 8 hours to 9 hours stand up and work stint you will realise the pain !


Pain No #2 :: The front end staff are looked at as bottom of the pyramid jobs , there is no way this perception is go away in a jiffy too


Pain no #3 ::The salary levels are not the best , and they don't have much hope of a raise either considering the retail model is a low cost operation = success


Pain no # 4 :: Half your friends keep leaving , u have to get used u to new faces almost every month , both at your level or your boss keeps changing !! add to this is the boredom factor of doing the samething everyday


Pain no # 5 :: You work when the whole world is on an off that is a Sunday /Saturday or a public holiday as they are big days for business in retail !


Some of these pains are not erasable , some being worked at for instance shoppers stop has a good way of assesing good front end staff and making them supervisors and department managers , so there is end of lite at the tunnel , also one could look at the fact that most of these youngsters would be in their first job , so it will be worthwhile going thru the pain initially ! The next time you bump into them at the friendly neighbourhood store /mall , pls be nice to them !!

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