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    One customer once was like "What's with woolworths not taking credit cards anymore?" I'm like "woolworths practically lives off credit cards, that's absurd" Another day doing back dock AND meat. Had a great sleep this afternoon after work (Cause i REALLY didn't get home at 4am from being out...
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    I got to work in the morning to find the storeman was off sick.. Guess who got to be storeman AND meat dude both at once!
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    how does one emergency stop a baler? - We have an upright baler.. not a big one... about rollcage sized. Worked 7am-6pm today. walked out at 12:30 thinking i was supposed to finish at 12... then "where are you going?" My world crashed around me when I found out I was working till 6. We are up...
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    Area manager came in today. What an awesome dude. He's the kind of person who talks to you as a human being, and clearly isn't arrogant and doesn't think of himself being better than the average shop assistant. :) - That, my friends, is how you gain respect.
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    My week: Monday(ANZAC public holiday): 0630-1430 (yay penalty rates) (I missed my lunch break. lol) Tuesday: 0700-1200 Friday: 0630-1530 Saturday: 0700-1600 Sunday: 1330-1830
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    Checkouts seems to be the department that gets stolen from most. I started on checkouts, and have since done: Non-Trade Perishables Meat (Manager for a bit) Deli Storeman (Is happening increasingly more often, maybe I should ask to be trained on it all). So, you probs won't get jobs during your...
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    I don't get why the locks etc. on the cigarette area aren't enough? Stupid to have to lock them away from their own lock up place. The law, iMathew is that you can only have a certain amount of cigarettes (1 Metre squared rings a bell) displayed - hence the flaps over the rest etc. I heard a...
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    I had one weekend over easter, but since then, none since november.
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    83 here :D
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    I gots 49.61Hrs A/L I have no idea about sick leave, have not used any though.
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    My contract is 34 hours but I usually get flexed up to 38. MMacka, I was under the impression that you cannot use unpaid leave until you have used all your paid annual leave up. - unless you secretly just "delete" the shift. Worked 7am-6pm yesterday :S
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    I quite enjoy going to the local IGA, small and convenient. Keep it in mind, iMathew, that IGA is a franchised business... Management is store by store.
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    I'm no supervisor, but the duty managers etc. still make me do the supervisor's lunch breaks.. go figure.. I don't even have supervisor numbers. lol
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    I set up: Fresh Poultry Hot Chickens Seafood Sliced Shaved Antipasto Cheeses Franks and whatever else I may have missed I probably set that up too
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    Went in at 5am today. Deli manager comes in at 5:15 and starts slicing, goes home 45 mins later - sick. opened deli solo, my first open too... I think I did a good job, was not a fan of the 4.5 hours of work before a tea break. shit sucks.
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    looks good! looks like a giant ginger kiss.. kinda... :D Send me a piece! Fedex it up!
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    yeah, I have 1x 6:30am start a week, and 3x 7am starts a week. Kinda refreshing.. weirdly enough.
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    Yep, when you call me to wake me ;) Shinji: spent 8-16 on deli today!
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    yay. Work tomorrow, Deli, 5am-7am, Perishables, 7am-3pm. I don't like early starts!
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    Let's just hope so anyway, disorganised-ness is disorganised.. I was actually called in for my first shift ever. Funny that.
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