am gonna start looking for a new job.
as soon as i think maybe i'm not doing so bad at home depot, i just fuck something up and have someone there making me feel like shit for it.
when someone's credit card can't be swiped through the PINpad or the reader on the register, we have to print out a blank slip, imprint their credit card number on it and have them sign it. now, no one had ever mentioned to me that i was supposed to have them sign it and i'd never thought about it one way or another. i have to do that on one guy's card when he's buying like $50-worth of stuff. after that, i have to move from one register to another and take my till with me, so the "front end supervisor" (a girl a few years older than me, nice but definitely on a power trip) comes to walk me down, sees the slip without a signature, asks me why there isn't a signature on it. i'm confused, tell her no one ever told me i had to get it signed, she looks at my aghast, says that i should know that i have to do it, and that now i'm responsible for $1,000 worth of sales that MIGHT not have gone through because customers COULD have come back and said they never authorized them.
i apologize, say that i honestly didn't know it was what i was supposed to do and that i've done it like that for the roughly two months i've been there and never resulted in any problems that i've been called out on, that no one has ever told me about it otherwise, and that i'll make sure to do it correctly from now on. she keeps saying that i should've known better, that so many sales are noe virtually worthless because of that - sales that have gone through without a problem long ago - etc.
and then she mentions that, since i was the only cashier by this big garage-door-like entrance that contractors are always loading stuff from, i'm supposed to check everyone's stuff and that she purposely sent someone through with two saws to see if i would stop them and i didn't. sorry - ringing people's stuff up (including one guy who held me personally responsible for not being able to get an item number for something outside of the store and not in the computer), and plus i hardly know all of the employees there, the regular customers, the contractors, the vendors, etc. i don't know who's doing what with what.
so that's pretty much that about that whole thing. i threw the $50 slip away more or less out of spite and am probobly gonna get asked/yelled at tomorrow about it, and when i explain what happened i'll look even stupider in front of the people there who already think i'm an idiot, but that's another awesome story for me to rant about in an overly long post! sorry, i just need to get this stuff off my chest.
