Hi Spirit,Quote:
Originally Posted by SPIRIT
Is it the tools section within said retail chain or another :?
cheers
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Hi Spirit,Quote:
Originally Posted by SPIRIT
Is it the tools section within said retail chain or another :?
cheers
I have it from a good source that the staff are asked to do the adds unpaid on their days off :oo: . It is all scripted so perhaps they aren't as daft as they appear. The one that I love is the girl at the register who is often surprised by what Bunnies sell. The only way she knows what the store sells is what she puts through the register. Perhaps a better spin would have been that she knows what they stock as part of her extensive training.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daddles
Do Woolworths advertise that they employ ex-chefs to main the isles to assist staff?Quote:
Originally Posted by DavidG
Has more to do with tradies that have reached the end of the road (physically). There a lot of them out there in the late forties and on that just don't have it in them to beat themselves up everyday like the twenty somethings do. That's one thing I've noticed since I moved here. Construction is much harder on the body here than in Canada.Quote:
Originally Posted by boban
yes we are in red:Uand as this comming to end from somebody who knows the facts yes they ar hiring more young people on the floor but the kids that get a job on the floor are bright one and it dosn't take long to pick things up .in the store l work at over 75% know their stuff maybe they don't know as much as you guys but then who does .You can't be a "expert"in everthing, if a l get a question l cant answer most of the time there is somebody in the store that can ,,,cut backs hit us all even more if you work there .as a ex tradie its fun and enjoyable to work there most of the time .one thing they do better than anybody else they don't hire people that are going to be a pain in the ars to work with .so thereQuote:
Originally Posted by dazzler
Thanks spirit
Just so I have this right and don't go off half cocked or whinge about things I dont understand, can you shed light on the following.
If I am in the tool section, is it correct to expect that the member in the tool section may not have knowledge of the products within the tool section.
Why would that be?
Is there a regime in place for trainees to learn the ropes?
A buddy system perhaps while they learn the ropes?
If there is a buddy system where is the buddy? Nearby, contactable by phone/radio or similar?
You mention cutbacks. Have they cut back numbers or quality/training of staff?
If you join the store are you attached to one section or many?
Do ex tradie plumbers work in the electrical section for example?
Have the amount of ex-tradies, who the company used to put forward as experts there to help you, slowly been eroded so they are in the minority?
In your section what is the ratio of ex-tradies to non ex-tradies.
Sorry to go on but seeing as you are in the box seat so to speak we could all learn something from you.
kind regards
the non whinging, ready to learn Dazzler
In line with my new self proclaimed status of "the great grouchinator" I say the following to one an all so listen up yer bunch of yobbos! :~
First
Thanks to all for contributing... some great posts :2tsup:
Second
Im appreciative of the positive posts some have made about Bunnings and their staff :2tsup:
Thats enough of the namby pamby nice shyte :B
Third
Im a bit flamin fed up with the mob that take the view that any thread that has an even minor negative slant is in their view done by a whinger or someone with a chip on their shoulder this is pure crap :~
If someone posts good reviews of a company or product its "you bloody beauty" but the same cant be said when its of a negative experience of a company or product its "Im sick of all this whinging" :roll: quite simply the bloody minded hypocracy of that is so much horse manure... If you have a poor experience of a company or their staff that caters in any way to wood working then its not bloody whinging to stand up and say something! Id personally rather people come out and say so an so are a bunch of flamin total idiots cause they did this to me am I the only one?" than say nothing!
Theres getting to be what seems to be a cadre of people here who for some reason think only positive things should be said about a company or a product on this site... which is crap
IF some company be it flamin Bunnings Carbetec Woodpeckers or hell even god bless his wee bearded head Neils Ubeaut products then by god you should be able to post a thread about it without getting called a bloody whinger for doing so!
This thread started with a simple question based solely on my recent experiences at a particular company and its staff... I questioned if it was just here in the three stores I refer to in the initial post or was the problem endemic in their stores around Aussie... and yet by doing so Im called a whinger? Dazzlers called a whinger? every other poster who has responded with their own personal negative experiences is a whinger? get a bloody grip!
Maybe no one should say nothing thats not totally happy happy perfect about wvery company eh? dont say a bloody thing that may say "hey this friggin sux!" just stick your bloody head in the sand and shut up thats the one right...
If I could lock the damned thread I would... :~ buggar it I wonder if I can bloody delete the bloody thing?
Nah, leave it Ding. Free speech is a wonderful thing. Even under a benevolent dictator... :D
I wouldn't say they are dumbing down in particular (that's such an American term, Dingo, you should be ashamed of yourself for using it). I was a customer of Bunnings off and on in various Sydney stores over a period of about 13 or 14 years and I found it was always very difficult to find anyone who actually knew anything. They always had checkout chicks who knew nothing about what they sold. They always had invisible 'experts' in every section who were never around when I went there. Not that you would rely on the advice they gave you anyway, even if you could find them. All I wanted to know was where they kept the thingamajigs I was looking for. Finding someone who knew a thingamajig from his backside was always the hard part.
No, they're not "dumbing down", they've always been that way as long as I can remember. You go there for the prices (and the range, if it's not out of stock), nothing more.
Wish we had one down here. I saved thousands buying stuff for the house from the Bunnies at Batemans Bay up the coast rather than the local Mitre 10. Best part was I didn't have to go there. I just rang and asked for Jodie in the building section - three days later my stuff would turn up on a truck. She was one of the rare ones who knew what was what. Every Bunnies has one, you just have to find them. And when you do, don't let them go.
try to answer your questions as best l can like l do at work .Quote:
Originally Posted by dazzler
q1. l remembered when l first started there so so many tools comming from a motor mechanic back ground there was many things to learn about even now im no "expert"on everthing we sell ,some of the time the customer know a lot more than me if this is so l listen to them so this may seem like dumbing down .we are a team not all full forwards
q2. simply no deep end stuff swim or sink
q3. sould be l have just started with 16yo kid, good kid talks realy well ,as a team it worked, looked at the roster and see he is on a shift by himself sometime because he is cheaper ,not his fault if he dosn,t know everything
q4. how long is the rope ???a few mounths few days a year ??l was always on the phone when l was looking after him
q5. numbers it is always numbers and it pisses us off more than you we have work harder put up with custmers "l have been waiting blar blar"getting stopped 10 times on your your way to the boger :C
q6. you are in 1 department eg tools/elec but mostly in the 1 spot but if you are on your way somewhere and get stopped you are expected to be a expert
q7. when you go though the interviews the department will pick the one that suit so yes most of the time pumbers will be working in the pumbing section
q8. this a harder one to answer in my section l think im the only extradie but we have 2 guys that ran thier oun hardware shop l bloke that has been working with tool and like to talk about tools 2 that have picked it up from working there and a few kids :rolleyes:
sorry to anyone if l implied by my comments that any body is a whinger .
a winger is somebody that strings together a group of whinges
not somebody that has a whing:U
all the abave is by view on the subject so far and to answer dazzlers questions
go tigers
This thread's run its course. All three sides have had their say - yah, nay and from the inside.
Richard