What the hell do they want me to say?!

[GinKuusouka]

Good ol' corporate America. The greatest place to be. :rolli: The land of the free- as long as you have the cash to buy said freedom. Oh... But I said corporate America. If that's the case, then it's the land of the perverted male sitting on top. ; Not a pretty picture, mind you. At least not to me. It's not to say that I don't believe women are up there as well. I do. But in this instance? No. I would rather believe men. It's nothing against guys in general, but... Perhaps I should just carry on with it already.

I work at the local WalMart as a cashier. And, just to lay it out, there's only two guys that work as cashiers out of everyone. A second-shift guy and a third-shift guy. The rest of us are female, at least as far as I can tell. And any other WalMart that I have walked into... What's the gender of most of the cashiers? Female. Here's the thing. I heard a couple weeks back from my CSMs (customer service managers) that corporate wants the cashiers to start saying some rather iffy things to customers, such as "How may I be of service to you?" Please tell me how one could not take that as an innuendo. Hence my belief that corporate is run by a bunch of perverted men. Probably old too. :steam:

Thank god for smart CSMs. Clara flat out said she refused to put any of her girls in that position. Girls meaning her cashiers. Hell, with the way quite a few of the customers believe they have a right to treat us, it wouldn't surprise me any if a lot of them tried to close the gap in that innuendo. And I wonder how many of them would actually be creepy enough to try and stick around and wait for some cashier or another to get off of work because they perceived her to be flirting with them. Let alone the fact that they'll be hitting on us and consistently asking for our phone numbers because they think they'll have something lined up for the night. I'm sorry. But where I work is a place of business. And I'm certainly not willing to turn it into a cathouse. It seems that corporate doesn't care though. Maybe someone should tell these folks that it's no longer in the 1800s. Then maybe shove a dildo or two up their arses for emphasis. If they don't like it from behind, then they shouldn't try it with us.

 

[GargoylesLegacy]

*cough* Now you know why WalMart had NO FREAKING CHANCE here. We did have it, but then it got all closed down. =P

And on a serious Note: That Sentence really COULD be misinterpreted. Screw the Headquarters. ô.o

 

[ragashree]

I think I like your suggestion at the end. It appears to be the only language these people understand, given the ammount of time they spend figuring out how best to inflict the experience on their employees in a more metaphorical sense. Count me in if volunteers are required to assist with this proceedure

You would be bang on about your concerns with the innuendo if this was happening in Britain. Our customer service ethos is fortunately not yet *quite* so slavish though (one of the things Americans sometimes don't like when they come over, hehe), and so I don't think that people would exactly be jumping over themselves to say something like this even if they were told to. I seem to remember some big American company (probably McDonalds or somthing) issuing a directive a few years ago to the effect that all its British employees had to actually smile at their customers and wish them a nice day. ROFLMAO If they'd been running a different kind of circus they would no doubt have been similarly surprised at the failure of the elephants to take to ice dancing very well...