Manager expects me to efficiently recover clothing on the sales floor, but won’t let me wax the rails as I go.
Never posted or looked through here much, but wanted to vent real quick lol. This management has some stupid rules that make things way more difficult than they need to be. She seems to think that waxing the rails wastes time even though it can literally shorten the process by up to 10x for me, and on top of that it's actually shop-able and easily handled by staff with a waxed rail. Otherwise they get stuck on the rail, very unpleasant to shop through or handle, clothes get tangled up or even damaged, tags get pulled of from customers having to jerk them around, people just lay the clothes on the fixture instead of putting them back properly, probably because they don’t feel like fighting with it.
So she says “no waxing right now, there’s no time,” and whenever I’m expected to do it and I’m not permitted to use a simple cheap tool that makes things 100X easier for everybody, I just take my time. I’m not going to work extra hard to achieve a lesser quality outcome just because of some stupid rule, not gonna hustle through garment kung-fu and gymnastics when I could take two seconds to rub on some wax paper and then be able to make it perfect in a fraction of the time. To me, it’s like the equivalent of running a kitchen with subpar pans that food is prone to sticking to and then telling your chefs that they can’t use any fat or oil, but you still expect them to get all the food on the plate in a timely manner. I tried explaining it to her and she just doesn’t understand. This is somebody with like 3 decades of retail management experience.