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So at my store they pulled front end associates to help with floral.  Registers were busy so they pulled side help from other departments to replace front end associates in floral.   In the meantime store management was laugh and having a good time in the conference room.  They should have kept front end associates where they belong.   Management should have helped floral.  Proves store managers are lazy, useless, and overpaid.  They work so hard for their bonus not.

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 Glad some one else see this. I always do the bare minimum working here. idc about the quality of the work I just bs it all the time. I take longer than usual breaks. Bathroom are disgusting with sh-it on the walls so I dont waste time in there at all. I dont usually finish my work and I just put it on the over head here and there. you could say Im a modern day Derek Anderson.

Anderson is a graduate of Doss High School and was an All-Star in the state of Kentucky. Anderson played college basketball at the Ohio State University and the University of Kentucky. In 1996, Anderson helped the University of Kentucky win the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship as part of a team that featured nine future NBA players under their coach Rick Pitino. Anderson went on to graduate from the University of Kentucky in 1997 with a degree in pharmacy.

I was helping in Floral cutting flowers for bouquet sales. Then 3 hours into my shift, they wanted me to walk around the store offering samples of chocolate dipped strawberries. 

Needless to say, they had to toss out samples because I had NO TIME or DESIRE to WASTE time asking people if they want to try samples. They just sat, and sat, and sat on the sample tray untouched in the backroom. Cutting flowers WAS MORE important than passing out samples.

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I was helping in Floral cutting flowers for bouquet sales. Then 3 hours into my shift, they wanted me to walk around the store offering samples of chocolate dipped strawberries. 

 

Needless to say, they had to toss out samples because I had NO TIME or DESIRE to WASTE time asking people if they want to try samples. They just sat, and sat, and sat on the sample tray untouched in the backroom. Cutting flowers WAS MORE important than passing out samples.

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 Chocolate dipped strawberries are nasty.  I like strawberries (good ones that are naturally ripened) and I like chocolate, but the two flavors simply do not go together.  The same can be said for chocolate and cherry and chocolate and orange.  The flavors are too dissimilar.  You taste the chocolate and you taste the fruit, but they don't blend together.  All that being said, why didn't you just pass out the samples like you were told to?  I'm assuming you're not a regular floral person and were simply helping out where you were needed.

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 Because I HATE doing samples. Hate is the closest word that is closest to how I feel about handing out samples.

And yes, I was helping out floral, and that was MORE important than handing out samples.

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I was helping in Floral cutting flowers for bouquet sales. Then 3 hours into my shift, they wanted me to walk around the store offering samples of chocolate dipped strawberries. 

 

Needless to say, they had to toss out samples because I had NO TIME or DESIRE to WASTE time asking people if they want to try samples. They just sat, and sat, and sat on the sample tray untouched in the backroom. Cutting flowers WAS MORE important than passing out samples.

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 Chocolate dipped strawberries are nasty.  I like strawberries (good ones that are naturally ripened) and I like chocolate, but the two flavors simply do not go together.  The same can be said for chocolate and cherry and chocolate and orange.  The flavors are too dissimilar.  You taste the chocolate and you taste the fruit, but they don't blend together.  All that being said, why didn't you just pass out the samples like you were told to?  I'm assuming you're not a regular floral person and were simply helping out where you were needed.

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 Because I HATE doing samples. Hate is the closest word that is closest to how I feel about handing out samples.

 

And yes, I was helping out floral, and that was MORE important than handing out samples.

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 Does NOT matter if you hate handing out samples. Obviously management needed you there, so there is where you should have gone. 

I've been to other stores where associates ARE GLAD to hand out samples. If I went into a store and someone just wheeled out a sample cart and left it, I'd turn and walk right back out. 

If they are "too busy" to hand out samples and TELL the customer about the product, then I'm "too busy" to give them my business.

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I was helping in Floral cutting flowers for bouquet sales. Then 3 hours into my shift, they wanted me to walk around the store offering samples of chocolate dipped strawberries. 

 

Needless to say, they had to toss out samples because I had NO TIME or DESIRE to WASTE time asking people if they want to try samples. They just sat, and sat, and sat on the sample tray untouched in the backroom. Cutting flowers WAS MORE important than passing out samples.

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 Chocolate dipped strawberries are nasty.  I like strawberries (good ones that are naturally ripened) and I like chocolate, but the two flavors simply do not go together.  The same can be said for chocolate and cherry and chocolate and orange.  The flavors are too dissimilar.  You taste the chocolate and you taste the fruit, but they don't blend together.  All that being said, why didn't you just pass out the samples like you were told to?  I'm assuming you're not a regular floral person and were simply helping out where you were needed.

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 Because I HATE doing samples. Hate is the closest word that is closest to how I feel about handing out samples.

 

And yes, I was helping out floral, and that was MORE important than handing out samples.

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 Maybe for Mother's Day they should make you dip the strawberries.  Then, maybe you would realize how much time is spent making them.  Floral has two special days where their business increases more than normal: Valentine's Day and Mother's Day.  Other departments, such as bakery, have to deal with every single holiday.