Tuesday, 27 January 2009

Choice Moments from a Career at Poundland

I worked at Poundland almost a year, and am in the process of writing a book about it, containing some of the following...

 

Having to use Stanley knives to open boxes, so ending each week with less and less skin

Having police in the store each week to find sex attackers for whom Poundland is their shop of choice

Ignoring shoplifters because there are so many of them

Having to deal with violent customers every single last fucking day of the week

Being understaffed and forced to do two jobs for neither extra pay nor respect

Having a member of staff stabbed by a member management, who is allowed to keep her job and still use a knife

Hearing the manager laugh at the prospect of a non-white person being employed in the store

Hearing a pregnant, single, ignorant, fat bitch began conversations with “You know what I hate about pakis?”

Working a whole week with a broken foot for fear of being fired

Getting punched breaking up a fight between two neds

Junkies lying on the floor and looking at shiny things

The manager’s incompetent brother being promoted against the wishes of every member of staff and management except the two brothers

The manager’s incompetent girlfriend being promoted against the wishes of every member of staff and management except the two ugly lovers

A customer trying to pay for her goods with buttered toast

Junkies screaming abuse at staff for no reason other than it’s Poundland, where junkies rule

A member of staff getting a facial disease from a customer

Not being allowed off the till after cutting my hand open in the counter cache, and being shouted at by customers for not packing their bags

A customer cutting his wrists and bleeding all over the till

Staff being questioned by police for selling a knife to a criminal

An illiterate fuckwit of a manager talking down to educated staff

The manager showing CVs and private letters to other staff

Rotting food in the staff room and no cleaner hired

The manager insulting customers on the shop floor

The manager pretending to cut a child’s throat when the shop is empty

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