I worked my ass off in a hardware store until I almost had psychosis. I resigned after a very long customer complaint that was made by a psycho customer who gaslit me from the moment he arrived. He complained that I looked tired - no shit, as I had been working in 30 degree heat wearing steel caps all summer. We aren’t allowed to sit or stand idle. There’s only 3-4 staff in the drive-thru most of the time and we really needed one more guy, but the owners are delusional boomers who don’t care.
The good thing: if you’re buying h1.2 treated pink dye timber, find a new staff member before he burns out. Ask him to cut the timber to 2.4 metres. This timber costs about $40 a metre so you can save a few bucks on each length by having it cut down to 2.4 metres. After all, rafters are always 2.4 and you’re going to cut off the excess anyway. Why not get the staff to cut it down for you and avoid paying the extra 600 millimetres? They burn though staff so fast that there’s always at least 1 guy who doesn’t know about this trick.
I once went to bunnings and asked for a specific length of a timber to repair a fence. They told me that their saw was broken and brought me a hand saw and told me to saw it myself. They of course charged me for the whole length of the product.
I worked my ass off in a hardware store until I almost had psychosis. I resigned after a very long customer complaint that was made by a psycho customer who gaslit me from the moment he arrived. He complained that I looked tired - no shit, as I had been working in 30 degree heat wearing steel caps all summer. We aren’t allowed to sit or stand idle. There’s only 3-4 staff in the drive-thru most of the time and we really needed one more guy, but the owners are delusional boomers who don’t care.
The good thing: if you’re buying h1.2 treated pink dye timber, find a new staff member before he burns out. Ask him to cut the timber to 2.4 metres. This timber costs about $40 a metre so you can save a few bucks on each length by having it cut down to 2.4 metres. After all, rafters are always 2.4 and you’re going to cut off the excess anyway. Why not get the staff to cut it down for you and avoid paying the extra 600 millimetres? They burn though staff so fast that there’s always at least 1 guy who doesn’t know about this trick.
Really, you pay by the metre?
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I once went to bunnings and asked for a specific length of a timber to repair a fence. They told me that their saw was broken and brought me a hand saw and told me to saw it myself. They of course charged me for the whole length of the product.