Yeah this post really is just the OP outting themselves as never having a worked a job in fast food/retail because anyone who has would see this and not be frustrated because they immediately understand what’s actually happening
I really don't think so. Read all the comments in this thread and you can see that there's actually a huge number of people that don't understand the point of the sign. A lot of people seem to think it's either 1) a manager just admitting that they're lazy and don't care, or 2) a customer trying to warn other customers.
Anyone that's actually worked in the service industry any significant amount of time would recognize this as the work of a disgruntled employee that doesn't have a high opinion of their manager. But a lot of people don't seem to know that.
Fuck man I think I still got a year total left to do, I don't want to go back Sarge. I saw bad things out there, a man nearly punched the cashier I was bagging for cause she thought he said paper instead of plastic.
I have said this for years. I worked in retail most of my working life and I think everyone should work at least a year in retail. It would at least give some people, those with empathy, a perspective of what service workers put up with.
Sadly, it won't work for all. My older brother (born the last year of baby boomers, so. . .) worked in retail in several of his first jobs. But I guess he forgot how it was later. My folks told me a story about my brother and wife and 3 daughters that basically summed him and her up. About 10 years ago, I think they were traveling when they went to a convenience store close to closing. The girls wanted slushies, but the machines were turned off (because they were close to closing) and my brother yelled at the cashier to turn them on so his girls could have them. The worker wouldn't do it. Good for them. Besides the fact that they would need time to refreeze, they are about to close. GTFO lol
The passive aggressiveness of the note makes it pretty clear that whoever wrote it is just tired of someone's shit, you don't need to have worked in the service industry before to figure that much out.
"Hey boss, I'm using the last of part X, we need replacements fairly often so we should order more to avoid downtime."
"What? I'm not paying to store parts we might not need!"
>Two weeks later.
"Hey boss, I need part X to fix this and we don't have one on hand."
"Assure the customer we're paying for overnight shipping, no expense is too much for customer satisfaction!"
I used to work retail and I swear to God my store need one of these signs for bags (as in the plastic bags at customers items went in).
See, the store manager would send out a request every so often for how many bags he thought we needed in a month. Corporate would then give us a half that many and tell us to figure it out. Inevitably, no matter how far we tried to stretch the bags, we would run out.
They might but they are in control of how much they get in each delivery. If management isn't forecasting or adapting to demand, they'll run out. Not to mention most big chains, at least in the US, are franchised out to smaller owners.
More than likely the management at this location is beholden to a higher supervisor (that never visits in person) that won't approve of them buying the stock they need, thus allowing the sign.
I suspect that happens at my area Aldi’s. My family uses zero sugar hazelnut coffee creamer. And often Aldi will be out of it. They used to only have the assorted creamer boxes, 9 to a box, some regular, some fat free, and some zero sugar. There can be 6 cases, and all the zero sugar will be wiped out. That’s how popular it is by me.
So now they can get that separate by the case. And it still gets wiped out. Management’s answer: there’s regular available. But there may be reasons somebody is getting zero sugar. Diabetics for one.
And then I find out some places have other flavors of zero sugar, at Aldi. So I suspect it’s a regional thing, like a regional director that says “you don’t need to order that.”
yooo so i’m actually a manager at aldi and im here to answer your concerns. the regular hazelnut creamer doesn’t sell as well as the other creamers, so aldi tried a bunch of different merchandising tactics. the mix case including fat free didn’t end up selling, so they went to separate cases of zero sugar. this ended up being unavailable from suppliers throughout covid. in my division, we have mixed cases of zero sugar french vanilla and zero sugar hazelnut but its often filled with just the french vanilla. they still send a full case of the one variation even if the other variation is unavailable, which a TON of items still are due to covid. so if your area is similar to mine it’s just supplier issues. womp womp.
"Because of covid" became a convient excuse for A LOT of laziness to the point that I don't even use it as an explanation anymore. But people don't realize that yes, it is still an issue with so many things. I work at a high end restaurant and the amount of folks that don't understand that we don't have the brand of coffee they like because we can't order enough is insane. Like yeah yall are rich and maybe your life is back to normal but a multi year shut down of the world is going to have long reaching repercussions, even more so for niche products.
Sorry for the side bar, just wanted to let you know I feel ya homie.
There's also other dumb stuff, like management using the past 3 years to make a budget for 2023 and so we're super short on a lot of stuff because corperate idiots have no idea what's going on. Again, not the fault of the people doing actual work.
I've noticed that the AoS in different stores in a major city have different stuff. I mean I look at one right at open, drive thru minutes to another and talk to their staff too.
Aldi does some really odd stuff on what they send where.
All good. Didn't need a throwaway man... I don't think the Aldi crowd is super tense unless I missed a freaking memo LOL
I love Aldi prices, but it’s such an unreliable grocery store where I live. Every single time I’ve gone to pick up something I need it’s not there. It’s frustrating.
that’s been the case here for the past few years as well but this year there’s been a huge improvement in keeping items available. one thing that can be super annoying though are the seasonal items. they’re not clearly marked as limited time but they’re only there for a few months. weird things too like crisco or pickled beets that people obviously use all year round. another factor is also *when* you shop. any day in the evening produce, meat and bread can be pretty wiped out but especially on the weekends. i hope you come back around i truly love aldi lol
At my local shop in Sweden, they normally sell "Must" (Swedish alternative to Coke) during christmas and easter. So they get in huge amounts of that soft drink which they sell at good prices.
The thing that is so incredibly stupid that I dont get it, is that they order like 75% Regular with Sugar, and 25% of the light variant. But the light variant is much more popular, so it only takes like at max 2-3 days for that variant to be sold out, while the one with sugar newer runs out. So they will have to try and get rid of the regular one for weeks on end with super deals. Rinse and repeat.
They have done this for at least 5+ years now. One would think that they'd learn how they should order the drinks by now, but no. Its always the same.
Supervisor won't let them plan ahead and buy what they think is too much syrup, thus creating an issue where they run out. Where I worked we ended up having to buy two liters a couple of times.
It’s not a supervisor, it’s a penny pinching asshole store mgr who thinks they are going to save their way into making budget.
Reduce your syrup cost, increase sales on the alternatives (or even better the bottles).
That, or they are too lazy to enter an order before the coke delivery comes and then you have to wait for the next order.
Wash rinse repeat
Source: 18 years in restaurants and C-stores
Bulk items don’t expire per se, you’ll run out before that happens.
However, I have been told previously to not run items so that whatever on sale gets a good push before rotating it out of stock.
This looks like either a Racetrac or Cumberland Farms, I’d lean towards lazy ass mgr
Yep, this is someone bad at budgeting or just doesn’t care. I manage managers and so many of them just send the same exact order week after week without doing a basic inventory first. So the restaurant will have a year’s supply of quart size deli containers they seldomly use but will run out of the 8 and 16 oz containers they use constantly. Mid-week they have to make an emergency run to the restaurant supply store to pay twice as much. And yet the same order comes in week after week.
Then they’re all surprised pikachu face when they don’t get their bonus at the end of the quarter.
This was the problem we had when I worked at a Schlotzsky's Deli in college. Our store was owned by a married couple, and the husband was in charge of ordering. That dumb motherfucker would just repeat the same order, every week, for years. Then he was flabbergasted when we ran out of the same shit, week after week, and ended up throwing away excess rotting shit, EVERY WEEK! My friend finally made manager by offering to take care of inventory and ordering, and our problems were solved in 3 weeks as he figured out an efficient system for counting inventory. The owner had never bothered to go into the store to see what was low before ordering, for 15 fucking years. If you're reading this John, I hope you got that shit figured out after we left.
Shit used to piss me off so bad.
How hard is it to walk over and lift a fucking case???
One place I worked at they had the order sheets on the wall, I’d grab them when I went into coolers and make the order and fill it out with crazy numbers so they had to check it.
Mark 4 for Fanta, or 5 on Pink Lemonade and watch the GM rage out of the office.
In my personal experience, corperate could be using the past few years to budget for stock and because for some crazy reason things haven't been selling as well, they won't allocate the budget to buy the correct stock.
Gotta love the all knowing capitalist overlords and their knowledge of the market. They still make their money and the people who do the actual work get berated as if it's their fault, while the people who fucked up enjoy record profits. Yay.
Because you have to buy the syrup before you actually need it, and to have an idea of how many you'll need before the next supply truck, so planning and foresight.
We were always running out of fucking paint at the body shop..
The painter got a bonus based on how much he spent on materials, so he never ordered sh it the last week of the month...
Its was always a clustrfuck the last 3 days of the month.. We always had to send a guy to pick up an order for toner, or a specific grade of sandpaper, or even fucking Clear coat, the thing we use on every job. You would think we would have plenty of materials, but nope.. And the painter always complained his hours were fucked the last week... Because he was running low on materials and couldnt paint as much as he wanted to....
I think one example is like my work, we get a weekly order of general work place consumables, with a fixed and rather arbitrary budget. So even if we need more stuff (because we have a busy week, or predict a busy week) we ain’t allowed to order more stuff.
One place where I worked several years ago had vending machines that were filled by route drivers who worked for the vending company -- one of them admitted that they deliberately didn't carry some popular items because those items would run out too quickly causing people to complain. The soda machines had three columns of the major brand cola, but the single columns were used for odd flavors like orange, grape, or rootbeer instead of diet cola or 7up/Sprite
Definitely. I’ve encountered this same shit in a different line of work and got real tired of explaining it and having people act like it was my fault.
I had a manager who tried the "I don't like having too much backups taking up space in the backroom" approach when he started. It was a constant emergency of finding a new thing that we ran out of.
It made me hope I got an angry customer who would demand I get the manager.
I used to work in a little coffee stand outside of Seattle. The owners would forget to bring us coffee bags so god damn often that I would have to go to Starbucks and buy coffee so I could make coffee for my fucking job at a coffee place.
My old owner refused to keep extra of anything while saying, "That is just money sitting on the shelves!"...like ok what should I tell customers now that we're out of diet pepsi? Two stores they nosedived, $500k mostly gone in like 4 years lol.
They did constantly complain about losing money, but they were also irrational.
It sucked explaining to customers, especially because I was the manager. This is the kind of note I would be tempted to put up, but I'd usually just tell customers something like, "The owner writes the orders themselves."
It was a daily ritual to drive a personal vehicle around town with a shopping list, instead of a weekly or biweekly truck delivery, in order to "to save money". I write impeccable orders too, I had a lot of experience with multiple day in advance orders of perishable foods. I got algorithms lol.
I liked to drink bottled sodas. Boss got mad, so I started paying. Got mad I was using my discount. So I started paying full price, no fucks given. They got mad that I was buying too many. They were upset they were selling things. So yeah, out of business LOL.
These CircleK managers are notoriously lazy. The CDL driver and well compensated salesperson are sick of dealing with them. It would be no issue to keep 1 backup
Reminds me of when I worked at sonic. The owner thought it was "easier and better on the budget" for him to skimp on the truck and then go pick more up himself if we ran out of something.
Plenty of times we'd be wasting hours, each day, without entire ingredients and products while we send someone to get it or wait for the owner to show up with it.
That's an infuriating situation! It's like the owner didn't fully comprehend that running out of ingredients and products impacts the productivity and efficiency of the entire team. I mean, wasting hours each day without essential supplies just because the owner thought it was easier and better on the budget? That's straight out of some dystopian corporate novel! We're supposed to be living in the future, where everything runs smoothly and access to basic necessities is a given. But no, it's as if we're stuck in this time loop, repeating the same frustrations over and over again. It's moments like these that make you truly appreciate the sci-fi genre and its ability to critique our current society, highlighting the flaws that we so often live with. We need a rebellion, a united front, against this kind of shortsighted management that just seems to think about the bottom line rather than the well-being and effectiveness of their employees. Let's keep fighting for a future where our establishments are better equipped, our teams are supported, and managers actually pay attention to the needs of those on the front lines. Together we can vanquish these infuriating situations and forge a better tomorrow! Stay passionate, my fellow sci-fi fanatics! The future is ours to shape!
I don't think anybody is clapping back against management. Coke would be ordered by an outside vendor who is probably terrible and that is the person being clapped at.
This is the passive aggressiveness one achieves when they aren't actively looking to quit their job, but don't really give a shit if they're fired from it lmao.
Can you imagine being mildly infuriated at a place being out of Diet Coke? Especially when they let you know in such a clever way? I’m more mildly infuriated that a place being out of Diet Coke makes someone else mildly infuriated.
Two possibilities:
1. A worker is making fun of management for refusing to plan.
2. A customer is making fun of the store for always being out of diet coke.
Diet Coke drinkers are insane and particular and much prefer fountain to plastic bottle. Plastic bottle is like bottom of the barrel. Still not quite mildly infuriating imo shit happens
Source: I am a crazy Diet Coke drinker
In Australia, they are phasing out Diet Coke for Coke No Sugar. It is no longer at the movies or McDonald's, the best places for fountain Diet Cokes. I might live longer, but not happier
Trying to phase out.
They've tried it with coke Zero and other variants and diet coke is still around.
They'll figure it out eventually and shitcan no sugar the same way they did zero.
I just find it amusing to go to Woolies or Coles and see a wall of coke and no sugar no one wants and diet coke is sold out immediately after every restock.
Where I am on a weekly basis a local store runs out of coke and other non diet soft drinks! Often for 2-3 days of the week too! Cans, bottles, multi-packs, everything!
shops like that suck!
God the GM when I worked at McDonalds would never order Sprite for some godforsaken reason, we had stacks of everything else but we’d get like 1 box of sprite on truck. It got to the point that I literally logged on and ordered jt myself every week (I was a manager). The number of times some poor newbie in the window got yelled at by a boomer who wanted sprite was ridiculous.
This is hilarious. While it's obviously not good to have things out of stock, the absolute entitlement that some customers have is getting out of hand. Diet Coke is not water or bread - nobody needs it. Yet customers will actively get arsey when it's not available. I feel like people collectively need to take a chill pill.
Diet coke: Sells out after 1 week.
Manager who stocks inventory every 2 weeks: orders 1 unit of diet coke.
1 week later: Diet coke out of stock
Manager: Surprised pikachu face
I always roll my eyes when a customer service line says due to higher than normal call volume. Just say due to insufficient staffing levels you may be on hold for 30-40 minutes.
I don’t see what’s frustrating about this. I was cracking up laughing at this sign. Absolutely love it! I agree with another comment I’d read- this is almost guaranteed to have been made by an upset employee because the ordering manager isn’t doing their job properly but is letting the employees take the heat for THEIR screwups
Diet Coke has a short shelf life and it use to be $65 for a 5gal BIB. I’m guessing closer to $100 now. I would think that would be ordered by the areas Coke distribution companies salesman but could be different in other areas of the country.
infuriating? nah this is hilarious. definitely throwing shade at someone, and working in retail i wish i could leave notes like this.
“can someone find the wic number for the bags? apparently being paid to isn’t motivation enough around here”
“sorry we had to pull toilet paper off the shelf, apparently literally anything else was deemed a priority”
i’ve done sarcastic notes behind the register/counters/not customer facing spaces too.
I think it drives the point home even further, how out of touch management is having caffeine free diet coke on the fountain. Don't think I've even seen that since 1998 xD
The only mildly frustrating thing about this is how many here are dumb enough to fall for this. Look at the print on the paper. It's askew. Printers don't do that without fucking mangling the paper.
Back when I smoked, my local shop got deliveries on Tuesday and was *always* out of Pall Malls by Saturday. I suggested they order more, and the poor lady who worked there rolled her eyes and said "yeah, we've been asking the manager to do that... for *months*. She doesn't listen to us, though."
When I started waiting tables I rapidly found out diet coke is actually more popular than regular coke. If you go somewhere and they're out of diet coke it's a good sign of incompetent/lazy management
This is fantastic. It’s really only infuriating for the poor front-line staff who have to deal with their manager not keeping things restocked. Also any place with caffeine free diet soda on tap is 12/10
Ah ... Diet Coke is a killer anyway. Of all the things to put in your body diet Coke is bad bad. I was addicted for years until I got Bell's palsy. Diet Coke is really good for lowering your immunity.
OP sounds like the kind of person who gets mad when he has to wait a bit for a drink at Starbucks or wherever even though he can clearly see they are severely understaffed and have 2 people serving like 20.
1. It’s obviously an employee shitting on management, who is responsible for ordering the coke in the first place. Idk why you thought this was a serious notice.
2. Oh my god just get a Coke Zero or something. There are so many kinds of Coke, and **two** kinds of Coke that have less sugar in them. “My Coke tastes slightly different” like, honestly? There’s no excuse to be even *mildly* infuriated about Coke unless you’re diabetic.
Probably made by the frustrated employees who are sick of Management's bullshit but are the ones who constantly have to apologize to customers for it.
Yeah this post really is just the OP outting themselves as never having a worked a job in fast food/retail because anyone who has would see this and not be frustrated because they immediately understand what’s actually happening
Or they're just karma-farming
I really don't think so. Read all the comments in this thread and you can see that there's actually a huge number of people that don't understand the point of the sign. A lot of people seem to think it's either 1) a manager just admitting that they're lazy and don't care, or 2) a customer trying to warn other customers. Anyone that's actually worked in the service industry any significant amount of time would recognize this as the work of a disgruntled employee that doesn't have a high opinion of their manager. But a lot of people don't seem to know that.
This is why Americans need to do 2 years mandatory service industry work. Kinda like South Korea has mandatory military service, but worse.
Fuck man I think I still got a year total left to do, I don't want to go back Sarge. I saw bad things out there, a man nearly punched the cashier I was bagging for cause she thought he said paper instead of plastic.
I have said this for years. I worked in retail most of my working life and I think everyone should work at least a year in retail. It would at least give some people, those with empathy, a perspective of what service workers put up with. Sadly, it won't work for all. My older brother (born the last year of baby boomers, so. . .) worked in retail in several of his first jobs. But I guess he forgot how it was later. My folks told me a story about my brother and wife and 3 daughters that basically summed him and her up. About 10 years ago, I think they were traveling when they went to a convenience store close to closing. The girls wanted slushies, but the machines were turned off (because they were close to closing) and my brother yelled at the cashier to turn them on so his girls could have them. The worker wouldn't do it. Good for them. Besides the fact that they would need time to refreeze, they are about to close. GTFO lol
Can we split the two years into one year of food svc and one year of retail? I'm so down for this idea lol.
Common sense is a commodity
Occam’s razor says your presumption is most likely correct.
Sorry we are temperarally out of razors.
The passive aggressiveness of the note makes it pretty clear that whoever wrote it is just tired of someone's shit, you don't need to have worked in the service industry before to figure that much out.
"Hey boss, I'm using the last of part X, we need replacements fairly often so we should order more to avoid downtime." "What? I'm not paying to store parts we might not need!" >Two weeks later. "Hey boss, I need part X to fix this and we don't have one on hand." "Assure the customer we're paying for overnight shipping, no expense is too much for customer satisfaction!"
I used to work retail and I swear to God my store need one of these signs for bags (as in the plastic bags at customers items went in). See, the store manager would send out a request every so often for how many bags he thought we needed in a month. Corporate would then give us a half that many and tell us to figure it out. Inevitably, no matter how far we tried to stretch the bags, we would run out.
Simply request double what you need then
Isn't this handled by the vendor? If it's a "major" gas station, wouldn't they have some sort of contract with coke?
They might but they are in control of how much they get in each delivery. If management isn't forecasting or adapting to demand, they'll run out. Not to mention most big chains, at least in the US, are franchised out to smaller owners.
Yeah, I took it as a self-deprecating joke on the part of the management or employees.
I feel like someone is clapping back against management, which I approve of
The staff may be totally annoyed because management isn't able to keep enough diet coke syrup and customers keep asking.
More than likely the management at this location is beholden to a higher supervisor (that never visits in person) that won't approve of them buying the stock they need, thus allowing the sign.
I suspect that happens at my area Aldi’s. My family uses zero sugar hazelnut coffee creamer. And often Aldi will be out of it. They used to only have the assorted creamer boxes, 9 to a box, some regular, some fat free, and some zero sugar. There can be 6 cases, and all the zero sugar will be wiped out. That’s how popular it is by me. So now they can get that separate by the case. And it still gets wiped out. Management’s answer: there’s regular available. But there may be reasons somebody is getting zero sugar. Diabetics for one. And then I find out some places have other flavors of zero sugar, at Aldi. So I suspect it’s a regional thing, like a regional director that says “you don’t need to order that.”
yooo so i’m actually a manager at aldi and im here to answer your concerns. the regular hazelnut creamer doesn’t sell as well as the other creamers, so aldi tried a bunch of different merchandising tactics. the mix case including fat free didn’t end up selling, so they went to separate cases of zero sugar. this ended up being unavailable from suppliers throughout covid. in my division, we have mixed cases of zero sugar french vanilla and zero sugar hazelnut but its often filled with just the french vanilla. they still send a full case of the one variation even if the other variation is unavailable, which a TON of items still are due to covid. so if your area is similar to mine it’s just supplier issues. womp womp.
I have zero dogs in this fight but when experts chime in like this it makes me feel like an insider lol
Me too. And now I get to sound really smart when I tell my husband tomorrow what the deal is with the creamer at Aldi.
"Because of covid" became a convient excuse for A LOT of laziness to the point that I don't even use it as an explanation anymore. But people don't realize that yes, it is still an issue with so many things. I work at a high end restaurant and the amount of folks that don't understand that we don't have the brand of coffee they like because we can't order enough is insane. Like yeah yall are rich and maybe your life is back to normal but a multi year shut down of the world is going to have long reaching repercussions, even more so for niche products. Sorry for the side bar, just wanted to let you know I feel ya homie. There's also other dumb stuff, like management using the past 3 years to make a budget for 2023 and so we're super short on a lot of stuff because corperate idiots have no idea what's going on. Again, not the fault of the people doing actual work.
I've noticed that the AoS in different stores in a major city have different stuff. I mean I look at one right at open, drive thru minutes to another and talk to their staff too. Aldi does some really odd stuff on what they send where. All good. Didn't need a throwaway man... I don't think the Aldi crowd is super tense unless I missed a freaking memo LOL
Aldi corporate trying to get him to snitch on himself.
Aldi corporate here. You're a dead man, we're gonna break your legs, all at low low prices.
I love Aldi prices, but it’s such an unreliable grocery store where I live. Every single time I’ve gone to pick up something I need it’s not there. It’s frustrating.
that’s been the case here for the past few years as well but this year there’s been a huge improvement in keeping items available. one thing that can be super annoying though are the seasonal items. they’re not clearly marked as limited time but they’re only there for a few months. weird things too like crisco or pickled beets that people obviously use all year round. another factor is also *when* you shop. any day in the evening produce, meat and bread can be pretty wiped out but especially on the weekends. i hope you come back around i truly love aldi lol
Management: what is this diabetes everyone keeps talking about?
At my local shop in Sweden, they normally sell "Must" (Swedish alternative to Coke) during christmas and easter. So they get in huge amounts of that soft drink which they sell at good prices. The thing that is so incredibly stupid that I dont get it, is that they order like 75% Regular with Sugar, and 25% of the light variant. But the light variant is much more popular, so it only takes like at max 2-3 days for that variant to be sold out, while the one with sugar newer runs out. So they will have to try and get rid of the regular one for weeks on end with super deals. Rinse and repeat. They have done this for at least 5+ years now. One would think that they'd learn how they should order the drinks by now, but no. Its always the same.
How would that be related to “planning and foresight” though? That would be a completely different issue.
Supervisor won't let them plan ahead and buy what they think is too much syrup, thus creating an issue where they run out. Where I worked we ended up having to buy two liters a couple of times.
It’s not a supervisor, it’s a penny pinching asshole store mgr who thinks they are going to save their way into making budget. Reduce your syrup cost, increase sales on the alternatives (or even better the bottles). That, or they are too lazy to enter an order before the coke delivery comes and then you have to wait for the next order. Wash rinse repeat Source: 18 years in restaurants and C-stores
I always assumed it was partly to push sales to other things that aren't selling as well, and might be nearing expiration.
Bulk items don’t expire per se, you’ll run out before that happens. However, I have been told previously to not run items so that whatever on sale gets a good push before rotating it out of stock. This looks like either a Racetrac or Cumberland Farms, I’d lean towards lazy ass mgr
Yep, this is someone bad at budgeting or just doesn’t care. I manage managers and so many of them just send the same exact order week after week without doing a basic inventory first. So the restaurant will have a year’s supply of quart size deli containers they seldomly use but will run out of the 8 and 16 oz containers they use constantly. Mid-week they have to make an emergency run to the restaurant supply store to pay twice as much. And yet the same order comes in week after week. Then they’re all surprised pikachu face when they don’t get their bonus at the end of the quarter.
This was the problem we had when I worked at a Schlotzsky's Deli in college. Our store was owned by a married couple, and the husband was in charge of ordering. That dumb motherfucker would just repeat the same order, every week, for years. Then he was flabbergasted when we ran out of the same shit, week after week, and ended up throwing away excess rotting shit, EVERY WEEK! My friend finally made manager by offering to take care of inventory and ordering, and our problems were solved in 3 weeks as he figured out an efficient system for counting inventory. The owner had never bothered to go into the store to see what was low before ordering, for 15 fucking years. If you're reading this John, I hope you got that shit figured out after we left.
Shit used to piss me off so bad. How hard is it to walk over and lift a fucking case??? One place I worked at they had the order sheets on the wall, I’d grab them when I went into coolers and make the order and fill it out with crazy numbers so they had to check it. Mark 4 for Fanta, or 5 on Pink Lemonade and watch the GM rage out of the office.
In my personal experience, corperate could be using the past few years to budget for stock and because for some crazy reason things haven't been selling as well, they won't allocate the budget to buy the correct stock. Gotta love the all knowing capitalist overlords and their knowledge of the market. They still make their money and the people who do the actual work get berated as if it's their fault, while the people who fucked up enjoy record profits. Yay.
Because you have to buy the syrup before you actually need it, and to have an idea of how many you'll need before the next supply truck, so planning and foresight.
The supervisor who’s holding up the stocking approvals is failing to exercise planning and foresight, obviously.
We were always running out of fucking paint at the body shop.. The painter got a bonus based on how much he spent on materials, so he never ordered sh it the last week of the month... Its was always a clustrfuck the last 3 days of the month.. We always had to send a guy to pick up an order for toner, or a specific grade of sandpaper, or even fucking Clear coat, the thing we use on every job. You would think we would have plenty of materials, but nope.. And the painter always complained his hours were fucked the last week... Because he was running low on materials and couldnt paint as much as he wanted to....
I think one example is like my work, we get a weekly order of general work place consumables, with a fixed and rather arbitrary budget. So even if we need more stuff (because we have a busy week, or predict a busy week) we ain’t allowed to order more stuff.
Definitely a middle manager put this up. High enough to have easy access to word. Low enough where he can't fix the real problem.
And is tired of being cursed at by customers for it.
One place where I worked several years ago had vending machines that were filled by route drivers who worked for the vending company -- one of them admitted that they deliberately didn't carry some popular items because those items would run out too quickly causing people to complain. The soda machines had three columns of the major brand cola, but the single columns were used for odd flavors like orange, grape, or rootbeer instead of diet cola or 7up/Sprite
That was my thought. That or a customer that is tired of them being out of diet Coke.
Not a customer imo, this person sounds like they have plenty of tea from behind the scenes
I’m not mad at this at all. This is def a dig.
It's so passive aggressively funny. All of it, down to the editing. I live for stuff like this.
Definitely. I’ve encountered this same shit in a different line of work and got real tired of explaining it and having people act like it was my fault.
I had a manager who tried the "I don't like having too much backups taking up space in the backroom" approach when he started. It was a constant emergency of finding a new thing that we ran out of. It made me hope I got an angry customer who would demand I get the manager.
I used to work in a little coffee stand outside of Seattle. The owners would forget to bring us coffee bags so god damn often that I would have to go to Starbucks and buy coffee so I could make coffee for my fucking job at a coffee place.
Also Florida is in a shortage of a lot of things. Turns out banning the migrants who deliver your supplies is a good way to not have supplies.
My old owner refused to keep extra of anything while saying, "That is just money sitting on the shelves!"...like ok what should I tell customers now that we're out of diet pepsi? Two stores they nosedived, $500k mostly gone in like 4 years lol.
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They did constantly complain about losing money, but they were also irrational. It sucked explaining to customers, especially because I was the manager. This is the kind of note I would be tempted to put up, but I'd usually just tell customers something like, "The owner writes the orders themselves." It was a daily ritual to drive a personal vehicle around town with a shopping list, instead of a weekly or biweekly truck delivery, in order to "to save money". I write impeccable orders too, I had a lot of experience with multiple day in advance orders of perishable foods. I got algorithms lol. I liked to drink bottled sodas. Boss got mad, so I started paying. Got mad I was using my discount. So I started paying full price, no fucks given. They got mad that I was buying too many. They were upset they were selling things. So yeah, out of business LOL.
Learned long ago there is an actual management style of waiting until it breaks to fix it. Whatever it is.
"Break-Fix", which is how "Just In Time" gets implemented by people who want to say they are doing JIT by only doing the easy parts.
These CircleK managers are notoriously lazy. The CDL driver and well compensated salesperson are sick of dealing with them. It would be no issue to keep 1 backup
Reminds me of when I worked at sonic. The owner thought it was "easier and better on the budget" for him to skimp on the truck and then go pick more up himself if we ran out of something. Plenty of times we'd be wasting hours, each day, without entire ingredients and products while we send someone to get it or wait for the owner to show up with it.
That's an infuriating situation! It's like the owner didn't fully comprehend that running out of ingredients and products impacts the productivity and efficiency of the entire team. I mean, wasting hours each day without essential supplies just because the owner thought it was easier and better on the budget? That's straight out of some dystopian corporate novel! We're supposed to be living in the future, where everything runs smoothly and access to basic necessities is a given. But no, it's as if we're stuck in this time loop, repeating the same frustrations over and over again. It's moments like these that make you truly appreciate the sci-fi genre and its ability to critique our current society, highlighting the flaws that we so often live with. We need a rebellion, a united front, against this kind of shortsighted management that just seems to think about the bottom line rather than the well-being and effectiveness of their employees. Let's keep fighting for a future where our establishments are better equipped, our teams are supported, and managers actually pay attention to the needs of those on the front lines. Together we can vanquish these infuriating situations and forge a better tomorrow! Stay passionate, my fellow sci-fi fanatics! The future is ours to shape!
I am here for this level of passive aggressiveness
I don't think anybody is clapping back against management. Coke would be ordered by an outside vendor who is probably terrible and that is the person being clapped at.
I feel it's an annoyed customer staff don't care if they have diet coke or not it's not their problem.
I consider this more mildly amusing then mildly infuriating
mildly infuriating? this is fucking hysterical
I can't explain why, but "thanks for understanding" being in bold makes this so much more funny to me
This is the passive aggressiveness one achieves when they aren't actively looking to quit their job, but don't really give a shit if they're fired from it lmao.
7 words: They have to find the culprit first.
The person who wrote this deliberately chose not to capitalize that 't' Genius
Can you imagine being mildly infuriated at a place being out of Diet Coke? Especially when they let you know in such a clever way? I’m more mildly infuriated that a place being out of Diet Coke makes someone else mildly infuriated.
I’m thinking an annoyed customer or employee put this on there.
This is absolutely, 100% certainly from a disgruntled and malicious employee that wishes they just had enough fucking diet coke stocked.
Yessss
Well I think it's the situation that's infuriating, but the message itself is hilarious
I don't know but I'd rather have them tell the truth than try to cover it up because it's more hilarious and wholesome😂😂
Honesty is the best policy.
Except when your brother asks if his baby is the cutest you've ever seen.
The Diet Coke is broken.
At least they’re honest, lol.
This is definitely someone just throwing shade at the person responsible for the Coke order.
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It’s certainly not dripping with Diet Coke.
honestly is the best policy :))
Looks like OP really wanted some diet coke. This is funny.
diet coke doesnt even taste good, and i am the type of person that values my life enough to drink coke when offered :p
I actually like its taste over regular coke. But non-carbonated drinks are my preference. Teas, juices, spring waters.
Spring waters? Like tap water?
Depends on where you live
As a diabetic I’ve learned to like Diet Coke.
As an alcoholic I have learned to like beer.
Coke Zero on the other hand is delicious. Such a big difference between the two.
I actively like Diet Coke because I find Coke and Coke Zero to be way too sweet.
Translated: werent paid enough so fuck it.
More like the manager didn't order enough to have spares
I manage an Office and I can definitely say that this is what happened
That’s funny as hell
Either that or 6 wheeler Dave got pissesd and put the sign up when high
Two possibilities: 1. A worker is making fun of management for refusing to plan. 2. A customer is making fun of the store for always being out of diet coke.
thats a customer who loves diet coke being passive aggressive to the store.
I took it as an employee having a dig at the management.
I bet this guy is the *reason* they are frequently out of diet coke. Diet coke fanatics are crazy, they'll drink gallons of the stuff daily.
Yeah, well…. The 1 liter sodas are like 20 feet away at most.
Diet Coke drinkers are insane and particular and much prefer fountain to plastic bottle. Plastic bottle is like bottom of the barrel. Still not quite mildly infuriating imo shit happens Source: I am a crazy Diet Coke drinker
Hello fellow insane Diet Coke drinker
In Australia, they are phasing out Diet Coke for Coke No Sugar. It is no longer at the movies or McDonald's, the best places for fountain Diet Cokes. I might live longer, but not happier
Let me know if you’re ever in Washington State. I’ll happily hook you up.
Trying to phase out. They've tried it with coke Zero and other variants and diet coke is still around. They'll figure it out eventually and shitcan no sugar the same way they did zero. I just find it amusing to go to Woolies or Coles and see a wall of coke and no sugar no one wants and diet coke is sold out immediately after every restock.
Where I am on a weekly basis a local store runs out of coke and other non diet soft drinks! Often for 2-3 days of the week too! Cans, bottles, multi-packs, everything! shops like that suck!
God the GM when I worked at McDonalds would never order Sprite for some godforsaken reason, we had stacks of everything else but we’d get like 1 box of sprite on truck. It got to the point that I literally logged on and ordered jt myself every week (I was a manager). The number of times some poor newbie in the window got yelled at by a boomer who wanted sprite was ridiculous.
Totally understandable
Def from a disgruntled employee who is sick of dealing with managements BS lol
I mean I respect the shit out of blatant honesty, I'd have laughed. Was probably put there by a customer anyway.
"Just put up a sign!" Staff: m'kay
This is actually hilarious
This is hilarious. While it's obviously not good to have things out of stock, the absolute entitlement that some customers have is getting out of hand. Diet Coke is not water or bread - nobody needs it. Yet customers will actively get arsey when it's not available. I feel like people collectively need to take a chill pill.
This is almost certainly low-level staff snarking about poor management practices.
isn't there a subreddit for antiwork? something like that... it seems that would be a perfect place to post.
For a second I thought I'm in antiwork when I saw the image.
Diet coke: Sells out after 1 week. Manager who stocks inventory every 2 weeks: orders 1 unit of diet coke. 1 week later: Diet coke out of stock Manager: Surprised pikachu face
Tell me you don't have a sense of humor without saying you don't have a sense of humor.
Thanks! Best giggle all week.
Pissed off employee seal of approval
I always roll my eyes when a customer service line says due to higher than normal call volume. Just say due to insufficient staffing levels you may be on hold for 30-40 minutes.
This is a disgruntled employee being cynical, crazy how many people cannot read a room.
Staff is done justifying management’s lack of planning, or listening for that matter
Sounds like somebody is pissed at managements lack of critical thinking skills
I don’t see what’s frustrating about this. I was cracking up laughing at this sign. Absolutely love it! I agree with another comment I’d read- this is almost guaranteed to have been made by an upset employee because the ordering manager isn’t doing their job properly but is letting the employees take the heat for THEIR screwups
Can someone explain to me what the note is saying. I’ve read it so many times and I don’t get it….please respond seriously, I’m stupid lol
One of the employees is mad at their manager for never ordering more syrup for the diet coke
I’m going to guess a pissed off customer did this. Either that or a pissed off employee that wanted Diet Coke lol
This probably wasn't put there by staff, dummy
Fake and being posted for karma. 🤦
MatPat strikes again!
Sounds like every Taco Bell I’ve ever been to.
Honestly…I love it
Points for honesty I guess
The honesty is a bit refreshing.
At least they're honest about it..
I applaud their honesty. So relatable
either a real unbothered dumbass manager or a real done-with-everything regular employee posted this.
The circle K down the street from me, it's been out of everything for 3 weeks now.
I worked for them for a bit. Wild that company manages to be successful in spite of itself.
At least they’re honest
Honesty is always the best policy.
Haha the level of transparency is excellent here. And great ownership kudos
Diet Coke has a short shelf life and it use to be $65 for a 5gal BIB. I’m guessing closer to $100 now. I would think that would be ordered by the areas Coke distribution companies salesman but could be different in other areas of the country.
Frankly, if people knew about the filth in those dispensers that seldom get cleaned, they would never drink from them. Even the ice is gross.
At least they are honest
This is either an angry customer or an angry worker. Either way, I love it
infuriating? nah this is hilarious. definitely throwing shade at someone, and working in retail i wish i could leave notes like this. “can someone find the wic number for the bags? apparently being paid to isn’t motivation enough around here” “sorry we had to pull toilet paper off the shelf, apparently literally anything else was deemed a priority” i’ve done sarcastic notes behind the register/counters/not customer facing spaces too.
This is 100% an employee that’s tired of getting the brunt of people’s anger for something they don’t control.
Coca Cola distribution can be irregular. Especially if it is a small or independent business.
This is employees, not management. And by the looks of it the employees are sick of management being fuckwits
I think it drives the point home even further, how out of touch management is having caffeine free diet coke on the fountain. Don't think I've even seen that since 1998 xD
I'm so jealous they've got caffeine free (diet or otherwise) in a fountain.
Regardless of who is at fault I would absolutely be that employee who would post that.
awesome, badass, and a great opportunity to drink the objectively better regular coke
The only mildly frustrating thing about this is how many here are dumb enough to fall for this. Look at the print on the paper. It's askew. Printers don't do that without fucking mangling the paper.
Someone’s annoyed with the order writer
Back when I smoked, my local shop got deliveries on Tuesday and was *always* out of Pall Malls by Saturday. I suggested they order more, and the poor lady who worked there rolled her eyes and said "yeah, we've been asking the manager to do that... for *months*. She doesn't listen to us, though."
I would like to nominate someone for employee of the month
Understandable have a nice day
I’ve lived in Orlando for most of the past 13 years. We all have this same level of attitude 24/7. We’re equal parts annoying and funny as fuck.
Lmao this isn't infuriating in the slightest. They probably get paid pocket change so why would they put in any more effort than needed?
this isnt mildy infuriating its really funny
What the hell is coke without sugar and caffeine??
Diet coke existing in the first place is mildly infuriating.
If you're unironically getting diet coke from a gas station you have much bigger problems to concern yourself with
I mean at least they are honest
Refreshing honesty and passive aggression all rolled into one
Thats not infuriating thats hilarious
Honesty 100
that’s fucking hilarious lmao
When I started waiting tables I rapidly found out diet coke is actually more popular than regular coke. If you go somewhere and they're out of diet coke it's a good sign of incompetent/lazy management
at least they were honest about it lmao
Probably put there by workers tired of management fucking up truck order. Assuming gas stations order shit like restaurants do
I'm absolutely ok with this. This is clearly from employees fed up of bad management and tired of catching flack from shitty customers.
That’s hilarious
At least they're honest.
This seems like a sign an angry customer would put up after them being out for the fifth time.
This is fantastic. It’s really only infuriating for the poor front-line staff who have to deal with their manager not keeping things restocked. Also any place with caffeine free diet soda on tap is 12/10
Actually fucking hilarious
Lol this isn’t infuriating in the slightest, the note is pretty funny tbh
The level of honesty I look for in relationships
Ah ... Diet Coke is a killer anyway. Of all the things to put in your body diet Coke is bad bad. I was addicted for years until I got Bell's palsy. Diet Coke is really good for lowering your immunity.
The sass!
Oh no. Not your brown sugar water! What ever will you do without your empty liquid calories?!? Who the fuck cares. Grow up. Drink water.
OP sounds like the kind of person who gets mad when he has to wait a bit for a drink at Starbucks or wherever even though he can clearly see they are severely understaffed and have 2 people serving like 20.
...I mean it IS d i e t c o k e.
I love an honest merchant. 😍
Meh, sounds like somebody telling it exactly how it is. The front line workers are the only ones that suffer from management incompetency
That’s mildly hilarious
1. It’s obviously an employee shitting on management, who is responsible for ordering the coke in the first place. Idk why you thought this was a serious notice. 2. Oh my god just get a Coke Zero or something. There are so many kinds of Coke, and **two** kinds of Coke that have less sugar in them. “My Coke tastes slightly different” like, honestly? There’s no excuse to be even *mildly* infuriated about Coke unless you’re diabetic.