Len, don't worry, believe it or not I am aware that they aren't all bad, and there are ones like you. In fact, in my area, despite not knowing a single thing about beer, they usually are quite friendly, and I'm never able to relate to stories told here of dissmissive or stand-offish employee's. I just mentioned my experience because it was similar to Belgian's, and I've never had to wait so long for them to find a product before. It wasn't really a major complaint. But I can see how one would interpret me as whinning, given the natural reaction that followed a story about employee's not knowing a product exists (although in this case it was the manager who didn't seem to believe it existed).SteelbackGuy wrote:While I can appreciate the feelings that some might have towards LCBO employees, and the seemingly endless level of incompetence that most us apparently have, please keep in mind that some of us ACTUALLY work hard, and work hard to bring the beer out ASAP. Like uhhh me for example.
You can bash and complain, as per usual, but most of you have no idea how a store operates. Please don't make assumptions.
As a rule, the sooner a product gets to the shelf, the sooner we can sell it, and that means a healthier bottom line for the store, and a happy manager.
I hope most of you realize that we have thousands of products in a store, meaning thousands of SKUS. Do you expect every employee to know every product? Fuck that.
I sympathize with the cause, as I am a fellow bartoweller and craft beer lover, and I have the same frustrations, but I am sick of the generalizing that goes on here, painting all LCBO employees as fucking useless monkeys. Smarten up.
Also, I can sympathize with you in terms of your job recieving no respect from anyone. I worked at a Tim Horton's for a long time. If you want to be disrespected and looked down upon by every level of society, especially the "lower echelons" for some reason, work for a Tim Horton's. I actually get slightly nauseous when people tell me I should go back.
The store I go to most often in Uptown Waterloo is probably the worst in my area for a number of things, and recently even their selection has been not quite what it used to be, despite being the big trendy location around here that's supposed to have stuff not sold at any other store in the KW-hole. It's the only store I ever really complain about, as all the other ones I go to, I'm met by at least quasey friendly and helpful service (not that Uptown Waterloo has particularly unfriendly employee's, because it doesn't really).
It's hard not take the constant shots to your employer personally, in fact it's more or less impossible in my view. But I'm willing to bet you're probably one of the very best LCBO employee's out there, because when you think about it, you represent both worlds, the beauacracy, and the geeks.
I don't think many LCBO employee's can make that claim.
