Monotonous - Sales Associate Five Below Employee Review

3.0
Dec 28, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Able to work independently and not bothered by managers most of the time.

Cons

Extremely boring when slow because all I'd do was walk around in circles getting annoyed by how slow time was moving, especially around the holidays when I think we were open until 10 or 11. It was annoying how some of the kiosks were card only and some cash and card, and my manager would get mad at me for deleting too many items from a transaction when people would go to the wrong kiosk or the customer left the item in front of the scanner and it would keep scanning. When a bunch of people wanted me to help them check out it would annoy because I'd be the only person at the front, and it would take a very long time for the manager to respond to issues and people would start complaining.

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