13 Sinister Things You Giant Retail Corporations Need To Stop Doing

Retail will never be glitzy or glamorous job options, but changing these problems would sure make it a whole hell of a lot better.

1. Running your shifts on a skeleton crew

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Don't you ever wonder why your customers say nobody's around to help them?

2. Staying open on national holidays

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If your store can't handle being closed on Thanksgiving, maybe you're not running on a viable business model.

3. Giving managers bonuses for coming under budget

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"You saved us a bunch of money! Here, have a bunch of money!" Makes sense.

4. CLOPENS! THE GOD FORSAKEN CLOPENS!

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Seriously, 8 or less hours between shifts to travel home, get ready for bed, try to sleep, wake up, get ready for work, and come right back in is just barbaric. The job sucks enough as it is on a full night's rest.

5. Letting the customers get away with murder

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Seriously, you won't miss your sales goal because that one guy got in a huff and decided to take his $15 worth of business elsewhere.

6. Not letting the customers getting away with anything

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If one of YOUR employees tagged it improperly, how is that MY problem? Just let me save the $1.50 and you can go hash it out with your subordinates later.

7. Not letting your employees use their vacation time

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Why even tease them with it?

8. Not letting your employees use their sick time

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They have sick days, let them use them! I don't want to catch what they have!

9. Not letting your employees carry around a bottle of water

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Seriously, what kind of monsters are you? What's it going to hurt if the people you're working too hard are adequately hydrated?

10. Giving your employees too much work and not enough time

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"Sure, I can have that 16 hour workload done by lunch" said no one ever.

11. Giving your employees too much work and not enough man power

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Sorry, Beth. They need you to somehow be 3 people all at once. Also, all three of their 16 hour workloads need to be done by lunch.

12. Letting your customers destroy everything they touch

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It's better to hold your customers to basic human standards than to hold your overworked employees to superhuman standards. In the wise words of George Costanza, "WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY!"

13. Writing people up for being overworked, underpaid, exhausted, and flat out completely physically and mentally unable to meet your ridiculous demands

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I once got written up three times for my inability to be two people in two different places at once. Never again.