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Originally Posted by garymck
Actually Jason,
as someone who works casually at Bunnings just 'cos I love hardware (and I have a PHD!) I do resent people making insulting comments about people who are just trying to do a half decent job under a great deal of pressure from low staffing levels. If you've ever been insulted, treated like crap, and subject to the moods of unpleasant customers who abuse you because they know you'll lose your job if you answer back, perhaps you would understand why sometimes they do lack a little enthusiasm. In addition half the time you're asked to cover an area that you have no expertise in, and are still expected to know everything about everything by customers with unreasonable expectations....Perhaps if you were paid $16 an hour you would be full of enthusiasm at assisting someone who doesn't even have the courtesy to say "please" when asking for help. The people I work with are genuinely nice, many have trade qualifications, most are semi retired and have a genuine desire to help. Never assume that just because someone is in plumbing they are a plumber- the plumber has probably been put in timber, and the paint guy is probably rostered in tools - not their fault.....
You may think your comment amusing, but thousands of nice people work there, and do try to help. You should never assume that just because people work in menial jobs they have no intelligence.....I have known lots of people who are graduates and who have graduate degrees who've worked there as a change of pace....as I do....a day dealing with "customers" at Bunnings can have stressful results:
"You suppose me a very old man - but I am not. It took less than a single day to change these hairs from a jetty black to white, to weaken my limbs, and to unstring my nerves, so that I tremble at the least exertion, and am frightened at a shadow" E A Poe
cheers,
rant over
Gary
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I am behind you on this one Gary. The degree of help at Bunnings is inversely proportional to the busyness of the store. Go in there at 10am on Satruday or Sunday and you will find it hard to get any help. Go in there at 7pm on a weeknight and they are lining up to talk to you
If you want advice pick a quite time to visit.
On the genny side, we picked up 2 chinese ones from ebay, the first lasted 6months, the 2nd is still going great at 18months. It gets run for 24hrs every month. Jsut keep the oil topped up and clean. (I think that was why the first one carked it
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