currently 17 working in the front end for about a year and CANNOT STAND IT. Customers are rude and management sucks. Is there any possible way to get into another dept? Management recommendations? Typing up a safety plan how you will not use certain equipment?
My nephew was moved to produce as a minor. His friend was moved to GM as a minor. So, it is possible. At 17, you are close enough to being 18.
Ask those Department managers if they need help and if there is a way for you to transfer to those departments. The store manager might allow it if they can see you are a good worker.
I know the CCs throw cardboard into the balers but are not allowed to push the start button. Everyone is allowed to use the manual hand jacks. So, power equipment would be off limits until you take the ACTs and turn 18.
As far as I know, produce and FE are the only two departments by me that minors are allowed to work in because by us, you have to be 18 to use a box cutter / machinery which is pretty much all the other departments. We had one clerk get a SIR for lending a minor their cutter they carried. I knew who our underage clerks were and told them flat out when asked "I am not risking myself if you get caught using my cutter / doing stuff your not supposed to." I had one cashier get rude with me for checking an ID for liquor, ummm buddy, its MY JOB! I'm not risking myself because I do not trust you to say "he's ok for liquor his ID checks out." That's my call, not yours. Period
