Category: Photo Album

More Smart-@$$ed Replies

Continuing my series of formerly work related memes:


If you’ve frequented any of the “dollar stores” I’m sure that you’ve noticed that they’re regularly understaffed–sadly, it is by design–and as such, see their fair share of shoplifting. I cannot remember what exactly had been discussed in the group chat, but I would imagine it had something to do with one of us attempting to thwart a shoplifter, or having made the discovery of any number of empty packages on a shelf somewhere.


At one point in my career with the company, I found myself in an awful location where I could not keep any help, nor find any help worthy of hiring. Prior to moving into that store, I had been promised the help and support of my fellow managers and their crews, as that store in particular was known to be one of the more difficult ones in the district to run, and was the district’s top grossing store.

Unfortunately, I didn’t find myself receiving much assistance. It was actually this store that started to turn me a bit bitter toward the rest of our district’s management team, and gave me the inspiration to start start sending memes to the group, as I had grown very tired of the regular, proper and professional memo or message, updating everyone to my needs and status.

I was told by a couple of managers that they actually liked the image above and the one below, and that they felt sympathy for my struggles. 🙄

I did manage to keep myself more-or-less in check, however, as I know I never sent this one–though I was tempted:

Not Always the Smart-@$$

I wasn’t always a smart-aleck in the work group-chat, though I’m sure I’ve given that impression by now. No, I was actually quite helpful, and was called upon by many for ideas or information, believe it or not. See, other than being a hard-worker, I have this desire to know about my job in as much detail as I can possibly find–which means that I will spend quite a bit of time reading through every policy and procedural manual, look at every possible internal and external publication, and look as far ahead and far back in any series of memos, emails, etc. I want to know my job–even if it isn’t something that really interests me. I also want to share any knowledge I gain with my peers, as I believe that if we all know our functions better, the more productive we can be.

Anyway, I have a large number of images that were created just to assist my fellow managers:

In October of 2018 we were given direction to bring out all of our previous years’ Christmas leftovers and set them out for clearance.

In June of 2018 we had a fairly large clearance event, as well as an attempt to drive sales of our seasonal merchandise hard.

October 2018’s Halloween merchandise.

A push for hiring just before the holidays–plus I had just transitioned into this lazy store and drove a few people out.

2018 Holiday merchandising.