"Express" 12 Items Or Less

[Jimbo]

The key is RR2, you were paying union dues. You should have gone to the shop steward (or in your case the Stop and Shop Steward) and made a claim that you were allergic to the aroma of unused beach whistles and that you were unfairly put in a position where your background did not allow you to respond to patrons' questions regarding, scent, cardboard vs. plastic, mini, maxi, or full size mattress. I bet you would have found yourself in a nice cush job in the frozen food aisle, with a reprimand to that boss.

[Mike P]

Except that the dept managers at Stop&Shop are also union members--or at least were when I worked there. The union would be placed in a position of having two members pitted against each other. At best, all they could do was try to mediate a problem

Only the store manager and asst store manager were considered "management".

A good dept manager made the job a pleasure---a bad one could make it miserable.