Honestly I found that my body is super weird with the winter. I actually get colder with the more clothes I have on normally. There are times that more layers of warm clothes help, but normally less layers helps keep me warmer. I mean I've literally taken out the trash in about 1 foot of snow wearing a t-shirt, a diaper, socks and shoes and didn't feel cold at all (it was like 10°F outside and my dad kept trying to tell me it was a bad idea).

Well, at least you'll be warm for the Winter, especially during the snow storms~! Just wear a snowsuit over your diaper and you're good to go out in the snow!

Thank you for that! I get lazy sometimes with research so I am glad you got that for me. Lol



No we're nowhere close to a sit down chain. Lol It gets hot in the kitchen year round. It is extremely rough wearing diapers in the kitchen, even more when I am in and out of coolers and freezers and putting truck away. I hate when I am in the freezer or cooler and I feel the warmth in my diaper when the rest of me is super cold. It's so weird since I don't feel it any other time unless I am clearing snow off my car in the winter. I have told just about everyone, I have absolutely no problem with being incontinent. I enjoy it.

Easy-peasy! About the subject of "shrinkage"/"lost prevention"/"theft" and business tax reporting, Google is your best friend! -> https://yourbusiness.azcentral.com/s...nse-24803.html. According to the article returned by Google's results, "... Any business that sells inventory items can encounter shrinkage, which can stem from causes such as theft, poor management practices and natural disasters. You enter an expense for inventory losses on your financial books. You can receive a tax deduction for your loss ..."


Oh, I see. I thought that Sheetz was a chain of "Family sit down" restaurants like TGI Friday's or AppleBee's and not a fast food chain. Does it get hot in the kitchen, especially in the summer? If so, it must be very uncomfortable for you sweating in there with a diaper on~!

The way I understand shrink (as an LP (loss prevention) person at both OfficeMax and Best Buy is that it still has to be accounted for as the store (or rather the company) has to pay for said shrink. I believe that it remains on their taxes and such, I don't believe they get deductions for stolen merchendise or shrink. At least that was how I was to understand it. I may research it later but I really don't feel like it right now. Lol


As far as goes aspirations to be a chef, not really. My brother and I want to open a restaurant but neither of us have any professional training not do we have any ideas of how a business should be run. At Sheetz you really don't "cook" anything. You literally thaw frozen, precooked (and mostly preportioned) product and either nuke it, put it in an oven or throw it in a fryer. No cooking or culinary knowledge needed. It's basically like McDonalds or any other fast food job, the only difference is that Sheetz pays way better (like nearly DOUBLE) depending upon how long you have been with the company and what rank you are (sales person, shift supervisor, hospitality or kitchen manager, store manager). Shift supervisors start at between $14 and $16 per hour. Sales people start at no less than $10 per hour (only able to make a maximum of $13 per hour after 4 to 5 years with the company). Once you hit hospitality, kitchen or store manager level you are salary instead of hourly.

Ah, what you described sort of reminds me of when I was a college student, I worked as a salesperson for a Duty-Free shop at the international airport. The managers there used to "unofficially" pull out some of the expensive bagged beef jerky (More like dried, thick slices of juicy steaks!) and fancy boxed chocolates (Near or at the same level as Godiva chocolates) from the stock shelves, opened them up and placed them on the counter in front of us for us to encourage the tourist customers (The company that owns the chain of stores scattered all over the various gates in the airport was only legally allowed to sell to international tourists with boarding passes to planes at specific gates) to sample and order the full products (The store also sold all kinds of fine alcohol and cordials like red wines, white wines, cognac, vodka, gin, scotch, bourbon, rum, schnappses, Grand Marnier, Kahlua, etc. [No beer] and internationally known brands of cigars and cigarettes). The sales time was only a small window (Two or three hours before the flights took off), so the store would be flooded with tourist customers for a brief period of time (So that peeps can buy their booze, smokes, preserved meats and confections (Booze and smokes sold the most) and have it all delivered within the half hour by our delivery staff to the tourists' plane) and then remain empty for one, two or three hours until the next scheduled flight arrived. What remained of the beef jerky and chocolate "Samples" in between the flights were written off by the managers as "Shrinkage" (aka "Internal theft" - The store didn't have any other way for classifying actual products that were pulled from stock shelves for customer samples [I think that calling it "shrinkage" was an actual way for the company to write off losses for a corporate tax deduction but I didn't major in Accounting so, I could be wrong]). We would all divvy up the remaining uneaten "sample" beef jerky and chocolates among us after each bunch of tourist customers for a particular flight came and gone (The managers would repeat the process for each new flight)! It may sound petty now, but it was what we all had to look forward to since we didn't work on commission and were only paid minimum wage (Companies like that love to hire college students because they know that they're cheap hires).


I agree with you that any such company that has policies which indirectly force employees to be "A team player" (eg. - You are not compelled to be a team player but if you don't choose to be one then you do so at your own risk!) is not a good company to work for but what can you do? Anyone in that kind of a situation doesn't really have a choice but to comply until he/she can find the same kind of job at a better company or take a lesser paying job doing something else (Who wants to do that?).


BTW, I was just wondering - As a cook at Sheetz, what kind of food do you prepare? Do you have any specialty dishes (Food creations) of your own or do you just basically "Flip burgers"? Do you have any aspirations to become a professionally trained chef now that you've been cooking there for almost three years?

The benefit to free lunch at Sheetz is that we get whatever we want for free if management offers to "pay" for it (we customer service the order ticket as if we were processing a mistake order for a customer). I love when they do that because I don't feel nearly as guilty as I do when management uses their actual money to pay for it. I still feel bed that my one assistant manager had to buy me lunch the one day because my bank account was negative over $200 due to my car payment coming out early. I don't do anything with anyone in my store outside of work because I am on the overnight shift. I usually get home and pass out within an hour. I wouldn't be afraid to forgo the lunch if it meant helping my overall physical health. If they see me as "not a team player" for that then by all means they're not a good company to work for in my opinion.

Ah, I see. From what you wrote in the last part of your previous VM, it sounded like you currently work at OfficeMax. I can sympathize with you about having a bad manager. I've had a bad manager in a previous job who played favorites and tried to micro-manage the rest of the employees. That style of management lowered morale for those employees who were not his favorites and created a sense of distrust between the manager and those that were not favored by him. A good manager should base his/her decisions on each employee's abilities and accomplishments rather than be biased towards a subordinate who has a background or displays off work hours behavior that appears to be more similar to his/hers - My manager always insisted that we all join him for beers on him after work on Fridays (He paid for it with his corporate credit card. The company gave managers of his level an expense account). To refuse him was to risk leaving the impression that "You're not a team player".

Also, the company offered all the employees the option of a "Free lunch" with the stipulation that we eat it while continuing to work at our desks. For each day of the week, we could each order out anything we wanted from a co-op of takeout restaurants, up to $8.00 and the food would be delivered to the reception area (FYI, the old saying is true - "There really is no such thing as a "Free lunch". I made more than $8/hour, so the company would get an extra hour of work out of me for cheap, if I chose that option on any given day [Which I did]). Everyone in my group took the free lunch option every day. After a while, I felt like I was always being chained to my desk, not being to go outside even for an hour to get some fresh air, do a little shopping and/or to "unwind" before going back into work (It all had a negative affect on my physical health - I gained ten pounds, my high blood pressure went up, causing me to go on a higher dose of my hypertension medication [I went from taking Diovan HCT 80mg/12.5mg to 160mg/12.5mg] and I felt tired around two o'clock every day). Some of us, including myself, wanted to forego the free lunch option but no one, including myself, dared to do so for fear of appearing to be "Not a team player". It might not seem to be such a big deal but think about it - If things go bad with the company and the manager has to lay off a few people, with all things being equal, who do you think that he would choose first? Obviously, those that are considered by him to be "Not team players"! It's not just "White collar" workers who face this kind of situation. "Blue collar" workers also face this kind of situation (Ever work at Walmart? I heard that they "encourage" the employees to perform morning exercises lead by the manager(?) before opening the store as a form of "Team building" - Workers who don't participate in the daily exercises risk being seen by management as "Not team players"! Don't get me wrong - The notion of working in a team can be a good thing (You may learn things from others while others, in turn, may learn things from you and together, greater things can be accomplished than by doing things alone) but the drive to do so must come from within each person rather than be something that is forced down each person's throat by extreme measures! After all, people in a team don't all go to the bathroom at the same time!


BTW - Early congratulations on soon approaching your third anniversary at Sheetz~!

I think you may have misunderstood what I had said hon. I used to work at OfficeMax from 2012 to 2015 I was their go-to. I legit worked til I couldn't anymore. I did 7 days a week multiple shifts, sometimes 12 to 16 hours. I loved it! I was like "what you need help to cover a call off? I'm already here, I got you!" I hate to abandon my team. I left OMX in June of 2015 because of a falling out with the Store Manager. The asshat accused me of yelling at a new hire when I was talking calmly. I was in front of customers. They could've vouched but didn't. Afyer telling hom 5 times that I wasn't yelling, I noticed myself raising my voice at him so I walked away. A few days later he pulled me aside and accused me yet again of yelling at her from the other day. At this point I snapped at him and he told me "if someone is messing up, come see me and I will handle it" and I replied "well of you aren't going to do your job and train the employees, someone has to." He cut my hours after that so I quit after getting a job at Best Buy. I left Best Buy because they refused to give me full time. Sheetz started me as a full-time employee. Literally everyone who works there told me that they didn't think I was a good employee and that I wouldn't last a month... jokes on them in January I will have been there for 3 years. Lol

I'm confused - You work at OfficeMax? I thought that you worked at Sheetz (Your profile says that you're a cook)? Anyway, you used to work an early morning shift at OfficeMax? A 5:00AM to 1:00PM shift is too early for me! I'm still in bed at 5:00AM. IMHO, it's a good shift if you're a parent since, you can pick up the kids from school and spent some quality time with them at home, that is, if you're not worn out by that time. Overnight (Any time after 6:00 PM and a little past Midnight) is no good either for most peeps, unless you work at a business that thrives at those kind of hours like a nightclub where the male customers usually leave generous tips (To try to impress their dates) for the employees (e.g. - The Bartenders and the waitresses/waiters).


Don't sweat the profanity - I usually don't use it here much since IMHO, it kind of degrades the quality of the "Atmosphere" of this site (It kind of "Brings down the neighborhood" and spoils the mood of things, especially on a site where some people desire to be an innocent little baby again) but sometimes, it's unavoidable (I've only used it if someone really pisses me off in an argument in a thread long after I've tried explaining things in a calm, civilized manner or when I'm informing friends that something terrible has happened). After all, what's the point of having profanity if you can't say "shit" when shit happens?! Sometimes "Getting stuff off your chest" is very therapeutic for people. You seem to rightfully have a lot to gripe about your current situation at OfficeMax. You can anonymously and publicly release some of those bad emotions at GlassDoor. You can see what your fellow OfficeMax employees have to say about OfficeMax's "Flexible schedule" (See -> https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Of...,9_KH10,27.htm) and then if you feel like it, leave your opinions on the subject anonymously by clicking on the blue "+ Add a Review" button on the upper right corner of the page [BTW - You might be particularly interested in what the "Sales Associate/Cashier" at Kahului, HI had to say on Dec 6, 2017 - The person might be like a kindred spirit to you]. Of course, don't post any personal details that could possibly suggest to anyone, like your boss, that you wrote the review! I hope this helps you feel better~!