I worked there grand opening thurs.- sun. I also was in Phenix for the opening there. Considering how busy it was and how green the help was I think that they did a great job. I would expect that in a month or two they will be a well oiled machine and impress even the most discriminating customer.
Rich
DShock - Just thought I’d change the direction of the post for a minute or two. I have a 50 mile, weed burner electric fence charger on my horse fences here in Michigan. Your welcome to pee on them anytime. Mind you, this is a mighty potent charger!
I trust Rich’s judgement. He has been very involved in mercantile all of his life. I take the stand that there is no excuse for any store to open and not have a staff that knows what the hell is going on. Many of you disagree and feel that the staff should be ‘cut slack’ and given some time to learn their job. Somehow I feel that it is not right to make the customers train the employees. Should we extend this slack to airline pilots and interstate truck drivers? OK, I’m wrong, they are just simple folks and we shouldn’t expect much from them, is that it? At what point do we expect the retailor to get it right? A week, month, year? How about when they hire a new person? Unfair to expect him to be able to do his job for some period? If Rich says it is unreasonable to expect competent staffing at a new store, then so be it. I have encountered the, “Gee, I’m really new here, what exactly was it you wanted again?”
Photojoe4 - I got the joke :lol:
the count of employees for the store in boise was 200 plus try and get that many people trained and up to speed in 2 weeks… not my idea of fun.
Rich
Jonezee,
Your a good friend! Nobody has ever been thoughtful enough to invite me all the way to Michigan to do that!
50 miles of fence should take me about 20 hrs.
I need to warn you that I watched WHAT ABOUT BOB last night. :shock:
Thanks,
Doug :oops: 
Rich, then take three weeks…
Dshock … you might want to take a purple pill with you after … uhhhhh, relieving youself … just so you don’t P on your shoes after (going turtle … ppftttt… what an understatement)
I don’t recall much about my younger ages (say 3, 4 yr old time frame). However, I do recall my grandfather kept sheep … grew watermelons too … found out he had electric fences after consuming copiuos slices of watermelon … :shock:
Jim do you realy think you can take a young person (or an older one) that has fished all his life but never fly fished or sold fishing tackle and bring them up to speed in 3,4 or even 6 weeks? I think not what you do is train the best you can in the time allowed and after that it is baptisim under fire. this is just one example (flyfishing) how about taking someone that hunts but never reloaded and teach him every thing about reloading in the 3,4 or 6 weeks. We will never all agree on what time is required but I think we will all agree that if we give any of them a chance to learn and get better 6 mo. from now they will be pretty good.
Rich
I sense a little agrueing going on here maybe I am wrong. Will I give them another chance SURE. Will I give them time to get their act together It should already be together. Having been in mangement for 26 years I would never let someone out to the public that did not know what they are doing or have the ability to ask if they don’t know. 200 people to train in 2 weeks not my idea of fun but then again why don’t they have enough people to train them in the time frame to be up to speed to handle the public. can I train some one to reload who never has in 80 hours and make it safe YES can I train them to ber a expert in 80 hours NO! If they are not safe in 80 hours then they don’t reload period. The thing that made me the madess was the manager asking when I would be in and then telling me he would be there personnally to handle the situation and then not being there. Did I want monetary compensation NO! All I wanted was to be told why I should after all I had been through shop there anymore. Very simple question. If the new help is flaky understandable, not acceptable but understandable. If the manager is flaky and not honest then not only is it not understandable it is not acceptable. When someone asks for a manager then they should be given a manager. When someone asks for a manager 5 times and is refused that only escaltes the situation more. Enough said just my 2 cents
I think my point is this. Sometimes, clerks are put out with “a little less than acceptable” amount of training.
I could not agree more…(but) any person that is hired there as a clerk would start tomarrow as a trainee on the floor waiting on folks and they will screw a bunch before they ether get it right or get fired that is just the way it is. as for geting a manager when you ask there is no excuse for not having one right away unless they are busy puting out fires allready.I have to go back there in december and do a clinic for an optic co. and I am sure there will be a bunch of new faces.
Rich 
Thanks Rich, your opinion is always valued.
DSock - Bill Murray probably wouldn’t feel a thing. From taming puntang varmits to plastering his grill against a window, he is one mighty weird guy. My fences aren’t fifty miles long, just twenty acres of fence times 4. That would probably equal out to about 3 miles. Hence the potent charge for so little wire. I once in hesitation reached over the fence to grabe a hose, my arm pit hit the fence and I shot up about ten feet. Stupid is as stupid does.
Jonezee,
I have had plenty of accidents. I try to walk 5 miles a day and that can lead to some problems.
I was walking a 3 mile trail at Sauvie’s Island. A long black berry vine grabbed my shirt and when I turned around to look at the vine, I tripped over a root in the trail and went flying through the AIR!!!
It turned out to be the ONLY root in the entire 3 miles.
Doug :oops:
I use to live on Sauvie Island. From 1992 thru 98. What a wonderful place. My sons and I picked blackberrys every late July on the island. Those giant Himilayan Blackberry’s can have shoots as big around as your wrist and bramble mounds as big as a house. I lived at Parkers Landing. Country roads, Montain Momma, take me home…please. The flood of 96 was another thing. Lots of duck hunting, pheasant hunting and the north unit in the summer trap shooting. The north beaches in the fall for Chinook and cutts off the sandy beach arond Retters. . Walleye in the channel around Big Oak Marina. Sauvie Island is the largest island in the world surrouned by a fresh water river. Does it get any better? Love it!!!
Hey Rich thanks a lot for the input I do appreciate it.
Maybe Cabela’s needs to look back to when MacDonalds in the sixties had all employees wearing little paper army campaign hats with titles on them> My favorite was “Assistant Manager Trainee” I couldn’t help but laugh each time I visited a MacDonals, more than half of the employees were Assistant Manager Trainees. Cabala’s could have “Handloading & Ammunition Trainee” That doesn’t sound too scary.
And don’t forget BLACK POWDER trainee.
Doug
Trainer trainee…?