I'm sure you all have been asked this at an interview and the best thing to say is no there is never a time you can't be doing something. But how many of you believe that? I happen to go into stores all the time and see employees with nothing to do until a customer comes in., If there was something to do then there would be no need for customers. From personal experience, sometimes theres nothing to do except the same thing over and over. I think employees having a time to rest would be more beneficial instead of doing meaningless labor you did just a while before. What do you think?
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I have to disagree with the cleaning reason. Yes, the interviewer I interviewed with suggested that. Yes I knew the right answer to give but I don't like lying. If its extremely slow then you would have cleaned from the previous slow time. And if your neat then you would already be organized. I don't know why employers are always on this always doing something even if its non sense. Most of the managers I just see talking and doing easy work while the lower team is hard at work finding fake work to do. In theory the cleaning makes sense but how many times you go into a store and just see some employee cleaning with a broom .