A customer actually snapped their fingers and whistled at me to get my attention today, while yelling "SIR? SIR? SIR?". I managed to contain my urge to bark at her and say "Oh, sorry, I think you mistook me for a dog. How may I help you?"
Barely.
Anyways she wanted lint rollers, so I pointed her to the opposite end of the store, which was probably the wrong way. :v:
You should have whistled back, snapped your fingers back, and replied "Ma'am? Ma'am? Ma'am?" then walked away.
Got my first proper paycheck yesterday - $284 for 19 hours work. Feels good, man.
mmm just got paid, $674. Delicious money.
[sp]totally not an attempt to make you feel bad[/sp]
I don't work retail, want me to tell you how much mine is?
I don't think I can take anymore.
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;33730339]You should have whistled back, snapped your fingers back, and replied "Ma'am? Ma'am? Ma'am?" then walked away.[/QUOTE]
Sheldon Cooper style.
[QUOTE=SEKCobra;33731794]I don't work retail, want me to tell you how much mine is?[/QUOTE]
Only if you plan on sending me some of it
So today whille I was stacking cards at the Card Factory (shitty budget card/seasonal shite chain), I notice theres this woman outside on one of those mobility scooters, looking into the shop. We're extremely busy and she says she cant fit in, so I ask her if she wants me to get her a few items (key word, a few) after explaining how busy I am. So 10 minutes and around 20 items later the queue for the till is becoming too much for the cashiers already on to handle, so I tell her I'm just gonna go jump on the till for a second and I'll finish helping her in a minute. Apparently thats not good enough however, because she flagged down a police officer who was browsing the store and made her go find the rest of her list. She then makes the police woman hand me all the goods and money to be bagged and rung up, cutting in the (now huge) queue, and then fucks off without even saying thanks. Did I mention the police woman lost her place in the queue and had to wait another 10 minutes to get her one card? Yeah, being disabled doesnt mean you get to take advantage of people/be rude.
And for the record, yes we were busy but she could have easily fit into the shop with her scooter etc.
I also work in the crappy shop named Card Factory and earlier today I was trying to bring down the huge queue that had formed. I called out next please and the lady tried to hand me her cards, but because I'm small I always get shoved on the corner till where there is the least room, meaning I would have to dive over three tills and another worker just to reach her cards, probably knocking everything onto the floor onto another customer. Politely I asked her to move down in front of me which made her grumble because she was carrying two tiny bags already and had to lift them and walk three steps.
After I'd put all her cards etc through the till and given her the change, she stormed out angrily without so much as a thank you.
I was having a pretty okay day until this point.
I hate it when customers think they're god, you're a customer it doesn't automatically make you better than me.
The last customer that really pissed me off was one who grabbed my arm as I was walking past, rather than attempting to get my attention in any other way.
It pisses me off when customers ask for tea and coffee from the over 18s and then go out into the main arcade and don't take the cup back and leave it there, it's not my fucking job to tidy up after customers.
Today i helped a guy find an ipod, and gotta tip. feels good.
So we got broken into like 3 weeks ago and since then we've had the broken window and door covered with plywood.
I swear to fucking christ if one more person asks me "What happened to your window" or "Who did you piss off" I'm going to flip shit and beat them with the overpriced electronics we sell.
'Gee man I dunno what happened to our window. It's kind of just boarded up. I guess maybe [i]it got broken.[/i] Hrmm I wonder why someone would break a window in a [i]store[/i]'
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;33761911]So we got broken into like 3 weeks ago and since then we've had the broken window and door covered with plywood.
I swear to fucking christ if one more person asks me "What happened to your window" or "Who did you piss off" I'm going to flip shit and beat them with the overpriced electronics we sell.
'Gee man I dunno what happened to our window. It's kind of just boarded up. I guess maybe [i]it got broken.[/i] Hrmm I wonder why someone would break a window in a [i]store[/i]'[/QUOTE]
so what happened after they broke the window?
Someone complimented my hair today, and called it "gorgeous". She first asked if it was natural, or if I highlighted/permed it. Then she said it was gorgeous, and I was lucky to have it. I was like "uhhhh thanks". She was like 40 or so, and I don't think she was being flirty or anything...she didn't seem to be drunk/high either. Is my hair really that awesome?
[url]http://i.imgur.com/2bxps.jpg[/url]
Edit: oh god my cheeks look enormous
I'm so sick of customers.
If they bother to read my broken name tag. They all joke about my name.
"Oh your name's Holly. And it's Christmas time."
Geeze people. Get over it. I have at least one person mention it every day I work now that Christmas is close.
Some old guy called me Hayley the other day though. I think he might have trouble seeing.
[QUOTE=silverhawk79;33762299]Someone complimented my hair today, and called it "gorgeous". She first asked if it was natural, or if I highlighted/permed it. Then she said it was gorgeous, and I was lucky to have it. I was like "uhhhh thanks". She was like 40 or so, and I don't think she was being flirty or anything...she didn't seem to be drunk/high either. Is my hair really that awesome?
[url]http://i.imgur.com/2bxps.jpg[/url]
Edit: oh god my cheeks look enormous[/QUOTE]
It does look pretty cool.
[QUOTE=silverhawk79;33762299]Someone complimented my hair today, and called it "gorgeous". She first asked if it was natural, or if I highlighted/permed it. Then she said it was gorgeous, and I was lucky to have it. I was like "uhhhh thanks". She was like 40 or so, and I don't think she was being flirty or anything...she didn't seem to be drunk/high either. Is my hair really that awesome?
[url]http://i.imgur.com/2bxps.jpg[/url]
I see you suffer from my hair issue, thick and somewhat wavy/curly.
Looks better than mine does currently.
Edit: oh god my cheeks look enormous[/QUOTE]
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Customers can eat a dick, I had a lady today want to return a camera she bought two weeks ago because she put the battery in backwards and scared herself into thinking she had broken it. She wouldn't buy another camera because all the ones we have you can insert the battery backward (If you're retarded).
[QUOTE=Kybalt;33762275]so what happened after they broke the window?[/QUOTE]
They stole shit what do you think
I work at Sierra Trading Post, its kinda this western outlet store/chain that's only located in Wyoming and Nevada. Evidently they plan to have something like 100 stores by 2022. But anyways, everyone who comes into the store is either some fat cunt looking for shoes for her dog or some granola flavored douche trying to find the "best" climbing shoes. I don't know shit about climbing shoes, and neither does about 80% of the people that work there to be honest. I feel bad for anyone that shops there because its almost guaranteed that the employee that helps them has no idea what they're talking about.
Oh, and also: we have a return policy where you can return ANYTHING at ANY TIME. Yeah. So you could essentially buy a pair of boots from them, then return them 10 years later. You wouldn't even need your receipt. So 30% of the time I'm making sales and 70% of the time I'm returning half of all this lady's possessions back to the store. We then proceed to send all these items to the "bargain barn" aka the defective clothing sub-outlet store located about 8 miles from the real store. I work at this little shop about once or twice a week and it is the biggest joke. The most customers I've ever had in one day working there is maybe 3. Hell, one guy brought his aero bed so he could sleep all day in the back.
-PS What the fuck is up with people trying to combine coupons? Fore example, a 30% coupon and a 20% coupon to get a grand total of 50% off? Are you fucking kidding me? This is a business. Exchange your money for merchandise or get the fuck out. Everyone just wants free shit.
Man, I wished I could do something you guys could. I just have a fucking disease which makes me unable to do something like that, Or even, Go to school. I'm jealous :smith:
I'm serving someone at the checkouts and I had just started serving them when this other man comes up and starts putting his stuff in front of this other ladies stuff. I continued to serve the lady when the man yelled me and said "Still half asleep are ya mate!" He then storms out of the store. I looked out to the left which was the main exit (this store being in a big mall. He was leaving through the mall exit) and I see him sprinting. He left all his stuff at the front of the register too. The lady I was serving asked me what was going on and I just replied with "I really have no idea". That man never came back.
Does everyone else have carton rates where they work? Like if you're stacking shelves are you expected to do so many cartons per hour?
I feel like the idea is kind of counter to the health and safety shit they taught during induction. There's no way you can go through all of the steps to prevent potential injury and still stack one carton per minute... hell, more than one carton per minute even - you've got to leave time to find the exact place where the stock goes, you've got to factor in the time it takes to flatten empty boxes out, walking to and fro your cage (especially if it's too busy to move it down the aisle) and the time it takes to go out back to the compactor and crush all of your cardboard up.
How are you guys handling the holiday rush? I'm getting smashed at EB Games.
[QUOTE=bree;33778639]How are you guys handling the holiday rush? I'm getting smashed at EB Games.[/QUOTE]
It's actually been rather reasonable thus far. A few decent "waves" throughout the day, plenty of clueless people and a few irritable ones, but nothing too frustrating.
This week will be rough, I'm sure (we're open 8am-11pm), and the customers will get angrier and ruder as the week goes on.
Museums don't get busy before Christmas... so work is really boring right now. School holidays start here soon though.
[QUOTE=Nlogax;33769408]Hell, one guy brought his aero bed so he could sleep all day in the back.[/QUOTE]
What.
[QUOTE=Pilk;33786975]Museums don't get busy before Christmas... so work is really boring right now. School holidays start here soon though.
What.[/QUOTE]
man i really want to work at a Museum
i remember my "local" science Museum once had a job offering for an imax DOME projectionist, no experience required.
if i didn't have to drive 30 min to get there i totally would have done that kick ass job
this guy could have been me :(
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oh and the theater forces the audience who are waiting in line for entry to walk past the projector that is on its own stage with fancy lights
i could have been a god
It's pretty cool. 30 minute commute is not much in Melbourne though... it takes me about 45 minutes to get to work.
[editline]19th December 2011[/editline]
Even though I live like a 10-15 minute drive away. Stupid public transport.
[QUOTE=Pilk;33788799]It's pretty cool. 30 minute commute is not much in Melbourne though... it takes me about 45 minutes to get to work.
Even though I live like a 10-15 minute drive away. Stupid public transport.[/QUOTE]
Exact same for me where I live, work is about 10 minutes away by car, but bus takes about 45, then again it takes about 45 minutes to get most anywhere by bus.
Just a tip for when you're at a drive thru: When the server says "Just give me one second please" don't be that guy to wait exactly 1 second and say "Okay your second is up are you ready?" or something along those lines. I get that so many times and it's not even funny it's just completely annoying and obnoxious just sit there and wait. The person probably has to deal with so much shit, just don't say it trust me.
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