[QUOTE=bree;34208508]I get paid fortnightly so I got $800, then i'm like ooo a letter for me! who could this be from! oh its my phone bill.. cool.. thats cool.. i can do 80 bucks right now. open it up. 500 dollars. my face was worthy of a rage comic look a like contest. then i paid my rent.. and ate air for every meal for the following 2 weeks.[/QUOTE]
Get a pre-paid phone if you're gonna end up racking up $500 in one month with a contract
Hmmm...it appears our store's newest MO is to give us so few hours that the closing manager will be completely by themselves from 6pm-9:30pm on weekdays. Yeah, there's no way this could cause problems.
[QUOTE=bree;34209118]that just seems really really bad to me. our 13 year old junior makes $10 an hour. maybe australia's minimum wage is more, or something.[/QUOTE]
Minimum age is 15 and 9 months where I am in Australia. And they get paid $8 an hour or something.
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;34209445]Ah, I see. Maybe we're in equally rough shape then :\[/QUOTE]
I could easily spend only $150 a week on rent for a nice place where I live.
bree lives in a really expensive place. My mum pays less than that on her mortgage.
Okay so, I work at a grocery store. I had two very, very large teenage girls come in today. One was in cat ears, with a painted on cat nose and a LEASH ON HER NECK. The other end of the leash was being held by the other girl, wearing a giant Naruto headband. I have never been more revolted and confused in my entire life.
Dear god, the load today was FUCKED. Normally we get load spaced out nicely across the day, one or two trucks will come every few hours between the morning and evening and at most the loading bay will be about half full at any given time.
Today, however, every single truck came at 11AM for some strange reason, and except for two tiny passage ways between the cages the ENTIRE loading bay was full. It was quite a daunting site to behold when I walked in at 2PM this afternoon.
Still got another few hours left at work after my break. Hopefully it's a lot emptier when I go back.
[QUOTE=silverhawk79;34318976]Okay so, I work at a grocery store. I had two very, very large teenage girls come in today. One was in cat ears, with a painted on cat nose and a LEASH ON HER NECK. The other end of the leash was being held by the other girl, wearing a giant Naruto headband. I have never been more revolted and confused in my entire life.[/QUOTE]
Japanimation!
[QUOTE=silverhawk79;34318976]Okay so, I work at a grocery store. I had two very, very large teenage girls come in today. One was in cat ears, with a painted on cat nose and a LEASH ON HER NECK. The other end of the leash was being held by the other girl, wearing a giant Naruto headband. I have never been more revolted and confused in my entire life.[/QUOTE]
were they american
Yesterday was awful. Just...it was the only day where I left work angry. We're doing these coupon things where you get $20 an order of $100 or more, but it excludes alcohol, tobacco, etc. Well, we forgot to put the part about alcohol on the coupon, but we quickly put signs all over the store, just to cover our asses.
[b]First[/b] customer of the day, and they buy $40 of alcohol, $60 of food. Coupon didn't work, and I explained the situation. Cue the blackest, angriest, most hateful stare I've ever seen.
"You fuckhead, you should have told us first. Fuck it, we're going to [competitor]."
They take their bags and literally dump everything onto the counter and walk away.
Rest of the day is fine, until my last customer of the day. Again, they used alcohol to hit that $100...except she flipped out even more. Yet again, I got the hate-glare. She rattled on about how it's not on the coupon, and [i]nowhere[/i] in the store did she see those signs, etc. Threatened to report us to the Better Business Bureau, threatened to report me to the head manager, blah blah blah. She ended up getting more stuff to cover it though, and then in the parking lot she floored it, ran a stop sign, and got pulled over. :v:
[b]tl;dr: PEOPLE ARE INSANE[/b]
[QUOTE=silverhawk79;34345860]Yesterday was awful. Just...it was the only day where I left work angry. We're doing these coupon things where you get $20 an order of $100 or more, but it excludes alcohol, tobacco, etc. Well, we forgot to put the part about alcohol on the coupon, but we quickly put signs all over the store, just to cover our asses.
[b]First[/b] customer of the day, and they buy $40 of alcohol, $60 of food. Coupon didn't work, and I explained the situation. Cue the blackest, angriest, most hateful stare I've ever seen.
"You fuckhead, you should have told us first. Fuck it, we're going to [competitor]."
They take their bags and literally dump everything onto the counter and walk away.
Rest of the day is fine, until my last customer of the day. Again, they used alcohol to hit that $100...except she flipped out even more. Yet again, I got the hate-glare. She rattled on about how it's not on the coupon, and [i]nowhere[/i] in the store did she see those signs, etc. Threatened to report us to the Better Business Bureau, threatened to report me to the head manager, blah blah blah. She ended up getting more stuff to cover it though, and then in the parking lot she floored it, ran a stop sign, and got pulled over. :v:
[b]tl;dr: PEOPLE ARE INSANE[/b][/QUOTE]
People don't fucking read is the problem. Especially sales. They just see 50% off and shut everything else out of their brain.
Too be fair, that is a pretty big oversite.
[QUOTE=massn7;34346268]People don't fucking read is the problem. Especially sales. They just see 50% off and shut everything else out of their brain.[/QUOTE]
Also true, customers are for the most part idiots.
[QUOTE=Wolfmatyr;34346318]Too be fair, that is a pretty big oversite.
Also true, customers are for the most part idiots.[/QUOTE]Well, it's generally a given that if tobacco is out of the running, alcohol is as well.
So tonight i had a lady in her mid 50s come up to me with a book light, saying my bulb burned out how do i change it? I looked at her at first kinda puzzled and then she said, you know what ill just return it. And then as she started walking away to the customer service desk, i stopped her and asked "Did you change the battery?" she looked at me as if i had 2 heads and i grabbed the book light flipped open the holder and all she needed was an AAA battery. =/
Just got home from work. I was taking orders on drive-thru at Dunkin Donuts and this one man asked for white hot chocolate. For those of you who don't know, that was discontinued about 3 months ago. Once I told him it was discontinued he sped around and stuck the finger at me and said "FUCK DUNKIN DONUTS". You should be ashamed with yourself if something like that gets you that mad.
People are so dumb nowadays. Such illegitimate complaints.
More news from my sporadic complaints about that one guy and his wife earlier in the thread!
1) He doesn't understand "bottom shelf" when I give him directions to what he wants.
2) He bought a load of beer, then consumed it in his truck in our parking lot then drove off with four other people (he was driving), and threw all the empties out of the window. Really tempted to tip off the cops in my town for that.
3) The customers behind him in the line were discussing how strange he was after he left. Apparently he likes to get drunk down at the other pub and pick fights with all the large, youngish, well muscled construction workers down there.
Basically a he is just a big drunk.
Edit: And he always calls me "buddy". I hate being called "buddy".
I'm Asst. Manager at a food store now. We are a fancy type like i said before.
Customer comes in and trys to return dish soap she bought 21 days ago, On our receipt it says you have 7 Days to return any unused product for store credit, 24 hours for anything refridgerated. We have grand exceptions to alot of this Espically with diary products or yogurt. We usually just say okay just go get what you want when you come to the register we'll give you credit for it.
Anyway I get called about it and say she bought it 3 weeks ago, She should have known about some form of return policy here. I leave and get called back where the customer is infuriated and the convo goes like this
Customer - "Why can't i return this?"
Me- "On our receipt it says you have 7 days to return anything back to the store except refridgerated items you have 24 hours, This excludes the acceptions we do for spoiled/soiled food"
Customer - "How am I surpose to know that"
Me - As I said our receipts when they print out at the bottom underneath everything you bought it says You have 7 days to return almost everything in this store for store credit
Customer - I never look at my receipt, Wheres that other guy i usually see?
Me - We have -name- the store manager and -name- the owner, Which one?
Customer - Yes -name (store manager), I'll talk to him tommorow.
Customer - Whats your name?
Me - -myname-
Customer - Your a manager?
Me - Asst. Manager
Customer - I've been shopping here for years and you've only been working here for 2 months, I'll be back tomorrow to talk to -name- (Store manager) to get my refund.
Me - Alright, See you tomorrow.
Most likely the lady is going to get her refund by talking to him or her, But I'm going to stand by what our policy is. She was extremely rude to my cashier that she approached which doesn't help at all. I've done dozens of diary items that were past 24hr's due to the nature of them being spoiled before expiration. The fact shes a common customer to our store as well bothers me the hell out of me. I don't care if your a common customer or you shopped at our store for years (We've only been open for 2). Your not getting leeway for a 3 week item you bought.
[QUOTE=GURREN LAGANN;34320308]were they american[/QUOTE]Well considering I live in America...:v:
In Missouri, no less. Needless to say, I get some of the [i]classiest[/i] people.
[QUOTE=CubeManv2;34413206]I'm Asst. Manager at a food store now. We are a fancy type like i said before.
Customer comes in and trys to return dish soap she bought 21 days ago, On our receipt it says you have 7 Days to return any unused product for store credit, 24 hours for anything refridgerated. We have grand exceptions to alot of this Espically with diary products or yogurt. We usually just say okay just go get what you want when you come to the register we'll give you credit for it.
Anyway I get called about it and say she bought it 3 weeks ago, She should have known about some form of return policy here. I leave and get called back where the customer is infuriated and the convo goes like this
Customer - "Why can't i return this?"
Me- "On our receipt it says you have 7 days to return anything back to the store except refridgerated items you have 24 hours, This excludes the acceptions we do for spoiled/soiled food"
Customer - "How am I surpose to know that"
Me - As I said our receipts when they print out at the bottom underneath everything you bought it says You have 7 days to return almost everything in this store for store credit
Customer - I never look at my receipt, Wheres that other guy i usually see?
Me - We have -name- the store manager and -name- the owner, Which one?
Customer - Yes -name (store manager), I'll talk to him tommorow.
Customer - Whats your name?
Me - -myname-
Customer - Your a manager?
Me - Asst. Manager
Customer - I've been shopping here for years and you've only been working here for 2 months, I'll be back tomorrow to talk to -name- (Store manager) to get my refund.
Me - Alright, See you tomorrow.
Most likely the lady is going to get her refund by talking to him or her, But I'm going to stand by what our policy is. She was extremely rude to my cashier that she approached which doesn't help at all. I've done dozens of diary items that were past 24hr's due to the nature of them being spoiled before expiration. The fact shes a common customer to our store as well bothers me the hell out of me. I don't care if your a common customer or you shopped at our store for years (We've only been open for 2). Your not getting leeway for a 3 week item you bought.[/QUOTE]
Reminds me of the store I work out. It's a smaller store where everyone knows each other so you constantly get people coming in thinking their shit doesn't stink just because the know the owners.
We got a pallet of chips in one day, and being as we're short on space they get thrown on top of a shelf, so one person is needed to throw them and the other is needed standing on the top of the shelf to stack them. This woman comes up, and starts bitching at us because we're blocking the aisle with the pallet.
Her: You better be done soon!
Me: We get done when we get done.
Her: I'm the customer, the customer is always right.
Me: No, 9 times out of 10 the customer is an asshole who happens to be wrong.
Her: (Gasps like the old bitch she is) I'm reporting you to the owners, you have no respect.
Me: And you think that you can tell me how fast to do my job just because you don't want to walk around. Tell the managers my name. They'll tell you that something will be done about my behavior, and nothing will actually be said to me.
Her: See if I shop here again!
Stupid cunt.
[QUOTE=CrispexOps;34426163]Reminds me of the store I work out. It's a smaller store where everyone knows each other so you constantly get people coming in thinking their shit doesn't stink just because the know the owners.
We got a pallet of chips in one day, and being as we're short on space they get thrown on top of a shelf, so one person is needed to throw them and the other is needed standing on the top of the shelf to stack them. This woman comes up, and starts bitching at us because we're blocking the aisle with the pallet.
Her: You better be done soon!
Me: We get done when we get done.
Her: I'm the customer, the customer is always right.
Me: No, 9 times out of 10 the customer is an asshole who happens to be wrong.
Her: (Gasps like the old bitch she is) I'm reporting you to the owners, you have no respect.
Me: And you think that you can tell me how fast to do my job just because you don't want to walk around. Tell the managers my name. They'll tell you that something will be done about my behavior, and nothing will actually be said to me.
Her: See if I shop here again!
Stupid cunt.[/QUOTE]
No offense but there's a difference between the customer being irritating, and you being an asshole. I work in a shop too but I don't feel the need to lay into customers just because they ask stupid questions.
[QUOTE=Wolfmatyr;34397009]
2) He bought a load of beer, then consumed it in his truck in our parking lot then drove off with four other people (he was driving), and threw all the empties out of the window. Really tempted to tip off the cops in my town for that.[/QUOTE]
You're only TEMPTED to tip him off? Just do it.
Just got paid £115 pounds from Primark and I stopped working for them a month ago. Must be for the shifts I did after my term was supposed to be up. It's great when you're not expecting it isn't it?
I think customers must be blind and/or stupid. I mean... do people not understand the concept of force or momentum? If I'm pushing a packed cage (probably upwards of a 100kg of stock) briskly down an aisle DON'T suddenly walk out in front of it, you stupid cunts.
So I've went to a job interview for shelf stacking in our local supermarket, let's hope I get the job.
Does anyone got some tips for it?
[QUOTE=MitchvW;34430820]So I've went to a job interview for shelf stacking in our local supermarket, let's hope I get the job.
Does anyone got some tips for it?[/QUOTE]
Comfortable shoes?
arm strength be able to lift 500lb with your pinky only to be able to throw it up in the air to catch it with your left foot
leg strength also
[QUOTE=Dotmister;34427587]No offense but there's a difference between the customer being irritating, and you being an asshole. I work in a shop too but I don't feel the need to lay into customers just because they ask stupid questions.[/QUOTE]
Yes, and there is a difference between politely asking us to move, and being a bitch trying to tell us how fast to do our job.
[QUOTE=Dotmister;34431045]Comfortable shoes?[/QUOTE]
Got it.
[QUOTE=CubeManv2;34431853]arm strength be able to lift 500lb with your pinky only to be able to throw it up in the air to catch it with your left foot
leg strength also[/QUOTE]
Easily!
[QUOTE=CrispexOps;34426163]Reminds me of the store I work out. It's a smaller store where everyone knows each other so you constantly get people coming in thinking their shit doesn't stink just because the know the owners.
We got a pallet of chips in one day, and being as we're short on space they get thrown on top of a shelf, so one person is needed to throw them and the other is needed standing on the top of the shelf to stack them. This woman comes up, and starts bitching at us because we're blocking the aisle with the pallet.
Her: You better be done soon!
Me: We get done when we get done.
Her: I'm the customer, the customer is always right.
Me: No, 9 times out of 10 the customer is an asshole who happens to be wrong.
Her: (Gasps like the old bitch she is) I'm reporting you to the owners, you have no respect.
Me: And you think that you can tell me how fast to do my job just because you don't want to walk around. Tell the managers my name. They'll tell you that something will be done about my behavior, and nothing will actually be said to me.
Her: See if I shop here again!
Stupid cunt.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, the regular customers are the worst. They think they're special because they come to the place every other day, when the company doesn't really care one way or another. They're just a wallet with legs.
[QUOTE=Ghost101;34433538]Yeah, the regular customers are the worst. They think they're special because they come to the place every other day, when the company doesn't really care one way or another. They're just a wallet with legs.[/QUOTE]
Not sure if sarcastic...
Oh yeah, I kept forgetting to say this to you guys. So apparently walmart's home office decided that the courtesy associates (cart pushers, which is also my job) should be given additional duty of:
-mopping the floors at the doors
-pulling carts out for customers
And moving door greeters so they're not door greeters just... greeters. Let's see how long this stupid idea lasts!
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