[QUOTE=Chubbles;32336799]If that's true. Then people think I'm stealing at least 3 times every time I walk into a store (especially Best Buy). It might be my beard that makes them suspicious.[/QUOTE]
"We have a bearded individual in sector 7"
"10-4 overwatch"
[QUOTE=CrispexOps;32332504]And you are the worst type of employee. I deal with the same shit all of you do. As a customer, I say, "No thanks." Did anyone ever hear me say that I tell them to, "Piss off." or anything similar? No. Before you start going off on your little high and noble "Fuck customers like you" speech, learn to read instead of throwing a temper tantrum.
[highlight]I am far from the 'worst type of employee'. I help anyone that comes into the store. Even pissy assholes like you who pitch a fit because I ask them if they need help, then come to me ten minutes later because they couldn't find what they wanted. I deal with customers like you all the goddamn time and generally, they do not just say 'no thanks'. They tell me, very rudely, that they 'know what they want', and 'don't want your help'[/highlight]
And how do you know I don't know where everything is in the store? It's kind of arrogant to assume that just because you work there, you know more about where things are than other customers. I work at a grocery store. I get asked where shit is all the time. However, there are some things that have a pattern of not selling in our store, so I generally only have a vague idea where it is if asked for it. Sometimes even the owners don't know where things are.
[highlight]It isn't arrogant to assume that because I work somewhere I know where everything is, because I fucking [i]do[/i] know where everything is. I stock every item on the shelf, I do the visual merchandising plans. I know where every item is. And, because of how our store is set up (retardedly, because our visual merchandising team is full of idiots) it's very confusing for customers. You cannot compare a grocery store to an electronics store, either. Grocery stores have everything labeled by aisle. We don't even have aisles.[/highlight]
I can go into any Best Buy and find exactly what I'm looking for. Also, generally employees in electronic stores never know what the hell they're talking about. I was in a best buy a couple months ago getting general prices on new graphics cards. They had some 9800 GTX's around, and then they had a few newer ones like a Radeon 6870, which I was looking at. The idiot suggested the 9800, based on the fact that it had a higher number. Seriously. I'm not saying ALL employees in electronic stores are like that, I'm saying most. Anyone who works in those stores generally assumes that since you can pop some RAM in, you're capable of telling me that my selection in hardware is wrong.
[highlight]Best Buy is shit what do you expect from their employees? I can't speak for all of Radioshack but I can damn well speak for my coworkers, we KNOW our shit. We strive to know what the hell you're talking about when you come in asking for electronics components or anything else. I strive to make sure I can help the customer. I even bought all of the electronics books and kits we had and am working to learn all of it. As it stands, I can hold my own with the general electronics aficionado. As for computers, I build them so I know exactly what I'm talking about, even if, sadly, Radioshack doesn't sell computer equipment.[/highlight]
I went into Radioshack a few days ago, and needed to pick up a new Cat5 ethernet wire, something that ANYONE [i]remotely[/i] competent in computers and networking would know, being as I don't know Radioshack particularly well, as I only go there for basic cable needs, I asked the guy behind the counter, "Where are your Cat5 ethernet wires?" He said, "Uhh, I don't think we carry those anymore." I looked right behind me, I'll be damned, a whole section.
[highlight] Guarantee he's been fired by now. He didn't even come out from behind the counter to greet you, didn't follow the customer path, and doesn't know shit. OR he first started. In which case he isn't a good example either way.[/highlight]
Again, when did I ever say I rudely tell people to, "Fuck off." and whatnot? I never do. I say, "No thank you." Then I get harassed about 6 more times.[/QUOTE]
qed
[editline]17th September 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Orange-Soda;32335031]I've never worked in retail, but I have a friend that does. He is constantly pissed off with it as his fellow colleagues try to sell stuff to people that they don't really need. For instance a old lady who wants to browse the net and read emails doesn't need a gaming PC for twice the money.
Stuff like that really annoys me.[/QUOTE]
Same here. I never upsell if they don't need it. It's fucking retarded to try it anyway, because 90% of the time if you upsell to something they don't need they won't be happy with it and they'll bring it back.
I work in a small shop of the electronics-recycling company, which is inside this long building with all the storages, recycling facilities etc. Generally a good workplace with generally good people to work with.
Before I begin I need to tell you a bit of the background for you to fully understand, people go a bit crazy when they work here long enought. And different people have different ways of dealing with it. And I am no exception to that unspoken rule. In the small shop I work with other fellow who has been about 2 years here, he claims to have practiced several martial arts which he is especially good at when fighting against himself, wants to become God, and says that he was a general in the army. Makes occasionally weird noises while making extremely twisted faces.
Then we get the two other guys who come from the recycling side to bring us stuff and just generally talk with us (and browse the internet with out computers). The other one is a fucking computer wizard to the extreme. And the other one wants to go back in time when Scandinavia was feared and respected, as a viking.
And me? Oh, I am communist, facist, natzi, muslim, and extreme-buddhist.
We are brought the most bizarre stuff from time to time, old clocks, Amiga's, 'futuristic' clocks from the 80's, Commondore 64's (we have tons of those). We fix them the best we can, we test them if we can, and put them on the shelfs. So you can imagine what happens when our boss brings a box (saying "there ya go, you bloody commie") that has a Soviet-Era Officer's cap and a Flag of the Soviet Union.
While my co-worker is on a coffee break, I put the cap on, hang the flag on the wall, behind the counter I am positioned at. And put the Soviet Anthem playing on the computer. Mind you, this was supposed to be something to make my co-worker choke on his coffee when he comes back.
However before he arrives, a customer walks in.
So you can probably imagine the expression of the black wind-jacket wearing man on his 60-70's when he opens the door while looking down, watching the little step. Hears the music, and looks up.
And the first thing he sees is a vigorous man,
with a Soviet-Officer cap on his head,
with a Soviet Union's flag hanged on the wall behind him,
who then proceeds to greet him by saying
"COMRADE! WELCOME TO THE PEOPLE'S USED ELECTRONICS SHOP!"
He freezes on the spot, just looking at me.
What felt like a several minutes, he just looked at me as I proudly smiled, with this dumb-founded, confused, surprised,-mixed expression of his.
He slowly turns around
and closes the door behind him
I didn't have long to think about what just happened before my boss opens that same door clearly wondering what the hell the customer had stood there for, and practically explodes into laughs as he sees the scene. Then my co-worker arrives clearly wondering what the laughing and the music is about, sees my boss, then me wearing the cap, and the red flag on the wall. Nearly choking on his coffee laughing, he tells me "You crazy son of a bitch"
Since the boss was a humorous guy too, no consequences were suffered.
Fucking amazing.
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;32330445]As a Gamestop employee, I can say that you are part of a special elite. We often get "I don't want to hear it" or "No thanks" before we even give the speech.
That said, both of those are better than "I don't want anything you're selling." While, of course, picking up 5 used games that we're selling :v:[/QUOTE]
I don't see whats wrong with saying you're not interested, I do this a lot while in shops because I'm there to get a single thing, I don't want any club cards or newletters, I'll listen if it's directly linked to whatever I'm buying at the time though.
The worst customer I find are those which are consistently rude, we've got a few at where I work which are known for being shitheads, when they come in the door the cashiers radio for the boss because otherwise they end up upsetting all the staff & other customers.
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;32296699]Since I work at Radioshack, we're partnered with the Livestrong Foundation, so we (try) to collect donations for Cancer Research and Treatment/Therapy for cancer sufferers, right?
What pisses me off most about this is when we ask the customer if they'd like to donate a dollar (ONE FUCKING DOLLAR) to help people with cancer and their shit gargling answer is "No I can't really afford it" while they're spending 40-50x that on something they DON'T need like some fucking fancy cable or a new cell phone or a god damn laptop.
I want to grab them by their shirts and scream in their face "You know who can't afford what? Those people with cancer can't afford their treatments you selfish cunt. They're laying in a hospital bed dying and trying to explain to their children what's happening to them and where mommy is going because they can't afford the treatments while you stand here buying a $100 cell phone and a $50 phone case that you don't need and tell me you can't afford a $1 donation."
But I don't. I tell them their total, take their payment, then go into the back room and punch the steel door that leads to the alley behind our store.[/QUOTE]
You have anger issues if someone not donating makes you this mad. I don't donate to charity out of principle and I think it's wrong to ask someone to donate, it shouldn't be peer pressured it should be their choice, for that reason while we have cancer donation boxes where I work I'd never ask someone to donate.
[quote]Best Buy is shit what do you expect from their employees? I can't speak for all of Radioshack but I can damn well speak for my coworkers, we KNOW our shit. We strive to know what the hell you're talking about when you come in asking for electronics components or anything else. I strive to make sure I can help the customer. I even bought all of the electronics books and kits we had and am working to learn all of it. As it stands, I can hold my own with the general electronics aficionado. As for computers, I build them so I know exactly what I'm talking about, even if, sadly, Radioshack doesn't sell computer equipment.[/quote]
Good for you then. It's good that you know how to do your job you were hired to do, however there are a lot of Best Buy employees who don't. Just because YOU know how to do it, doesn't mean hundreds of other employees do. That's where the disconnect is happening between you understanding what I'm saying.
I do NOT want to be harassed by people. I should have to say, "No thanks." one time. One. Not 6. Most of the time I never step into another section except for the computer section.
Don't get pissy at me just because I want to be left alone, that's my whole thing. What makes me aggravated as a customer, is that none of the employees can seem to read when people want to be left alone, hopefully YOU can.
[QUOTE=Callius;32339384]
You have anger issues if someone not donating makes you this mad. I don't donate to charity out of principle and I think it's wrong to ask someone to donate, it shouldn't be peer pressured it should be their choice, for that reason while we have cancer donation boxes where I work I'd never ask someone to donate.[/QUOTE]
My mother almost died of cancer. That's why I get pissed off when people tell me they 'cannot afford' to donate a DOLLAR. ONE DOLLAR. While paying $30 for a fucking HDMI cable
[editline]17th September 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=CrispexOps;32340300]Good for you then. It's good that you know how to do your job you were hired to do, however there are a lot of Best Buy employees who don't. Just because YOU know how to do it, doesn't mean hundreds of other employees do. That's where the disconnect is happening between you understanding what I'm saying.
I do NOT want to be harassed by people. I should have to say, "No thanks." one time. One. Not 6. Most of the time I never step into another section except for the computer section.
Don't get pissy at me just because I want to be left alone, that's my whole thing. What makes me aggravated as a customer, is that none of the employees can seem to read when people want to be left alone, hopefully YOU can.[/QUOTE]
I work at Radioshack, not Best Buy.
Best Buy has dozens of employees per store. Radioshack has 3-6. Best buy's training is shit, Radioshack has comprehensive training for every part of our job including electronics and circuitry.
Again, you're referencing Best Buy. Not Radioshack. I don't give a shit about Best Buy or their practices I know they're shit. Radioshacks are small, if you say no once you don't have to say it again because everyone else heard you.
I don't get pissy at customers who want to be left alone. I get pissy at customers who are a CUNT about it. "No thanks I'm fine" or "Just looking around thanks though" is perfectly fine. I don't care. What I DON'T what to hear is "I know what I want leave me alone" or any other jackass greeting.
Some guy actually fucking exploded on me as soon as I asked if he needed any help and shouted about how 'god damn it leave me alone I don't need your help you little shit I know what I want and what I'm doing'
Mind, I'd asked him that ONCE.
So today I got legit proof of how much the management at my job sucks. I work at Abercrombie Kids (yeah yeah, I know, "It'S fOr FaGs"). I have a job coach/career resource manager and I called her today to tell her when I tried to call in yesterday for my shift (it was a call-in shift), there was no answer. It just kept ringing. I tried I think 4 times throughout the hour. My job coach called the store today and told her that they had me as not calling in. And that I was making it up. Fuck them.
She also got some actual numbers as to how many fucking employees they have and how many hours they have available each day, etc. They have [B]50[/B] employees! And they only work about 6, give or take a few, people each day! Basically, if you're a part time worker like me, then you get fucked over royally. Doing the math with the amount of hours they have available to work people each day, a part timer can only work [B]5 hours[/B] a week. Fuck them again. If anyone works more than that, people get fucked over from their hours. Which has been happening to me since day one essentially. Last week I wasn't scheduled for ANY hours. This week, same shit! I literally have not even worked 10 days since I was hired officially in July. I didn't even work a single hour until August!
Obviously, I'm looking for a new job. I applied to some places today which I'm pretty optimistic about. They are hiring and are looking for part time workers like me.
[QUOTE=smeismastger;32338125]I work in a small shop of the electronics-recycling company, which is inside this long building with all the storages, recycling facilities etc. Generally a good workplace with generally good people to work with.
Before I begin I need to tell you a bit of the background for you to fully understand, people go a bit crazy when they work here long enought. And different people have different ways of dealing with it. And I am no exception to that unspoken rule. In the small shop I work with other fellow who has been about 2 years here, he claims to have practiced several martial arts which he is especially good at when fighting against himself, wants to become God, and says that he was a general in the army. Makes occasionally weird noises while making extremely twisted faces.
Then we get the two other guys who come from the recycling side to bring us stuff and just generally talk with us (and browse the internet with out computers). The other one is a fucking computer wizard to the extreme. And the other one wants to go back in time when Scandinavia was feared and respected, as a viking.
And me? Oh, I am communist, facist, natzi, muslim, and extreme-buddhist.
We are brought the most bizarre stuff from time to time, old clocks, Amiga's, 'futuristic' clocks from the 80's, Commondore 64's (we have tons of those). We fix them the best we can, we test them if we can, and put them on the shelfs. So you can imagine what happens when our boss brings a box (saying "there ya go, you bloody commie") that has a Soviet-Era Officer's cap and a Flag of the Soviet Union.
While my co-worker is on a coffee break, I put the cap on, hang the flag on the wall, behind the counter I am positioned at. And put the Soviet Anthem playing on the computer. Mind you, this was supposed to be something to make my co-worker choke on his coffee when he comes back.
However before he arrives, a customer walks in.
So you can probably imagine the expression of the black wind-jacket wearing man on his 60-70's when he opens the door while looking down, watching the little step. Hears the music, and looks up.
And the first thing he sees is a vigorous man,
with a Soviet-Officer cap on his head,
with a Soviet Union's flag hanged on the wall behind him,
who then proceeds to greet him by saying
"COMRADE! WELCOME TO THE PEOPLE'S USED ELECTRONICS SHOP!"
He freezes on the spot, just looking at me.
What felt like a several minutes, he just looked at me as I proudly smiled, with this dumb-founded, confused, surprised,-mixed expression of his.
He slowly turns around
and closes the door behind him
I didn't have long to think about what just happened before my boss opens that same door clearly wondering what the hell the customer had stood there for, and practically explodes into laughs as he sees the scene. Then my co-worker arrives clearly wondering what the laughing and the music is about, sees my boss, then me wearing the cap, and the red flag on the wall. Nearly choking on his coffee laughing, he tells me "You crazy son of a bitch"
Since the boss was a humorous guy too, no consequences were suffered.[/QUOTE]
I love you.
Also, this thread is amazing. I hope it lives forever.
Hmm, i just reconised that i'll be dealing with stuff like this in the future if i end up getting a job at retail.
I dunno if thats a good thing or a bad thing.
Still, such an awesome Thread.
[quote] I get pissy at customers who are a CUNT about it.[/quote]
Then no need to get pissy at me. I kindly say, "No thanks." Except for if the same person keeps asking me over and over, then I get a bit more aggressive, as I don't want to be harassed.
I've never had problems in Radioshack. They are normally small stores, so even if the person who I ask for assistance doesn't know where to look, a quick browse and I can find it.
Like I said, I hate Best Buy employees who think they know everything and they don't, so it honestly relieves me knowing you don't work for such a shoddy company.
I never applied to Best Buy when I was job hunting.
I would never lower myself to their level. I'd work at McDonald's first.
So it's pretty neat how I got hired at Radioshack, now Best Buy is my biggest rival/competitor.
I've worked at a supermarket for a few years now and we do get our fair share of stupid customers. For instance this one time I was working down the home baking isle and a man approaches me holding 3 food colourings which clearly say the colour of the dye on the front in big letters like "YELLOW" or "RED", he proceeds to ask me and my co-worker "Excuse me guys, are these the colourings or the flavourings?" We kinda just stood there for a while as our brains we're trying to work out if he actually just asked us that. We just said "Those are the colourings sir" after he left we had a "what the fuck?" moment.
Before I started working at the shop there was a woman who use to come into the shop like six times a day or something. She had a reputation around the shop with the employees as I think she had some kind of mental disability and obviously she came in a lot. Anyway one day she is walking down the isles as normal and she just drops trough and take a dump right on the floor. Just like right there in the shop in the middles of the isle like no one was there. All of the Deli staff kinda stood there in horror as I don't think anyone has seen a woman take a shit in the middle of a supermarket before. No one could believe what she just did and I remember one staff member told me they sorta ran from the shop floor as they were looking for people to clear it up. It's safe to say that woman isn't allowed into the shop anymore and no one has seen her for a while.
I never had women take shits in the middle of the floor, however we have our fair share of people who shit ALL OVER the bathrooms. Like, they literally shit in the corner, and smear it all over the place.
[QUOTE=CrispexOps;32355556]I never had women take shits in the middle of the floor, however we have our fair share of people who shit ALL OVER the bathrooms. Like, they literally shit in the corner, and smear it all over the place.[/QUOTE]
Gas station bathrooms.
'nuff said.
i want to shoot people who drool in their linen napkins
Speaking of drool I once had a customer come in obviously drunk with a hawaiian shirt open down the front showing his entire beer bellied front and his pants half off his ass, drooling, and claiming to have 7 doctorates degrees and speak 15 languages and having worked for the CIA and the KGB and all this other nonsense.
Then he cornered a customer.
That poor, poor customer.
[editline]18th September 2011[/editline]
I could literally see the terror in that customer's eyes, and there was nothing we could do.
The guy even followed the customer out of the store.
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;32356600]Speaking of drool I once had a customer come in obviously drunk with a hawaiian shirt open down the front showing his entire beer bellied front and his pants half off his ass, drooling, and claiming to have 7 doctorates degrees and speak 15 languages and having worked for the CIA and the KGB and all this other nonsense.
Then he cornered a customer.
That poor, poor customer.
[editline]18th September 2011[/editline]
I could literally see the terror in that customer's eyes, and there was nothing we could do.
The guy even followed the customer out of the store.[/QUOTE]He was actually in deep cover trying to apprehend that customer. ;)
My first day at the Wildlife Rescue that I interned at, a man walked in with a kitten that couldn't have been more than a few weeks old. It was a big man and him holding that kitten was pretty funny. I was holding a baby squirrel trying to feed it, so I couldn't help him, but my supervisor asked him what he needed. He said that he had found the kitten in the parking lot and was hoping to leave it with us. We have a policy to not take any animal that hasn't been approved by our main facility, but the man was pretty desperate. He said the kitten was in perfect health as far as he could tell.
Then he dropped it on the floor which was a good five feet down. Poor thing was lucky that it didn't fall on its head. He just grabbed it and picked it up and said "Yeah, I can't do anything with this thing. You have to take it." But we had no room. There was a volunteer there who started petting the kitten and cooing at it. He was a nice guy. A bit slow, but smart enough to know what he was doing when he handled it.
The big man started getting angry with us because we kept insisting that we couldn't take it. We didn't have any kitten formula or anything that it needed since we mostly kept adult cats and baby wildlife like squirrels and birds. We didn't have any baby domestic animals. Then he turned to me and said "If you guys don't take this cat, I'm taking it home and feeding it to my pitbull, I'm not fucking kidding."
Then the volunteer man stepped up, grabbed the kitten from the big man and politely told him to get the fuck out and that he would take the kitten home instead. We thought the big man was going to grab the kitten back and walk away with it but he just grunted and walked out of the building, slamming the door. Me and my supervisor are both small so we were kind of afraid of the big man and were relieved when he left.
Probably one of the worst experiences I had there. But I was glad that the volunteer took over. He brought the kitten back a few weeks later and it was nice and healthy.
I've worked other jobs that fit the better definition of retail too. Worked as a model for Hollister which they made me stand motionless for 6 hours at a time while I got barraged with questions by the public like "DO YOU TAKE PICTURES WITH THE SHIRTLESS GUYS ON THE ADS?" and one lady got so offended by what I was wearing and what the ads in our store had that she asked me if we had gift cards without shirtless men on them by saying "I'm buying a gift card for a 5 year old girl, I don't want shirtless men on them. You people and your outfits are entirely too revealing. You should go to church more often." Not only was I amused that she thought we sold clothes for children (we don't) but that fact that she judged me so quickly was pretty funny too. I told her we didn't have any of those gift cards and she stormed off yelling something about "heathens" and "sinners".
I worked at a Chick-Fil-A too where we frequently had to play rock paper scissors to see who had to clean up vomit in the play place. Also a good amount of angry customers who thought that the people at the register were the same people who bagged their food, which, it was extremely clear that we weren't. We also had a senile homeless man who would come in every day asking for ice cream. We usually just gave him one meal and sent him on his way but other customers would get extremely offended that we would help him out and give him a simple meal for free when it was obvious that he wasn't all there and needed the meal.
I have a good amount of horror stories, but it'd take me a while to remember them all.
I think a (luckily) small part of people working in retail should be paid more so they wouldn't look and act like they were dying of cancer tomorrow and hating their life and serving the customers.
I did the whole retail thing - worked at Target for 1.5 years.
I can't say it was terrible, and it certainly beats fast food, but it sure had its moments of annoyances.
So glad I got out of there for Pizza Delivery though. I get paid much more on average, with 3x less work. Because our pizza place is small and our manager flexible, everyone generally knows each other and its generally a much more tight-nit friendly atmosphere to work.
The big thing I hated about retail was that once you got a position, you were locked into it. Raises were non-existant, and you had to work work work work 24/7. During off-season, I would always get absolutely terrible hours (5-10 hours a week at most, despite wanting close to 25). They hardly train you and think you are weird if you ask about how the store works so you can do your job better (I like to put purpose behind my job, I simply can't work well if I just work like a blind worker bee).
I remember one time I got chewed out for going to the bathroom a lot. I worked in the back where it is very dusty and I always like to have my hands clean, so about once every 30 minutes to an hour I'd go to the bathroom in the back to wash my hands quickly. They fucking watched me on the cameras and were like "LOL STOP TEXTING YOU KID" even though I was fucking 18 and I never EVER text at work (as I think it's a pretty douchebag thing to do in the middle of a job).
I never had any really weird customers. After working in the back for a few months I discovered I liked working front end more whenever I was up there helping customers with things while restocking. But they never gave me an opportunity to work there.
[QUOTE=Pascall;32360671]My first day at the Wildlife Rescue that I interned at, a man walked in with a kitten that couldn't have been more than a few weeks old. It was a big man and him holding that kitten was pretty funny. I was holding a baby squirrel trying to feed it, so I couldn't help him, but my supervisor asked him what he needed. He said that he had found the kitten in the parking lot and was hoping to leave it with us. We have a policy to not take any animal that hasn't been approved by our main facility, but the man was pretty desperate. He said the kitten was in perfect health as far as he could tell.
Then he dropped it on the floor which was a good five feet down. Poor thing was lucky that it didn't fall on its head. He just grabbed it and picked it up and said "Yeah, I can't do anything with this thing. You have to take it." But we had no room. There was a volunteer there who started petting the kitten and cooing at it. He was a nice guy. A bit slow, but smart enough to know what he was doing when he handled it.
The big man started getting angry with us because we kept insisting that we couldn't take it. We didn't have any kitten formula or anything that it needed since we mostly kept adult cats and baby wildlife like squirrels and birds. We didn't have any baby domestic animals. Then he turned to me and said "If you guys don't take this cat, I'm taking it home and feeding it to my pitbull, I'm not fucking kidding."
Then the volunteer man stepped up, grabbed the kitten from the big man and politely told him to get the fuck out and that he would take the kitten home instead. We thought the big man was going to grab the kitten back and walk away with it but he just grunted and walked out of the building, slamming the door. Me and my supervisor are both small so we were kind of afraid of the big man and were relieved when he left.
Probably one of the worst experiences I had there. But I was glad that the volunteer took over. He brought the kitten back a few weeks later and it was nice and healthy.
I've worked other jobs that fit the better definition of retail too. Worked as a model for Hollister which they made me stand motionless for 6 hours at a time while I got barraged with questions by the public like "DO YOU TAKE PICTURES WITH THE SHIRTLESS GUYS ON THE ADS?" and one lady got so offended by what I was wearing and what the ads in our store had that she asked me if we had gift cards without shirtless men on them by saying "I'm buying a gift card for a 5 year old girl, I don't want shirtless men on them. You people and your outfits are entirely too revealing. You should go to church more often." Not only was I amused that she thought we sold clothes for children (we don't) but that fact that she judged me so quickly was pretty funny too. I told her we didn't have any of those gift cards and she stormed off yelling something about "heathens" and "sinners".
I worked at a Chick-Fil-A too where we frequently had to play rock paper scissors to see who had to clean up vomit in the play place. Also a good amount of angry customers who thought that the people at the register were the same people who bagged their food, which, it was extremely clear that we weren't. We also had a senile homeless man who would come in every day asking for ice cream. We usually just gave him one meal and sent him on his way but other customers would get extremely offended that we would help him out and give him a simple meal for free when it was obvious that he wasn't all there and needed the meal.
I have a good amount of horror stories, but it'd take me a while to remember them all.[/QUOTE]
DID they take your pictures when you modeled for Hollister? If so can you show us some of them? <3
No, I wasn't a promotional model. They only do photo shoots in California. I was a store model, meaning "Wear the clothes and stand in front of the store and tell people to buy shit."
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;32342450]My mother almost died of cancer. That's why I get pissed off when people tell me they 'cannot afford' to donate a DOLLAR. ONE DOLLAR. While paying $30 for a fucking HDMI cable
[/QUOTE]
It's their choice not yours, maybe they already donate outside of your shop, perhaps they don't think $1 will impact much on the breakthroughs on treating cancer and can aid humanity better another way, it's not your role to judge them.
And personal circumstances don't matter, my dad has MS, it has arguably ruined my childhood, his life and my family as a whole, that doesn't mean I get shitty at people who don't give 50p to a collection for it's charitys.
[QUOTE=Callius;32362094]It's their choice not yours, maybe they already donate outside of your shop, perhaps they don't think $1 will impact much on the breakthroughs on treating cancer and can aid humanity better another way, it's not your role to judge them.
And personal circumstances don't matter, my dad has MS, it has arguably ruined my childhood, his life and my family as a whole, that doesn't mean I get shitty at people who don't give 50p to a collection for it's charitys.[/QUOTE]
It's a fucking dollar.
My problem is not with them not donating, it's with them making up shitty excuses to hide the fact that they're a cheapass.
There is no such thing as 'Can't afford a dollar' when you're buying a $330 laptop or a $150 cell phone or a $50 cable or any other frivolous bullshit.
When I buy shit from my store I donate a dollar.
When I buy shit from Petsmart, I donate to their feline leukaemia thing.
I give to the Salvation Army when the Santas are on the streets and my old clothes and shoes and blankets and pillows to Goodwill.
If I, a 19 year old, a child by the standards of the people I serve in my store, working minimum wage part time, can afford to give a dollar to potentially keep some mother from having to explain to her child why she's losing her hair and lying in a hospital bed, then by fucking god so can the salaried asshole that just bought some frivolous bullshit to increase his material wealth.
[editline]18th September 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Pascall;32362047]No, I wasn't a promotional model. They only do photo shoots in California. I was a store model, meaning "Wear the clothes and stand in front of the store and tell people to buy shit."[/QUOTE]
Sounds hot.
[QUOTE=Callius;32362094]It's their choice not yours, maybe they already donate outside of your shop, perhaps they don't think $1 will impact much on the breakthroughs on treating cancer and can aid humanity better another way, it's your role to judge them.
And personal circumstances don't matter, my dad has MS, it has arguably ruined my childhood, his life and my family as a whole, that doesn't mean I get shitty at people who don't give 50p to a collection for it's charitys.[/QUOTE]My dad has muscular dystrophe, I don't get all butthurt when people don't donate to the cause. There's like 50 million fucking causes out there and they all want your money. Many of them are not legit and are ripping people off. You can't blame people for getting overwhelmed or not trusting charities. I mean fuck, one of my uncles ran a phony charity designed to sap money into his own account. I know how to do it and get away with it, and it is easy as fuck.
Just remember, you can ask a charity to provide you with financial information before you donate. You can usually cut out the fake ones right away, because they will refuse to give you the information or say they don't have it. Regardless, make sure you read everything AND DON'T GIVE MONEY TO THE FUCKING GLOBAL WARMING CHARITIES. Support the anti-deforestation, anti-pollution, anti-toxic dumping ones... but any charity with "global warming" or "climate change" as a primary part of the cause should be ignored. They are almost always bullshit.
Now, onto my story... I work at a bakery in a grocery store. We get some real retards from time to time, but some people even stand out from this batch of failures.
1 - A guy comes up and, with angry face and all, tells me there is too much fat in our croissants. I tell him "Well, that's croissants for you... they're fattening". He says "Bullshit. I've seen better." So I asked him "Do you even know how croissants are made? They're made from dozens of layers of pastry with a smear of butter in between [I]every single layer[/I]. The thing is literally made of pastry and animal fat."
After that he told me he was reporting me to the store manager. I never ended up hearing anything about it, I imagine the manager gave the same explanation.
2 - This guy comes up to our HUGE cake display case, points vaguely at it, and says "I want the blue cake." This is a common problem, people are not even close to specific enough, and we can't see where they're pointing on the glass because the glass is curved big time. Anyway, I ask him "Sorry, which cake did you want?" and he jams his finger into the glass harder this time, and says with more force "[B]The blue cake[/B]". Having gone through this shit all day, I say "WE HAVE OVER 5 BLUE CAKES, WHICH ONE DO YOU WANT?" and he points and says "I WANT THAT FUCKING CAKE". So I say "I CAN'T SEE THROUGH THE GLASS DIPSHIT, DESCRIBE THE FUCKING CAKE". My manager stepped in and told the guy the get the fuck out, and took me off serving customers for the rest of my shift. Man that was ridiculous.
Got lots of other stories from that bakery... there were some fantastically stupid people there god damn.
I don't think I've ever had a problem like this when browsing a store. I apologise if I spend endless amounts of time looking at game cases, but quite honestly, it's like getting a whiff of a delicious meal in that house next door with the killer pitbulls. You want it but you ain't getting it. I try to be nice to store workers, although, generally I'm kind of shy and awkward when interacting with people. I dunno how to act.
Anyway yeah, I try to be nice to workers.
[QUOTE=Da_Maniac_;32356253]Gas station bathrooms.
'nuff said.[/QUOTE]
Wrong.
Women's bathrooms. That's the bottom of the barrel, it doesn't get any worse than that.
I know it's not retail, but I work as a buser at a restaurant, and part of my job is cleaning out the bathrooms. One day, we had a gentleman come in. One of the waitresses goes over, gets his drink order, delivers it, then comes to the back. She had served this man before, in a different restaurant. She says something about him smelling. I go around, do some other things like clearing tables and general sweeping before getting called over by one of the bartenders. He tells me to go in the men's bathroom.
The smell was indescribable, but I can only try. It didn't smell like piss, shit, blood, or vomit. It was more like cheap as shit cat litter that hadn't been cleaned in 2 weeks. I sprayed about a quarter bottle of bleach all around the bathroom while using about another quarter bottle of air freshener. It masked the smell for the rest of the night, but I had to alert my boss.
The next day, I go into the men's bathroom and it still fucking smells like it did last night. I've never smelled something so fucking foul in my life.
Women's bathrooms are hideously disgusting.
[QUOTE=Pascall;32363192]Women's bathrooms are hideously disgusting.[/QUOTE]
I find it utterly, fucking funny how I've been told men are messy by women. Once you've walked into a public women's restroom and you can just laugh in their faces. They have no decency at all. Toilet paper and tampon wrappers litter the floor, while piss and (in my case) vomit cover the toilet seat. The tiles underneath the hand dryers turn greyish black from all the filth. Every men's room I've been in has been virtually spotless compared to the women's restroom at my work.
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