Squire-of-Gothos
Fanatic   Posts: 206 Registered: 1/1/2003 Status: Offline
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posted on 9/7/2003 at 12:17 PM |
I was very curious as to whether any of my fellow shmenglings are also
fellow Dollar General employies. I just got into the glamorous world of
retail, and boy is it fun. Scanners that dont work, registers that go
insane, and just general havoc. Best part is that my clock-out form
actually says "Time is Money" which gives a very creepy Mr. Burns feel to
my work week. Any way to the case at hand. I have two registers at my work,
positioned so that when im ringing up items, the other is behind me. about
1 out of every 3 times, a customer tottaly disregards these important
details
A. I am facing the other direction
B. I just rung up the last customer on the other side
C. I take no notice to them, and refuse to acknowledge there presence
D. A large, yellow sign Proclaims "this register is closed, please use the
other"
And proceeds to put their items on the wrong counter. I used to ask them to
go to the other side, but now I just lean against the counter, staring at
the sign in front of them, which directs them to my side. There is no point
to this post, I just want people to come in and tell about their "stupidest
customer" experiences.
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“The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.”
“You know that if I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a buzzard.
Nothing hates him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat
anything.”
Faulkner
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Anya
Extreme Fanatic   Posts: 656 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 9/7/2003 at 07:51 PM |
| I've not worked at the store, but I do not understand the logic of that,
either. I'd understand if they got flakey for a second then decided to
move their stuff, but that's about all. A stupid customer moment, eh?
Here's one to point out for even non-employees: the lady tripping over her
kid at a store and sueing the store over it. She won, too..that's what is
even more blah. :/ ____________________
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bettie_x
Extreme Fanatic  Posts: 1570 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 9/7/2003 at 11:39 PM |
Welcome to the wubbulous world of retail, friend.
You ain't seen nothin till you've worked in a mall in holiday season.
You might as well grease your asshole and bend over, because that's about
all that'll make them happy at that time.
Just make sure you like it before you spend more than a few years doing it.
It sucks you in, and it's inescapable, and before you know it your 30
years old part timing at sears bitching about your union dues and the price
of cigarettes. ____________________
Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas.
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Xaoswolf
Fanatic  Posts: 463 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 10/7/2003 at 02:14 PM |
| When I worked at Pizza Hut, we used to just hang up on people. That was
always fun. ____________________
Sometimes I dream about dinosaurs shopping for cargo shorts at the Gap.
Does that make me a bad person?
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Psychopixi
Fanatic  Posts: 376 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 10/7/2003 at 03:43 PM |
| My boyfriend recently began working in a chippy near by. One day a townie
came in - a guy that was part of the same gang that surrounded him and
ended up breaking his nose. This townie was jibbing like hell - really
mouthing off to Elliot, and the poor guy can't say anything back else he
loses his job (and he isn't the kinda guy to just sit back and take abuse
like that). His answer? Serve the guy with a smile... after spitting in his
gravy. ____________________
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
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RavensSoul
Member   Posts: 63 Registered: 27/3/2003 Status: Offline
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posted on 14/7/2003 at 06:23 PM |
I dunno whats worse.. Realizing there is spit in your food, or finding a
hair that is as long as your arm....* my bad experience at mc donalds*  ____________________
In my eyes, to be human is not to be able to live and die, but it is to
feel pain, love, happiness, and all other things that keep our hearts from
freezing over into the bloody ice that distinguishes man from the beasts of
night.
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Squire-of-Gothos
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posted on 14/7/2003 at 06:31 PM |
| Yeah retail is fun, especially when people buy 2.50 worth of stuff, and
then pay with a 100 dollar bill. my bestexperience so far! But hey, rarely
is there a career in which you magically make cash and do nothing, ecept
stuff you like, for just a little whiel every other day. Unless your a CEO
at Enron, and only then if you like shredding documents.... ____________________
“The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.”
“You know that if I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a buzzard.
Nothing hates him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat
anything.”
Faulkner
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bettie_x
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 1570 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 15/7/2003 at 12:12 AM |
Make money doing nothing?! BAH! I want your job!! But then again I'm
management, so I tend to get the shit end of everyone's stick. Explaining
to people that yes, they DID in fact not only remove tags and WEAR the
garment, but that it's so fucking OBVIOUS that it makes your head hurt that
they thought I wouldn't NOTICE. No, those deoderant marks weren't there
when you bought it. How do I know that? Because it's been washed.
Several times. No you can't have your money back. Yes, yes I am a
cocksucker, and I'd probably make a lot more money doing that than standing
here listening to you CALL me a cocksucker. Have a nice day, ma'am.
What do I do all day in "retail"? People seriously underestimate us. At
risk of sounding like a crybaby (and yes I know there are worse jobs out
there), I spend my day walking a mile a minute, climbing, digging through
shipment, kissing ass, playing referee/peacemaker between pissed off
teenagers and their parents, accepting applications from the scum of the
earth, trying to convince little kids to not buy body jewelery that I
damned well know that they're going to take home and jam through their
bodies with saftey pins and rubbing alcohol, explaining to parents that no,
I'm not out to steal their child's soul, handling a staff half of which
rocks and the other half should have a liscence to breathe, on and on and
on. Don't get me started on holiday seasons. It is no wonder that most of
the people I meet in retail are chain smokers and on their way to
alcoholism. You're thought of as menial, unskilled, and unmotivated
drones, or instantly assessed as a jackal after the rotting corpse of their
wallet...I can't tell you how many people have replied with "I'm just
looking" or "no thanks" when they walk in and I say "Hi" or "what's up" or
"how are you today?"
"Hey guys! What's up?"
"No thank you I'm just looking."
WTF?! ____________________
Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas.
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Squire-of-Gothos
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posted on 17/7/2003 at 09:09 PM |
Damn staright! Some woman came in, paid with a 5 and then had the nerve to
tell me she paid with a 10. Well, as a menial cashier bitch, i cant open
the register, so my manager took out the tray to count it and see if i was
over. Well as I explain this to the woman and my manager walks off, she
bolts out of the store. I didn't even have a ten dollar bill in my
register! Errrrr, those cheap, nasty bastards. I got so bad, i let go on a
customer. sort of.
This girl and her mom buy a 250 piece puzzle, and the mother is telling her
daughter that its a lot harder than the 100 piece ones she's used to. As
the mother walks off, the girl replies "I can do it, I can do anything,
nothing can stop me!" it wa such a positive, untainted atitiude, full of
that power and drive only an 8 year old could have. It was so cruel of me,
but leaned in and said "Don't worry sweetheart, in a few years, society
will destroy that optimism, and your soul" Luckily I don't think she
understood, but one day years from now, she may be sitting in home room,
drying off the tears from her last failed relationship, and my words might
rise from the depths of her memory. Like some ghoul from the grave, they
will haunt her, and another shower of tears will fall. Because honestly,
its true.
I know now, beyond all else, that I totally suck. ____________________
“The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.”
“You know that if I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a
buzzard.
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Nothing hates him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat
anything.”
Faulkner
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Aralis
Coward   Posts: 6 Registered: 28/9/2003 Status: Offline
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posted on 29/9/2003 at 03:19 PM |
| I am aware of all the pain and agony because I unfortunately work in the
wonderful world of retail management in a juniors clothing store in a large
mall...YAY! We get so much ghetto in our stores and so many thieves that i
have to babysit that some days i almost say I QUIT! and go running out the
door. It is not an easy job. I have to bite my tongue so many times and
put up with so much rudeness that it gets old very quickly and makes you
hate most people. I am not looking forward to the busy holiday season. I
need to work for a different kind of store thats more my style and my type
of customer. ____________________
With one motion of her waiting eyes
She strips everything away
This one moment is intensified
And colors all fade to grey
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Anonymous
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posted on 30/10/2003 at 10:24 AM |
Hey hey! I got fired. A combination of numerous customer complaints and
being 170 dollars short one day was my undoing. The 170 bucks was totally
not me, but I will admit to having told numerous customers that they are,
in fact, not always right, and in their cases often wrong. People don't
like that. But I feel it's my responsibility as a cynical ass to explain to
people that the carts are in front of them, that I can't triple bag one can
of soup, and that I don't care about their needs and they aren't better
than me. Oh well, Ceste' la vive!
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Squire-of-Gothos
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posted on 30/10/2003 at 10:26 AM |
| That was me btw ____________________
“The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.”
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“You know that if I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a
buzzard.
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Nothing hates him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat
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anything.”
Faulkner
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einzelgaenger
Coward  Posts: 9 Registered: 22/10/2003 Status: Offline
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posted on 30/10/2003 at 03:39 PM |
| I hated working retail. I worked for Software Etc for a couple years. I
dealt with little kids asking every question possible about Pokemon. Hicks
complaining because we don't have the new rassling (yes, rassling, not
wrestling) game in yet. People trying to return games with scratches in
them. If i didn't have what they wanted it was my fault. If I couldn't take
the game back they bought a year again and now decided to return it, I was
to blame. And the holiday season was a new level of hell. Drove me so
crazy I quit and joined the military. ____________________
Michael Schultz
http://einzelgaenger.livejournal.com - A Look Into My
Mind
http://schultzy.livejournal.com/ - My Stories
http://einzelgaenger.deviantart.com/gallery/ - My
Photography
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LadyCygnet
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 posted on 31/10/2003 at 01:39 AM |
Believe it or not, working in a hospital isn't much better than working in
retail. Patient families are rude (thank your local congressman for the BS
that is HIPAA), my boss has no idea what I do all night (nor does she
care), the doctors are mostly jerks, I work with some of the laziest people
on the face of the earth, yet I'm expected to do "service with a smile" and
remember that "the customer is always right."
I think everything is like retail, but much worse. And Hell will be full of
those delightful Lanier copier/fax/scanner/printer/paperweights from
hell...and the denizens will be forced to copy charts on those damned
things for all eternity.
[Edited on 31/10/2003 by LadyCygnet]
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