TheGirlWithTheFoxTattoo
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Feb 17, 2018 4:34 PM
TheGirlWithTheFoxTattoo
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IpodKingCrackBaby
I worked retail at an employee store for Columbia sportswear, youd think it would be easier cus its invite/pass only.. NOPE everyone thinks>
IpodKingCrackBaby
that because they got invited that they expect TOP NOTCH treatment from us and are 200% entitled to have it their way..... i hated retail:)<
CyranoDeBurlapSack
Used to work retail. I learned that shitty people treat you like shit because someone treated them like shit and it's a shit cycle, which 1/
digdoug78
When then, get your shit together. Get it all together and put it in a back pack. All your shit, so it's together. And if you gotta take it
CyranoDeBurlapSack
Isnt something you ride with dignity, because eventually you'll treat someone like shit bc of your shitty day and the cycle continues.
Babbsykun1337
psychomime
A customer once reviewed us as a 'waist of time'.
XxKnightMarexX
"That's what I was trying to tell you, you ol'bat"
xanthio
The customers that want to be let in early is bad, but I had irate customers at the gate demanding to be let in while cops were all over..
xanthio
..the store because someone just stole all the cash in the store.
MrPredator
battlepants
#1 Sundays are the worst (in food service). There are people who (I am convinced) that do not see society except for church day, so they >>
battlepants
are completely unfamiliar with how to properly act in public (to people who aren't required to kiss their ass)
vaginapower
I hate retail. But if I nail this second interview this coming week, I'm out. prayers pls.
MetaSomma
"The customer is always right" hasn't been a thing since the 90s, in most retail areas I've seen. People abused it
miclaymon
yep, i can confirm that this applies to Kroger
hmrco92
Oh fuck Kroger. Worst place I've ever worked.
uptaco
Currently there. Plum Market was WAY worse.
uptaco
Agreed.
JaviLengo
I’ve, thankfully, never worked retail but I feel your pain brothers and sisters.
ThisIsLiterallySatan
So. I work in retail pharmacy. My pharmacy doesn’t open until 9. We had to go in early, at 7 am, to handle some stock because we are 1/?
ThisIsLiterallySatan
one of the pharmacies (rite aid) which was bought out by Walgreens and our cutover date was this past wednesday. Well. Me and my coworker2/?
ThisIsLiterallySatan
arrive. At 7 am. Lights are dimmed. Drive thru’s closed and locked up. And there’s a dumb ass just sitting there. Waiting for us to 3/?
ThisIsLiterallySatan
to get him his medication. He spots us. Drives around, yells through his passenger side window “ARE YOU OPEN?!”...we just stand there,
ThisIsLiterallySatan
staring at this idiotic piece of shit. I finally yell back, “uh....no? We open at the same time we’ve always opened during the weekday....”
Fishmongler
He might have been dumb but at least he wasn’t getting mad right?
RoxanneLaWin
My fave: woman produced a gas mileage invoice for me to pay her for the petrol it took to return the skirt she bought in the wrong size.
RoxanneLaWin
She asked for the manager. “I AMMM THE MANAGERRER” I got to yell down at her because it was Tuesday and Caroline was off so I was bumped up
deetatron
I agree, mandatory 1 year in retail!
CISMaleScumLord
I did my time in tech support thank you very much
EatsBees
Nah. Two, make sure they work the holidays. And another two in a call center, customer-facing
ijustwanttotalkaboutsex
And serving tables in a restaurant
irishwristwatch
Retail is the food service industry’s older, bitch sister
AFelineMassofEyes
Ah yes. The stockroom is not a respawn point; checking more often will not generate a new shipment.
AFelineMassofEyes
And sometimes "limited edition" means "not yours." Deal with it, trophy wife.
Corrodias
Pity. It's just a little weird, as a consumer, to think that a store might keep a stock of only a few of an item. But I suppose they have »
Corrodias
a lot of items to stock and little enough room for them all.
AFelineMassofEyes
Your item is sold out either because it's highly popular, or too obscure for them to have many in stock... is generally how it goes.
akaFLAMEGiRL
What if I were to tell you that the stockroom in the back is not an infinite depository where we withhold items just to annoy you?
Darkcloud257
Used to work in an big chain electronics store, someone tried to return something they purchased from a completely different company 1/?
Darkcloud257
Which had gone under a year or so prior, had to politely tell them you can’t return things to random places.
RobocatsBack
Those were my favorite. "M'am, we've never carried this brand in our 50 years of operation." "Obviously you did because I got it here!"
Darkcloud257
Or the old “you sell the same thing, why can’t you just take it?”
RobocatsBack
Had a woman bring in a shirt with a 9 year old tag from our store. We offered her a penny(the current value) She threw the shirt and left.
slinkiisu
All of this has been my life for years now...
Nevsaidso
Me too......
slinkiisu
Retail people should get together and hold an annual 'damn the customers' day where we just get to act out. Like one person gets to be a 1/
slinkiisu
2/ customer and the other the retail worker and the customer is a jerk and the retail worker just bitches 'em out. I think it'd be fun.
gumbothemedic
I work in an ER. Many of these apply to my job as well. +1
Katamoran
Ma'am, we're just putting in an IV port... Because you need it... Yes I understand your foot hurts... Yes I know this is your husband...
Sparrowcide
Same. I'm practically fluent in drunkese.
wintervoices
I worked in IT at a manufacturer company. The people in charge of sales, banks and human resources hated each other, it was almost /1
wintervoices
entertaining to watch them fight in practically all the meetings and then deal with them separatedly to hear them complaint about each /2
wintervoices
other and just having to not through their whole rant because if you explicitly agreed or disagreed they took it against you as well. /3
Panzermeyer
I tried not to be this when I went into the ER. I did, however, ask everyone around me about their life stories to distract from the pain.
whitefire14
Yeah, but you're probably at least paid more.
vaginapower
My thing is at least theyre doing something meaningful. I hate the existential despair that comes with working retail
TheGirlWithTheFoxTattoo
I sell wedding dresses so that’s meaningful.
criticallyacclaimedfuckwad
Actually, unless you have a decent degree they start at minimum wage just like most customer service positions. It's bullshit.
mycatToastwasafatasshole
Depends. EMT drivers/workers get paid the same as a fast food employee.
RedIronCrown
Any job dealing with the general public, really.
GodEmperor0fMankind
#4 hurts. It hurts bad.
hmrco92
"Why didn't you order more of this popular item!!?"...why do you 30 bottles of peppermint hand soap?
RobocatsBack
We had people only shop sales racks and then complain when we stopped selling their favorite product. "I always got it here because the
RobocatsBack
sale price is so great! Why don't you carry it anymore?!"
Queenjoy89
It's worse when it comes to food, as a past server people would get so pissed at me because we raised our prices
TCGreen
I literally got cussed out on Christmas Eve because we didn't have an ink cartridge in stock.
GrandNagusQuark
"is there anything else I can help you with?" "The winning lottery ticket numbers" HARDY FUCKING HAR GOOD ONE
bayly96
Do people yell at staff often in America?? I mean I get some rude ass customers but never been yelled at
dashers
Me too. I worked in retail for a few years, and whilst there were some odd experiences, I didn't leave hating the public.
energist
yes, yes, yes. I've also had products thrown directly at my face while they were yelling.
bayly96
What the actual fuck... note to self, never work in America
energist
when i kicked her out of the store she kept yelling and I had to threaten to call the cops twice and start dialing before she actually left
Flowerblossm
A customer threatened to hit my co-worker, over a coupon not working
ReitnesTenought
#2 oh dear gods this one.
Comet260
I worked in call center for Apple. Just tell me what goddamn issue is with your iPhone!!!
thesixthcourier
Customer logging a network call for assistance with BGP in 2018: Well it all started in '98 when we decided to migrate to RIP...
tantallous
Half the time for me its a coworker calling to let me know they are going to be late, when they are already late. Don't need your life story
crazyfishlady
It's so much worse when you also have a line of people you're supposed to be helping. *sigh* Hilarious when the caller comes in later,
crazyfishlady
and you point them out to your coworkers and crack up, though. :)
ReitnesTenought
I don't need to hear about how it all started in 1952 when you bought the house. Just tell me what you're looking for.
FrozenAM
Made the mistake of interjecting a question and get hit with, "don't interrupt me". Endured another 2 mins before I talked again.
MOTHERFUCKINGLUCIFERMORNINGSTAR
Got that once. Told them they interrupted my day first and need to hurry up. They got to the point very quickly after that
mycatToastwasafatasshole
As a Starbucks employee, we have way too many trophy wives to get away with that.
MOTHERFUCKINGLUCIFERMORNINGSTAR
I was the manger so it didn't really matter for me but i would've backed up any employee who said this. Their bullshit costs money.
itsybitsyspider
They do it everywhere. I don't work in retail but I still get it.
spritely88
The worst are the terribly rude customers who complain about being treated rudely back and keep on coming back day after day to bitch & moan
mycatToastwasafatasshole
"I AM NEVER COME BACK!!! Until tomorrow and then I'll act like nothing happened."
spritely88
had a customer grab my arse then he finds out at the counter that I was the only person who could help him. Loved watching him squirm.
Respectthesend
"the costumer is always right" is such an american thing! I just moved to France where the costumer is always wrong....
Nevsaidso
Do they dress badly?
Goodmorningvodka
LilithIsUs
I've gotten to the point I just roll eyes and sigh loudly
teddybonkerrs
Whenever people said that to me my reply was always “actually it means you can’t have it. If it doesn’t scan you can’t buy it”
Terminus2357
Once replied with “if I accidentally scan it twice it’ll be double”. Customer told me to have a sense of humor.
edward8767
"haha I have a sense of humour and I laughed the first time u heard it but you need to tell me one I've not heard before"
edward8767
*i
keyonne
I fuckin hated this joke. Stfu you’re not original and it wasn’t funny the first time.
heXonyou
Waiting tables in a restaurant, when customers would ask me for water I would tell them we don't sell water. T.T
demonic
Loved it when you mark a bull with that special marker and people would be like "I just printed that"
chiefvsmario
“Still warm/wet from the printer.” Sounds like admission of guilt, sorry can’t take it.
Swe3tJe3bus
I support prison time for people who make those jokes.
Afghaniscran
I actually had a cashier make that joke to me. My item wouldn't scan and she said it. It was a total role reversal. My mind did exactly that
KingFuckit
I'd go mandatory 2 years with the goal being you have to EARN your way out. So if you see a 50 year old selling electronics...
PossiblyJewish
What if they really like it though.
abdicus
Right? I worked JC Penny for 3 years and actually enjoyed it. That was ten years ago, so maybe I'm nostalgic of the minimal responsibility.
PossiblyJewish
I work occasionally at best buy, and tend to have fun when I'm there. But I don't need the job, and treat it as such. Could be part of it.
Tangerine623
Then they’re a masochist
BigBlueBurd
The problem being?
typicallurkerlikelyshitposter
I don't see a problem. The fruit was just answering the closet Jew's question.
thefuzziestofbutts
I had a lady who complained about the prices of the clothing. I told her we don't set the prices and she told me I was being rude.
Corrodias
I can only imagine I'd either stare and wait for her say something that was relevant to me or say "okay" or "I see".
RoxanneLaWin
I’ve had that at every one of the six/seven clothes shops I’ve worked at. They breed this woman somewhere.
hmrco92
I had so many customers open non-tester bottles of lotion and lather their whole fuckin arms with it. We had to make so many tester bottles.
LeagueOfExtraordinaryOwlbearnians
And then complain that prices keep going up?
hmrco92
"Walmart has cheaper lotion"...all the damn time. Like don't go to a specialty shop and expect superstore prices.
LeagueOfExtraordinaryOwlbearnians
"I purchased this in 'county of origin' and it cost less" - well yes it costs to ship it halfway round the world
thefuzziestofbutts
Had another lady who stayed an hour after closing and complained about the entire staff the entire time even though we were all friendly.
RideTheStimutacs
"Ma'am, if I may direct you to the additional display rack just outside the door..." and then close and lock up behind her.
thefuzziestofbutts
Had a guy expose himself to one of my employees in the fitting room. Had to call the cops. Not a fun day at all.
vaginapower
Worked at big makeup store. Had a guy that would frequently walk around and touch himself. Never remember mgmt doing anything
thefuzziestofbutts
Had a kid pee all over some merchandise. The mom didn't so shit about it when I told her.
katieg94
Had the owners wife walk her toddler in store, drops nappy and shits on the floor, bitch just held out her hand to take his and walked away
RobocatsBack
I had a thief pee on my fitting room floor, wipe with a pair of pants and stuff the tags into said pants. Also had a mom not want to miss
RobocatsBack
out on a big sale. Told her child to shit in the corner so she could keep trying on clothes.
thefuzziestofbutts
I worked in retail for over 7 years. I have an endless stream of stories and hate for most people and malls.
B99Reactions
You ok?
jdelossantos1494
Make a dump then!!!