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I'm waiting for my appointment at physical therapy atm. Would love a few good laughs when i'm back home again!
Thank you everyone for the stories and the laughs! Keep them coming!
BlastedtheBurro
Worked at a ski shop, all 20s white male employees with brown facial hair. Ask customer who was helping them before. "Idk some white guy"
CaptainCranium
Had a 20 minute conversation on the phone before the customer asked what store they were calling.
FlashedCashew
Try r/talesfromretail on reddit
LadyAyami
I worked at a UPS store next to a Subway. Everyday it was wow it smells like subway in here. 3 years of it
ImCheckingNames
I work in an Aquarium gift shop and a grown man asked me yesterday, "where y'all sell the fish at?!"
Reorder
I once considered working retail, then I decided to look for something more physically painful instead of emotionally.
Alitanyofcomplaints
Sometimes it gets to be so bad it becomes physical, mostly from trying to comprehend the stupid
WorshipTheSun
I shop on Amazon.
LadyAyami
I shop on Amazon with swagbuck money, freeeeeeeeeee
SithLordChimichanga
I work as a cart attendant. I dont really deal with the customers themselves but what they leave behind. Ive had diapers, old clothes 1/2
SithLordChimichanga
Food, and boxes that we let members take for free and then they don't even fucking use them making me take them back inside.
iLoveLampiLoveLamp
Trash compactor at store broke and wasn't fixed for two days, we didn't have space so we put it in a trailer and filled it up.
iLoveLampiLoveLamp
We called DC to not pick up trailer because of trash, well they didn't listen and got a surprise. I got lit up like the 4th of July, laughed
AriBoBari
My pet salamander had its tail bitten off by my cat. It grew back.
pelekekonakeohokaloleakaprestonapplebaum
Notalwaysright.com
ferb444
Excuse me, do you work here?
ImCheckingNames
The worst one.
deliciousapples
I just look down at my shirt (which has the store name), look back at them in disbelief, and say "I think so."
BurgleStar
When I was 18, a senior-aged customer very enthusiastically asked me "Anyone ever tell you brunettes are the shit!?" Made my day
hurradedurra
Dude calls the store. I answer with welcome to the *storname* how can I help you. " uuuh, are you guys open?"
eggimage
minded?
IMGURIMGURIMGURIMGURIMGURIMGURIMGURIMGURIMGUR
Sometimes stores answer their phones when they are not open.
HookerinaHandbasket
That's not that bad, what's bad is (1/2)
Lysergian
The correct way to do this is ask "how late are you open today" and if it's close to their closing time, ask if they are still taking orders
hurradedurra
Indeed.
HookerinaHandbasket
(2/2) dude called the store I answer with "storename* customer replies with *high is this "same storename I just said"
hurradedurra
This one I do get. Sometimes the call connects but the phone microphone does not.
hurradedurra
Happens to me all the time.
SingingMeAndCthulioDownByRlyehFhtagn
Yeah! Fuck you for being considerate!
Atomic2
All the retail I've ever worked, we answered phones before/after close as long as we were in there. Sometimes managers called to check in.
clutch2999
I used to work at Dick's sporting goods. Every week, twice a week, an old man would come in, wearing work out clothes and ask to check out
clutch2999
the treadmills. We'd point him in the right direction and he'd turn one on and start walking. He'd pretend to adjust the height and speed
clutch2999
for a bit, and then settle into his workout. He wouldn't say anything to us, but just keep walking. We'd ask him if he had any questions,
clutch2999
and he'd say "not right now, but I'll come find you if I do." He then proceeded to walk on the treadmill for an hour, then stop and walk
clutch2999
right out the store. I thought it was weird the first time, then I realized he was using the store as his personal gym after he kept
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coming back each week. Sly bastard got away with a free gym membership. One time he even brought a towel to wipe his sweat.