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BoredGamer
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So, retail work. It's shitty, it's badly paid, you get treated like shit by asshole customers, and red tape and bullshit company rules stop you from dealing with stuff like a normal human being should. Why am i bringing all this up? Well we are rapidly speeding towards the boxing day sales like a runaway train, and this'll be my second year trying to "survive" it.
So i thought, as a way of making sure that one or more of us doesn't just flip and beat someone to death with a price gun, that we could vent some anger here, and generally tell stories about idiot customers.
For example. I work in a large department store in the UK. I sell suitcases in this department store. (And that is exactly as exciting as it sounds) Since i work weekdays, i get to deal with the worst part society. People who shop for shit in the middle of the day, which means old people, students, old people, fucking dodgy looking pikeys, old people, the unemployed, and old people.
Here are some of the questions i just loved to get asked twenty or thirty times a day.
"Do you have this in any other colours?"
No.
"Can you pay for this at any till?"
You can pay for it at any till in this store.
"Well it was 25% off last week ..."
Yes ... last week... when there was a megaday on ... try to keep up.
"It was on the rail that says 50% off"
That's because another customer ... or YOU put it there.
"So i can only use this voucher when i spend £25? What's the point of that?"
We'e a business, not a charity. Of course we're not just going to give you a fiver.
"If I spend over £200 can I get any discount?"
This isn't fucking Marrakesh! If you want to haggle then shop somewhere else.
Also, fuck sales managers. There is going to be a special circle of hell for those cunts.
So i thought, as a way of making sure that one or more of us doesn't just flip and beat someone to death with a price gun, that we could vent some anger here, and generally tell stories about idiot customers.
For example. I work in a large department store in the UK. I sell suitcases in this department store. (And that is exactly as exciting as it sounds) Since i work weekdays, i get to deal with the worst part society. People who shop for shit in the middle of the day, which means old people, students, old people, fucking dodgy looking pikeys, old people, the unemployed, and old people.
Here are some of the questions i just loved to get asked twenty or thirty times a day.
"Do you have this in any other colours?"
No.
"Can you pay for this at any till?"
You can pay for it at any till in this store.
"Well it was 25% off last week ..."
Yes ... last week... when there was a megaday on ... try to keep up.
"It was on the rail that says 50% off"
That's because another customer ... or YOU put it there.
"So i can only use this voucher when i spend £25? What's the point of that?"
We'e a business, not a charity. Of course we're not just going to give you a fiver.
"If I spend over £200 can I get any discount?"
This isn't fucking Marrakesh! If you want to haggle then shop somewhere else.
Also, fuck sales managers. There is going to be a special circle of hell for those cunts.
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Are there like organized brawls in the street?
Does Don King take over as PM for the day?
I'm confused how this all works.
"Megaday"
"£"
Speak English.
Welcome to retail. There's a 99% chance that your immediate supervisor will be a spineless, sniveling bitch. That's just life.
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My home town.:^:
I want the next boxing say special being oversized fluorescent dildos. They'll be a limit of 100 of them in each Walmart, located right in front of the doors.
People will stampede towards them, killing each other in the process, and then there will be footage of people beating each other to death with dildos, pulling dildos apart with their ursine hands, and being carted off to the hospital, beaten, bloody and crying but holding on to their free dildos triumphantly.
FUCK YOU IT'S NOT MY JOB TO SERVE YOU
I'M NOT YOUR SLAVE
FUCK YOU IT'S NOT MY JOB TO SERVE YOU
I'M NOT YOUR SLAVE
You can pay for it at any till in this store.
Honestly, if a sales person gave me a snide ass comment like this I'd slap the bastard on the mouth.
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like they're going to outstare me
(i've won each time)
We must be reversing the question and answer of who's saying what.
That way it makes sense
so true. I thought retail was bad until I stepped up to serving and oh man it is an entirely different circle of hell.
woah dude
The girlfriend and I planned to pick up a new crock pot for her folks for Christmas. We bought one, but one went on sale a few days later, so we returned to the store, returned the purchased one, and went to pick up the crock pot on sale. Oh damn, they're out of them, so we ask one of the staff to check if there are any left in back. Whoops, nope, we're fresh out of'em, but here's what I'll do, see that one there [a much nicer one similar to the one I own) I'll apply the same discount that was on the other, how's that?
So we got a $60 crock pot for $30, and it was much nicer than the one we planned to pick up.
Horray for that guy.
Have fun with that.
then CES and lots of shit to review and preview
dildos for the dildo god
day after Christmas Day.
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showpost.php?p=1881948&postcount=1
I'm not! I'm actually really helpful unless you're a dick!
I've had people (moms) come into the store and ask for me because their friends said I'm really helpful
i still haven't gotten promoted
Usually some discounts on overstock items that didn't move during the christmas season. It used to be illegal for stores to open on boxing day in Canada, but since so many stores did anyway to make a profit they changed that law.
Now that it isn't illegal the sales are a lot worse.
Good performance does not equal promotion. Remember, if you're not there doing your good job, then it's not getting done, so no promotion for you. They'll promote the guy who sucks and hope he can manage you instead.
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Is that all there is to it, it seems like there's some big secret I'm missing out on
but I'm 25!
I'm old enough to be your father!
let me see your ID!
Some people really hated showing their ID
my mom asks for you all the time
i was so mad
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