This comic is pretty true. Half the time I know if we have it or not and just want to give the impression of "I care about your business". I will legitimately go back and look for stuff though, depending on what you're looking for, if you're a douche, etc.
This comic is pretty true. Half the time I know if we have it or not and just want to give the impression of "I care about your business". I will legitimately go back and look for stuff though, depending on what you're looking for, if you're a douche, etc.
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Also Tycho looks different in both panels of this strip. Panel one his irises are different sizes and I don't think I've ever seen that panel 3 expression for him before.
Also Tycho looks different in both panels of this strip. Panel one his irises are different sizes and I don't think I've ever seen that panel 3 expression for him before.
it is because for once he is not the font of knowledge, he is having it bestowed upon him
My favourite one is that when they asked to speak to the manager I would respond with, I am the manager ma'am.
(It was always women that complained you see)
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Anyways, because I am really fucking tired and stupid I didn't realise this was still in the context of the shop. It was like reading some goddamn post-modern comic deconstruction.
We just used to tell people we didn't have a "back".
It was kind of a half lie, we did have a back, but there was nothing there. The got our deliveries of stuff every day, and it all went out in the morning. But it was easier to say there wasn't one.
Well, not for where I work, anyway. Because we actually work.
My job description odes not include "look in the back for shit I don't stock".
Exactly. I work at a general consumer tech store, so most of our stock's out the front, but big/valuable things are out the back. Sizeable back, too. And we check the system first, and that's out at the registers, so we can't do this kind of shit unless we're real douchebags.
Now, on the flip side, the local Best Buy is terrible at getting things on the floor. At least half the time when I've come in the day an item comes out (even if it is advertised IN THE CIRCULAR) it won't be out anywhere and I have to wait for someone to "look in the back" to get me a copy.
Invariably the person who ends up looking is the short guy with a gimp leg. No, I'm not kidding.
i worked in a department store when that came out, and they were sold out in like an hour on launch day. we weren't getting anymore until Nintendo said they were shipping more, and we had no idea when that would be.
people did not accept this answer. the one dude insisted that we look "in the back" for one, and when we did just to appease his stupid ass (by going in the back for two minutes, bitching to the stock guys about this asshole, and then coming out) he was like "I don't believe you" and wanted to look himself
he wanted to look in our stockroom for a Nintendo Wii
and he was insistent!
we had to threaten to call security because he wouldn't let it go
Now, on the flip side, the local Best Buy is terrible at getting things on the floor. At least half the time when I've come in the day an item comes out (even if it is advertised IN THE CIRCULAR) it won't be out anywhere and I have to wait for someone to "look in the back" to get me a copy.
Invariably the person who ends up looking is the short guy with a gimp leg. No, I'm not kidding.
I am so glad we don't have Best Buy. Wherever I go, whatever I read make it sound evil.
I've never understood the attitude where customers somehow think they're being denied the chance to be a customer, what the hell do they think retailers would gain out of it?
I've never understood the attitude where customers somehow think they're being denied the chance to be a customer, what the hell do they think retailers would gain out of it?
That's not how a business works
oh my god, this fucking post
seriously
jesus christ people, we want your money. we want to sell you the product you came in here for, if we have it. if we don't have it, we're not trying to fuck with you! we would gladly take your money and hand it to you if we could!
when the Wii came out there was a pissy woman who insisted that i wouldn't order her a Wii (that's not how it works!) because i was racist
Going to "the back" when you know you are out means walking away from the customer, going through a doorway, giving a cursory glance over inventory while you prepare your "I'm sorry but I didn't see it" face. Once expression is locked into place, you return, bearing such expression, and proclaim "I am sorry but I didn't see it," with all due (mock) contrition.
It is a staple of how things work in the retail world circa Happy Holidays.
Working grocery freight has taught me that the only items kept in the back are overstock, and overstock typically only applies to mundane things that sell reasonably well but are not hot items, if its hot, it gets a separate display where the overstock is kept accessible to customers.
This is, by and large, how the business works. Got extra hot shit items? Put them out there, make people look at them, bam bing badading, you have a fucking advertisement right there on your showfloor. This is how things work. Why in the name of almighty Fuck would you think we have a reserve..
"Oh, and you'd know that without checking, would you?"
"Yes sir. I'm the software merchandiser. Every shipment of software that comes into the store, I price it, dummy box it, and put it on display. Everything on this shelf was put out by me."
"No it wasn't!"
Yes, this was while I was wearing a nametag. With "Software Merchandising" on said nametag, and possibly "ask me about such and such a product" I forget what
The only good thing about working short contracts is that you feel far more secure in telling customers what you really think of them because, hey, you're finishing shortly anyway...
And, of course, the manager can feel free to let me go if he decides to let one of the other temps do the job I've got years of experience in
it's true. our art store has a massive huge wall o' papers that spans like thirty meters and is full of massive reams of all sorts of craft, scrapbooking and invitation papers - piles of the things.
the 'back' of our store is like one set of shelving that can barely fit the few boxes of foamcore we received that day. it's clear to any idle observer that we have no fucking room beyond the 'staff only' sign.
yet customers will pick out the most obscure patterened yuzen paper that's already on the 'discontinued' rack and ask if there's more 'in the back'
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Yeah exactly.
(It was always women that complained you see)
Satans..... hints.....
it is because for once he is not the font of knowledge, he is having it bestowed upon him
Shh.
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Anyways, because I am really fucking tired and stupid I didn't realise this was still in the context of the shop. It was like reading some goddamn post-modern comic deconstruction.
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Well, not for where I work, anyway. Because we actually work.
My job description odes not include "look in the back for shit I don't stock".
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There was a guy who asked me if we had any used copies of Quake II.
I checked the shelves, and checked the computer, and we didn't. Sorry, dude. We've got new copies? But no used ones.
Usually, this was when someone would ask me to call another EB and see if they had it, and I would.
But he was like "Can you check in the back?"
I was like
w-what
how does
what
It was kind of a half lie, we did have a back, but there was nothing there. The got our deliveries of stuff every day, and it all went out in the morning. But it was easier to say there wasn't one.
But I only ask if they have reason to think whatever I'm after is in stock, and there's no sign of it on the shelves.
it's like
listen if there's a giant empty space where all the Nintendo Wiis once were
and you've gone all around town trying to find them
why in god's name would we have a bunch of them squirreled away in the stockroom?
jesus, people, i know everyone hasn't worked in retail but a little common sense here
Invariably the person who ends up looking is the short guy with a gimp leg. No, I'm not kidding.
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darn
back to stupid essay that's due in FOUR HOURS
i worked in a department store when that came out, and they were sold out in like an hour on launch day. we weren't getting anymore until Nintendo said they were shipping more, and we had no idea when that would be.
people did not accept this answer. the one dude insisted that we look "in the back" for one, and when we did just to appease his stupid ass (by going in the back for two minutes, bitching to the stock guys about this asshole, and then coming out) he was like "I don't believe you" and wanted to look himself
he wanted to look in our stockroom for a Nintendo Wii
and he was insistent!
we had to threaten to call security because he wouldn't let it go
That's not how a business works
oh my god, this fucking post
seriously
jesus christ people, we want your money. we want to sell you the product you came in here for, if we have it. if we don't have it, we're not trying to fuck with you! we would gladly take your money and hand it to you if we could!
when the Wii came out there was a pissy woman who insisted that i wouldn't order her a Wii (that's not how it works!) because i was racist
i just...
god damn, people
It is a staple of how things work in the retail world circa Happy Holidays.
This is, by and large, how the business works. Got extra hot shit items? Put them out there, make people look at them, bam bing badading, you have a fucking advertisement right there on your showfloor. This is how things work. Why in the name of almighty Fuck would you think we have a reserve..
god, why are canadians such assholes, you'd think they'd learn a little courtesy or whatever
"Oh, and you'd know that without checking, would you?"
"Yes sir. I'm the software merchandiser. Every shipment of software that comes into the store, I price it, dummy box it, and put it on display. Everything on this shelf was put out by me."
"No it wasn't!"
Yes, this was while I was wearing a nametag. With "Software Merchandising" on said nametag, and possibly "ask me about such and such a product" I forget what
The only good thing about working short contracts is that you feel far more secure in telling customers what you really think of them because, hey, you're finishing shortly anyway...
And, of course, the manager can feel free to let me go if he decides to let one of the other temps do the job I've got years of experience in
Ahh, memories.
The rudest fucking people
the 'back' of our store is like one set of shelving that can barely fit the few boxes of foamcore we received that day. it's clear to any idle observer that we have no fucking room beyond the 'staff only' sign.
yet customers will pick out the most obscure patterened yuzen paper that's already on the 'discontinued' rack and ask if there's more 'in the back'
the back
there is no back!