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If there is any justice or reason in the world, people who don't fully read sale signs have their own circle of hell. I don't know how many times I've had to deal with people who cause a big stink because they outright refuse to read a sign beyond the big ol' numbers. I too work for an arts and crafts store chain that I was recently contractually obligated not to mention whose name could also be a person's name that isn't "Joanne." Among other things (which is more like everything else) I set the ad on Sunday mornings with another woman who's been with the store for many years. I've been at this location for over a year, and with the company off and on since 2007. We both know what we're doing and know how to place signs so that they'll minimize confusion, but it's hard sometimes because certain brands will be on sale or an item that only has one facing on the entire shelf will be surrounded by a bunch of non-sale items. They all have to have the same bright orange, seven inch signs. The layout of these signs has the sale on top in huge letters (which can be a flat price, "X for $Y," or the dreaded BOGO), the regular price of the item or price range of items, and a description of what it is exactly that's on sale and any exclusions that might exist, such as "All glitter; excludes Martha Stewart Crafts." Rarely are the signs ever vague enough to cause anyone actual trouble, but there have been a few that just confused my partner and I. If idiots would just stop and actually read the signs, they wouldn't have half the trouble in a day at the front end. Most recently a woman just couldn't grasp that not all the craft paint was on sale. The sign has the specific brand listed, the signs are only on the sections with that specific brand, that brand is the only paint that normally sells for the price listed in "Regular price," and when I explained to her that she just kept failing to understand. We wound up going through every brand of paint with me having to tell her that no, it wasn't on sale because it's not the one over there, at the end of the aisle! What's more irritating is when people see a sign at the front of an aisle and don't bother reading it, but assume everything on the entire aisle is on sale. This mostly happens in the jewelery making department, but it's still baffling. As if we would just put one teeny-tiny sign to mark an entire aisle of wildly different items on sale! Only mildly annoying is when we have a BOGO on an item. Our system doesn't mark off on items like that until the end when the order is totaled out, but everything else it does including X for $Y. People always stop the cashier (sometimes me) with such great urgency when they see on the screen that their crayons mock them with the dreaded full price! I can't help but sympathize with this one though because as a customer, if you don't see anything designating a sale in the computer you want to just stop everything so the price can get checked and minimize the delay. It's just kind of annoying to have it happen so often. Funny how I'm ranting about this when I have to go do it in about an hour... I have more stories, including some dreaded Coupon Ladies, but I'll save those for another time. Until then, have a crazy druggie/compulsive shopper: It was around 20:55 one night, five minutes to closing, when a woman came in to do a little last-minute shopping for some sash she was making. Since we are completely unallowed to kick any peaceful customer out, we just have to let her shop. We do as much of our closing duties as normal, but until she is gone from the store we can't close the register or count it down. She refuses any help given to her and continues to wander the aisles, mostly in the apparel crafts section. Finally, at 21:30 she comes up and I happen to have been stuck on the register. Her cart is to the brim with stuff. Small stuff. The kind of quarter centimeter-thick packages that iron-ons come in. It looks like she just stuck and arm out and ran down the aisle, knocking everything into her cart. We can't do quantity scans because I don't have the authority to do that and her crap was so jumbled-up there was no way of knowing how much she had anyway. I start ringing her up as I hear a part of me die inside. After about 20 minutes of scanning things and her half-heartedly apologizing, I see an error I've never seen before: "Transaction Limit Exceeded." My manager on duty has no idea what this means. It won't let me scan anything else, so I just tell her we'll have to do it in two transactions. We get everything done and it's about 9:50, she just bought what came out to about $1,200 in iron-on letters, rhinestones, fabric paint, etc. The transaction limit error I later found out was because there can only be so many items scanned at once, about 200 or so. $1,200, about 300 items. In one night. Half an hour after we close. To make one sash. She returned half of it during my next shift. 
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| # ¿ Nov 7, 2010 12:16 |
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It's rather soul-crushing to have to come in at 5am (or do an overnight) to have to completely rebuild and stock an entire aisle knowing drat well that it's all going to go to poo poo by the end of the week and be a horrible mess of feathers and torn packages. In a related note, why do people feel the need to plow through what is obviously a section of the store that's under major renovation? There is literally nothing on the shelves, you don't need to be back here, just go the hell around. Even caution tape didn't keep everyone out, I eventually had to literally build waist-high barricades with heavy boxes to keep the aimless shoppers out.
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| # ¿ Nov 15, 2010 04:34 |
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I, um... My store was a ghost town on Black Friday.  So I got sent home after two hours because they couldn't afford to pay me 
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| # ¿ Nov 27, 2010 17:24 |
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Dodgeball posted:Do you work in a Halloween costume store, or something? Strangely enough, I work in a craft store chain (whom I'm contractually obligated not to name). We even were selling Cricut machines at a 70% discount when they normally never go below 25%. I guess everyone who cared about us did their shopping on Thursday night? Still, it sucks when you have to wake up early for work only to be told to piss off a couple hours later. My thoughts are with you guys that had to work in a higher-priority store.
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| # ¿ Nov 28, 2010 01:32 |
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Magikarpal Tunnel posted:I, uh, also get 'sir' sometimes, usually by people who are VERY not paying attention or only see me from behind.  ChirpChirpCheep posted:Also question for the lady retail goons! Which do you hate more- being called "Miss" or being called "Ma'am"? I don't mind either of those? They seem fairly respectable considering the circumstance. It's when they deviate that annoys me, or use my actual name. I understand why they do that but it still bugs me that I have to broadcast my name to everyone who happens to look at my name tag. cobalt impurity fucked around with this message at Jan 2, 2011 around 00:30 |
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I take breaks away from the public eye, almost entirely in the break room. If I'm on lunch I take off my name badge and have my bag slung over my shoulder and make a point of wearing any coat or sweater I might have with me as I walk out the door. I go out of my way to ensure no one will see me, or if they do, won't think I'm on duty. If they do, I tell them in as polite a tone as I care to at the moment that I can't help them. Why would anyone who was on break just stand out on a sales floor in full regalia and be surprised when people asked her for help?
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| # ¿ Jan 6, 2011 04:27 |
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But that's a different scenario. Someone recognizing you while out isn't the same because you're not at work chilling in front of the registers or whatever the hell. It's perfectly reasonable to assume you're going to encounter a regular customer at some point while out and if it happens they aren't going to run up to you and ask where something in your store is. If someone is in their place of employment on a break (and therefore presumably looking exactly as they did before the break) and are just standing out where customers can see and looks like an otherwise normal employee just standing around, one cannot get outraged or annoyed at that customer without being a total dick. You don't have a blinking sign on your body that says "OFF DUTY." As for hyperbolic complaining in general, that's fine. I do it too, but if you look like you're on duty and people assume you are, you don't have anything to complain about. And since you mentioned people not seeing things in front of their faces, when that happens to me I just try to be as condescending as possible while still keeping up my company mandated chipper loving attitude and hope they feel like a stupid rear end in a top hat for becoming a living Clerks joke.
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| # ¿ Jan 6, 2011 06:39 |
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If customers would stop tearing open sealed packages, especially on things that are intricately packaged, that would be fantastic. If they would stop playing with the loving spray paint in a building without any sort of ventilation whatsoever I wouldn't hate life so much. If I could put up a sign telling people not to be such dumbasses with cans full of toxic gas, that would be lovely, but my fat bitch of a district manager won't allow it!
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| # ¿ Jan 7, 2011 18:33 |
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ChirpChirpCheep posted:a nonfat cappuccino with no milk, all foam, with only one shot of espresso No milk but all foam? Other than the espresso, what the gently caress was in that cup?  The only bad coffee shop story I have is where one guy came in asking if we could make his cappuccino with extra caffeine, but he didn't want another shot of espresso and didn't want to have to pay more. Apparently this guy (who was a premed like everyone else that came in that place) thought caffeine was just something we put in poo poo.
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| # ¿ Jan 16, 2011 19:46 |
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Luquos posted:I thought it was just a latte, 1/3 espresso, 2/3 steamed milk, and a portion of chocolate syrup/cocoa powder? The shop I worked in (PJ's, a chain out of New Orleans) taught us that a "mocha" is basically a café au lait with chocolate added, but people would order it thinking they would be getting a mocha latte or any number of cold or frozen/blended things. Every place seems to have their own definition of "mocha" and it's annoying as hell.
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| # ¿ Jan 17, 2011 17:35 |
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I work for an international corporation that has not only given me no incentive to stop or deter thieves, they have even made it a pain in the rear end to do anything about it if I do somehow see it that it's hardly worth it. There's no incentive to stop shrink and my store in particular is so understaffed that you could basically steal anything if you were even slightly clever about it. We still have the occasional nut that runs right out the front door with literally armfuls of merchandise. Of course, with the way the laws are, someone could tell the cashier they're stealing it and give a little wave as they saunter out the door whistling and even the manger would be powerless to actually do anything. If it's a small enough item it wouldn't even be worth the manhours it would take to investigate and persecute the thief.
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| # ¿ Jan 30, 2011 04:26 |
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I was fired from my first job for not smiling enough. It was a smoothie shop franchise and a friend of the owners was a regular, even having a special recipe named after him. Apparently he was also secret shoppering for them and reported me for 1) not smiling enough, 2) not engaging him in conversation enough. I'm a nervous teenager trying to assemble these reasonably complex recipes while serving 10 people, excuse me if I don't want to chit-chat. I was also basically encouraged to scream greetings at each and every customer that walked in. This guy apparently just didn't have anything better to do than complain about kids who, while doing their actual job well, don't make the world revolve around him. The store has different owners now, but if you asked anybody who came in back then they'd most often complain about the way we had to act lest we be fired and they are watching us at all times.
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| # ¿ Feb 9, 2011 00:27 |
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Welp! Just got home after getting to work for 7:30 to unload the truck. Turns out the truck won't get there until 10, and everybody knew that except for me, who hasn't had a shift since Sunday. There's an internet service through which I can check my schedule and no one has bothered to update that or even call me, so with nothing to do or 2.5 hours I have to just come home and maybe catch a little more sleep. I need a new drat job. Even another retail job would be better that poo poo like this. I'm already getting less than 15 hours this week and that's pretty much standard lately, even less than new hires who get 20-30.
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| # ¿ Feb 23, 2011 14:00 |
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My bank even gave me a ledger with my debit card so I can keep track of expenditures exactly like with a check book. There is absolutely no reason to ever not use a card unless the electricity is out in the store or you're in some mom-n-pop run by people who predate Social Security. There are also just people who think everyone, everywhere is trying to scam them for every last penny. At the gas station I worked in, I actually had an old man come up to prepay for $20 of gas, but then ask me what guarantee he has that I'm not going to steal the remainder of that 20. I had about three cameras and a microphone pointed right at me! The company honestly trusted me with the store's money less than it does the customers. Dude just wanted a receipt, but he asked about it in the most rude way. It makes me wonder if he's ever actually prepaid for gas and when he went to get his change was just met with "nope!"
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| # ¿ Feb 28, 2011 16:40 |
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for sale posted:Got a call the other day from this lady who asked if this Josie Maran product we had was manufactured in China or she absolutely would not buy it. I said the bottle, printing, refining, or cardstock of this product probbly had something from China, but no it says Van Nuys California on the package. She was in the next day. Holy poo poo if you really care about this kind of thing go pull a walden or something. Once got a call from a guy who asked if we had any brands of paint that weren't made in the United States. He specifically asked for Canadian, but when I told him all our paint was manufactured either in China or England he seemed satisfied with that. Not exactly a bad experience though; I got to waste time looking at paint labels for some nationalist/paranoid nutter instead of actually working!
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| # ¿ Mar 9, 2011 14:09 |
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oldyogurt posted:The funniest incident relating money I can think of is when a 40-ish year old man in a tie pulled out a giant wad of singles to pay for his purchase. "I got these from my other job as a stripper!" he jokes. I kinda just look at him and try to laugh but the rest of the interaction is nothing but awkward. I'm sorry, I made this joke too when I worked at a café, but to my credit I am a university-aged woman with an appropriate figure. This was also before I started doing hard labour in busy retail locations instead of a sleepy coffee shop across from a school.
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| # ¿ Mar 14, 2011 19:39 |
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miscellaneous14 posted:I'd bet that said lazy cashiers are friends of the manager, who doesn't give a poo poo about actually rewarding good work, they just want to give their buddies free stuff that's sanctioned by the company. In most retail situations, you really should assume the worst. A thousand times this. It's clearly no coincidence that the sales associate with the most hours every week is also the one that's the manager's #1 smoking buddy.
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| # ¿ Mar 20, 2011 03:26 |
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Milk is milk. Get over yourself. Content: This is more just something that bugged me, but it only happened at work. I got a gash on my forearm about two inches long while on an extended weekend. It was fairly deep but still didn't penetrate to the muscle; looked far worse than it actually was, especially when it filled with blood and scabbed over. Almost an entire week after I got it I was back at work and all day I had people saying poo poo to me about it. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm glad they all showed concern over my well-being, but they way they went about it was just so rude. Anyone who saw it and mentioned it would just not let it go. The wound is a week old, it's closed, I'm not actively bleeding, it isn't bad enough to need stitches and they wouldn't help this late anyway, covering it with a bandage wouldn't do any good at this point. No one seemed to "get" that if I had something that needed stitches or was a health risk to anyone else, my employers would be seeing to it that I wasn't on the floor waiting to set off a law suit, and that when I say "it's fine" I mean it's fine, not that I need to be badgered about it constantly for the next few minutes of our interaction.
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| # ¿ Mar 29, 2011 21:26 |
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That's the thing: it wasn't bleeding at all. Only one corner of the gash even bled and it had sealed up days before. Not a shift goes by that I don't get a few cuts and scrapes, but this one was an old scab that everyone insisted I go to the emergency room for, even after my protests. It didn't warrant anything beyond minor first aide when I got it! And one couple that kept telling me to go to a hospital seemed to have no problem with me pulling heavy glass vases off a high shelf for them first...
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| # ¿ Mar 29, 2011 23:29 |
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If you hate the card at Michaels you'd best call and complain about it now while it's still just in test markets!  I dread the day I'll have to start pushing them, but then I may or may not be with that company much longer anyhow. I'm only getting 20 hours a week now because we're so short-staffed, when I could be working down the street for 30 a week minimum.
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| # ¿ Apr 3, 2011 01:54 |
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One of the most obnoxious things to happen was when my manager finally instilled a policy that we were able to refuse a transaction that would rob us of change, seeing as how a gas station in the middle of the ghetto is a prime target for robbery so we weren't allowed to keep more than about $40 in the till at any time. I still had people just coming in to make change, and every time I flat-out refused it. I once even had to tell a guy who wouldn't drop it that "this isn't a bank" and he yelled insults at me. Tough poo poo jackass, go to a drat bank, or any other store on the street. The worst though was some guy who thought he'd be clever and try to buy a 5 cent piece of candy with a $20 bill. I refused to just break the bill and after about a minute or so of deliberation in his car he came in with this brilliant scheme. There are few times when I've been  and proud of it but that was one of them.
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| # ¿ Apr 6, 2011 22:04 |
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Ornamented Death posted:
Nothing that bad because I've thankfully worked at places with adamant coupon policies, but I have once had a woman exceed the transaction limit which surprised even the manager that one existed. It took me 20 minutes to fully ring her out after she spent 30 minutes shopping. The worst part is that she didn't enter the store until 5 minutes to closing. Another time was that I had a guy in the gas station I worked in try to give me 8 bottle caps and say that would get him a free soda. I then pointed to the same place on the bottle and told him he needed to use the codes and print out a coupon online. I don't get how people have such a hard time with technology... He was only about middle aged too.
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| # ¿ Apr 7, 2011 15:03 |
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Last week I got bitched out for showing up at my scheduled time instead of the time I was supposed to be there. Apparently in the five days prior, two of which I worked, no one had the time to tell me I was supposed to come in two and a half hours earlier than scheduled, and it's my fault for not assuming the schedule was incorrect and calling to confirm it! Oh, Bed Bath & Beyond is hiring. How interesting...
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| # ¿ Apr 13, 2011 12:23 |
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Well, the real annoying part was how the physical paper schedule in the breakroom and the schedule you can check online weren't changed. I was bitched at for following a schedule I had no reason to believe wasn't accurate.
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| # ¿ Apr 13, 2011 13:06 |
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At my store, if you even have a penny difference in your drawer (which only the closing supervisor is allowed to count) either higher or lower you get a "report card." They don't actually mean poo poo and I've been with the company since 2007 and take weeks to sign them. Never got in trouble, but it's still annoying that a penny discrepancy is enough to warrant a written reprimand which I have to acknowledge I saw.
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| # ¿ Apr 14, 2011 04:57 |
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TShields posted:I don't know what I'd do if I had to go through every day with someone telling me how tiny I was. Oh, just like your wi- TShields posted:(no innuendo intended...) I'll be good.  to contribute: I hate people who don't get the concept of clearance merchandise. If something is sitting on a shelf with a big red and yellow label showing a very low price with a price more typical of the rest of the shelf saying "WAS: $$$" then you should assume it's on clearance, even if you can't read the word "CLEARANCE!" on that same label. All our sale signs say "excludes clearance merchandise" right on them, every single one, I hang them myself so I drat well know. This bitch tried to stop me because her frames weren't coming up on the BOGO. I told her they were clearance and already far more discounted than they would be for the sale, but this wasn't good enough. The manager of the framing department did a price check for me, and confirmed it. She still wanted to get one of them free. I kept telling her she was already getting $70 worth of frames for less than $20, but that just wasn't good enough. My store manager even said if she wanted the drat sale so bad I could override them to their original price and she just got fed up with it all and put them back. I checked them later that night and it looks like someone had torn the clearance tag off. I would have been more than happy to sell her $20 worth of frames on sale for $35 if she had wanted it so badly!
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| # ¿ May 8, 2011 20:35 |
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When I was able to get tips, credit tips were just tacked onto the total and if there ever was an additional fee I never felt it. However, credit tips did have to be declared and had deductions for income tax, so if you're able to leave a cash tip it's much more appreciated.
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| # ¿ May 18, 2011 14:09 |
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Cowslips Warren posted:Amen to the smoke breaks. If you're a smoker and a manager is too, brilliant! Now you're their buddy, especially if they can bum a cancerstick or light off you. A million times this. I've been with the company for a couple years and am constantly told we're too short on hours to get me anywhere near full-time or even more than 20 hours a week. I'm available any time 6 days a week, all weekend, I volunteer for holidays, but when a new girl started who was the only non-manager that smoked, guess who started getting 35-40 every week?
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| # ¿ May 24, 2011 21:37 |
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Robzor McFabulous posted:How strange. I've never seen this in England. If I saw someone standing in front of the lane, I'd assume they were stopping people from unloading because the register was being fixed or the lane was closing or something. If someone's sitting at the register and there's no obvious "closed" gate/sign/light then that's good enough for me. Does your store have a real problem with people seeing you at your register and thinking "Hmmmm... No... No, s/he just doesn't look open enough for me to risk it"? The average American customer is a total idiot that needs things spelled out for them. The standing in front of the lane thing is in the training videos for new hires at my job. Some people just don't want to put in any effort toward thinking about anything. I've had people walk a fair way through the store just to find someone to ask where something is which was on a shelf next to the drive aisle they walked past. Nobody will read a sale sign past the number so you have to explain to them like a child why their item isn't on sale and pray they don't get pissed off at you because their brain shut down the second their eyes saw %. My store's "customer service desk" and lane #1 are both in the same kiosk, and generally we only have an FES to be the sole cashier because of low hours. Sometimes the FES chooses to be at the customer service register, sometimes they choose to be at 1, but either way people will just stand there at the empty customer service register with its light off and wait for someone to help them return an item, or they'll instinctually walk up to register 1 when the light is on at customer service and the FES is standing right there waiting for them. Customers are idiots.
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| # ¿ May 26, 2011 14:14 |
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So, last night I had to read some printouts of some of the feedback from customer surveys that print out with every fifth receipt. The #1 complaint was being unable to receive help due to "associates being aware I'm in the store but not approaching." Note that this is selected from a list of possible complaints, so it's not people writing it in. Customers will wander around on days where the store is full of workers and not approach a single drat one of them to ask for help. These people are too lazy to ask nicely (or even rudely) for help and suddenly it's our problem! I just can't understand this mentality. If you need help finding something, go up to one of the people in uniform and loving ask! I've had to scold adults because they climb on ladders and poo poo, and they always say "well I couldn't find someone to help me." You didn't look. Four people on the floor to help, and you could always go to the cashier and she can page someone over. Customers are lazy morons who won't put in any effort to do anything, but complain when they don't get what they want. Also, #2 complaint was that the cashier those particular customers had was rude and inexperienced. They gave her name in the comments section. She's a front-end supervisor who has been working there almost two years. 
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| # ¿ Jun 17, 2011 19:26 |
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alreadybeen posted:Where do you work, I would love this. Employees hanging around not approaching me but there when I need assistance. I hate being asked if I need help finding things multiple times. If I need help, I'll ask. You would hate it, then. Company policy mandates that we greet everyone with a "hello" or something at the very least. We're also supposed to ask every single person if they need help. Before the policy was changed, we were also supposed to ask them why they were in the store, what project they were working on, really invasive poo poo like that. I can guarantee the policy was changed due to customer complaints, not to mention it slowed down all of us on truck days when we had to interview every single person who walked by for fear of being written up by secret shoppers. Worthy of note is that the date-of-visit on all those surveys were days I wasn't working. 
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| # ¿ Jun 18, 2011 01:19 |
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So, I'm at work this morning, and this woman is standing at the checkout counter while the cashier is headed that way and I happen to walk by and make eye contact with the customer. When she sees me she says to me in a tone just below a yell "so y'all gonna give me my coupon since I came back the next day?" I had no idea who she was at first and was just so shocked that someone would be so blunt and rude that I just stared at her and I think I muttered out a very shocked "what?" before walking away in confusion. Apparently it was this woman who had been in the store every day in the last week. Her sister's wedding is today and she's been doing all the decorating last-minute. Great, your fault, don't loving yell at me if you're stressed and feel like you should get some kind of loving discount because you've given us maybe $200 in profit at maximum.
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| # ¿ Jun 26, 2011 22:08 |
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Meow Cadet posted:What a nightmare it's going to be. And OMG, I can just imagine all the people coming in for price adjustments to save the 1% (we have very entitled customers here). Reminds me of that lady who demanded my manager adjust an item off the sale price so she could use her coupon for 10% more off. I believe she saved something like 20 cents after making all that fuss...
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| # ¿ Jul 1, 2011 11:47 |
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My store is closed on major holidays like Easter and Christmas. Tomorrow we're open until 6pm, a whole three hours earlier than usual. We don't get overtime or bonuses for anything except working on Thanksgiving night. Even full time employees aren't allowed to go over 40 hours a week or they get written up because the store legally has to pay them overtime.
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| # ¿ Jul 4, 2011 03:44 |
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Welp, I was cut for today. Now I'll have about 10 hours for this whole week. 
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| # ¿ Jul 4, 2011 12:57 |
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-Troika- posted:How often do people try to steal freebies from those gas station soda dispenser/slushy machines with the taps? Not often from the store I worked in, but the soda fountain was right next to the registers and in clear view of everybody who was behind the counter. edit: Yeah, I don't think I would have given any shits if someone came in and filled up the same soda cup every day. Nobody did, though, which is surprising since people stole everything else they could all the time. VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV cobalt impurity fucked around with this message at Jul 6, 2011 around 12:15 |
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The General posted:If not the improved relations of your co-workers because you made the sacrifice of the day off. From the sound of it, it wouldn't have been so much improving relations with coworkers as it would be becoming a doormat for shithead teenagers who don't plan their lives more than 5 minutes ahead. I'm with Miscellaneous on this one; they're just a bunch of irresponsible assholes. In other news, I just got promoted! I am no longer a sales associate, I am now a support specialist. I handle the money, check in small shipments, do price changes, and run deposits. What little time I'll spend on the sales floor will be during the slowest hours, my shifts will now be at a consistent time, and the best thing of all: I'm not allowed by policy to be on a register since I do all the money paperwork! Things are looking up in my retail career
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| # ¿ Jul 9, 2011 10:58 |
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hello clarice posted:I copied it because I'm pretty sure what actually happened was not "HOW DARE YOU INTERRUPT OUR CHATTING" but probably more like two people working and chatting at the same time and he came up and made some rear end in a top hat comment like "So are you guys just going to block the entire aisle while you talk instead of work?" Reminds me of something. At my store we set ad on Sundays and show up 2.5 hours before opening. About an hour after we opened, myself and the manager that opened with me got lunch while it was still possible before the after-church rush and were eating in the break room when some guy walked by the open door and said something to the effect of "Wow, you haven't been open for even an hour and you're already eating?" We've been there for four hours, dude, and it's none of your loving business anyway. Don't poke your head through "Employees Only" doors and be an obnoxious dickhole.
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| # ¿ Jul 14, 2011 21:32 |
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spankmeister posted:I'm a normal coffee guy. I drink regular coffee (black, no sugar), espresso (sometimes ristretto) and if I'm feeling fancy I'll have a cappuccino. I used to work in a locally-owned cafe that was part of a small franchise. I became a total coffee snob from working there because my bosses actually required us to know a lot about our products and how to properly taste coffee and espresso. Because of this, I have a huge appreciation for coffee, and will never go to a Starbucks to order anything made from coffee. It all has an unpleasant burnt taste that I just can't stand and it's clear they only stay in business due to status and preying on idiots who order "frothy coffee." That cafe produced a story or two worthy of this thread. Those will be forthcoming.
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Casull posted:You guys are making me miss good coffee - there's pretty much no good coffee after I moved to where I am now, so I'm stuck drinking black starbucks and black work coffee. Is there a reason you can't buy single-source beans and brew your own?
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