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spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008






vanessa posted:

Because I still use my manager as a reference???

Ah, Gotcha.

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ChirpChirpCheep
Apr 22, 2008
A guy today told me I was pulling a bait and switch because I told him he'd have to wait in line again if he wanted to buy something else. Like, if you're going to be an rear end in a top hat and get mad over something reasonable, at least be able to correctly identify what you're getting mad at.

Also, this wasn't someone getting mad at me, but it still pissed me off a lot. I'm ringing up a customer, and I ask him to swipe his card. He swipes it and goes, jokingly, "This isn't mine, I just found it on the floor." Since it was about the hundredth time I'd heard that "joke" over the past few days and he was obviously not being serious, I made my normal response, which was to smile and jokingly say "Uh-oh." As soon as I say that, this guy starts cracking up and goes "Oh my god! You believed me! You're so gullible." He then starts getting the attention of people at other registers while pointing at me and going "She believed me! She actually believed me! Can you believe that? Oh man, how gullible is she! Can you believe that?" over and over again. At this point, people in the line and other cashiers are starting to notice this guy, who won't shut up about how I "fell" for his "trick," and I'm just standing there trying to hand him his bag so he can get the hell out there and I can get on with helping the rest of the line. Finally, he gets the attention of the cashier next to me and goes "Is she always this gullible?" to which she angrily replies "Actually she's a very kind, intelligent person" and gives him the cold shoulder. He went away after that but goddamn I wanted to scream at him. I don't know if it comes across in this post, but it was incredibly degrading- he was saying it with this tone like he wanted everyone in line to start pointing and laughing at how much of an idiot I was, which is why my co-worker responded the way she did. It just really sucked. :smith:

Lights
Dec 9, 2007

Lights, the Peacock King, First of His Name.

"Clever" customers seldom are. Especially the "Oh, that one item just rang up at $0 (because it's a rider item to something else), so my whole purchase is free, right? Hurr hurr derr!" line that I hear at least a half-dozen times a day.

The Robins Taley
Apr 3, 2006

I'd bone her.
Reason I hate retail? I was scheduled for 39.75 hours this week, including an 8 hour shift on Christmas beginning at 8am. :suicide:

SpiderHyphenMan
Apr 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy

The Robins Taley posted:

Reason I hate retail? I was scheduled for 39.75 hours this week, including an 8 hour shift on Christmas beginning at 8am. :suicide:
You're getting at least time and a half, right?

The General
Mar 4, 2007


The Robins Taley posted:

Reason I hate retail? I was scheduled for 39.75 hours this week, including an 8 hour shift on Christmas beginning at 8am. :suicide:

In a lot of places, usually they ask if anyone wants to work christmas first. Or didn't your place do this?

Dog Blogs Man
Apr 16, 2007

how are you gentlemen i am a god amongst goons
Next week I am working on Monday, which is for pay purposes a public holiday! $46/hr, 6.5 work hours.
Then the next Monday, a 5 hour pub hol shift as well.
It's going to make the whole terrible christmas season worth enduring.





..and then I need to fork over $1000 for my Accounting course in February :(

Soysaucebeast
Mar 4, 2008




The General posted:

In a lot of places, usually they ask if anyone wants to work christmas first. Or didn't your place do this?

None of the places I've ever worked have done this.

The General
Mar 4, 2007


Soy Sauce Beast posted:

None of the places I've ever worked have done this.
I guess I'm just lucky.

Pornographic Memory
Dec 17, 2008
I'm glad the places I've worked at have simply been closed on Christmas.

Dell_Zincht
Nov 5, 2003



Over here in the UK, Boxing day (26th for you Amerigoons) isn't classed as a bank holiday this year, because it's a Sunday. Naturally, i'm working it. But the two days after? BOTH bank holidays, and i'm working them 9am-6pm. Time and a half for both though, so bring it on :)

Oh, and my store has decided to open on New Year's Day. For the first time ever. Despite the shopping centre we're located in being shut, save for one other shop. I'm not working it, though :)

spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008






Dell_Zincht posted:

Oh, and my store has decided to open on New Year's Day. For the first time ever. Despite the shopping centre we're located in being shut, save for one other shop. I'm not working it, though :)
If I'd have to work that shift I would probably show up still drunk.

Dell_Zincht
Nov 5, 2003



spankmeister posted:

If I'd have to work that shift I would probably show up still drunk.

That's what I told my boss, and he agreed the same. He's not working it either.

Yuncemil
Jul 18, 2006

Wie sagt man "olol" auf Deutsch?

Dell_Zincht posted:

That's what I told my boss, and he agreed the same. He's not working it either.

I don't find anything remarkable about New Year to be honest. To me, New Year's Day could be any other day. I have said I am happy to work it, especially since I get £14 per hour ($21.50) to move boxes about. Boxing Day usually means more to me but I have agreed to work that since I get £16 per hour ($24.60). Beats the £5.97 ($9.18) I got for each hour today.

Dodgeball
Sep 24, 2003

Oh no! Dodgeball is really scary!

Kaninrail posted:

"Clever" customers seldom are. Especially the "Oh, that one item just rang up at $0 (because it's a rider item to something else), so my whole purchase is free, right? Hurr hurr derr!" line that I hear at least a half-dozen times a day.

Dell_Zincht
Nov 5, 2003



Yuncemil posted:

I don't find anything remarkable about New Year to be honest. To me, New Year's Day could be any other day. I have said I am happy to work it, especially since I get £14 per hour ($21.50) to move boxes about. Boxing Day usually means more to me but I have agreed to work that since I get £16 per hour ($24.60). Beats the £5.97 ($9.18) I got for each hour today.

Don't get me wrong, New Year's Day should just be a normal day, the problem is there's NO public transport at all, I can't drive, and there's nobody willing to give me a lift to work. If I was scheduled in, I would literally have to get a taxi at double time, costing me more than i'd earn for that shift. It's also not a bank holiday, so i'd only be getting paid my regular hourly wage. gently caress that.

ChirpChirpCheep
Apr 22, 2008
On the subject of clever customers, a kid who looked about 15 or 16 came into the store and paid for something with a $50 bill. The cashier who was helping him held it up check if it was counterfeit and he busted out the "I know it's good, I just printed it myself" chestnut. She gave him an absolutely withering look and he just sort of looked ashamed of himself and said "I only said that because my dad says it a bunch." On the one hand I feel bad that he felt bad, but on the other hand I know 100% that he'll never use that joke again. And for that matter, I hope I never meet his dad.

The Robins Taley
Apr 3, 2006

I'd bone her.

SpiderHyphenMan posted:

You're getting at least time and a half, right?

I just found out today that they don't pay us any extra for working on Christmas, so I'll be making state minimum wage that day. Merry Christmas!

They didn't ask any of us if we wanted to work on Christmas, but they make it well known that we are all expected to work weekends and holidays.

Duckman2008
Jan 6, 2010

TFW you see Flyers goaltending.
Grimey Drawer
Looks like Christmas is getting to me to the point where i was definitely the unnecessary rear end in a top hat to a customer (I refused to look at her account since she got the phone from a different store, I was def free at the time). Why does the guilt towards getting to be an rear end in a top hat always end up being worse than my irritation when people are dicks to me?!?

Death Bear
Apr 1, 2010

Kaninrail posted:

"Clever" customers seldom are. Especially the "Oh, that one item just rang up at $0 (because it's a rider item to something else), so my whole purchase is free, right? Hurr hurr derr!" line that I hear at least a half-dozen times a day.

One night I just kind of snapped and (politely) told a woman that nobody working in retail finds the "oh, it must be free" joke funny. Her reply? "Oh, I've never worked retail. :buddy:"

My friend used to work at a record store where they were encouraged to make distinctive marks on the $50/$100 bills when they swiped them with the counterfeit pen. Why, I don't know, but it gave him an excuse to draw angry eyebrows on Grant and Franklin. When a guy busted out the tired "I just made it this morning!" thing, he drew his angry face on the bill and replied, "President Grant isn't amused at your lame, unfunny joke, sir."

Death Bear fucked around with this message at 03:24 on Dec 23, 2010

Solkanar512
Dec 28, 2006

by the sex ghost

Duckman2008 posted:

Looks like Christmas is getting to me to the point where i was definitely the unnecessary rear end in a top hat to a customer (I refused to look at her account since she got the phone from a different store, I was def free at the time). Why does the guilt towards getting to be an rear end in a top hat always end up being worse than my irritation when people are dicks to me?!?

Who the gently caress is going to be there looking to buy something!?

uptown
May 16, 2009
I work at H&M. We got these t-shirts that we have to wear on our busier days (tomorrow/Xmas eve, Boxing Day) that say we are staff. We also had to wear them last weekend.

Girl: Do they make you wear those shirts?

Of course they do! Do you think I wear an H&M staff shirt that everybody else happens to be wearing on the same day to be fashionable?

Also: We let people try on panties. GROSS.

MaxDuo
Aug 13, 2010
I never understand why so many people come into Bed, Bath, and Beyond thinking we keep giant stacks of coupons for them to use on their entire purchases. I can barely go an hour on a semi busy day without someone coming up and asking me: "Hey, they don't give you guys a bunch of coupons for customers to use if they don't have one do they?" or something like that. And of course after I say we don't keep any to give out at all, they go ask the nearest employee if he has 5 or 6 coupons they can use.... uggh.


Or then a few times I've had a customer suddenly dash into my register area and try to grab a handful of coupons out of the plastic bin we keep used ones in. I'll stop them and they're like: "WHY CAN'T I HAVE THOSE COUPONS?!?!?!??!"

:geno: Because those are used coupons....
:argh: IT DOESN'T MATTER!!!!
:geno: I can't take coupons that have already been used.
:argh: YES YOU CAN THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH IT!
:geno: No, we can only take coupons one time and that's it. I X'ed out the barcode and none of us will take this coupon ever again.
:argh: THAT'S NOT TRUE! JUST GIVE ME THE COUPON I KNOW I CAN USE IT. WHY WON'T YOU JUST GIVE THEM TO ME?!?!?!?!?!??!?!


And then they'll storm off huffing to themselves.

MaxDuo
Aug 13, 2010
Also from about 2 weeks ago I had a customer come up with three boxes of dinnerware. They are all marked regularly and I scan them. They come up at the regular price of .... I don't really remember right now. We'll say $59.99.

The very large woman places her hands on her hips and goes: Now I KNOW something is wrong here! This was on the clearance shelf, why doesn't this have a clearance price?

I told her I didn't believe the set was on clearance. She informs me, "Yes it is! It was on THE clearance shelf! There was a huge clearance sign and it said this set was marked down from $49.99 to $29.99!" So I call for assistance and one of our employees goes to check.

She then goes on to complain over and over and over about how she got it because it was on clearance, we weren't going to get her on this poo poo where we mark something clearance and then charge full price for it. She apoligizes to the lady behind her in line and says: "I'm sorry but they're trying to charge me full price for clerance merchandise! THe only reason I got three of these is because they were clearance and I'm not paying full price for them!"

So the employee calls back up and tells me the dinnerware isn't on clearance, but the item next to it is. The lady gets all pissed and sends her husband back there to prove to my coworker that the $59.99 item was $49.99 marked down to $29.99.

2-3 minutes later her husband comes back and says the guy showed it to him and that the dishes weren't clearance. So of course the fat cow explodes and goes on about: "WHY WAS IT ON THE CLEARANCE SHELF?! I KNOW IT WAS THE CLEARANCE SHELF THERE WAS A SIGN SO EVERYTHING WAS CLEARANCE THERE WOULDN'T BE A CLEARANCE SIGN IF IT WASN'T HTE CLEARANCE SHELF HOW DARE YOU DO THIS THIS IS DECEIT AND THEFT AND IT'S NOT RIGHT THAT YOU WOULD PUT SOMETHING NOT CLEARANCE ON A CLEARANCE SHELF OR LABEL A SHELF CLEARANCE IF IT WASN'T CLEARANCE! I DON'T WANT IT! TAKE IT OFF MY ORDER I DON'T WANT IT NOW I'M SORRY EVERYONE AROUND ME BUT THEY ARE TRYING TO CHARGE ME WAY MORE THAN I SHOULD HAVE TO PAY BECAUSE IT WAS ****ALLLLL MARKED CLEARANCE****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

So about 10 minutes later I'm off register and I go back to the back with the 3 boxes to put them away... and check what was up.

Well I'd told her that I didn't think the item was on the clerance shelf. I told her the clearance shelf was in the back of the room and the items I recalled being on it. And I was right. Her dinnerware came from the middle of the room (clearance is in the back of the room) and it had a sign stating it was $59.99.

However, next to it was a completely different dinnerware set, different color, different size, different company, etc. It had a sign with red marker on it saying: "*Clearance, was $49.99. Now $29.99." Nothing else on the shelf was on clearance. We did not have one of our yellow clearance sign on the shelf. There was more red writing on the sign saying that it was THAT SET ONLY.

I like how she saw "clearance" in small hand writing and assumed the entire shelf and everything on it was clearance marked down from $49.99 to $29.99.... Even though everything else on the shelf was not $49.99.

Guni
Mar 11, 2010
Ah, I'm heading back into the retail world, banking to be specific. Today's my second day and of course I get a retarded customer when I'm trying to memorize everything to do and make sure I do it in order, then this bitch-rear end old Asian lady comes in, hands me a withdrawal slip and says '6hun' in a barely audible mutter, I had to say '$600?' to which she nodded, this is where the fun begins. She didn't have sufficient funds and I tried to explain it and she started yelling and making angry gestures toward me in loving Chinese, of which I speak not a lick. The way she was going off was pretty hilarious mainly because it was in Chinese. Finally I said 'I can't understand' to which she just yelled even more, which I had to hide a smile at. Oh retail, how I love thee! Apparently there's some pretty awesome (:sarcasm:) people that come into my work and since I'm the only assistant I now get them all! Woohoo!

Luckily, I'm getting $20 an hour for doing not so much and what's even better my coworkers are really awesome and my manager backs me up and helps out heaps! Hopefully my perspective doesn't change (I know it will)!

Wootcannon
Jan 23, 2010

HAIL SATAN, PRINCE OF LIES

Guni posted:

Luckily, I'm getting $20 an hour for doing not so much and what's even better my coworkers are really awesome and my manager backs me up and helps out heaps!
Hopefully my perspective doesn't change (I know it will)!
If anyone's on commission for mortgages or credit cards or the like, oh god it will.

MaxDuo
Aug 13, 2010

Guni posted:

Luckily, I'm getting $20 an hour for doing not so much and what's even better my coworkers are really awesome and my manager backs me up and helps out heaps! Hopefully my perspective doesn't change (I know it will)!

I feel like that helps. Imagine getting yelled at and all that stuff at $7.25/hr :(

beekeepersdaughter
Jan 9, 2010
I've been following this thread, in all its various incarnations, for years. Today I have a reason to contribute.

I've never worked in retail, but I've always gone out of my way to be nice and make small talk with retail employees if they're not too busy. I've never actually witnessed anyone being overtly rude, though, so I've always been mystified by the horror stories that retail goons post here. Now I believe them.

Today I was at Gap doing a little last-minute Christmas shopping. They really weren't that busy; in fact, I was one of only a few people in the store.

When I came in, I chatted briefly with the woman who greeted me and asked me if she could help me. This is an important detail: it was immediately apparent to me that she was deaf. My aunt is deaf, so I've known sign language all my life, which made this conversation much easier than it would have been otherwise. We signed for few moments--she said her name was Tina, yes it had been a rough week but today was surprisingly calm, she had some restocking to do but she'd be with me whenever I needed to check out, and that all I had to do was go to her register and wait for a moment. Cool, no problem. I said thank you and shopped for another 15-20 minutes.

I got to the register and had been waiting there for probably 20 seconds when Tina looked over, saw me, and signed that she'd be with me in just a moment. I acknowledged her and told her to take her time because I wasn't in a hurry.

Immediately, out of nowhere, an older woman (maybe in her early 60's) came stalking across the store toward the registers, shouting and snapping her fingers at Tina, who was already on her way over to ring me up. I had my debit card out, clothes on the counter, everything ready to check out--it could not have been more obvious that I was there first, and that it was my turn to pay.

This woman forcibly pushed me and my clothes out of the way and unloaded her purchases on the counter, talking at me the whole time.

:byodame: I got her attention, not you, so I'm going to check out. You've got to learn to stand up for what you want, you've got to learn to get their attention first. You understand? Sorry, but that's life. You've gotta learn to be assertive.

Tina was not having any of this. She was shaking her head, motioning the woman to get out of the way, and essentially outright refusing to ring her up first. I really did not want to get into it with this lady, and I wasn't in a hurry, so I just kept saying, "Yes, that's fine, really. I've got time. It's okay." I had to insist several times that I was okay with it before Tina finally rolled her eyes and started ringing the other woman up. To make matters worse, the woman realized that Tina was deaf, and began to speak very loudly and slowly, windmill her arms in some bizarre bullshit sign language, and telling other employees to "tell her that's on sale," "tell her I need that wrapped up," etc. As if this woman, simply by virtue of being deaf, was somehow childish or incapable or stupid.

I waited to the side for a minute before the manager came out of the back room, carrying her toddler daughter on her hip, looking exhausted. She started to scan my purchases and told me wearily that she rarely works the register but she felt terrible about making me wait any longer. Again, I assured her it was okay, and offered to hold her daughter for a few minutes while she rang me up. I bounced her kid a little bit, played with her, while I chatted with the manager--altogether a very pleasant experience. In the end, the manager gave me 50% off my total, and I ended up leaving the store only a little later than :byodame:.

To any retail goons who have had to deal with entitled, bitchy customers--this holiday season, or ever--I am so sorry. I appreciate your hard work and hope you enjoy a calm and peaceful holiday with your families.

Cowslips Warren
Oct 29, 2005

What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?

Grimey Drawer
I actually got into an argument with my mom about the "then it's FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" poo poo. We were at a grocery store and the clerk had that soul-dead look in her eye when my mom quipped that line. I told her simply it wasn't funny.

Mom: NO, it's so funny! It's free because it didn't scan, right? *grinning to the cashier*

Me: No, Mom, it's not funny, she can't tell you it isn't.

Mom: No, it's super funny! *starts asking the cashier how funny the line is*

Me: *after a bad day overall* It isn't loving funny, Mom, and it's never loving funny! Every time we go out and you say that line, it's stupid, it isn't funny, she hears that poo poo ten times a day and it never gets funny! STOP SAYING IT.

Mom gave me the cold shoulder the rest of the day. To this day she insists "then it's free!" is the epitome of funny, and the cashier and I have no sense of humor.


She also does the bad manners of drive-thru, mostly by talking right as she pulls up to the order box, "I want THIS and want this and want this and want want want." No, Mom, what you taught me to say was 'I'd like to order' and use 'please.' Amazingly enough I get free poo poo when I say please and thank you.

Dodgeball
Sep 24, 2003

Oh no! Dodgeball is really scary!
:siren:Feel Good Story Alert! Avoid if You're Jaded!:siren:

I've been having a lovely week, and today was hardly any better. We've been having the managers count down the cash drawers because there $77 in discrepancies last month. I've been super careful each transaction, but towards the end of some shifts, I can't be at %100. Anyway, sometime before my lunch, I was given a coupon for a free chicken sandwich from Chik-fil-a from a nice customer. (I don't know if it's because she knew I was broke, or if it's because I turned town a Chick-Tract a guy wanted to give me two transactions earlier. When it came to salvation or free food, I'm always going to go with the sure thing), but I thought it was nice of her.

When it came time for lunch, I noticed that the location I had to redeem the coupon at was in another city. Super. No lunch for me. Time to sit in the break room for an hour and sulk. Right after my break, my manger on duty informs me that I've been the one messing up. I apparently average something like $3 a day in transactions behind the counter. That means I gently caress up for $0.50 per hour. I'm not retarded. I'm not stupid. I honestly don't know how I'm messing up that much. So now, I'm meticulously counting customers' change back to them, and I'm pissed at myself for making so many mistakes. It's been a long day, and I know I have to walk home.

After my shift, I went to deposit my paycheck (which is in the opposite direction of my apartment), which I knew the check was dated for tomorrow, but thought I could catch the teller off-guard and get some money today to eat something. No such luck; seems some other folks tried to pull the same thing all day. As I walked home past 20 or so restaurants, each more delicious smelling than the last, I notice the Chik-fil-a and figured something has to go right today.

I go in, nervous, tired and hungry. Miraculously they award me a hot, chicken sandwich. I was having the shittiest day, and because of one customer's kindness, it turned around and I don't feel so goddamned depressed anymore.

Thank you Chik-fil-a lady.

MaxDuo
Aug 13, 2010
Edit: Odd, I refeshed my page after work and it posted my earlier post again.

E.T. NO HOMO
Jan 27, 2007

but you say he's
just a friend

Dodgeball posted:

Thank you Chik-fil-a lady.

I was outside on a smoke break this morning and a lady pulled up in a Hummer, hopped out and cheerfully gave two of our stockmen/cart-pushers some free McDonalds breakfast burritos. Something to the effect of "Merry Christmas! Here's a free hot breakfast for everyone working out in the cold today!" Either my cigarette gave it away, or she knew that I would soon return to the mild to not-so-loving-freezing confines of my register, for I was left breakfastless (which is totally ok cause I had a pretty big breakfast right before I went out to smoke).

The two guys looked at her as if she was speaking in calculus, and she wished them a Merry Christmas again and was gone as quickly as she had arrived. The more annoying of the two guys hesitated a second, before announcing that they had better go let management know about it, lest they be fired for accepting a gift.

Pornographic Memory
Dec 17, 2008

Cowslips Warren posted:

She also does the bad manners of drive-thru, mostly by talking right as she pulls up to the order box, "I want THIS and want this and want this and want want want." No, Mom, what you taught me to say was 'I'd like to order' and use 'please.' Amazingly enough I get free poo poo when I say please and thank you.

My job isn't really that bad, but it still pisses me off when people don't say please. It's literally a pre-school level thing, saying please and thank you, but no, it's almost always "get this for me", or "slice my bread", or even they just hold up bread wordlessly, because I guess it's beneath them to speak to the guy working the bakery counter.

That said, I had one of my worst retail incidents in a while tonight, but the fault was with my coworkers and not the customers, who were awesome in the end even though at first it looked like the situation could have gotten really ugly.

Obviously, being two days before Christmas, it was busy as hell at my grocery store, and in the bakery we had tons of orders for bread, cookie trays, pies, whatever special stuff people might want or just stuff they want to guarantee will be there when they come in. Orders are usually done as soon as possible after putting out fresh bread and buns, and we actually had two counter people working overlapping early in the day for once. So one person works on nothing but orders. This person, of course, is the "new" girl (who's worked with us since about July) and she's woefully incompetent. Until some recent mistakes she made finally got noticed, she didn't even know how to properly file away orders.

My shift begins a few hours after she's gone, and I'm switching in with the woman who'd worked with her (leaving me alone, good scheduling boss) and the bakery is a mess (that can't be helped at this time of the year though), and shortly after my shift begins a woman comes for her order - a cookie tray. I look where the orders were all gathered together, and, to my horror, there is no cookie tray, no order slip, nothing. I go back and tell the woman what happened, apologize profusely and tell her that we have cookie trays out on the sales floor already made, or, if she doesn't want one of those ones, I could make one up for her quickly. She's getting a bit upset, and another customer watching with her family joins in to say that she had a problem here before, and that she should ask to speak with a manager - one upset person is bad, but multiple upset people backing each other up? Oh poo poo :gonk:. I forget what exactly happened next, but regardless of the details I got a relatively safe opening to ask the other customer if she needed anything. She had an order too, for a loaf of garlic bread...and that wasn't there either, nor was any order slip, and customer #1 was watching this as well. More apologies, I explain the situation about how I only just started my shift and somebody else worked on the orders, and it eventually comes to light that I was working a shift in a busy department in a busy store in a busy season ALONE and the customers instantly become sympathetic to me. Customer #1 now wants to speak to a manager to complain about how I got screwed over because we're understaffed :unsmith:. Customer #2 accepts a loaf of garlic bread we thankfully still had left on the shelves, and tells me I don't need to apologize for anything. Customer #1 looks at the cookie trays already available, but they weren't like the one she ordered, which was mercifully made of only a fairly small number of cookies we had on hand freshly made earlier today, so I made it quickly while she did her other shopping. Since she was so cool in the end I gave her a discount off of it on the down-low without saying anything to her or anybody else ;)

Wow I typed up a lot of words about something small, guess I gotta post it though so the effort doesn't go to waste.

Luquos
Aug 9, 2009

how about we go back to my place and i conquer your world, if you know what i mean

Cowslips Warren posted:

She also does the bad manners of drive-thru, mostly by talking right as she pulls up to the order box, "I want THIS and want this and want this and want want want." No, Mom, what you taught me to say was 'I'd like to order' and use 'please.' Amazingly enough I get free poo poo when I say please and thank you.

Oh, god, this. A thousand times this. I get so many people who just don't have basic manners. It's rather discouraging.

Guni
Mar 11, 2010

Wootcannon posted:

If anyone's on commission for mortgages or credit cards or the like, oh god it will.

I don't think anyone is tbh, we only have one home loan specialist.

And Max, I feel your pain I used to work at McDonalds some of the customers there were absolute shithouse

TheBandOffice
Nov 4, 2009
They decided to term me and two other Counter Operations Agents today at Geek Squad to hire on someone at lower pay to do all of our work...Merry Christmas :smith:

Lights
Dec 9, 2007

Lights, the Peacock King, First of His Name.

TheBandOffice posted:

They decided to term me and two other Counter Operations Agents today at Geek Squad to hire on someone at lower pay to do all of our work...Merry Christmas :smith:

Seriously? Wow :/

I am hella PEEVED
Oct 25, 2007

Welcome to Earth.

TheBandOffice posted:

They decided to term me and two other Counter Operations Agents today at Geek Squad to hire on someone at lower pay to do all of our work...Merry Christmas :smith:

Don't feel too bad its a present in disguise! They gifted you free time to look for a better job!

:unsmith:

But another Christmas survived at my store. By the end of it we had 0 barbies, 0 "wrestling men" and a whole poo poo-ton of RC Cars.

Oh and around 30-40 carts of reshop to do on Sunday Morning.

Duckman2008
Jan 6, 2010

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TheBandOffice posted:

They decided to term me and two other Counter Operations Agents today at Geek Squad to hire on someone at lower pay to do all of our work...Merry Christmas :smith:

Having worked at Best Buy, I have to say gently caress that place, the entire political structure of it sucks and is rooted in bullshit, and I'm really sorry to hear it dude. Best wishes on getting back on your feet.

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TheBandOffice
Nov 4, 2009

Duckman2008 posted:

Having worked at Best Buy, I have to say gently caress that place, the entire political structure of it sucks and is rooted in bullshit, and I'm really sorry to hear it dude. Best wishes on getting back on your feet.
Honestly it doesn't annoy me too much that they got rid of me. I have been on the hunt for a better job for a few weeks (BBY didn't know this) and have a an offer on the table. It's the fact that they did it on loving Christmas Eve. The good news is, as all of the other employees that have been trained are leaving at semester (seriously, everyone besides my manager in the precinct) due to graduation, I will probably be getting a call in the next two months about getting rehired. Which I will only do for a raise to 12/hour.

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