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It's been 10 years since I worked in retail (thank God) but I had a few interesting and/or horrible experiences in the places I worked. These are UK, by the way. Health food/'alternative medicine' shop - Elderly lady lifts her skirt and says "What have you got to treat this?!". She had rather severe varicose veins. She really could've just told me; I didn't need to see that. - Numerous men shopping for 'herbal viagra'. My personal favourite was a guy that insisted on speaking to me privately (I was the manager and the only guy that worked in the shop) and very quietly said "I need something to pleasure my woman." - Old weird hippy lady that would not allow any items to be scanned with the barcode reader, because "the laser irradiates food and that causes cancer". Always took forever to serve her, typing in barcodes one by one. - Not annoying, kind of cute: Carol Vorderman's mum, who was always really excited when her celebrity daughter was on the cover of the store magazine. Which was often. This was at the time when Carol Vorderman was on TV adverts every minute or so. Just really proud of her daughter I guess! - 'Kinesiologist' lady. Kinesiology is a made up pile of poo poo that says you hold two identical things, one in each hand, arms outstretched and the arm that gets tired first is holding the inferior product. Or something. She'd do this for upwards of 20 minutes, trying each jar of honey until she found the 'right' one. - Scientologist guy that often asked employees about 'natural cures' for depression, then try to recruit anybody that said they'd tried them ("I'm in a group that can really help treat depression, you should come along for a chat!") - a nice story: Little girl, maybe 8 or 9, that knocked on the door a few minutes after I'd locked up for the night, two days before Christmas. She just wanted some Brazil nuts, so I let her in. She was short 5p, and when I told her she looked like she was going to cry, so I put 5p in the register from my pocket (not that I cared if the register was 5p short, I was just being a bit theatrical). She and her mum come back the next day - Christmas Eve, with a card for me. There was a £5 note inside! - Kindly old British celebrity that I used to chat with a lot and always got on really well with. Is currently serving time for sexually assaulting little girls. Whoops. Video game shop - Psychotic guy that wanted a refund on a game that was clearly used and not even purchased from my store. Told me he'd knife me if I didn't give him his money back, because unless he got the money he wouldn't be able to afford to take his kid swimming and he'd promised, damnit! Then he realised that he purchased it from a different store and left. - A kid comes in and tries to buy GTA or something. Video games in the UK with an age rating are legally not allowed to be sold to anyone underage. GTA is an 18, the kid was maybe 13 or 14. You can go to prison for breaking this law, so everyone is super careful. I refuse the sale, and he leaves. He comes back with his mum a bit later, and she's in the queue tutting and muttering 'unbelievable'. Gets super irate at me about how she'd given him permission to buy the game, and that should be enough. Doesn't care if I get fined or imprisoned for breaking the law. Starts yelling about how she's parked on double-yellow lines outside the shop and is going to get fined and that's my fault apparently. - It was store policy to advise parents of content in age-rated games if they were clearly buying them for kids. So we'd say how GTA had extreme violence, bad language, drugs, prostitution etc. Very rarely would a parent change their mind about buying it. One customer told her son"You have to play this one with the sound off so you don't hear bad words". This kid could not have been older than 10, and I'm thinking "drat, really? THAT'S the bit that concerns you?" - Goony teenage guy that would stand near the PC games telling anyone that walked by to buy WoW and join his guild. He smelled really bad. - When Guitar Hero 3 was new we threw a little contest. I was really good at it for some reason, so my boss got me to dress up like Slash and promote the game. People could come and play with friends, or they could challenge me and get a discount if they beat me (they could pick the song but had to play on the highest difficulty, same as me). Only one guy beat me and of course it was loving Dragonforce. Well played, kid. - Girl that worked at Subway that gave me free/cheap sandwiches for like a year because I saved her a Wii the Christmas they came out. She used to stop by with leftover cookies for me too and chat a bit. I figured she was into me, and she was kind of cute, and I was recently single, so I asked if she fancied getting a drink after work. Turned out she was 16. I was 21. gently caress! Still got free stuff afterwards though so I don't think she thought I was being a creep. Quote-Unquote fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Jun 20, 2017 |
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Jun 20, 2017 18:52
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fish and chips and dip posted:Rolf Harris? Yup
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My store once got down marked by a secret shopper because it took too long for someone to approach and ask if she needed help There were only two employees in and I was busy with the guy that just had a stroke in the doorway.
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