Share your shit here... Your hopes, dreams, tall tales, mishappen jiltings, ugly customers. We know you work in retail, and we know you love it.
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Share your shit here... Your hopes, dreams, tall tales, mishappen jiltings, ugly customers. We know you work in retail, and we know you love it.
Never had to work a retail job before. Sounds pretty bad from what I hear. I went in to the music and movie store Jonas works at. I heard a lady ask him if they had CD's in their store while they were directly in an aisle between two rows chalk full of CD's.
Still, most of the stuff I hear is needless bitching and complaining over nothing much at all.
Hmm, what happened this week?
Oh, on Tuesday, some fat redneck came into the store and said he had to use the bathroom. We have one in the backroom where we store all of our games, but of course no customers can use it. It leaves one less person on the floor due to one rep having to wait on said customer to get out of bathroom so they wont steal all our stuff, so its pretty inconvenient.
But ( I wasnt in store for all of this an excited assistant manager told me the story), apparently this redneck was starting to unzip in the store and was just sweating bullets, so one of ours just said , "fuck it, back here, stay zipped, dude" the guy goes in the bathroom for like 15 minutes, and apparently no sounds were heard. He walks out like nothing happened, our manager walks in the bathroom, and the whole thing from walls to door, sink, trash can, mirror, entire floor, and the ceiling (wtf?) ,all covered in shit. Like the guy just took two hands, opened his asshole wide and just spun around the bathroom. From what they were able to discern, the guy must have clogged the toilet up, took a plunger and went crazy with it in a toilet filled to the brim with feces.
This guy stays in the store covered in shit, walks around looking at games for a good 15 minutes afterwards as if nothing is wrong, buys a copy of Cy-Girls for PS2, and finally leaves. Of course the guy who let him in the bathroom spent the rest of his shift cleaning up after the human shit machine. I missed out on the fun though, thank God.
So yeah, anti-social videogame bums are weird.
I'm sure I have some more stories...
That's straight out of Clerks. Jetman's story is just bizarre, but that isn't the first time I've heard of someone just smearing shit on everything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew
I'm glad that we have fresh, unique topics like this.
Nine out of ten times when someone asks me where something is we're standing right next to it. I don't fault them because they usually just come looking directly for a store rep so as to not wander around, but the constant coincidence is odd.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew
Other then that my job's been fine so far, the only bad spots have been a couple times when guys yelled at me because we were out of stock of a product. For whatever reason the people that do that are always male and usually claim to either have written extensively on or work in the higher corporate areas of customer service. I find that funny considering that - if true - only people that are trying to better customer service are the ones that have a problem with stock. Everyone else seems to understand just fine.
Oh god...I hate the people who ask me if something is on sale while LOOKING at the SAVE sign. And then after I tell them "Yes" they ask if there is any more of a discount on the item.
And people with wacked out questions like "What is the difference between HDTV's and LCDs'???"
Josh should talk about his stapler incident, or maybe the sample kid.
No, its really not that bad. I worked at EB for 6 years. Most customers don't know as much about games as you do but isn't that kinda to be expected? Most of the people who work retail are just overdramatic, whining pompous asses who feel the need to inflate their nonexistant importance by making fun of the people who pay their salary.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew
I worked in retail for about 6 years as well, though I only worked in a Mom and Pop game store for a few months. The rest were grocery stores and their happening video deprtaments. For the most part I agree with diffx. 90+% of the shoppers were just fine. A handful were exceptionally cool/nice, and a handful were exceptionally obnoxious. Would I choose retail as a career? Obviously not, but the customers weren't really a factor. I still have customers, both internal and external. Guess what... some of them are exceptionally obnoxious too.