JuanDollar
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Work retail? Me too! :'(
Happy Thanksgiving peoples!
ToDefeatTheHun
Or when you go to close out your shift and customers keep coming up. Like no. I DIDN'T FUCKING CALL YOU UP.
mynutsaremusical
You guys should try working for a company that provides services to the government...fuck me man
ToDefeatTheHun
Or when some parent let's their kids run wild as a distraction so they can steal.
actualedsheeran
These posts are so whiny
Arsikere
it saddens me to encounter someone who obviously has 0 social interaction and they wont shut up. but still. THEY WONT SHUT UP
iLoveItWhenMyFingersSmellLikePussy
When I walk in 3 minutes before closing, I make damn sure I'm out in 3 minutes too.
z0de
Did my time for 5 years and the staff were always the worst. You are literally paid to serve so don't bitch when you have to serve.
ToDefeatTheHun
Or when customers approach your register before you call them up. Like no problem. Put your clothes right over the mess of the last one
kile433
I work at Best Buy and my least favorite is when someone says "Well you guys just lost a customer!" I'm fucking devastated, Sharon.
Millsslslsls
"we don't sell that anymore" - "WELL YOU USED TO!" - "correct." - "...I NEED IT NOW!"
ihaveatinyPP
I love working retail it's simple, easy, and my boss is awesome.
Kaysmira
The people you work with can make a huge difference in how you feel about your job. Good management keeps morale high.
HeyZeusPourMeAnotherGlass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=praFGD51ih8 (#3)
beaviswasthecuteone
Weren't you retail whining asses just complaining in a different meme about people not talking to you? Jesus, make up your fucking minds.
SoupCanMan
No, that's standard customer service. It's only occasionally that your mood to talk matches the corporate bullshit. Then it is sad.
iheckedup
I quit one retail job for another and it's similar except this time around I have a boss that doesn't destroy my soul. So it's bearable.
chiplizard
I envy you. My boss has completely fucked it my department and her 2nd in command is trying to fix everything in the 3 weeks she has off
MrSkar
The place I worked at, the boss was the owner and she was this sweet old Vietnamese-Chinese (born in-raised in) woman who liked all of us.
HonestToGosh
To be fair, my mom doesn't say how she's doing because she knows you guys don't actually care
tarataqa
Guilty as charged.
thrymn
Exactly. I'm already shy enough, I don't want to have to force small talk with someone who we both know doesn't actually care.
thrymn
Especially if there are a lot of customers in line.
Owlshavefeelingstoo
I used to love when customer's used, "The customer is always right ya know!" Especially when they were wrong or rude...
michaelladawn
I've actually looked a cust dead in the eye and said, no, they most certainly are not, and nor are you, then showed them the directions.
madetheaccountjustforyou
Swivel back and forth saying "You're right! Now you're left. Now you're right! Now you're left!"
ThatNameAgainIs
It's like they don't realise TCIAR is a damn sales technique that appeals to their stupidity.
Spidey209
Basically, give em what they want until the profit margin gets too thin.
ElioNope
I almost hit a bingo in retail today. The only thing that didn't happen was the usual 10 minute argument about needing ID (1/2)
ElioNope
Followed by them pulling out the ID they had all along. Like, bitch, do you get off on needless arguments or something? (2/2)
ElioNope
EPILOGUE: "I know it's not your fault" continues to be angry at me. "Can I get a refund?" Finished watching, basically wants free rental.
Kheldarn
Customer has a check as their only form of payment. "Can I borrow a pen?" NO! You know you need a pen. Bring one!
Simplyfun
and this hatred for people that spend money in person is why I shop online.
JuanDollar
Cyber Monday is finally starting to be a better option than black Friday for me.
FlightRisk3154
#11 I have had the same pen for several months now. It has become my prized possession and nobody is allowed to ̶s̶t̶e̶a̶l̶ borrow it.
MrSkar
I always tucked one away under one of the registers so no one could find it.
PSWIIsixty
One of my favorite days in retail management was putting in my 2 weeks on Nov 10th for a better paying job.
Stafferd
I once had an asian couple at my register who were only there to buy 25 pregnancy tests
tarataqa
24 wasn't enough?
Stafferd
They took all we had, but I saw the hungry look in their eyes, I could see they wanted about three fiddy
Arsikere
350 children? or three children and a stillborn?
cakeresurfacer
I discovered that I no longer dispose Christmas music now that I'm out of retail. Not hearing it every day for 6 weeks straight is great
fauxglove
I envy you. I still catch myself grinding my teeth when I hear christmas music, and I've been out for four years.
tarataqa
dispose or despise?
madetheaccountjustforyou
At least give the Christmas music to goodwill or something instead of just throwing it out.
ireadyouremailz
PUPUPJoe
Retail made me hate Canadians. They always tried to get me to waive sales tax
JuanDollar
Oh dude even people from other states lol. I had to do a tax exempt for a damn toothbrush, all cuz he didn't want to pay 10 cents smdh
DroidToyiu
I work at a BestBuy. Don't even have time to go home between this Wednesday to Saturday I'm working so many hours. People say "At least (1/2
Feedmenoms
RIP. Worked there 4 years while in college. First two were when it was 5am Friday, and then it was earlier and earlier :/
Lamech777
Damn dude, I remember when I did a triple over Black Friday when I worked at BestBuy, that was hell on earth.
DroidToyiu
(2/2) you're closed till 5PM on Thanksgiving, right? ". Doesn't mean we don't have to be there to prep.
madetheaccountjustforyou
I'm so sorry they put a gun to your head to force you to work for them. I would have thought that would be illegal.
dav3nasty
6 years in retail... it wasn't that bad. All of the above is true. And if kids fuck up my shelves I ask them to stop. They usually would
OxiriusZoom
Kid knocked down a display of pickled beets. Dad just hurried her along as if I didn't see them. Great message you're giving her there...
JuanDollar
I gave one little kid the death stare. And he immediately started reorganizing the toy aisle. Lol
ProfessionalDragonHumper
I usually go up next to them and start cleaning up what they just ruined. They generally start helping me.
Opportunist
(That is truly lovely!)
ProfessionalDragonHumper
They're just bored kids trying to have some fun, I blame the parents more than the kids. They don't teach them anything.
ReitnesTenought
Retail gives you soul cancer. Get out if you can.
netterzkastle
Soul cancer - what a great term. I like it.
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simplifiedApocalypse
Friends and I say retail or food services, each are their own brand of hell
simplifiedApocalypse
College Bookstore Employee, yes dear god yes
Nalianna
my co workers ask me why i'm so polite to customers. - my answer.. because 10% of them deserve it, and the other 90% ...
Nalianna
i'm trying to serve as fast as i can, to get them out of the store.
JuanDollar
Lol, I've worked it 9 years same company. But I'm starting school in January thankfully, it's eaten too much of my soul.
PhantomX6
*item doesn't ring up* Me: shit don't say it Them:"Guess it's free today!" Me: dies a little more "haha good one." Why? Why!? Why....
ShadowedTruth
I did 16 years Good retail. 11 at the same company. My reward was being let go for making too much...
ShadowedTruth
In retail. How the hell that auto corrected to good is beyond me.
JustLettingPeopleBeWrong
I'm of the opinion that there should be a mandatory year's National Service, but in retail. Maybe it'd stop people being such massive dicks
threerabidcorgisranch
I wish I could upvote this 1 million times. Spent 10.5 yrs in retail...so yeah, everyone should get to experience the "joy".
peoplearetheproblem
Ive said the same thing!
JuanDollar
That and time in the food Industry
vitaminRmademefat
Sifernos
Can you change the price on something because I lack foresight and missed the sale. "No." -me.. " yes" -my cowardly store manager... Fuck..
theblackcanaryyy
I haaaaaaate that. Hate it so much. When I became manager I always said no if my emps said no.
Sifernos
I'm not saying the manager should always say no too but at least acknowledge the employee followed standard protocol and did their job.
theblackcanaryyy
Totes magotes
ruferto
its not that uncommon actully
Spidey209
At at the end of the month -> Manager: "Profits are down, stop giving discounts!"
DoNotFeedAfterMidnight
Had to give a sale discount from a previous Christmas sale.... it was July. Management has no spine.
DecorativeCacti
Once had to return a TV remote we no longer stocked that was purchased two years prior. That's when I decided to quit.
tarataqa
Lol, srsly?
Kaysmira
If you throw a tantrum like a terrible 4 year old, management will often give it to you up to a certain threshold.
foxyfoxisfoxyy
Depends, as a manager, i tend to give the more polite customers the missed sale price. Tantrum throwing assholes can go fuck themselves.
Kaysmira
I wish more managers were like you.
Kaysmira
If you choose to exploit this dickish loophole, please treat the minimum wage employee well and wait to scream at the manager.
Sifernos
Or just make us all miserable anyway because the management takes it out on us...
madetheaccountjustforyou
"Do you have it in the back?" "Oh, we were waiting for someone clever enough to figure out where we kept it. On the shelf was too easy, (1)
tarataqa
I asked that one time at Target. Guess what. It WAS in the back all along!
Nalianna
hah, when i go "out the back" to pretend to look... if i see it, I'm not telling a customer that. I'll wait a day, then put on shelf.
chucktonian
I'll always ask if something I need is in the back. Does your store have an automatic restocking robot?
PhantomX6
This is fine. The point is don't ask the cashier when you come to check out. Ask someone who actually might know what is in the back.
JamesAwkboner
I get it, but Everytime I go too Best buy and ask after something, it's in the back. Printer on display? In the back. Laptop? back, tv back.
madetheaccountjustforyou
we only wanted the brightest and most deserving people to get the darn things. You've passed our grand challenge, now I am off to magical(2)
madetheaccountjustforyou
portal that takes me to the land of infinite space where we keep extra of everything in the store just for people as wonderful as you", (3)
madetheaccountjustforyou
he screams, to himself, in his car on the way home, ready to get drunk before another day. (4)
CaptnDeadpool
So much YES!!!
Spidey209
Too much effort. Go in back. Goof for 10mins, or do some real work. Come back out. "No."
GuessWho7197
I do this more often than I care to admit.