Raiders of the Lost Sanity...

[cynicatlantis]

Did some shopping today - actually went out hunting for a new bed, but ended up picking up some other things instead:

- An iron. It's lovely and shiny and silver and black *G*
- Some clippers, so I can continue avoiding paying for hairdressers
- Some PS2 games, 'cause I have no willpower (Max Payne , GTA San Andreas, Metal Gear Solid 3, Evil Dead

Comments

[wychwood]

Oh, funfunfun. This sounds like a brief summary of the reasons why I swore never to work in retail *g*.

[cynicatlantis]

LOL it's also a brief summery of why I sometimes wonder why I do it at all (my answer is usually a) It's the best "normal" job I've had, b) It pays fairly well, c) I need to pay the rent/eat/buy DVDs *sigh

[wychwood]

it's cool hearing half the store quitely singing along to "American Pie" when it plays, or discreetly doing "YMCA" *G*

Excellent *g*

I went down the lame office-job route instead. Not quite such a high chance of stupid people talking to me and blaming me for things - although it did still happen! I just - basically, imagine Rodney in retail and scale it down a bit, and you'd probably have me *g*. I wouldn't last five minutes...

[cynicatlantis]

Oh totally :P

[tazical]

I work in retail so you have my every sympathy, believe me! I also work in electrical retail and you'd think from the reactions of some customers with faulty items that I'd personally manufactured the plastic, assembled the damn TV myself, arranged for it to break down in six months time and picked them out of a line-up to sell the dodgy gear to.

In fact, I had a woman in recently who had bought two heaters that had both broken down under warranty within a couple of weeks of each other. She flat-out told me that we shouldn't be selling the product because they were clearly designed to be defective in eight months from purchase, and we were being deceitful to our customers by stocking them. Even after I (politely!) assured her that we had sold upwards of 100 of the same item and these were the only two that had been returned she still refused to believe me and said she wouldn't be shopping with us again.

I cried myself to sleep, I'm sure. :o)

[cynicatlantis]

Oh man, I just love people like that - the ones who assume that we retail monkeys are personally responsible for the design and manufacture of every product we sell, and assume that yelling at us will make everything better. Generally, being oppressively polite works nicely, but sometimes it doesn't... At my last job (in the "upmarket" part of town) Queens of Entitlement were the default flavor. A couple of my favorite regular encounters:

QoE: "I should get a discount! I shop here all the time!"
Me: "Really? I work here six days a week and I've never seen you before."
QoE: *fumes* *buys the ugly homewares anyway*

QoE: "I'll never shop here again!"
Me: "Okay."
QoE: "I mean it! I'll tell all my friends not to shop here, too!"
Me: "Good. I'm not on commission, so personally I don't care. And if all your friends are as rude as you, we don't want them here anyway."
QeO: *fumes* *buys the ugly homewares anyway*

That's the funny thing about the rich types - they're cheap, always asking for discounts *rolleyes*

[wormtongue542]

Memo to self: walk into [large department store] and ask silly questions. Then duck :D