These people are the reason my plastic pipe must stay home.
I have a length of pvc pipe, picked up from when a local bar remodeled. Every now and then, I joke about taking it to work and using it as a training tool on those too dumb to be allowed out.
I sitll work at a store catering to looks. One of the rules (as is a rule at many places) is to greet the customers as they come in. Of course, most of them ignore me. Even if they must walk right in front of me and look at me, they ignore my greeting. Fine by me, I usually yell HI or HOWDY! and on rare occasions, PIKAHI! if I really want them to say something back.
Not enough for this one woman. She's always hell when she comes in. She expects us to pick her dye color for her, her shampoo for her, her lipsticks, etc. Which of course, we don't. On the times she does pick something, she asks us where it is, and always claims she can't find it. It's gotten to the point where I'll just grab it and hand it to the stupid viejita. Not this time. Oh no. This time she's worse. She went and stood in the middle of our little store, not two minutes after I greeted her, and accosted the other two customers shopping. I could hear her asking them if they worked there. WTF, stupid, she knows all four of us who work there, plus manager, by sight!
Of course, they say no. I start heading back there, right as she starts yelling "Isn't anyone working today? Helllooooooooo? Why isn't there someone in the store?" over and over! She sounded like my cousins when they were two, loud and annoying. Two of these yells are when I'm standing right in front of her trying to ask if she needs help. I was all but poking her in her wrinkly old bat arm by then.
'Sfine, I figure she'll shut up, I'll get her products and get rid of her. Except she wants a NEW dye. Which she gets angry about, because I won't pick it (for the record, we're not supposed to make those kinds of decisions for customers in case they're unhappy with the results. It's supposed to prevent them saying "So and so said I HAD to use this color!" Exceptions are if we think they'll make a bigger fuss by screwing up their own hair).
She finally settles on a color. I show her where it is, grab it when she doesn't, and try to hand it to her. La vaca STARES at my hand and tells me to get her developer too. Like a fool, I do. She stares at the products again and says "That's all" in a voice dripping with sarcasm and walks off to the front.
Another moronic customer did the "where is everyone!" bit later, when my coworker was on. Except when she found my coworker, she didn't want her. No, she bugs my coworker for me, saying that I'm avoiding her. Except that I just spent two minutes trying to see if she needed help and trying to give her a sales flyer.
To the pro who tried correcting me while I was helping another customer: I do work with odd colors. And this brand is one I do a lot of that work with. Please don't butt in and think you're helping, you only served to confuse him. Believe me, if he wanted your help, he'd have asked. Looking like a hurt puppy when I explained why I said what I did about the developer level and turning back to the person I was assisting just made me want to kick you.
If I say "We're closing in such and such minutes" don't give me a dirty look and start trashing me in spanish. If you do, don't get upset when I display a rudimentary command of the language and ask if you should speak that way in front of your grandson. Pay and get the hell out.
I sitll work at a store catering to looks. One of the rules (as is a rule at many places) is to greet the customers as they come in. Of course, most of them ignore me. Even if they must walk right in front of me and look at me, they ignore my greeting. Fine by me, I usually yell HI or HOWDY! and on rare occasions, PIKAHI! if I really want them to say something back.
Not enough for this one woman. She's always hell when she comes in. She expects us to pick her dye color for her, her shampoo for her, her lipsticks, etc. Which of course, we don't. On the times she does pick something, she asks us where it is, and always claims she can't find it. It's gotten to the point where I'll just grab it and hand it to the stupid viejita. Not this time. Oh no. This time she's worse. She went and stood in the middle of our little store, not two minutes after I greeted her, and accosted the other two customers shopping. I could hear her asking them if they worked there. WTF, stupid, she knows all four of us who work there, plus manager, by sight!
Of course, they say no. I start heading back there, right as she starts yelling "Isn't anyone working today? Helllooooooooo? Why isn't there someone in the store?" over and over! She sounded like my cousins when they were two, loud and annoying. Two of these yells are when I'm standing right in front of her trying to ask if she needs help. I was all but poking her in her wrinkly old bat arm by then.
'Sfine, I figure she'll shut up, I'll get her products and get rid of her. Except she wants a NEW dye. Which she gets angry about, because I won't pick it (for the record, we're not supposed to make those kinds of decisions for customers in case they're unhappy with the results. It's supposed to prevent them saying "So and so said I HAD to use this color!" Exceptions are if we think they'll make a bigger fuss by screwing up their own hair).
She finally settles on a color. I show her where it is, grab it when she doesn't, and try to hand it to her. La vaca STARES at my hand and tells me to get her developer too. Like a fool, I do. She stares at the products again and says "That's all" in a voice dripping with sarcasm and walks off to the front.
Another moronic customer did the "where is everyone!" bit later, when my coworker was on. Except when she found my coworker, she didn't want her. No, she bugs my coworker for me, saying that I'm avoiding her. Except that I just spent two minutes trying to see if she needed help and trying to give her a sales flyer.
To the pro who tried correcting me while I was helping another customer: I do work with odd colors. And this brand is one I do a lot of that work with. Please don't butt in and think you're helping, you only served to confuse him. Believe me, if he wanted your help, he'd have asked. Looking like a hurt puppy when I explained why I said what I did about the developer level and turning back to the person I was assisting just made me want to kick you.
If I say "We're closing in such and such minutes" don't give me a dirty look and start trashing me in spanish. If you do, don't get upset when I display a rudimentary command of the language and ask if you should speak that way in front of your grandson. Pay and get the hell out.