What can I say, retail changes you!
I wish I was exaggerating, but I'm not.
I wish I was exaggerating, but I'm not.
¤ These people can never shine bright like a diamond, but they can be as dark as a black hole instead! (Aren't black holes actually orange? idk, not the point!) ¤
"Some People Are Just Stupid!"
○ (My store was opening in a new location, so I was hired alongside a bunch of newbies to open the store)
Back when the store first opened, we had a return line and purchase line that were right next to each other. (Eventually, they just made everything for one line). I was on register, and a woman asked me where the purchase line was. I pointed to where the line was, and so she went AROUND the entire line, instead of walking a few steps over. She proceeded to get mad at me, because she wound up in the same place, but on the other side. She decided she would go to the cashier next to me and say to the cashier, "Some people are just stupid!". I merely showed her where the line was, she could have went the easy way, and walked a few steps over to the correct line. Like I didn't tell her where to go, I just showed her where the line was. But somehow that was my fault, and I was stupid for it. I always remember this jerk, and it aggravates me. How can people be so dumb, and rude at the same time.
The other cashier rung the lady up rather quickly, so she could get this miserable bag of sticks out of the store.
Terrible Personalities
When the store I work at first opened, I was a greeter for three weeks. Below are two short stories that happened to me.
○ Customer: *Looks around* This is a s#itty store! I feel bad for you!
I said: I like it?
("I wanted to say, at-least it doesn't have a s#itty personality like you!" Not like they were ever coming back!)
Lazy People!!!!!!1!!!!!]!!!!111
When the store first opened, the carts would lock up at the doors. (They keep changing the rules, sometimes they want them to lock up, sometimes they don't. Corporate can be fickle.)
○ A customer was angry that the carts don't go out made a rude comment saying that they don't go out because we "The associates" are lazy!
Which was not true, in fact. There was a shopping cart that caused a car accident, and the store got sued for lot's of money (I believe it was 30,000 dollars, but I'm not 100% sure.). That's why the carts didn't go out. I once told this to another person complaining about the carts, and she still thought the carts should go out...
Eventually corporate changed the idea and let the carts go out. Which is funny because that means they wasted their money on buying the devices to lock the carts.
The thing is, there is no cart person, so someone from whichever department will be asked to take time from what they're doing, to wrangle up all of the carts. The carts not going outside was great because we just didn't have to worry about the carts being littered in the parking lot. Also, now the carts disappear, and get damaged, they aren't cheap, that's for sure. One shopping cart sells for about 150$ USD. For ONE.
As of 2019, they have since brought back the carts locking up!
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