Retail Stories: Nasty Customers PT 2

The reason why I post so many retail stories is because, I don't got a lick O' time to do things anymore, or the energy for it. Retail stories are easy because I've already complained to my friends about what unfathomable heathens I've had to deal with at work, so I already wrote the essay in advanced. Once I get a normal 9-5 job, I'd probably have more time for this blog! Also it's three minutes before September, and I've been slacking on blogs lately. I want to at-least post one post a month.

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Here's my current Anime recommendations!

Monochrome Factor, Nabari No Ou, Servamp and Nanbaka. Shiki, as well, but only if you have no soul....(That one is gruesome!)

Nasty Customers PT 2

Crazy not so bag lady

Picture it, Christmas time in 2014. There was a long line of like 10-20 people, and only 2-3 cashiers. I went to get more shopping bags to use. This lady on line yells at me for refilling the bags! I was thinking to myself, if I get this beach, she is not getting any bags! Like it makes no sense to me, how am I going to ring people up if I don't have bags?!

Can you hear me now? 

I was in my department, and this lady was talking three aisles down. I brushed it off because I didn't know she was talking to me, and thought she was talking to a friend. Keep in mind, she was a million aisles away, how would I have known she was talking to me. She comes over and says, "Can you hear?!". I told her I have hearing problems. Instead of attempting to talk to me at a normal distance, she decided she wanted to talk to me all the way from Narnia, why doesn't she actually come up to me like a normal person??
She should know it's rude to talk to someone so far away, especially since she did not say excuse me.. How do I know you're not just talking to someone else? At least have the common courtesy to come over to me at talking distance.

Clap your hands if you're a cuckoo bird!

Another time I was doing an item return, and when I scanned both the receipt and the item, the computer said the item's number didn't match. I told the customer that the item was a different number, and asked if she had any other receipts. She started to flip out on me! She was screaming, and she said, THAT HAS TO BE THE RECEIPT!! THIS RECEIPT AND THE SHIRT WERE PURCHASED AT THE SAME TIME!!! I said that the sku numbers do not match, I showed her that the receipt numbers ended with, for example, 97, but the shirt was 89. So obviously the numbers were wrong. But because the items on the receipt and the shirt were both 16.99$, she didn't realize the numbers might not match up, to her it was the same. She screams, "THIS IS THE FIFTH TIME THIS HAS HAPPENED, EVERY TIME I COME HERE THE NUMBERS NEVER MATCH!!!"
I was like OH geez, my lucky day, I get a psycho today. I asked if maybe if she did the purchase on her card, which we could look up to see if she bought it with the card. Spoiler alert, it wasn't. Then I asked for her phone number, which would also record the purchase, however it wasn't there either. Then she started screaming at me again about how she always comes here, and this always happens. I told her to her face, I've been there for four years and I've never seen this happen! (Chances are, this lady is at fault, and is just being a beach to get her way). She wanted a manager, so I went over to the two supervisors, and asked them which one of them wanted to deal with the psycho. The customer that one of them was ringing up, thought it was funny I said that. One supervisor said she already had three people yell at her, so the other one went. We ended up just returning the item from the receipt and that we would do it this one time. The funniest thing however, is that this would have been easier to deal with if she wasn't a psycho. If she wasn't acting like a nut, I would have probably just returned it easily without asking for the supervisor. But she had to act like a psychopath who belongs in a mental facility!

Is it possible that people are just really stupid, and crazy, because I think they are...

I generally save my stories, and post them for a rainy day. I have plenty more to come! The last two happened a year ago already, the first one was like 3 years ago.. wow! 

Keywords: Why retail is the worst job, Who are retail customers?, Why retail jobs are bad, Retail is hard, Retail Experience, Retail Examples, Retail Industry, Retail Sector, Retail Times, Retail Workers.

Anime Review: Trickster

Trickster is an anime everyone seems to absolutely hate, and for some reason have to comment on how much they hate this anime, when they're on episode 20. (Whyareyoustillwatchingitthen?!!??!?!?)

Trickster has two main protagonists, Hanasaki, and Kobayashi.

Hanasaki, is a part of the Boys Detective Agency. Which is a group that does tasks such as finding a cat, or finding a cheater, etc...

One of their goals is to find, and catch a mysterious villain known as "20 Faces".
20 faces loves thrills, and never gets his own hands dirty. He has a mysterious tie to the leader of the Boys Detective group, Akechi.

When Hanasaki & Kobayashi meet, Kobayashi jumps off of a building, and remains unharmed. He has a strange power that makes him immortal, due to a strange "fog". (Although, to me, it always looked like some kind of wind magic, but it's called a fog... Whatever!)

All Kobayashi wants, is to die! But due to his powers, he can't. Hanasaki makes a deal with him, if he joins the Boys Detective Club, he'll find a way to kill Kobayashi!
The second half of the anime gets more serious, and one of the characters go through their own crisis. There is plenty of character development for Kobayashi, and Hanaski. Some characters also get more limelight, such as episode 14, which stars a minor character.

The ending of the anime is also not what you would expect, which I think is a nice touch.

I greatly enjoyed this anime, and just like how I enjoyed Shangri-La, and Saint October, I seem to be the only person to like this anime as well. I watched the show on Crunchyroll, and all anyone could say in the comments, was how they're so done with this anime, and they're done with these characters.. and I'd be like, I'm so done with you, why are you here whining?!

Trickster is a fun anime that starts off episodic, it has a city adventure kind of vibe to it. The story gets deeper near the end of the first "Season", Some major character development happens after episode 12, and the characters, and the story start to get fleshed out. We also meet Hanasaki's long lost spiritual twin in the second half of the show (I swear, they're like the same person, it's so funny).
Trickster is the city-based, action/adventure, anime with a slight shounen-ai vibe, that I was looking for!

Retail Stories: This was strange, even for me..

I've had my fair of strange customers in retail, here's a few stories.

Sipping too much of the cuckoo juice!

A customer once asked me, "Do you have any luggage that is not made with chemicals that can cause cancer, and birth defects in California?"

First off, I really don't know. I put stuff out, and clean up messes made by the other customers.  I don't have any time to specifically read labels on the products, as I have a million other things to do than find the answer to a question I've only been asked once in almost 5 years. (That's not even an exaggeration)  Second of all, it's just a warning, it specifically says "CAN CAUSE", not that it will. It just wants you to be careful, it doesn't necessarily mean it will cause anything. The only thing it was causing me is a headache!

You're cuckoo, and you don't know it? Unfortunately...

One lady asked if I worked at the store, I said yes. I thought she wanted to actually ask me a question, but all she wanted to do was talk about how excited she was... She was so happy that we had twin sheets in white. She was complaining about the next door competitor who didn't have twin sheets, or didn't have just white sheets.
She talked about how its so hard to find Twin sheets that are in white, because people like her (Who had to be 40-50.) Sleep in a twin bed.. (What, I'm half her age and I sleep in a full!) She was complaining about how all of the twin sheets are college oriented (Wonder why..),  and how there aren't white sheets because "people don't want to wash their sheets, because the colored ones won't stain" (What). She was so happy to find a white twin sheet.. ( I really thought she was like, lowkey racist too.)
10 minutes after I got away from this nut, she finds me again, and asks me if we had white sheets in either Polyester or Cotton ( I don't remember). The sheet we had was one of the two, but she wanted the other one. I said that's all we had, we don't really get twin sheets.
SO AFTER ALL OF THAT OBNOXIOUS WHINING ABOUT WHITE TWIN SHEETS, there was still a problem, which really isn't a big deal! (Unless she had some kind of allergy, which wasn't the case.)

This lady seriously needed to get over herself. First off, she should have a Queen sized bed, because they're comfy, and you'll have room for all of your pillows. Especially since she had a twin sized bed, she was definitely a crazy cat lady. If she had a queen bed, she can fit like 10 of her cats.
Also, maybe people like color sheets, not because they're lazy... but because, I don't know, maybe they like colors better?! I'd go for red sheets, over white, any day! I mean, it is the most amazing, devastatingly beautiful color in the world, but of course! :P

So, I've made of list of things she needs to do.

• Queen Sized bed for Pillow Fort, and all the cats she probably has!
• Any kind of sheets, because who cares, and colors are pretty to look at!

Drama Queen from California

I was not here to witness this event, but a lady found a notebook, that had a religious phrase on it. The phrase was incorrect, and said it was "Philippians verse 29", when apparently Philippians only goes to 24 verses. She cut in line, and annoyed other customers. She had an associate call up a manager, because the book had the wrong verse in it. She kept complaining about how the verse is wrong, and was very over-dramatic about it. The lady wanted to complain about how it was wrong, and wanted to talk to corporate about it, as well as the company that made the book. When she looked in the book, for details from who made it, she saw that it was from Los Angeles, which is apparently where she's from. She knows the company who made it, and she was shocked to find out that they had something wrong on their product. The quote was something like "I Can Do All Things Through Christ Who Strengthens Me", and it said Philippians 29.

I don't understand why this lady would think that the manager, or corporate could do anything about a book being incorrect. The store just orders stuff to sell, It's not like they make the books themselves! The manager was so over it, and just shooed her away. lol

The funny thing is, my store is a discount store, and we get stuff all the time that is wrong. If furniture is damaged, we get it, if a candle is melted lop sided, we get it. The store gets plenty of rejects, and it's very possible, that's why we got it. It's amazing how this lady caused a ruckus over a simple mistake.

The company that made it, is called Bridge Port Products.

Keywords: Why retail is the worst job, Who are retail customers?, Why retail jobs are bad, Retail is hard, Retail Experience, Retail Examples, Retail Industry, Retail Sector, Retail Times, Retail Workers.

Youtubers to check out! Dk1Games

Today I am posting about a youtuber, who does let's plays! His name is Joseph Birdsong, also known as "DK1Games", on youtube. He's a blogger, youtuber, and a podcaster (Is that even a word?).  He used to post funny videos online, but has put on a new cape, and does gaming videos instead. His gaming videos are very fun to watch, and he's quite the character! He has a plethora of tasteful words, and catchphrases. Such as "He's dead as a door-nail", or "He's coming to nibble at my biscuits!", and plenty of others. I also really like his naming system for crazy characters, like "Crazy McSusan", or "Becky with the bad hair", also known as "Crazy McBecky". Which I've also used as a colorful way to talk about distasteful people. Just today at work, I said to my friend Tina, Becky with the bad hair is coming this way, I better go!
He's lot's of fun to watch, and the games he plays are very interesting! I've shown some of my friends his videos, and they like that he is more happy, and upbeat, where other let's players are brooding. He's really cool, and deserves more attention!

Check out his Bayonetta series so far! It's a great series that needs more love! Bayonetta, is totally the secret gay icon of 2017, just like babadook!

He's done plenty of other series too, such as Tomb Raider, Bratz, Monster High, Resident Evil 7, and plenty more!

Check him out!

Click here!

Things that only apply to me...

There are plenty of things that I've noticed I seem to be the only person in the world, that likes said thing. Everyone else seems to hate them/ not agree with it.. So here's a list of things, that "apparently", only apply to me..

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Animals

• I love dogs, and I don't like cats due to traumatic experiences in my childhood. Like I am literally afraid of cats. My friend has a cat, and one time he moved his paw, and I screamed, because I'm so afraid of them attacking me for no reason. Yet, everyone else in the world loves cats, and if you don't like cats, you're yelled at, and ostracized! (I've been called an idiot, as well as "There being something wrong with me", just for expressing my dislike of cats online.) See Reasons Why I'm a Dog Person

Anime

• I prefer more unknown anime, over popular ones, as I find they tend to be more interesting than popular shows with 55 thousand episodes. (Bleach, Naruto, Dragonball, One Piece .. etc..)
• I did no love Sword Art Online. See my Review as to why.
• I love unknown anime like Saint October, Shangri-La and Trickster. Where as everyone hates them.

Food

That everyone else seems to hates but me!

• Tomatoes
• Candy Corn.
• Cranberry Sauce

Food - I don't like

Alcohol -

Kids

 I don't like kids.
Internet

• I prefer using the search engine Bing, over Google, but everyone else hates Bing!

See Why I like Bing.

Men

• I'm like the only person that thinks George Eads is attractive. (Although, as I've gotten older, I find less actors attractive, and more people IRL attractive.
• Everyone wants to date a young guy in his early 20's, I'd prefer to date someone older in his late 30's!

Other

• Unlike most people, I am good with names, but not faces. Apparently humans are supposed to be good with faces, and not names. This makes me question why it is, I'm so bad with faces? Names are easy, but the only way for me to remember someone's face is if I'm around them for long periods of time. If I'm working in a store, and a customer asks me a question where I have to leave them, and come back. I will come back, not knowing who it was that wanted help! The funniest part is when, I need a co-workers help, I'll tell them they were wearing pink, and blue, but they were wearing black, and white dots! I can't remember people's faces until I'm around them! But I have yet to meet anyone that is good with names like me, and It's also ironic considering I'm an artist!

• I like having work on Sundays because, when I was younger and used to watch cable television, there would never be any TV shows on Sundays. Back then Sundays always dragged on to me, they were just always boring! As an adult, even though I just watch shows online now. Sundays are still very boring, and a drag on. Since I work retail, I do work Sundays, but it's weird when I'm off on one, because it's just such a dull day for me. Everyone else loves being off on Sundays..... Bleh!

• Despite being a male in his twenties, I get hot flashes! However, I only get them on my face, and usually only around spring/summer... I have no idea why it happens... I should probably find out why... (Years later I realized this was a sign that I was eating too much sugar)

Video Games

• I'm one of the few people on the planet that absolutely hates Final Fantasy VII!
• I seem to be the only person to like the characters Quina, and Hope, in the Final Fantasy games.
• Poshul, a talking pink dog in the game Chrono Cross, is one of my favorite characters of all time! I even have a collectible of her. But everyone hates her!
• I'm a Sombra main in Overwatch, and everyone hates her because she takes actual skill to use... (And I OOP)
• I enjoy plenty of Video Games that no one likes, or have heard of.. such as the Suikoden Games, Kya Dark Lineage, Beyond Good & Evil, Malice, Sould Nomad & The World Eaters, Sly Cooper... etc.

Weather

• 90% of my friends love winter, and hate Summer. I absolutely love summer! I hate cold weather, 60 degrees is too cold to me.. I can't take it! But what drives me nuts is, everyone around me likes winter! Meeting someone that likes summer, is an oddity for me. I want more summer lovers in my life, is that a hard thing to ask?
See Why I love Summer!