Although I never did myself, it's pretty obvious why. Working with the public is **** because some people make it a POINT to be rude as hell for no reason. Some people even find it funny to try to get people fired.

Because people are generally trash

For the most part, the complaints are mostly a way of blowing off steam. But the roots of them have to deal with difficult customers (there are far too few great understanding customers in general, it seems) and backroom politics. It's a hassle even at the slowest of times.

Tea on this please. I'm in an area where drunken alcoholics are dime a dozen and lord, is it annoying just being around them.

This reminds me of the time my mother gave this probably college kid a hard time because he gave the receipt and did this item thing first but took a bit long to give the money. idk what made her go off like that, there was no harm

Because when you work in retail you can say goodbye to being off work for any holidays, you won't be getting anything in the sales because you will be working them and you will NOT have any steady shifts ever. Its hard and people should consider if they can manage all that and the stress of it all in general before signing a contract

Also practically everyone complains about work and rightfully so. The only job i don't understand people complaining about is teaching, if you don't like kids don't be a teacher? to mention you get like half of the year off and weekends.

Be grateful you have a job and work in air conditioning tbh

Because the general public are horrible to deal with. They expect you to prioritise them above everyone, they think the stockroom is some magic room, they even have the audacity to ask for discounts. My job -- I have to try and say hello to every customer who walks in the shop. The way the customers give me some nasty look or don't even give me eye contact ... people are just RUDE. You organise a clothing/shoe rack, just for customers to mess it up right in front of you. People throw stuff on the floor and leave things lying around with no remorse. The worst -- I think -- is when customers are in the store and the store is closed, and they're slowly browsing. It's SELFISH.

And the management/supervisors... Lord.

I've heard Zara and River Island are horrible to work at .

Low pay + people treat you like trash + understaffed store + lazy management = hell

People are rude af and seem to think because you're getting paid, they have every right to be an ass to you.

Plus they come up with the weirdest complaints and problems.

I worked high-end(ish) retail and (a lot of) the customers were so snobby and rude.

Many of these retail workers steal from their customers. So, i have no sympathy for them

A mess. I hate giving eye contact for any reason in public

It's not about liking kids or getting holidays. Not to mention they have tons of homework, coursework and mocks to mark. They have to organise lessons, monitor each child's progress yet if the child doesn't progress well, they get the blame. Obviously, teachers don't get enough respect and they're extremely underpaid when you think about what they do (raising the next generation). If you conducted a survey to a group of teenagers with the question: 'worst thing you've ever said to a teacher.' You would probably hear some vile, vile things. I called my English teacher a bitch when I was 14 and I'm so ashamed of myself.

Okay fair enough, I feel the same -- but I don't get that awkward feeling from them, more like, 'I'm not even going to at least glance in your direction.'

Yeah I do not envy nightclub workers. I work in a pretty busy pub, so it's not as bad, but we do get quite a lot of younger drunk people who can get quite annoying. Like some of them try to start fights, or what I found is even more annoying is when they make fun of you and they're in a big group, so everyone joins in - so infuriating also the Middle Aged women can get so nasty when they're off their face Thankfully we have pretty good security so they get kicked out pretty fast

I did it in high school and it was A W F U L.

Personally I didn't hate working in retail, I was getting along with everyone but it was annoying to deal with stupid clients, something stupid managers, having to fold after messy and lazy clients, lack of employees, listening to a playlist on loop that sucked most of the time and I think it's also the fact that most of the employees would rather work somewhere else than folding and selling clothes