[Nait Phoenix]

Originally posted by Fever

OMG, it's like literally reading my list!

[Truffle.]

d @ some of yall getting mad when people are nice to you

[FOCK]

When people try to bargain with me - especially if it's over something that's already reasonably priced, or if they want an item thrown in for free. NOTHING is free.

I work in a menswear store & I have straight up told people before "this isn't a charity, sorry".

I get embarrassed for them. Like... Don't you have any shame? Don't shop for something you know you can't afford.


Also, when people whistle at me to get my attention or wag their finger at me from across the room. I smile at them & walk away.


But worst of all, would have to be the pervs that will walk in just to chat up my hot manager. Or the crazies that have groped me or rubbed my thigh and have said things like "looking for slim pants.... *rub rub rub*.... Like yours".
Yes. This has happened to me twice. It was traumatic.

Retail just awakens your awareness to the stupidity of humanity.

[jonasha]

"Are you working hard or hardly working?"

Like bitch, I'm about to kill myself in front of you. You ain't a comedian.

[Rogue]

If a customer continues to be rude to me, I'll say "you can speak to the manager regarding your issue" and call the manager then walk away. Luckily that only happened once.

[dannyboy]

Originally posted by B'Day

!!!!!!!
You can CLEARLY see me organising shoes and you have the audacity to ask me if I work here, bitch do you really think I just walked in and offered to do this for FREE?
- Customers who think they are the priority
- Customers who try to tell me how to do MY job
- Customers who expect me to break the rules for my job to help them out
- My managers/supervisors talking to me when there's a customer in front of me
- The lack of clocks in the store. These managers think they're ****ing smart, I bought a ****ing watch because of this.

Costumers should be your priority. If they have to go to you and ask if you work there it's probably because you paid them dust.

[GGD]

Customers who wants more discount in a clearance item. Like it's additional 50% off the already reduced item how cheap can you get

[Aciid]

staff that follows you around or insist on helping you

[Gagamon]

I just learned to not give a single **** anymore. Most customers are complete assholes who think they are entitled just because they are the customer.

[Melvin]

I hate the "Do you work here?" question when asked at obvious times..

I was the closing manager, and I was BEHIND the register COUNTING IT DOWN for the night, when someone came to the register and asked if I worked there, I literally said, "No.."

[MusicLoverDude]

Oh lord...this thread.

Can I just ask you guys...I've never worked in retail, so I'm always a customer...how often do people tell you "have a good day" or "have a good night" when they've finished up at the cash register with their purchases? I tell the cashiers that, whether i'm at the grocery store or a gas station, when I'm leaving. I just think it's nice. Do a lot of customers not tell you guys that or do you actually get a few decent people that do?

[Tylerbv]

Everything. Customers assume you make all the rules for some reason. They treat you like dirt and get mad when you don't have something in stock. Do I look like I control the stock? FOH.

[Witchpop]

Originally posted by MusicLoverDude

Oh lord...this thread.

Can I just ask you guys...I've never worked in retail, so I'm always a customer...how often do people tell you "have a good day" or "have a good night" when they've finished up at the cash register with their purchases? I tell the cashiers that, whether i'm at the grocery store or a gas station, when I'm leaving. I just think it's nice. Do a lot of customers not tell you guys that or do you actually get a few decent people that do?

When I'm behind the register I always say it, even if you're rude, I just make it more like a slydig toned version

[Danger]

Customers asking if I have a coupon. Do I know you bih? Find a coupon your damn self


Customers complaining about the prices. I didn't make them so why are you telling me this ****?

[KORDEI]

I also HATE last minute shoppers.... like the ones that come out christmas eve and they curse you out when you don't have the stuff that sold out.

and to anyone that works in a big store like Walmart or Target, don't y'all just hate gift card scammers that come on your line with fake credit cards that they can't use anywhere else and try to buy visa cards or store giftcards?
They're usually wearing these:

the atmosphere always changes when they walk into your lane.

Originally posted by MusicLoverDude

Oh lord...this thread.

Can I just ask you guys...I've never worked in retail, so I'm always a customer...how often do people tell you "have a good day" or "have a good night" when they've finished up at the cash register with their purchases? I tell the cashiers that, whether i'm at the grocery store or a gas station, when I'm leaving. I just think it's nice. Do a lot of customers not tell you guys that or do you actually get a few decent people that do?

People are nicer in the mornings and you'll most likely hear it around that time. They get ruder as it goes from the evening into the night but there are usually a few people that say it before we do.

[Danger]

Originally posted by Lyrical.

Oh and people who give you a $100 bill for a $4 purchase.

How could I forget!!

[FOCK]

Originally posted by Aciid

staff that follows you around or insist on helping you

We insist on helping you for 2 reasons:

1. If we don't, people complain about unhelpful staff.

2. We work to get the store looking neat & organized and we don't want you picking things up & putting them back in the wrong place or in wrong size order - or unfolding all the tees we've just spent an hour folding. We have a system. We know how it works. Whatever size or style you're looking for, we can get for you in half the time it'd take you to do it yourself and in a much neater way.

Another peeve is when you say hello to somebody or ask how their day has been & they reply with "just looking". Bitch, that isn't what I asked you.

People have lost their ability to interact with other humans on the simplest of levels. -_-

[Toya]

"I don't have the receipt, I took the tag off, sorry my dog chewed it up, oh and I want cash back."

When someone asks you to check the stockroom for something, you go find it for them, you come back and they're gone.

Customers who want you to shop with them. Like bitch I have things to do and you're grown as **** acting like you don't know how to match up a shirt and jeans.

Customers who ask you how they look in things like I'm really gonna tell you you look like a Jimmy Dean sausage stuffed into a casing. I would be FIRED.

Customers with Walmart money who want Saks service

[Witchpop]

Originally posted by KORDEI

and to anyone that works in a big store like Walmart or Target, don't y'all just hate gift card scammers that come on your line with fake credit cards that they can't use anywhere else and try to buy visa cards or store giftcards?
They're usually wearing these:

the atmosphere always changes when they walk into your lane.

I just tell them "Sorry, cash only for giftcards" because they're so obvious.

Oh I'm gonna buy this random birthday card and 8 $200 visa gift cards with 3 credit cards.

[Buddy]

Originally posted by dannyboy

Costumers should be your priority. If they have to go to you and ask if you work there it's probably because you paid them dust.

Dannyboy, please don't say **** until you actually work in retail. You sound like an entitled stay at home mom. People who work in retail almost always do so for minimum wage, the lowest of low. But people treat us as if we have bachelors degree in customer service management. Bitch no. We are simply 18-22 years olds who need this job to get by in our already stressful lives, but people people expect us to know everything about everything and even if something is outside of our power, people will yell at and demean us as if it's our fault.

Because we didn't have watermelon in stock, I had a customer ask "What kind of employee are you?" making a scene, putting me on bad terms with my manager. I've had people come back and make a scene degrading an employee because they were 1 dime short. I've seen someone call my manager a "midget who only makes 11 dollars" to his face simply because he told him he couldn't ride his hover board in the store. I've seen shoppers call my 18 year old friend a disgrace and tell her that she's the reason they'll never come back simply because she dropped their berries. The stupidly of customers and the demeaning expectations of us literally had me ready to mentally breakdown some days. So when a customer has a superficial issue which they treat like the end of the world and like it's our fault when some things are just out of your power then **** gets to you.