Because it’s sale week, and we’re seeing the worst of the customers right now.
1. Thou shalt not take clothes, change your mind, and dump them across the entire gondola instead of actually hanging them up. It is not our job to chase you around the store as you do this about 50 times, it stops us from doing our actual job, like, serving customers.
2. Thou shalt not mix up our sale, and put non-sale in the £3 sale section.
3. Thou shalt not haggle, in a high street store in England.
4. Thou shalt not pick up one shoe, take it across the entire store to the till, and ask for the other one. (This might work in certain shoe shops, but in ours, they’re in bloody pairs! Exception if the other shoe isn’t actually where it should be, obviously.)
5. Thou shalt not bring in vouchers that expired a week ago, and grouch about it.
6. Thou shalt not bring in clothes you brought a week ago for us to scan each and every single one because “I want to know if it’s gone in the sale.”. Especially when the queue in our store is almost long enough to reach the moon.
7. Fitting rooms are not for drinking, or changing nappies and leaving them there.
8. Thou shalt not steal, and if you intend to steal don’t insult our intelligence by walking out and walking in a different entrance. We still recognise you.
In all fairness, the customers in the store I work now are generally more pleasant than they were when I worked in PC World where no-one had any manners whatsoever, possibly because computer business enrages people =P But we’re short staffed (budget-from-headoffice wise) and people doing all this takes time away from us to do things that are actually our job - serving customers, placing stock, and guarding fitting rooms.
10/07/2008 at 1:37 am Permalink
Clothing retail rages me so much. People are infuriating. I’d come out of Papaya wanting to decapitate so many folks.
10/07/2008 at 9:56 am Permalink
Food industry frustrates me even more. With clothing, you feel like you at least have a say in what customers do.
*pats back*
10/07/2008 at 4:30 pm Permalink
Ah yes, but with food, there’s always the potential to reeeally fuck with them. x]
10/07/2008 at 7:02 pm Permalink
Oh yes, I’m glad I don’t work in food. I’ve heard so many horror stories, and people are so rude to waiter/esses. I’d be so pissed off if someone clicked their fingers at me
10/07/2008 at 7:11 pm Permalink
People don’t realize how serious it is not to mess with people who handle/prepare your food. :/
And oh my, if someone snapped at me, the roof would come down on them, at least. x_x;