The other day a man signed up for our advantage card and I asked for his “email” and he looked at me and goes “No?? I have a gmail, I don’t even know what an email is.” And I was just so in awe for a moment and I just smiled and enthusiastically replied “It’s okay that works!” Meanwhile internally screaming.
Honestly if anyone wants to know what retail is like on a daily basis? This is it.
I h8 retail so much I just rang up an employee and gave her the employee discount and had a middleage woman have an absolute meltdown because she didn’t also get the employee discount despite like not working there
Y’all this old lady on Facebook got angry at me so she threatened to call my job and report my “rude” behavior to my boss. So she got my information from my page
SHE GONNA TRY TO CALL MR.KRABS ON ME YALL
SHE GONNA TRY TO CONTACT BIKINI BOTTOM
She is going to call a phone number and ask, “Is this the Krusty Krab?”
And the person who answered the phone will have a choice to make.
some customers: oh my god i’m so sorry i have to ask you a question i feel so foolish for not knowing this already please help me but i’m so sorry forgive me
other customers: answer this question before i’ve even asked it or i’ll kill you where you stand
Man can you imagine if the Next Big Trend in marketing was humanely treated employees
“Our free range retail workers are allowed to go to the bathroom whenever they need to!”
“We understand humans weren’t designed to stand for eight hours a day.
We go beyond the industry standard anti-stress mats and provide every checkout clerk with a chair. ”
“We provide air conditioning in every warehouse facility to prevent heatstroke – better climate control for workers means better products for you!”
(And how fucked up is it that this isn’t already a thing?)
our cashiers are grass-fed
It honestly blows my mind still that American checkout staff aren’t allowed to sit down. Here in the UK it’s standard for checkout staff to be sat down and the fact that it’s such an outlandish concept in the US to let them sit down is beyond me.
This shit used to hurt me so much. Now when I go shopping I don’t even touch shit unless I know I want it lol cus I know that pain
i’m that person you see folding something and putting it back after i’ve looked at it lol
^^^ And if I can’t fold it back perfectly they’re gonna at least see that I tried.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
All.of.this
Worked in retail almost half a decade, and let me tell y’all this is daily, not just Black Friday or summer sales.
I’ve had people look me straight in the eyes while they knock over a perfectly folded stack of shirts off a table so they could put down their Starbucks cup. People leave food, drinks, diapers, used pads and bandages, even one time an actual syringe on tables.
I’ve had people destroy entire displays and complain about how dirty and “why don’t employees respect their own store” while I was directly next to them frantically trying to fix what they, themselves, just messed up.
This shit is so ingrained in me now that I fixed displays while on vacation in Disney World for a full half hour.
And before anyone says anything, no, actually picking up after grown adults that should know better, it actually isn’t my job to clean up after you all day. We have customer service, check for product, work the registers, keep the bathrooms clean, deal with angry customers, try to prevent shop lifting, and keep the store running. Recovery (fixing displays) is supposed to be low on our list because people aren’t supposed to be selfish shitheads. If you wouldn’t destroy your friend’s house, don’t destroy retail shops.
I’ve literally had people ask me if I work at several stores before because I’m cleaning up after myself??? like they are asking me for help and I’m like “idk I don’t work here” then they are like “then why are you cleaning?”
It’s,,, basic manners,,, to clean after yourself,,, what is wrong with people,,,
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