That's why i work 3rd shift! No customers allowed in the store! I get to lock the doors and say "Go away" to anyone who comes asking if were still open!
No respect for Grocery store workers
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Sorry, why should they waste their (free) time when it's part of your job to tell people where things are? Sure they should be polite and courteous about it. Also, I don't know what things are like where you are, but in the UK supermarkets re-layout their stores what seems to be every week in order to sell more stuff, so it's hardly surprising people don't know where stuff is.Soviet Heavy said:
I am a Blockbuster clerk and get this a lot. Mainly what I get are people who come up, pay off a late fee or, pick up a movie or, simply pass by and loudly comment "That's why ya'll are going out of business." It's not the same person or even the same group of people: it's that exact phrase. Most of the time they say it to my face. How am I supposed to react to that? "I agree sir: our late fees aren't getting any of our money back and, services such as Netflix and, The Internet in general are doing nothing to our sales what so ever."
I have also had to go on fetch-quests for these people too. "Excuse me, where are your new blu rays?" *points to the large, blue banner on the wall*
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I have also had to go on fetch-quests for these people too. "Excuse me, where are your new blu rays?" *points to the large, blue banner on the wall*
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I don't understand why people even bother to ***** at restaurant servers. They handle food and could do anything to it between kitchen and table. I've known to not piss off waiters before the film Waiting made me aware of what could happen. Then people read about Burger King employees spitting on burgers and think 'oh my gawd, what's wrong with that person!?'Klarinette said:
Working in retail just sucks. I had one customer yell at me for a computer error because we never got his email. If we get your email for a hold we send a email back saying we do/do not have it in the store. But this one customer thought because he sent the email the product would instantly be there. When I asked him "Did you call our store and double check the product was here." He went on a rant how it's a computer world and computers are always right. Just remember to always double check on the product.
Today a woman came in to the store screaming her head off because we grabbed the wrong thing. She called over the phone asking to put Dr. Seuss "The Lorax" on hold for her. We got Dr. Seuss "The Lorax" book and put it on hold for her telling her it was in stock. When she came in it was the wrong one. She wanted the dvd. But we didn't have the dvd in stock. I told her we could order it with free shipping. Which then she quickly threw her other items she was going to get onto the counter and yelled "If I knew you didn't have it I wouldn't be here! I can get it cheaper online!" then left knocking a display off the counter as well.
Just have to learn to deal with them and let it go. There not going to stop me from doing my job and getting payed. Gaming is a very expensive hobby. :3
Today a woman came in to the store screaming her head off because we grabbed the wrong thing. She called over the phone asking to put Dr. Seuss "The Lorax" on hold for her. We got Dr. Seuss "The Lorax" book and put it on hold for her telling her it was in stock. When she came in it was the wrong one. She wanted the dvd. But we didn't have the dvd in stock. I told her we could order it with free shipping. Which then she quickly threw her other items she was going to get onto the counter and yelled "If I knew you didn't have it I wouldn't be here! I can get it cheaper online!" then left knocking a display off the counter as well.
Just have to learn to deal with them and let it go. There not going to stop me from doing my job and getting payed. Gaming is a very expensive hobby. :3
I have bad news - if you work in a service industry of any sort, this will NEVER go away.Soviet Heavy said:
If they feel service is bad, your presence likely won't deter them from speaking about it. Actually, it probably makes them MORE likely to make a comment - afterall, you are part of their percieved problem.Soviet Heavy said:
I hate to break it to you, but knowing where stuff can be found is a part of the expected job in this case. Keep in mind shopping for food is a chore for most and they don't like being frustrated by the experience. Sure, you might think something is obvious but it quite clearly isn't. Just look at it as a chance to point out the error in their ways, and if that isn't soothing enough, complain at length to your friends about the idiots. It's what I did when I was in retail.Soviet Heavy said:
If you weren't there, you'd be replaced. Besides, who ought to be blamed for such things? It seems to me the first place to start if an item cannot be found is with the people responsible for putting it where it can be found.Soviet Heavy said:
Can't say that I do. I'll just quote a classic movie: "You sound like an asshole. Whose choice was it to be here today? Nobody twisted your arm. You're here today of your own violation, my friend. But you'd like to believe that the weight of the world rests on your shoulders-that the store would crumble if Dante wasn't here. Well, I got news for you, jerk: This store would survive without you. Without me either. All you do is overcompensate for having what's basically a monkey's job: You push fucking buttons. Any moron can waltz in here and do our jobs, but you're obsessed with making it seem so much more fucking important, so much more epic than it really is."Soviet Heavy said:
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I respect people in your profession, long hours, generally hard work. Save up your money and get up that work ladder son! 
An optimist? On the escapist?! GASPAkira Fumi said:Only on some days. I'm an incredibly optimistic person though, and I fully understand work is something I don't choose to do, it's something I have to do in order to survive. I do like helping people though, like a lot so the job was rewarding when I did get customers that weren't just coming off a nasty breakup or loss of a bet.feather240 said:
I worked retail for around a year, and I actually found the customers were the best part of the job. The only ones that were ever any trouble were foreigners who couldn't speak english very well. I never could understand why asian immigrants were so angry pretty much 90% of the time.
I think, for the most part, people in the grocery store go in there after a hard day of work or school or during hard times and they just have so much on their plates that they project their bad moods onto the people around them. Don't blame the people, blame the society that causes them to have so much stress in their lives.
So, in this current economy, I was given the option of either firing a bunch of workers or lowering the overall pay [I'm VP of the place]. I go with the latter option, simply because it's better to have a lower paying job then no job at all.
So all's going fine and dandy, right? Until I come into work the next morning and find half the workforce sitting outside the place. They refuse to come inside and work until I give them a raise. So, I fire those who are "protesting", hire more workers, and it so turns out we have enough in our new budget to give each one of the remaining workers a raise.
The best part is, when I signed their severance checks, some of them had the nerve to say "What about my family?". Well, dumbass, if you'd come in and actually fucking WORKED for your paycheck, then you wouldn't have to worry about your family, now would you?
A dick move? Yes. Deserved? You bet.
So all's going fine and dandy, right? Until I come into work the next morning and find half the workforce sitting outside the place. They refuse to come inside and work until I give them a raise. So, I fire those who are "protesting", hire more workers, and it so turns out we have enough in our new budget to give each one of the remaining workers a raise.
The best part is, when I signed their severance checks, some of them had the nerve to say "What about my family?". Well, dumbass, if you'd come in and actually fucking WORKED for your paycheck, then you wouldn't have to worry about your family, now would you?
A dick move? Yes. Deserved? You bet.
Which country are you in?
I didn't notice it so much over here in Wales, not like this place is a beacon of good will and politeness, mind you.
I didn't notice it so much over here in Wales, not like this place is a beacon of good will and politeness, mind you.
Try being a Gamestop employee when your supervisor is a misogynist and the district manager won't do a damn thing about it because you aren't a manager yourself.
The shit we used to go through and the shit employees at Gamestop go through now is just mind-boggling.
The shit we used to go through and the shit employees at Gamestop go through now is just mind-boggling.
Exactly. The classic example of dont piss off the people who make your food.Shoggoth2588 said:
I am honestly too scared to tell the people at Wendy's they got my order wrong. I basically just bend over and take it, and I think every single fast food restaurant in the world is catching on to the fact that I have no balls.
I mean honestly, "No cheese, please..."
I know first hand that such jobs completely suck. And this is not the result of a poor economy - your average teenage has no marketable skills thus why your average teenager is stuck working in a terrible job. I myself had several - Food Slave (Taco Bell, Braum's (An ice cream and hamburger joint), Movie Slave (Hastings) Register Monkey (Gas Station), and worst of all: Telemarketer (a term that is demeaning enough in itself). I'm quite certain working at a grocery store sucks and I'm equally certain that, were I the OP, I'd complain quite a bit too. The advantage of having a bit more life experience is knowing what is worth making a fuss over and what isn't, and having a shitty job as a teenager simply doesn't qualify in the grand scheme of things.Tdc2182 said:
Besides, complaining at length never makes your job satisfaction go up and you sure as hell aren't going to improve your station by doing it.
I know exactly what you mean. I worked at GameStop for two years, and the people you get there are just as bad. If it isn't because they feel themselves so superior to you, it's because they are the same low-life pieces of trash that you see yelling at the cops that they did nothing wrong when their door is kicked down on a drug raid that also yields under-age pron. 3/10 of them haven't showered in the past five days, 7/10 of them haven't held a comb in over a week, and 9-1/2 of 10 don't give a flying crap about the guy who's behind the counter because "he's just some loser".Soviet Heavy said:
The simple thing is: retail, for an educated person, is an experience. In experience in the cesspool that is modern day society, that is. In retail, everyone who hasn't worked a day in the life of a customer service clerk thinks that the underpaid guy behind the counter makes all the rules that say they can't return something without a receipt. Everyone yells at the cashier that he did the reservation for them, even though that cashier has never dealt with a person sitting in a wheelchair in his whole life. Retail is a crash-course in the 'suck' that is humanity and it's ignorant masses.[/rant]
To those like the OP who actually have an education and aspirations in life: GTFO of Retail, ASAP, like I did. I work as a Shipping and Receiving Manager for a tool company, and I couldn't name one downfall over working as that instead of being in retail.