June 2014 - Page 15 of 22 - I Hate Working In Retail

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Aldi staff broke into beauty therapist’s car and dumped it in a bush because ‘it was obstructing their delivery lorry’

  • Janina Wasiuta discovered her red £4,000 Ford Fiesta pushed off the road
  • The driver’s window was smashed to pieces and glass was over the seat
  • Aldi staff said they were forced’ to break in so a truck could gain access
  • Beauty therapist works just a hundred yards away in Chorley, Lancashire

 

Supermarket staff smashed their way into a woman’s car and dumped it in a bush because they claimed it was obstructing a delivery vehicle.

Janina Wasiuta finished work to discover her red £4,000 Ford Fiesta pushed off the road with the driver’s window in pieces and glass over the seat.

There was no note on the car but staff at the Aldi next to the scene said they had been forced to break into the vehicle so a delivery truck could get to their store.

Miss Wasiuta has slammed the supermarket chain after staff broke into the car and dumped it in bushes

Dumped: Janina Wasiuta finished work to discover  her red £4,000 Ford Fiesta pushed off the road with the driver’s window  in pieces and glass over the seat
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In a bush: The beauty therapist, who works just a  hundred yards away, had moved from her regular parking spot which was  closed due to maintenance work
Angry: Miss Wasiuta said there were no double yellow lines or signs telling her she couldn't park in the road

 

Angry: Miss Wasiuta said there were no double yellow lines or signs telling her she couldn’t park in the road

Miss Wasiuta, 29, said there were no double yellow lines or signs saying she was not allowed to park on the road by the supermarket in Chorley, Lancashire.

The beauty therapist, who works just a hundred yards away, had moved from her regular parking spot which was closed due to maintenance work.

She said: ‘I’m absolutely disgusted and so angry.

‘My boss left work just before me on Friday evening and she called me saying I needed to get over quick because she’d found my car in a bush.

Janina Wasiuta finished work to discover her red £4,000 Ford Fiesta pushed off the road and in a bush

Janina Wasiuta finished work to discover her red £4,000 Ford Fiesta pushed off the road and in a bush

When Miss Wasiuta returned to her car she found it in bushes with the windows smashed in

 

When Miss Wasiuta returned to her car she found it in bushes with the windows smashed in

‘I ran over and when I got there she was already speaking to a member of staff who said that one of their employees had broken the window and moved it because a lorry couldn’t get round.

‘I got no apology and their attitude was terrible.

‘There were cars parked behind me and I don’t see how my car was causing an obstruction.

‘It’s the first time I’ve parked there and there were no signs to say no parking or yellow lines so I assumed it would be ok. I’m just so angry.’

Miss Wasiuta says the paintwork on her car was also scratched and her wing mirror was left turned in during the incident last Friday.

Aldi have offered to pay for the repairs but the ordeal has left her deeply upset.

‘It’s not about the money,’ she said.

Staff at the Aldi say they were forced to break into the car so a delivery driver could access the store

 

Staff at the Aldi say they were forced to break into the car so a delivery driver could access the store

Picture shows where Janina's car was parked before members of staff broke in and pushed it out of the way

 

Picture shows where Janina’s car was parked before members of staff broke in and pushed it out of the way

The Aldi in Chorly, Lancashire, where staff broke in to a customer's car to move it out of the way

The Aldi in Chorly, Lancashire, where staff broke in to a customer’s car to move it out of the way

‘Since Friday, I’ve been left to pick  up the pieces. I’ve had to phone the police and contact my insurance and I’ve had to get a taxi to and from work.

‘I don’t understand how Aldi could allow a member of their team to do something like that.

‘If they weren’t aware at the  time, then they should have at least left a note explaining what had  happened and apologised. I’m just grateful my boss was there otherwise I wouldn’t have known what to do.

‘I was told apparently it took them four hours to get the truck in. If  they have spent four hours messing about trying to find a way of getting in, they could have come to the shop to see if it was a customer.

‘Their attitude has been disgusting. I’m really shocked by it all and I found it really quite distressing.’

Aldi said: ‘As a very last resort we had to move a vehicle that was  preventing an Aldi delivery truck from reversing into the loading bay.

The red £4,000 Ford Fiesta (pictured in the background) was pushed off the road and left with the driver¿s window in pieces and glass over the seat

The red £4,000 Ford Fiesta (pictured in the background) was pushed off the road and left with the driver¿s window in pieces and glass over the seat
Miss Wasiuta says the paintwork on her car was also scratched and her wing mirror was left turned in during the incident last Friday

 

Miss Wasiuta says the paintwork on her car was also scratched and her wing mirror was left turned in during the incident last Friday

‘Our store staff had searched for the owner of the vehicle for more than four hours.

‘They had also contacted the local police to try and obtain the registered owners details.

‘Unfortunately these were not available.

‘After every other option was taken into consideration, the car was then moved by Aldi staff.

‘The owner of the car returned at approximately 9pm, three hours after we moved it.

‘We are in communication with the car owner to rectify the damage caused, have offered to pay for all repairs and have apologised for any inconvenience.’

Miss Wasiuta has reported the incident to police who said it was being investigated ask criminal damage.

Lancashire County Council said: ‘It’s not an LCC highway. It’s a private road.’
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18 Irritating People All Retail Workers Meet

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If the world was a just place, everyone would have to work in customer service at least once in their life. Because then they would know what it felt like to work in an utterly thankless job, and maybe their experience would change their attitude towards retail and customer service employees. Every job has its downsides, and it’s not like people who work retail have to worry about getting the black lung from working down in the mines all day. But you have to admit, anyone who works in customer service has to deal with more than their share of idiotic human beings. As a wise man once said, this job would be great if it weren’t for the people.

Despite the fact that humans are unique little snowflakes, as soon as they head out into the world to go shopping, they quickly fall into neat little subcategories. There are pleasant shoppers, to be sure — people who are courteous and prompt, who clean up after themselves and make an effort not to make the lives of the workers any harder. But then there are also species upon species of terrible customers who upset the delicate relationship that exists between shopper and retailer.

 

18. The One Who Doesn’t Own a Watch

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They stroll leisurely into your store about ten minutes before closing, and browse as though they haven’t got a care in the world. What they don’t seem to realize is that you don’t get to magically leave as soon as the store closes. If you close at 9, you’ll probably be there for at least an hour later. So every minute past closing they spend in the store, that’s one more minute you’re not in bed eating ice cream and watching House of Cards.

 

17. The Slob

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The polite version of The Slob brings the remnants of their lunch into the store and asks if you can throw it out in your garbage can. Fair enough. The impolite version instead designs a cunning treasure hunt, where as you straighten the store for closing you discover a half empty cup of lemonade in one corner, and a Big Mac container hidden among the shoes.

16.The Busy Mom

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This mom has a million things on her mind, she doesn’t have time to monitor her children while they’re in your store. Are you kidding? That’s your job, peasant. Meanwhile, while Mom blisses out shopping, her children run amok creating the kind of messes that will take you the rest of the night to clean up.

We’re talking Cheerios on the floor, sticky hands on the merchandise, the whole nine yards. She’ll probably then complain loudly that your store doesn’t have a bathroom for her precious little Neveah, who has been sucking down a Coke/spilling it on the floor the whole time.

 

15. The Phantom Caller

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You haven’t ever actually met this person but you hate them a little bit already. They call up wanting to know a specific detail about a product, but because you’re, you know, running a store, you have to put them on hold. You take care of the people in line, get the information for the person, and get back on the line with them. But they are very displeased that you made them wait. “How dare you? I am a doctor, my time is valuable!” (Sadly, that is a direct quote.)

 

14. The Sneeringly Pretentious One

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This person is incredibly proud of the fact that they don’t work retail, and considers everyone who does uneducated, untouchable serfs. They think they don’t need to clean up after themselves because after all, that’s what you’re paid to do, and if you didn’t want to do that, you should have gone to college.

You consider telling them that you actually do have a college degree, it’s just that you’re really attached to food and shelter and it turns out you need money for those things.

13. The One Who Is Positive You Have More In The Back

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You don’t. You know this because you’ve been going into the back room several times over the past few hours, under the guise of checking stock, but really just taking a moment to collect yourself so that you avoid breaking something expensive in a fit of rage.

So yes, you have the back room’s stock memorized. Unless they’re looking for a bathroom with several health code violations or a broken mop, whatever this person wants is most definitely not back there.

12. The Tornado

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These people are clearly under the impression that elves clean the store while it’s closed. They pick up things and put them down somewhere else. They purposefully go through racks of clothes and put half the smalls in the larges and half the mediums on the clearance rack. They leave the dressing rooms in such a state that you can only assume they fought off a large bull whilst trying on skinny jeans.

 

11. The One With All The Dad Jokes

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The really sad part is that they think you haven’t heard these ones before. Oh, the scanner isn’t working? “I guess it’s free!” Yes, because that’s how a free market economy works. Also, no, you are not the first person to tell that joke today. But hey, you have your dad jokes, we have an occasionally debilitating sense of sarcasm, so it all evens out in the end.

 

10. The One Who Thinks This Is A Turkish Bazaar

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This is not a flea market, or Chinatown, or a crowded street market in the Middle East. What possesses people to think that they can come into corporate America and start haggling? You, as a minimum wage worker, are not in a position to barter with this joker as they try to trade you twelve dollars and a half-eaten bag of Skittles in exchange for your products. It’s like…have you been in a store before?

 

9. The Clueless Shopper

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They’re shopping for someone else, and you can only assume this person told them what they wanted through Morse Code. They’re looking for something that’s a light color, with a neckline, and some kind of stuff on the sleeves. Do you have that? Unfortunately, they’re usually not willing to explore, instead depending on you to help them find the illusive item, as they stare wide-eyed as though they’ve never been in a store before.

8. The Con Artist

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Look, you and this con artist both know that the item they’re trying to return was absolutely not purchased at your store. You know because you’ve been working there for four years and to the best of your knowledge, Ann Taylor Loft has never sold Scooby Doo purses. But they’re still going to try it, because there’s nothing to lose. Except your valuable time, of course.

 

7. The Cell Phone Addict

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You know how some people taught their children that it was rude to talk on a cell phone while checking out at a store unless it was an absolute life and death emergency? Well, some people didn’t, and the result is the cell phone addict. Their conversation is so important that it can’t be halted, not even to exchange paltry pleasantries with the cashier.

What’s really irritating about these encounters is that it makes you into the intruder, and you feel almost like you’re interrupting if, God forbid, you have to ask them a question

6. The Princess

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The world revolves around this person (the name is the Princess, but it could just as easily be a guy). They don’t understand why you can’t make an exception for them in regards to store policy – after all, they’re just one teeny tiny person, where’s the harm in that?

You try to explain that it’s not that simple, your boss checks on those things, or the computer system literally won’t let you do what they’re asking for, or that if you do it for them, you have to do it for everyone. It doesn’t work.

 

5. The One With The Throbbing Vein In His Forehead

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This man is irate. Something horrible has gone wrong, and you hope to God it wasn’t your fault. Unfortunately, he’s usually very perturbed about something that is completely out of your control. “What??  You mean I only have 30 days to return this?? And I need a receipt?! You don’t understand, I am a very important customer! I want to speak to your manager!”

This probably isn’t a good time to tell him that you are the manager.

 

4. The Coupon Ninja

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On the one hand, you have to appreciate the time and effort that went into their voracious couponing. They’ve got every offer your store has ever made, including the online codes pulled up and ready to go on their phone. The only problem? Entering in all these codes and scanning the coupons and checking to make sure they’re all still valid takes time.

Woe betide you if you work at a store that makes you manually enter in the discount. The Coupon Ninja may have saved a bundle, but the twelve people in line behind her are less enthused.

3. Complicated Question Karen

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Karen has a knack for asking the type of questions that probably weren’t even covered in your policy manual, and definitely not in your training sessions. She’s a lawyer in her non-shopping life, and she’s not above trying to exploit the loopholes in your store’s corporate policy. Inevitably, her questions will have to go up the chain of command, first to your disgruntled manager, who will spend the better part of his or her afternoon on hold with the corporate office to seek clarification. Karen is content to wait.

 

2. The Pack Of Teenagers

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Don’t they have anywhere else to go? They spend a few hours milling about, making you have to keep a steady eye on them to make sure they’re not shoplifting. Their constant giggling makes you feel like you’re back in high school, and you can’t help but think that they’re laughing at you. The bottom line is, if you’re going to spend two hours in a store, you should at least buy something. Restaurants don’t put up with those kind of shenanigans.

 

1. The One Who Cuts You Off When You Greet Them

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There is a special circle in hell reserved for this people. You start to say, “Hi, can I –”, but before you can get it all the way out, they wave you off dismissively, saying, “Just looking.” As if they don’t realize (which they probably don’t), that you could get in trouble for not greeting customers in the proper way. You don’t like it any more than they do. They should have the decency to let you get through your spiel so that you can both get on with your lives.

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Businessman’s shock at finding huge poisonous spider floating in a Tesco bottle of white wine

  • Peter Berry bought the wine for his mother and mother-in-law’s birthday
  • A guest at the 90th celebration spotted the spider floating in the bottle
  • The arachnid was identified as a Araneus spider which can bite humans
  • Tesco asked Mr Berry to return the bottle to them so they can investigate

A businessman was horrified when he found a huge venomous spider in a bottle of Tesco finest white wine.

Peter Berry, 66, said the two-inch long arachnid was spotted floating in the wine as a guest picked up the bottle from an ice bucket during a party.

He bought the £7.99 bottle of Vin de Pays d’Oc Grenache Marsanne for his mother and mother-in-law’s joint 90th birthday celebrations.

Peter Berry bought the £7.99 bottle of wine from Tesco for his mother and mother-in-law's joint 90th birthday

 

Peter Berry bought the £7.99 bottle of wine from Tesco for his mother and mother-in-law’s joint 90th birthday

 

Mr Berry's niece spotted the two-inch long arachnid after she removed the bottle from an ice bucket

Mr Berry’s niece spotted the two-inch long arachnid after she removed the bottle from an ice bucket

Mr Berry, of Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, said: ‘It’s disgusting. You’d expect to find a spider in your bathroom, not in a bottle of wine.

‘We were having a great time at the party until my niece found it. Like most people, she’s scared of spiders and it made her feel quite freaked out.

‘We’re just thankful she noticed it before someone poured the contents into a glass and swallowed it without realising.’

Mr Berry, who is a business consultant, bought the bottle at Tesco’s branch in Bradley Stoke, Bristol.

Professor Ian Rotherham, of Sheffield Hallam University, has identified the  spider as an Araneus – a spider found throughout Europe.

Thankfully, it is not dangerous although it does have venom and is known to bite humans.

Professor Ian Rotherham of Sheffield Hallam University identified the insect as a venomous Araneus spider which is commonly found in Europe. The arachnid can bite humans although its poison is very mild

Professor Ian Rotherham of Sheffield Hallam University identified the insect as a venomous Araneus spider which is commonly found in Europe. The arachnid can bite humans although its poison is very mild

After discovering the rogue spider, Mr Berry made an email complaint to Tesco and was advised to return the bottle to the store, which he is yet to do.

A spokesperson for Tesco said: ‘We set ourselves very high standards for the safety and quality of our products.

‘Our customer service team have asked Mr Berry to return the product to us as soon as possible so that we can conduct a thorough investigation.’

Mr Berry bought the bottle of wine from the Tesco Extra store in Bradley Stoke, Bristol, pictured. A spokesperson said they wanted the bottle returned so they could 'conduct a thorough investigation'

 

Mr Berry bought the bottle of wine from the Tesco Extra store in Bradley Stoke, Bristol, pictured. A spokesperson said they wanted the bottle returned so they could ‘conduct a thorough investigation’

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