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23 Moments Retail Workers Experience During the Holidays

Category: Chistmas time, Retail Stories Tags: CASHIER PROBLEMS, retail workers, Working retail christmas Leave a Comment

1.) Going absolutely insane when you have to listen to the same holiday playlist over and over during a shift.

2.) Finding out you are scheduled to open or close the store on Black Friday.

3.) Losing all faith in humanity when you see what people are willing to do to get their hands on a particular sale item.

4.) Having to arrive to your shift at least 30 minutes early in order to find a place to park amid the insane holiday shoppers.

5.) When half of your lunch break is spent waiting in the insanely long lines at the food court, leaving you about 3 seconds to try and inhale a slice of Sbarro pizza before you have to be back out on the sales floor.

6.) Being depleted of any and all holiday cheer that you once had.

7.) Watching people completely destroy the displays that you spend hours painstakingly perfecting.

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8.) Absolutely dreading having to buy gifts for your friends and family because it means you have to go back to the mall on your day off.

9.) When you are shopping for gifts at another store and you feel like you can relate to the employees who are working there so you do your best not to make a mess.

10.) When customers think there is an infinite amount of items located in the stock room.

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11.) When every single gift you give your family and friends comes from the store where you work and was purchased using your employee discount.

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12.) When shoppers let their kids run amok while they shop for gifts.

13.) Trying your absolute best not to lose it when shoppers show up 5 minutes before it’s time to close the store.

14.) When everyone you know asks you if they can use your employee discount to buy presents for their entire family.

15.) Finding out you have to work on Christmas Eve.

16.) The way your feet feel after an 8 hour shift.

17.) When a customer tries to ask you what they should buy their significant other for Christmas and you’re just like…

17.) When a customer tries to ask you what they should buy their significant other for Christmas and you’re just like...

18.) Losing all of your hard earned commission when someone returns all their holiday gifts.

19.) Having to be work at 6:30 am to prepare the store only to watch it get destroyed as soon as the doors open.

20.) Shoplifters. Everywhere.

21.) Trying your hardest to avoid a screaming mob of children who are waiting in line to see Santa Claus.

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Hang in there retail employees!

It will all be over soon…

It will all be over soon...

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23 Ridiculous Customer Behaviors All Retail Workers Have Seen

Category: Retail Stories Tags: Customers, retail workers Leave a Comment

I admit that the majority of my retail experience has been clothing-and-shoe based, but I’m sure there are equivalent horrors in stores of all kinds. I do think, however, there’s a special brand of insanity that overcomes customers upon entering a clothing store. Here, 23 things we’ve all seen in our time.

1. Leaving an enormous amount of clothing strewn around the floor of the dressing room — bonus points if they’re streaked with makeup! — and walking out as though nothing happened, not even trying to hand you their unwanted items.

2. Walking around the store and just sort of… putting something back on the shelf, about a half mile from where it’s supposed to go, in full view of an employee. (Why is just asking, “Hey, could you put this away for me?” at the very least not an option?)

3. Asking if they can “take something home and then call you with their credit card number.” ???

4. Asking to hold things for a week, and getting angry when the hold policy is no more than 24 hours.

5. Angrily informing an employee that “you have the item at the other store,” as though that is somehow going to make the item materialize in the next 10 seconds from sheer willpower.

6. Not believing an employee when they tell you in full certainty that they don’t have any more of a certain item in the back room. (Usually they are so adamant because they’ve already checked for one or more customers that day, and if you force them, they’re literally going to go in the back room, stare at the wall, and count to 10.)

7. Having everything short of a house party in a dressing room, despite being told clearly that your friends can’t go into the room with you.

8. Walking out onto the store floor and just kind of browsing around for a while wearing the clothes they’re currently trying on, barefoot and with tags sticking out everywhere.

9. Taking an item from the bottom of the stack, letting the entire stack topple over in front of them, and not even batting an eyelash.

10. Giving the “one-finger” sign to the cashier.

11. Getting in long, protracted arguments with the cashier about what “no refunds, exchange only” actually means, and why, no, we can’t rewrite the fundamentals of the company policy just so that you can get your 30 dollars back.

12. Blatantly attempting to return things that are beyond used and worn out.

13. Trying on an item that is clearly at least three sizes too small for them, and destroying the item in the process (and then leaving it on the floor, of course, because why not??).

14. Threatening to “call corporate” about a problem that the employee has no control over. Everyone should understand by the way that “calling corporate” is what every employee dreams a disgruntled customer will do, because it gets them out of your face and ensures that they will be sitting on hold for the next three hours.

15. Demanding to speak to the manager and, when informed that the person they’re yelling at is, in fact, the manager, not believing them.

16. Requesting giant bags and gift-wrapping for a three-ounce item that cost six dollars.

17. Trying on excessive amounts of clothing that they have no intention of buying strictly to take endless selfies in the dressing room. (Yes, the employees know when you’re taking selfies. Yes, they’re making fun of you.)

18. Cornering an employee to “ask them about something” which is basically a way to hit on them when they can’t escape.

19. Asking if they can get a “sample” of things that would never in any universe be considered samples.

20. Pitting the employees against each other by telling them that the “other one always does it” when one of them says that they can’t do something.

21. Ignoring signs that ask not to bring food — especially ice cream — into the store, and then dribbling ice cream down the front of several items.

22. Without asking, just leaving a giant cup of Starbucks at the front counter while they shop, until you have a little petting zoo of random Starbucks cups next to the cash register.

23. Generally talking to you as a retail employee like you are the temporary butler that they have personally hired, and not like you’re a representative of a company that has rules to abide by and a dozen other customers to be helping. You can always tell when someone doesn’t think retail is a “real job

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