Current Events > I really can't stand when stores go "We close at 10 PM" and once you

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If you want to run in and grab one or two things last minute (say milk and a few things for breakfast in the morning), or something hygiene related, condoms, etc.. whatever. Doesn't seem like a big deal.

But 9/10 times I see people walk in and fill a shopping cart, and just casually walk around and continue shopping through all the announcements and even past the closing time. I think that's a dick move and I don't even work in retail. As a customer I personally wouldn't do that, I understand that people just want to close their shit down and go home at the end of the day.
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Letron_James posted...

Yochodo posted...

glitteringfairy posted...

And fuck people that go to a place 30 minutes before closing

wrong. if it's open til 10, it's open til 10

Well expect to get shitty service and get shit talked the entire time behind your back. Nobody likes last minute customers. Everyone just wants to go home, and when dicks come in 5 minutes before closing they can go die in a fire

oh no, the shitty people working minimum wage service jobs will dislike me!

Fuck them, schedules are to be respected. People who stay past closing time are assholes, but there's nothing wrong with dropping by at 9:40 and leaving at 9:45 for a store that closes at 10:00. If they have a problem with it then they should take it up with management.
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Good stores "close" a half hour before the employees are expected to leave so people can actually show up when the place is OPEN and expect to be served at capacity, but also allows the employees paid time to clean up once everyone is gone. This weird adversarial way some places are set up where they basically force the employees to either work for free or offer substandard service to customers makes no sense. Employees should blame the business, not the guy walking in near closing, for this problem.
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Reading topics like this or topics about tipping on CE always makes it abundantly clear who is a limp dick silver spoon fuckhead and who has actually worked and who is a social and who is a shut in.
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s0nicfan posted...

Good stores "close" a half hour before the employees are expected to leave so people can actually show up when the place is OPEN and expect to be served at capacity, but also allows the employees paid time to clean up once everyone is gone. This weird adversarial way some places are set up where they basically force the employees to either work for free or offer substandard service to customers makes no sense. Employees should blame the business, not the guy walking in near closing, for this problem.

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Tmaster148 posted...

Yochodo posted...

Tmaster148 posted...

Yochodo posted...

glitteringfairy posted...

And fuck people that go to a place 30 minutes before closing

wrong. if it's open til 10, it's open til 10

Do you really think you will accomplish your shopping in a few minutes before closing? I can't fault businesses that don't allow new customers before they close their doors.

i think that if the store is advertised to be open until 10, then it is open until 10

And if you are already inside then you still have till 10 to finish.

Like a resterant that takes 10-15 to cook someone order shouldn't be taken new customers 15 minutes to close otherwise they will forced to be open later.

Restaurants close their kitchen before closing time because of this. You can get drinks and stuff until they close.
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Kajagogo posted...

Why are you waiting to go to a store at 9:40 at night? What do you need so bad that can't wait until morning?

Some of us work night shift, and sometimes I need to run in and buy something real quick before I head into work.

Some people have different schedules than the norm and have to go buy whatever it is they need to buy at that time, and if the store's open, then I'm gonna go and get what I need. I'll try to be quick and nice to the employees, but I'm still gonna get what I needed to get.
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WafflehouseJK posted...

Kajagogo posted...

Why are you waiting to go to a store at 9:40 at night? What do you need so bad that can't wait until morning?

Some of us work night shift, and sometimes I need to run in and buy something real quick before I head into work.

Some people have different schedules than the norm and have to go buy whatever it is they need to buy at that time, and if the store's open, then I'm gonna go and get what I need. I'll try to be quick and nice to the employees, but I'm still gonna get what I needed to get.

I work 6pm to 5am. I essentially do all my grocery shopping at Wal-Mart at 5am.
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WafflehouseJK posted...

Some of us work night shift

Then going in the morning or afternoon, duh.
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glitteringfairy posted...

And fuck people that go to a place 30 minutes before closing

no. if I'm going to the grocery store at 9:40 to grab something I sure as hell should have no problem doing so
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Xelltrix posted...

WafflehouseJK posted...

Some of us work night shift

Then going in the morning or afternoon, duh.

I work 6pm to 5am. I am in bed by 7am usually, and wake up at 3pm, to leave for work at 5:30pm.

Wal-Mart is it really.
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glitteringfairy posted...

And fuck people that go to a place 30 minutes before closing

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NightMarishPie posted...

CE is the only place where I've seen people complain about this.

this could be the title for half the topics on CE. Fuckin bitch bitch bitch.
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Gafemage posted...

glitteringfairy posted...

And fuck people that go to a place 30 minutes before closing

Sign says the place closes at 10, not 9:30. Stores open, I'm going in.
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inTaCtfuL posted...

I hope there's a special place in hell reserved for those people

yeah, people who go into a store right before they close are the worst
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SomeLikeItHoth posted...

That's because employers tend to punish their employees for getting non-authorized overtime.

Actually a really good point.

JustMonika posted...

_Rinku_ posted...

Then people will just show up at 8:40.

Don't be an asshole.

Yeah because people need or only have time to get things at random times, if your store is advertised as being open then fucking deal with it. If they remain until the actual closing time then by all means usher them out.

I've never seen a group of people complain more about doing their jobs then retail employees. I think coal miners whine less.

Have you worked retail? Genuinely curious
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I would rather clean poop off floors for a living than go back to retail. I worked retail for 10 years, was a manager, and I hated it. So glad I got out of it.
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l0bcity posted...

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Nice
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If you need a few things during those last 20 minutes, sure knock yourself out. Hell, I'll even try to help you get your shopping done faster. Just make sure you get in line before that time expires. But if you're wandering around 10-15 minutes after closing time, you're SOL because we gave you like 5 fair warnings.
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If the store closes at 10 PM, then the last customer should be in the register line by 10 PM.

Don't be a dick and walk in at 9:55 PM and take 30 minutes to shop.
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In every job I've worked, if you had work to do after your shift, you did it. No ifs, ands or buts. No extra pay, no cutting customers off, you just did the extra work. So if that meant staying 20 minutes past the end of your shift, tough shit.

So why are people in this topic complaining about not being able to knock off twenty minutes early instead of staying to your designated time? Are you all really that entitled?
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DK9292 posted...

In every job I've worked, if you had work to do after your shift, you did it. No ifs, ands or buts. No extra pay, no cutting customers off, you just did the extra work. So if that meant staying 20 minutes past the end of your shift, tough shit.

So why are people in this topic complaining about not being able to knock off twenty minutes early instead of staying to your designated time? Are you all really that entitled?

I'm not complaining, but if you work for free because you have to, and not because you're doing them a favor, that's some no no shit.
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I tend to have a 30 minute rule when it comes to business hours, for a store or a restaurant. If it closes at 10, I won't go in after 9:30, i'll consider them closed. That's just me. If a store wants to lock the doors before the posted closing time, anything more than 10 minutes early is a bit obnoxious. If my kid starts running a fever suddenly at night, and CVS closes at 10 and the doors are locked at 9:45 and I need that medicine, i'll at least knock and say I literally need one thing, I know where it is, and i'll be at checkout within 2 minutes. 9 times out of 10 they say that's fine. Every now and again you get that asshole that refuses you because them leaving work 3 minutes sooner is more important to them than the health needs of your child, that's when I submit a comment to corporate.
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glitteringfairy posted...

And fuck people that go to a place 30 minutes before closing

Fuck off, its not closing yet
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LMAOing @ The people in this topic bitching about customers who come in during business hours.

Get the fuck over it.

If your sign says it closes at 10:00 and I get there at 9:53, best believe that I'm going in. When I do, then it would only be for a couple of things (I'll spare you the walk to return the cart/hand basket back the store) usually. However, if it's a two-cart shopping visit, then obviously I'd drive those extra miles and go to a 24 hour store.

I'm there to get my shit and get out for my own convenience, not to appease you disgruntled, and self-entitled cryployees with no sense of work ethic.
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pres_madagascar posted...

DK9292 posted...

In every job I've worked, if you had work to do after your shift, you did it. No ifs, ands or buts. No extra pay, no cutting customers off, you just did the extra work. So if that meant staying 20 minutes past the end of your shift, tough shit.

So why are people in this topic complaining about not being able to knock off twenty minutes early instead of staying to your designated time? Are you all really that entitled?

I'm not complaining, but if you work for free because you have to, and not because you're doing them a favor, that's some no no shit.

Must be nice to not have to do what your boss asks.
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wtf, I didn't expect this shit to get more than 5 posts. I just wanted to vent lol

And skimming through the topic, yeah. I can see how it's annoying for someone to show up at the last minute and stay 30 minutes after the store is closed (especially since it forces the worker to stay and work for free, which I didn't even know that was a thing. lol)

But idk, I feel like there's a way around that (if that problem is really that common). Like have the store close 30 minutes earlier but still have the workers work and get paid for that 30 extra minutes. Like instead of closing at 10, say it closes at 9:30 but have the workers stay and get paid until 10 pm.
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It's mostly small towns that have places closing fifteen to twenty minutes early if business is slow. It's a little annoying but just a reminder to be more responsible and take care of shit sooner.

^ but then you have what was brought up in #2

I've been in a situation where I got bitched out by management for staying over when I literally couldn't leave when we closed because a customer was being annoyingly obtuse about everything and forced me to stay over a measly 15 minutes.

15 minutes and they threatened to fire me

I don't work at that store anymore, but man. Just come in at a reasonable time.
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feel like everyone is conflating going in before a store's closing with going in, staying, and still trying to shop well past the closing hours and getting mad with the latter

I'd hope we can all agree that courtesy for the time of others is beneficial, but that applies both ways, and if you apply to a place with late operating hours then you can't justifiably get mad at a quick shopper whose life schedule you don't know just because they come in when it is listed they can
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Taxer posted...

No one leaves at 10 anyway, those employees are usually there and extra hour to close up and stuff. If it's open until a certain time, it's open.

Where do you work? Retail people are there for 15 minutes MAX. Restaurant employees are 10 to 30.
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Nah fuck people who show up that late. they're usually the ones that don't get out by the time it closes...then they bitch about it..."OMG IT SAYS YOU CLOSE AT 10!"...then be out by 10. having worked retail too many times i saw people walk in 10-20 mins before close and keep lingering around after we closed expecting us to stay open until they were ready. Bitch we're closed...those warning announcements didn't mean "keep shopping until you're ready". it meant "get the fuck out before we close".
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darkjedilink posted...

Retail people are there for 15 minutes MAX

Nope. not true at all. it fully depends on the condition of the store and the remaining customers needs, depending on the store. they don't just get to leave.
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AssultTank posted...

DK9292 posted...

Must be nice to not have to do what your boss asks.

It's actually illegal for your employer to make you work without pay... The Department of Labor is where you go to submit complaints.

Okay, see, I googled that, and all I'm getting is a South African company.

What country do you think I'm from?
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DK9292 posted...

AssultTank posted...

DK9292 posted...

Must be nice to not have to do what your boss asks.

It's actually illegal for your employer to make you work without pay... The Department of Labor is where you go to submit complaints.

Okay, see, I googled that, and all I'm getting is a South African company.

What country do you think I'm from?

The United States.
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Makes sense for restaurants. For regular stores, not sure what youre talking about.
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When i worked in a restaurant i would turn off the open sign about 30 mins before we closed. I would still take people but it would give us a chance to appear closed so we could actually get out in time. Even with the extra hour we got after we closed we still might not get out in time.

There were dishes, breaking down our line, putting food away and labeled, cleaning fryers and stoves, sweeping, mopping, and a bunch of other shit we had to deal with every day. I feel like the people who never complain are the people who never worked near food.
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Yep, can't stand morons who go in 10 minutes before closing. You know when you do that and walk in the employees who see you wish you would of never came in, especially if you're one of those people who has to look around. Get your shit, get out.

You want to shop around? Go to a 24 hour Walmart, they don't mind customers 24/7
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Lol you can tell how many cashiers there are on CE by how ass blasted they get when the subject of near closing time comes up. Don't want to deal with store hours, get a better job and stop being mad.
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Mist_Turnips posted...

Lol you can tell how many cashiers there are on CE by how ass blasted they get when the subject of near closing time comes up. Don't want to deal with store hours, get a better job and stop being mad.

found one of the assholes that does this...
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idk I've worked places where even though the sign says it closes at XX:00PM, we were forced to stay open until XX:15PM to make sure any last minute customers can get service. All places should be like that tbh.

Mist_Turnips posted...

Lol you can tell how many cashiers there are on CE by how ass blasted they get when the subject of near closing time comes up. Don't want to deal with store hours, get a better job and stop being mad.

Don't want to deal with them closing up shop, show up earlier.
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The only people who have a problem with this are unsympathetic douchebags who have never worked retail.

I am not your servant, and if you want to show up 10 minutes before closing to casually browse I will tell you to leave.
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It's no wonder places like Wal-Mart and Amazon took over the retail market
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Link HT posted...

Letron_James posted...

Yochodo posted...

glitteringfairy posted...

And fuck people that go to a place 30 minutes before closing

wrong. if it's open til 10, it's open til 10

Well expect to get shitty service and get shit talked the entire time behind your back. Nobody likes last minute customers. Everyone just wants to go home, and when dicks come in 5 minutes before closing they can go die in a fire

oh no, the shitty people working minimum wage service jobs will dislike me!

Fuck them, schedules are to be respected. People who stay past closing time are assholes, but there's nothing wrong with dropping by at 9:40 and leaving at 9:45 for a store that closes at 10:00. If they have a problem with it then they should take it up with management.

@Link_HT

So much wrong with this
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I used to work at a restaurant. There were a few times when we would spit in food and shit when customers came in a few minutes before close.

Food for thought.
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Are all retail/restaurant workers such whiney dicks? I swear i never see anyone from other professions act so immature
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