Board 8 > Current/former retail workers, share the customer tropes you hate

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From: MZero11 | #043
"These socks are ring up 99 cents, the sign says 49 cents!"

What's wrong with this?

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most of what MZero posted is completely true, and stuff that we face all the time.

People come in to the grocery store at noon on Thanksgiving Day and are upset when all the turkeys are gone.

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From: Menji76 | #051
What's wrong with this?

When they hold up the line, literally complaining and making a huge scene over 50 cents, it's like "I'll give you a dollar if you just shut up and leave already."

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Oh wait. Now that I think about it... I think I did have someone do that whole "I just printed it" line before...

Ugh memories of hatred and anger returning I need to leave this topic.

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The only one that really annoyed me a lot is when people spend hours (okay minutes) looking for exact change.

But I've had a customer do these things...

1. Refuse to buy a product made in China, not because it was killing US jobs, or anything. BUt because one time she brought something from China and it broke or something. Then she went on and on about it.

2. Literally claimed she slipped in a tiny amount of water on the floor so she could sue the store.

3. Asked if I had any two dollar bills in my register.

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Short, bald guy with Napoleonic complex:

"HOW DARE YOU CLEAN THIS BATHROOM?! MY WIFE HAS TO PEE! WHAT DO YOU MEAN, TAKE THE ELEVATOR RIGHT NEXT TO THE BATHROOM TO THE BATHROOMS DOWNSTAIRS THAT ARE ALSO RIGHT NEXT TO THE ELEVATOR THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN CLEANED?! ARGL BLARGL I'M GOING TO RUIN YOUR LAST DAY HERE!"

If I hadn't had a much better job lined up and could afford the criminal conviction that would have come with shoving those glasses down your throat... the crap I put up with for $5.40 an hour.

saveus_Maria posted...
you hold out your hand to receive payment from the customer

customer puts the money on the counter

I don't take it til they hand it too me.

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Punnyz posted...
From: MZero11 | #043
"It's in your ad!"
"Yeah, and we SOLD THEM ALL"
on the shelves, we have something called "BEST SELLERS"

they're just empty cases (of course) with cover art for games and all of the systems they're on, gamestop prices, etc. it also says "DISPLAY CASE"

so people grab THOSE, bring them to the counter, and we give them warning that its just ...well...a display case. Doesn't not reflect our actual stock

and they flip out when we're actually out

"WHY DO YOU HAVE IT UP THERE THEN?"

"for advertising"

"Why advertise something you don't have?! that doesn't work!!"

"On the contrary, we're out of the product because of the advertisements were successful!"

This.
#GamestopProblems

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What I am getting from most of you is that you are horrible people who should never be allowed to work with people <_<

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From: MZero11 | #053
When they hold up the line, literally complaining and making a huge scene over 50 cents, it's like "I'll give you a dollar if you just shut up and leave already."

Eh... I've done this before because I only had that much change.

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"Do you work here?"

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"why"

I just noticed the double negative in my post

lulz

From: Achromatic | #059
What I am getting from most of you is that you are horrible people who should never be allowed to work with people <_<

stupid things that keep happening will grate on ANYBODY!

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I don't know I worked retail for six years straight and you know what? I can't really recall anything that bothered me except some people's general rudeness, it didn't have anything to do with repeated actions.

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My problem wasn't necessarily repeated occurrences. It was stupid people.

Or inconsiderate people. Or parents that wouldn't f***ing parent their child oh my god.

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Customers who call in for prices on dozens of items.

When all of it is online.

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Customers who want their wood/plywood cut to a specific length, and want at least a dozen of cuts on all of their stuff.

Customers who want a forklift so we can deliver under ten sheets of plywood/drywall or ten bags of concrete. Get off your lazy ass and f***ing do it yourself.

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By far, the customers I dread dealing with the most are the ones you simply can't communicate with... and, for whatever reason, you really need to communicate with them. No, I'm not just talking language barriers.

Setting: Regal Theater. For those not familiar with it, Regal has a loyalty rewards card which, among other things, gives you coupons on Mondays and Tuesdays which you can only use on that day (i.e., you buy a ticket, you also get a small popcorn for two dollars)

Customer: Elderly gent. Regular customer. Very hard of hearing (but he's never asked for an assisted listening device... huh.)

He saves up those Mon/Tue coupons and tries to use them on off-days, usually months after they've been printed. It's a pain and a half to try and explain to him that the bulk of his coupons are expired because, again, he's very hard of hearing. And when he finds out he can't use them... he puts them back in his wallet. And the cycle repeats.

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My favorite will always be:

"I like to buy Super Mario on the Sony Playstation 2."

"Which Super Mario exactly?"

"The freaking one on the Playstation 2!!"

"Let me look in our system.......Sorry, no results for "Super Mario" under our Playstation section. Do you want me to look for it on the Nintendo Gamecube."

"NO! Nintendo is for kids. I want the Playstation 2 one."

"......"

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From: KokoroAkechi | #055
3. Asked if I had any two dollar bills in my register.

That kinda makes me wanna ask a question to all you retail people.

Do you guys actually know that 2 dollar bills exist? Every time I've used them I've had a cashier check with a manager to make sure. I know it's not normal for a customer to actually have a 2 dollar bill and I don't ever give the cashier grief over it but cmon.

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My rude/dumb customer of the day yesterday:

*I'm helping another customer, lady comes in and interrupts with a snappy tone of voice*

Lady: Excuse me! I just left something in here 10 minutes ago! Where is it?

Me: I'm sorry, was it at this register?

Lady: No, another one!

Me: It might still be there, otherwise it would be at customer service.

*lady demands to speak to a manager, so I page one over. Before he's even within 10 feet of the register, she waves her hand in the air shouting, "ME!"*

*she tells the exact same thing to the manager, and he asks which register she was at. Guess which one she was at? The one right next to me. And what she left behind was still there.*

*Meanwhile the customer I'm helping is trying to hold back her laughter at the whole situation*

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retail workers

customer tropes you hate


I'm going to go with all of them.

Not speaking from experience, I've just never heard of a retail worker who didn't hate every single person they've ever worked with.

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saveus_Maria posted...
customer wishes to 'make things easier for you' by sitting there counting change and holding up the line

Yeah, I'm guilty of this. I'm sorry >.>

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