Since it's the Christmas season and I work retail (9th holiday season at the book store), I just want to vent a few things that I really hate from customers. (It's was an incredibly long night and it made me more cranky than usual.)
1. I have to greet you when you come into an area of the store where I am at. It is not my choice. It is not even something I want to do. Customers who ignore me or are rude when I say hello to me can go to hell. Don't make my job more difficult than it already is.
2. When I ask if you need help finding something, don't tell me "no" and then proceed to ask me where something is. If you ask me a question then you obviously need help finding something.
3. Don't tell me that you saw something in the store cheaper at Wal-mart/Target/Rite Aid/Chinese Buffet/Whatever. I don't care if it was cheaper. Quietly leave the store and go buy it wherever you saw it for less. I'm a bargain hunter and I look for the best deals so I am not offended that you want to get a good deal. I am however pissed off when you tell me where it was cheaper and explain how you're going to go there. This is information that I don't care about and don't want to waste my time listening to you. There is someone behind you who needs help finding something and might buy it so please move.
4. This one is sort of an aside to #3. If something is cheaper somehwere else, don't get mad at me about it. Don't give me a hard time and don't yell at me. I am not anywhere near a position in the company where I would get to decide the price of anything in the store. It's not my fault that something is more expensive and there is nothing that I can do to make it cheaper. Take your ass home and slap your wife around or whatever else it is that you do to relieve stress.
5. If you are standing behind me and watching me type in the title of the CD/DVD/Book that you are looking for and you correct me for not putting "a", "an", or "the" at the start of said title, I will turn around and bitch slap the shit out of you. Never once has anything been shelved by these words and they never will be. Those words will not help me to look up a single thing. If you point this out in a rude manor, I will also slap the shit out of you. Then I will invite another co-worker over to slap the shit out of you too for good measure.
I'm sure that I'll update this list with more stuff at some point during the season, but for now those are the best ones that I have.
Ahh...much stress relieved from venting.
1. I have to greet you when you come into an area of the store where I am at. It is not my choice. It is not even something I want to do. Customers who ignore me or are rude when I say hello to me can go to hell. Don't make my job more difficult than it already is.
2. When I ask if you need help finding something, don't tell me "no" and then proceed to ask me where something is. If you ask me a question then you obviously need help finding something.
3. Don't tell me that you saw something in the store cheaper at Wal-mart/Target/Rite Aid/Chinese Buffet/Whatever. I don't care if it was cheaper. Quietly leave the store and go buy it wherever you saw it for less. I'm a bargain hunter and I look for the best deals so I am not offended that you want to get a good deal. I am however pissed off when you tell me where it was cheaper and explain how you're going to go there. This is information that I don't care about and don't want to waste my time listening to you. There is someone behind you who needs help finding something and might buy it so please move.
4. This one is sort of an aside to #3. If something is cheaper somehwere else, don't get mad at me about it. Don't give me a hard time and don't yell at me. I am not anywhere near a position in the company where I would get to decide the price of anything in the store. It's not my fault that something is more expensive and there is nothing that I can do to make it cheaper. Take your ass home and slap your wife around or whatever else it is that you do to relieve stress.
5. If you are standing behind me and watching me type in the title of the CD/DVD/Book that you are looking for and you correct me for not putting "a", "an", or "the" at the start of said title, I will turn around and bitch slap the shit out of you. Never once has anything been shelved by these words and they never will be. Those words will not help me to look up a single thing. If you point this out in a rude manor, I will also slap the shit out of you. Then I will invite another co-worker over to slap the shit out of you too for good measure.
I'm sure that I'll update this list with more stuff at some point during the season, but for now those are the best ones that I have.
Ahh...much stress relieved from venting.