and other dumb shit that people ask you that just makes you wanna bust their head to the white meat 15 days til black friday and already my bullshit levee is about to bust.

1. does this come in white? (do you SEE this in white?)
2. do you carry ____? (after showing the product)...is this all you have?
3. can you have this napkin ring transferred from san diego to baltimore?
4. does this $5.99 crystal come in a nicer box?
5. do you have more in the back?
6. uhhhm..you know what i'm looking for?
7. every saturday i come in here at 4 pm it's always long lines!

bust their head to the white meat

lmao...

I used to work in retail, Me...it sucks, get out.

SHANNA said:

"I GOT NOWHERE ELSE TO GO!"



if i could get out of retail and command my same pitiful salary, i'd be gone faster than a crack whore at a narcotics anonymous meeting
[Edited 11/10/05 5:53am]

meltwithu said:

Then start climbing sweetheart...take on the added responsibility to move up that ladder...be the one who answers questions for others ...look into whether or not they will train you to run things...(I used to work for Neiman Marcus---they had the training in Dallas, on a platter. )

You do have somewhere to go...UP...and when you get there will you give me a personal shopper at a discount? :megreen:

Go, girl!!!

sadly, i was corporate with the comapny at one time...but the way our company works, they give you the car, the credit card and the title, but then they man-whore you into submission. i had 14 stores all over the state of florida to be responsible for. sadly..i make more money NOW than i did douing that (which still ain't $50,000 yet...i need a job like our customers have--just stand outside at 9:59 am when you open at 10 am just so they can come stand in your way on a monday

meltwithu said:

I'm sorry to hear that...




They're mostly unemployed, I think..celebrity wives ...old money/new money...

Don't you give up!


~Funny...when your advice is requested for a sale, not taken...then at the process of a return, it's your fault...lol..."they" will hunt you down in the store just so that they can point at YOU...

1. does this come in white? (do you SEE this in white?)

A lot of stores don't put everything they have on display. A lot of sizes and other versions of the product are stored away because of lack of space, but are still available to the customer upon request. I don't know how many times I've asked if they have something in a different colour or size and they've told me "let me check" and come back with what I was looking for. So the question does make sense.

2. do you carry ____? (after showing the product)...is this all you have?

See 1

3. can you have this napkin ring transferred from san diego to baltimore?

Why not? If the customer is ready to pay for it, a service-minded sales rep should be able to make it happen.

4. does this $5.99 crystal come in a nicer box?

Okay, that one's stupid.

5. do you have more in the back?

See 1

6. uhhhm..you know what i'm looking for?

This is just a rhethorical question to start up a conversation.

7. every saturday i come in here at 4 pm it's always long lines!

Just making conversation. If people feel like they can connect with the sales rep they're more likely to buy something.

...and oh, the thread title: "do you work here?"

I've asked that a gazillion times because very often it's not clear if the person in question works there or not. They have no particular uniform or nametag or anything else. How am I supposed to know for sure if I just see them walking through the store? I simply ask, of course.


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retina said:

You know, I was thinking mostly the same things. I think because I worked a few service jobs when I was younger, I have very high expectations of the service I should receive if a store/restaurant/what have you wants to keep my business.
That said, I know when you work a service job, many customers are just plain awful. So I can relate to the spirit of the post, if not the actual examples given.

CarrieMpls said:

Absolutely! My mom has worked in retail for many years and I can't believe how she was treated by some people. It was as if they thought she was a lower-class human being just because she was standing behind a counter.

I'm glad you see what I mean about the examples though.

when I am shopping for some reason people are always coming up to me to ask if I work there, and their attitude is awful! Like I owe them something

while working at music stores; i constantly had people asking me if i knew who sang a particular song...this was the worst example:


"oh do you know who sings that song...it's a lady..and she saying something about ..'i love you'?"

oh yeah..her.

cosign. also I love it when they say

"do you have this?" (proceed to show me something or describe it)
me: "uhm, I've never seen this in our store"
them: "well, I bought it here before"
me: "how long ago?"
them: "1 or 2 or 3 years ago..."

CHIC0 said:

My ex used to get that shit all the time at his bookstore job! "do you know that one book, where there's a man, and there's a woman, and they fall in love, but then something bad happens?"

Natsume said:

My ex used to get that shit all the time at his bookstore job! "do you know that one book, where there's a man, and there's a woman, and they fall in love, but then something bad happens?" [/quote]




nice breathing hole,ass!

Natsume said:

sometimes i felt like just grabbing a random cd and saying... "yes. here it is!"

I do that at the video store all the time. You know the one with eddie murphy where he's the actor and he doesn't know he's in the movie! The guys working there live for that stuff, I swear! They ALWAYS know which one you mean, and off the tops of their heads know if it's out or in,

retina said:

come work at my store--we need zippy, unaffected people such as yourself to come help these clueless morons. once you ask me "do you work here" while i'm holding a telxon gun, while on a ladder with a lanyard and name badge on, it's pretty much downhill from there, as i have already labeled you as brain dead. customer service isn't what it used to be--people will intentionally make a mess of things, leave merchandise all over the floor instead of putting back on the shelf, let their kids run amok while they shop, and just basically complain about anything that doesn't suit their frame of existence at that point in time.

every saturday i come in here at 4 pm it's always long lines!

This reminds me of my work. I work on the border between Mexico and Texas. On Saturdays and Sundays the line can be as much as a two hour wait. There are always people who think we are slow. The wait is two hours because everyone comes over at the same time. Plus, we have more important things to worry about than wait times.