(while at the check-out counter)
Is that everything today?
Find everything you needed today?

I'm not sure what they expect you to say - No, that's why I'm at the damn cash register buying all this shit - I forgot what I really came here for in aisle 5. Excuse me while I go get it.

(while browsing alphabetized racks ex. CD stores)
Can I help you find anything?

Yeah, because I can't read the damn alphabet.

(in The Gap)
Anything the Justin Timberlake clone asks you

do you neeeeed help looking for anythiiiiing?

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

When they just won't let ya shop in peace.

IrresistibleB1tch said:

VoicesCarry said:

In the gap does the Timberlake clone try to sell people clothes in that damn sing song voice?

Timberlakeclone said:

Me ---> Actually I just came to buy some socks....


But yeah the sing song thing is annoying and whatever store managers that encourage it should be beaten about the head with a large book about Alaska...

VoicesCarry said:

Yeah, but actually sometimes it's really scary. I went into the Latin music area of a CD store once and nothing was where it was supposed to be. I go looking under "A" and it someone's last name starts with like, "G", and I'm all like "I know our alphabets aren't that different"

Then I go to the pop type area, the place where they really keep everything...and then nothing's in order there either. So I actually had someone come up to me and ask in that voice "Can I help you find anything?" and I said something to the effect of "You could try but I doubt you'd have any more luck than I'm having."

Anyway, I really don't like the sing-song voice either...it's really annoying. Pleasant is one thing, practically singing things out is another. And quit stalking me while I'm trying to shop.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

i hate that shit.

can i help you find anything?

and in the event i can't find what i am looking for, they better not make me walk all over the store trying to track down someone who can. Costco is BIG, yo!

what i hate most is the people at the drive through.

you drive up, place your order and no matter what u
get, be it one cup of coffee or seven meals, they'll
always ask you

"you want a burger with that for €1 ?"

"you want a special shake with that for €2?"

i feel so tempted to drive over there, order for
about € 100,- of stuff and when they ask me

"you want a burger with that for €1 ?"

i'll just go

"hell yes, scrap my entire order and give me one
of those puppies!"

IstenSzek said:

your fast food workers over there are much to presistant. you need to carry a stun gun

Christopher said:

i'm gonna ask one for xmas

IstenSzek said:

hell no i dont want fries bitch!

Stax said:

You seriously HATE it when people ask you if you need help? wtf? That's good service! Now, if they hover and won't leave you alone if you say no, then that SUCKS, I agree. But damn! They're doing their job!

any clown that asks me after looking at this:






"So, do you like the Yankees?"

When I was 17, I worked at a brass knick-knack store. When our district manager was in the store, she would be a super-bitch to us workers, making us practically follow customers around the store, buggin them. "Hi. Welcome to the Brass Factory!!!!!" "Were you looking for anything special today?" "Have you seen this brass Great Dane statue? Isn't it cute? It's on sale for $14.95!!!!!"

I hated it, and knew that customers hated it too, but our manager didn't get it. She figured more pestering customers meant more sales.

dustysgirl said:

no record store employee has EVER been able to help me with ANYTHING.

well, except for that guy i dated who worked at tower, but that's another story.

Christopher said:

oh i soooo want to do that

I work retail. I never ask anyone if they need help finding anything unless they look utterly lost. And some motherfuckers do. And they're usually looking for something, really, really hard that they've passed over 45 times and apparently couldn't read. It's just good service to ask someone if they need help finding anything. You fuckers have no clue how lost you look sometimes. I just try to speed up your trip.

Luckily, I'm no cashier or stocker. Just a lowly product demonstrator so it doesn't happen often that I have to do anything besides hand out samples and bullshit about how wonderful the product I'm serving up is. I get to watch people eat themselves to death every day as some 400 lb man strolls up and proceeds to eat 50 of the chicken wings I'm handing out, discarding the healthy part of my presentation... a piece of celery.

My biggest issue when I'm out shopping is when someone approaches me and says, "how are you?" No one wants to know how I am. I've taken to telling people exactly how I'm doing. They're looking for the passing "I'm fine" or "Good, how about yourself?" It's cool to come up and ask me if I need help. Inquiring about my personal status that you don't actually give a shit about just irks me. Maybe I'm being silly though.

dustysgirl said:

Pestering customers seems to lead to products being picked up and left at various locations in our store, as some of the girls who push their products too hard find out. Cracks me up all the time... some bitch down from me will think she's sold 40 fucking things of soap, be bragging all day about it, and then another associate will come around with a cart with about 36 things of liquid soap where people've just taken some to shut her up and then placed them somewhere else in the store.

CortestheKiller said:

now that's funny!

great idea for a thread. picking on people who don't get paid alot to do crummy jobs. i'm sure you'ld complain if they weren't around to help you find something. don't you think they would prefer to be a hip happening guy just like you?

:mumble:

VoicesCarry said:

They do that because they're told to say those things. There are secret shoppers that come in and evaulate the employees.

gemini13 said:

I was at a Radio Shack one day, it was early Saturday morning and no one really was in the store. So I walk in, get greeted before and asked "Can I help you find anything" before I even get a chance to inhale, and go about my business. About 5 minutes later I'm near the back of the store where the cash register is with a manger looking guy and a not-so managerial guy behind it and someone walks it. The manager guy turns to the other guy after a few seconds and practically yells (and he sounded like Napoleon Dynamite) "GO GREET THE CUSTOMER AS THE COME INTO THE STORE!!" and the other guy bolted. That's one tactic, scare that shit into your employees.

CarrieMpls said:

yes, you are right. it is the hovering thing that bugs me. it makes me feel like they don't trust me being in the store.

FruitToAttractBears said:

What cracks me up about Radio Shack, is the employees don't know anything about the products in their stores. The handful of times I tried to ask them a question about something, they just stand there and read the package because they have no clue. I could have done that myself, LOL.

purplerein said:

I was kinda thinking the same thing.

You know it can go the opposite way too. I hate it when I'm in a store, and I actually do need some help finding something, but all the workers are standing around talking to each other, or on the phone behind the register. When I go up to the them, they don't look at me. When I say, "excuse me," they look at me like I'm bothering them, or worse, tell whomever they're on the phone with to hold on.

I prefer this approach: "Hi, how are you? If you need any help, let me know."

CortestheKiller said:

i must remember that next time i'm being pestered by an in-store sales person

dustysgirl said:

well that's true too. i hate it when that happens. they seem to enjoy it
when you keep hanging around the counter, almost begging them if they'd
please just look at you.

once i know they've seen me and are not bussy, i usually wait around one
minute max before i make some bitchy remark and leave the store.