#retail problems

[whaleiumsharkspeare]

Me minding my business until I notice that the problem customers have walked in

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[ellescardd]

I hate working retail bro omfg these customers don't know how to read a simple sign and then you're gonna get an attitude with ME about it like girl literally just look at what the sign says it's not trying to trick you I swear

[noonemournthewicked]

Customer walks to self checkout

Me: Ma’m, That register is closed

Customer: How do you know?

Me:

[cashiercomplaints]

Hate when people try to hit you with the “…well, didn’t you go to school?”

Yeah. I did go to school. I do have a degree. While retail is considered a basic job, believe it or not, a lot of us have higher education. 😒

[buddiedaydreamer911]

the only thing keeping me sane at work while i have to deal with the messes people leave me in fitting rooms, is the headcanon i have where buck makes sure to clean up everything he brings in and puts his unwanted stuff away himself, and might even help clean up pre-existing messes left by others to help the overworked staff.

if i didn’t have that headcanon i probably have gone mental by now. how one person could make such a huge mess in the fitting room is beyond me.

[rudolphsb9]

If you're gonna be a bitch to retail workers I would like to PERSONALLY invite you to shove a rusty pipe RIGHT up your rectum.

[katmajik]

happy labor day to all the customer service reps who have to take phone calls Like This ☝️

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[tftjaspasaur]

a customer just threatened to hit me and I nearly said “careful I might like it” and I do not think it would’ve gone over well for me-

[partycityproblems]

The END of an era. It's been fun, my friends.

[phoebe-the-autism-fairy]

PSA

As someone who works in retail (at the tills in specific), I believe there should be such a thing as "supermarket etiquette" that everyone should follow.

I am BEGGING you, PLEASE put a divider in between your shopping and the shopping of the person behind you. I cannot count how many times I have scanned someone else's shopping and apologised for it when in reality it's cause the customers haven't put dividers down. No, it doesn't matter that your shopping is a distance away from the customer I'm currently serving, put a divider between them ya lazy bastard.

Please don't hold your discount card in my face just milliseconds after I served the customer in front of you. Yes, I will scan your discount card but PLEASE BE PATIENT !

For the love of all things that are holy, PLEASE don't ask a cashier if it's their first day if they seem flustered or don't know how to do something. You may mean well but it's really fucking rude and disrespectful, and recently it's been driving me up the walls. No, I've been working here for four months. If it was my first day I would warn you beforehand. Seriously who raised you to think that's appropriate to say to someone?

And I may be being a bit nitpicky here but if a cashier is about to go on their break/clock out for the day, please please please go to a different till, they will serve you.

I might do a part 2 if I think of any more

[pinkplasticprincess]

Me: *literally has the register taken apart and is deep cleaning it*

Customers: Are you open

[whaleiumsharkspeare]

Not sure how much Josh Groban music it takes to fix your mood after walking into work to find that someone drew with lipstick on the wall and you have to clean it, but so far the answer is more than one song

[blackscarabfilmz]

I just wanna say that buying a book, reading it, and then attempting to return it to the store to get your money back isn't the money-saving hack you think it is. Support your local libraries if you can't afford to buy new books. That's why they exist.

[noonemournthewicked]

People who never worked in retail or grocery job have no right to say anything cause they don’t know what really goes on behind the scenes or the work politics and bullshit that goes on day to day. The things or people we have to deal with. You dont know what you dont know

[cashiercomplaints]

“I can help the next guest over here.”

*blank stare*

“Good morning! I can help you over here.”

*blank stare*

“Hi! Good morning!”

“Are you open?”

Coworker under their breath: yeah it’s almost like they’ve told you that 5 f*cking times now but you don’t f*cking listen

[measureyourlifeincake]

open letters to various customers i've had

to all the visibly trans/gnc customers/anyone going for the "most fuckable person in the grocery store" look: hiiiiiiiii i love you i love you i love you i love you, yall make my job worth doing and my life worth living thank you for existing

to every customer i went to high school with: don't fucking look at me (unless youre gay now)

to the customers who put literally everything in produce bags: stop fucking doing that shit. youre just making my life harder. those granola bars are individually wrapped in plastic and in a fully sealed cardboard box. why do you do this to me.

to the guy who came in today asking where the "cooking water" was: wtf dude

love, me, a cashier at a grocery store in my hometown