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When customers ask, âHow do you know you donât have this anywhere else?â
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Retail Stories
When customers ask, âHow do you know you donât have this anywhere else?â
Customers Be Like:
I see youâre working on something, Iâm just going to go through it and undo your work. Donât worry though Iâm not going to buy any of it!
Passing the Time on Shift Tip #2:
The stickers in your cash register drawer arenât just for little kids, despite what management might keep telling you. Theyâre for muscle-bound men in tank tops. Theyâre for shy teenagers. Theyâre for businessmen in expensive suits and middle-aged soccer moms and biker guys with long beards and crooked-backed old people. Offer them to anyone and everyone you can. After all, youâve been given an entire massive roll of stickers for a reason, right?
Hello Iâm auditioning for the role of a retail worker and I will be singing âput that thing back where it came from or so help meâ from Monsters Inc.
No matter what you have, DO NOT just stick your hand by a cashier's legs to throw it away. Yes our garbages are by our feet, that does not mean you can pass your hand through my legs to throw away your tissue. Ask me & I will bring it out for you.
if i had a dollar for every time i mentally told a customer to fuck off i wouldnt have to work this dumb retail job anymore
If you want to know what Christmas in retail is like, my coworker just walked in to the staff room, screamed, then walked back out on to the shop floor.
I left some fake in-store coupons at the grocery store
reblog if youâve ever been horrified by your own Customer Service voice
she is so FAKEÂ
Speaking of linguistics, thereâs one particular linguistic tick that I think clearly separates Baby Boomers from Millennials: how we reply when someone says âthank you.â
You almost never hear a Millennial say âyouâre welcome.â At least not when someone thanks them. It just isnât done. Not because Millenials are ingrates lacking all manners, but because the polite response is âNo problem.â Millennials only use âyouâre welcomeâ sarcastically when they havenât been thanked or when something has been taken from/done to them without their consent. Itâs a phrase thatâs used to point out someone elseâs rudeness. A Millenial would typically be fairly uncomfortable saying âyouâre welcomeâ as an acknowledgement of genuine thanks because the phrase is only ever used disengenuously.
Baby Boomers, however, get really miffed if someone says âno problemâ in response to being thanked. From their perspective, saying âno problemâ means that whatever theyâre thanking someone for was in fact a problem, but the other person did it anyway as a personal favor. To them âYouâre welcomeâ is the standard polite response.
âYouâre welcomeâ means to Millennials what âno problemâ means to Baby Boomers, and vice versa.The two phrases have converse meanings to the different age sets. Iâm not sure exactly where this line gets drawn, but itâs somewhere in the middle of Gen X. This is a real pain in the ass if you work in customer service because everyone thinks that everyone else is being rude when theyâre really being polite in their own language.
Something interesting to note is also the more literal meaning behind these two phrases and how they themselves differ and oppose each other
âNo problemâ, coming from a millenials mouth, within the context of helping someone â whether it be holding a door open/picking up something someone may have dropped/ect. â and, naturally, being thanked for it, implies that the kind gesture was indeed, not a problem, that it was just the thing to do, that they were happy to help and that no thanks was really necessary.
While a Baby Boomerâs âYouâre welcomeâ in contrast, says something miles different, it actually highlights the fact that the person went out of their way to help someone; almost brings attention to it in a way, saying âYeah, I helped you, I did you this favor I accept your thanks.â which, malicious intent or not, is strikingly different than the millennial downplay of their act of kindness for the sake of helping someone.
Grocery stores after midnight r like some magical gateway to an alternate dimension where nothing else is real except for the super noodles on the shelf and the paper clip in your pocket
*missed phone call from work*
me: ugh if theyâre asking me to come in Iâm not gonna do itÂ
*phone call from work*
manager: hey can you come in today
me: yeah, sure Iâll be there in a bit
Lady, they are called digital deals for a reason. It's not our fault that you didn't understand the fact that they are digital and require the digital code and that you bought all your groceries accordingly to the stickers throughout the store. Yeah, the ones advertising the digital deals. Yelling at us doesn't help you get those deals. Threatening to walk out and leave the three [THREE!] carts of groceries because we won't give you the deals is a bit dramatic and very childish. Sorry that you didn't get the memo on the DIGITAL DEALS.
So when can I pick up my Oscar for portraying the role of âgrocery store employee who totally doesnât want to murder you at ALL and honestly believes thereâs no such thing as a stupid questionâ? Because I really think Iâm due âŚ
I hate seeing those posts on tumblr that are like 'Reminder to be nice to retail workers this holiday!' because that shouldn't have to be a reminder.
So much truth!
Shouldnât just be limited to the holidays, either.