Because I feel snarky
Nov. 19th, 2013 02:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
becomingkateInspired by: http://rocksteadyash.tumblr.com/post/12403420976/what-retail-employees-want-you-to-know
What shoppers want retail workers to know
We know you hate your job. But it is your job. We also don't want to hear how much you hate your job while you are clocked in at said job. Save it for your friends and family and pets when you get home. It's not cool to be walking around with my young child and hear choice language on how much your job sucks.
It is your job to make the displays look nice. I'm sorry I can't board fold without a board or that by the time I realized I picked up the wrong size socks, I was in the home goods section so I put them on the shelf. If I brought them all the way to checkout, you'd still have to put them away. You get paid to put it back. I don't. I'm also sorry you only put trash cans at the entrance of your store. While I was trying to board fold that sweater for you, I had to put down my coffee and I forgot to pick it up again.
When you ask how I am, why is it so hard to answer when I reply "Good, how are you?" Since when do I have to answer you, but you don't have to answer me? Also, don't be that employee who actually bitches to my face about his job when I ask him how he is. That will pretty much guarantee that I'm not going to ask you how you are anymore.
Re: returning items in stores where you bought them. So when I go to a random trip to my mother's house and I happen to buy something at the Target there, you want me to trek up there and bring it back when there's a Target around the corner from me? Got it. Not likely though.
Re: me picking up my phone when I'm in line, I'm sorry it makes YOU feel awkward, but maybe I've just gotten a call from my son's school, or a family member in need. Maybe I can multitask paying and talking at the same time and it doesn't really matter if I want to talk about how so and so is a whore, because I'm not the face of the company, but you are, and you still think it's okay to talk about the badass fuckin' party you had the other night or how you're so fuckin' hung over when I'm walking by with my 7 year old son.
Re: kids. I'm not a neglectful mom. The best mom will probably lose her kid in a store at least once, and suffer the wrath of some poor employee who had to do their job, unless she puts him on one of those leashes, and then she deals with disapproving looks because she has a human being on a leash. Moms really can't win. My son has run off twice. It's not that I'm not trying or that my kid is reckless. It just happens. I'm so sorry you have to deal with finding a lost kid but at least you didn't have to deal with the panic of it being YOUR kid.
Re: finding items that are hand written instead of visuals. Really? You don't know where you keep your brown belts, but if you had a picture, that would help?
Lastly, here's the thing with receipts: They're easily lost. When you hand it to me instead of putting it in the bag, it goes into the recesses of my purse which is quite small but apparently bottomless, because I'll never find that thing again. Here's another thing. Your website says if I bring in the card with which I made the purchase, you can do my return. You'd just rather not look it up.
Retail employee, get over yourself.
What shoppers want retail workers to know
We know you hate your job. But it is your job. We also don't want to hear how much you hate your job while you are clocked in at said job. Save it for your friends and family and pets when you get home. It's not cool to be walking around with my young child and hear choice language on how much your job sucks.
It is your job to make the displays look nice. I'm sorry I can't board fold without a board or that by the time I realized I picked up the wrong size socks, I was in the home goods section so I put them on the shelf. If I brought them all the way to checkout, you'd still have to put them away. You get paid to put it back. I don't. I'm also sorry you only put trash cans at the entrance of your store. While I was trying to board fold that sweater for you, I had to put down my coffee and I forgot to pick it up again.
When you ask how I am, why is it so hard to answer when I reply "Good, how are you?" Since when do I have to answer you, but you don't have to answer me? Also, don't be that employee who actually bitches to my face about his job when I ask him how he is. That will pretty much guarantee that I'm not going to ask you how you are anymore.
Re: returning items in stores where you bought them. So when I go to a random trip to my mother's house and I happen to buy something at the Target there, you want me to trek up there and bring it back when there's a Target around the corner from me? Got it. Not likely though.
Re: me picking up my phone when I'm in line, I'm sorry it makes YOU feel awkward, but maybe I've just gotten a call from my son's school, or a family member in need. Maybe I can multitask paying and talking at the same time and it doesn't really matter if I want to talk about how so and so is a whore, because I'm not the face of the company, but you are, and you still think it's okay to talk about the badass fuckin' party you had the other night or how you're so fuckin' hung over when I'm walking by with my 7 year old son.
Re: kids. I'm not a neglectful mom. The best mom will probably lose her kid in a store at least once, and suffer the wrath of some poor employee who had to do their job, unless she puts him on one of those leashes, and then she deals with disapproving looks because she has a human being on a leash. Moms really can't win. My son has run off twice. It's not that I'm not trying or that my kid is reckless. It just happens. I'm so sorry you have to deal with finding a lost kid but at least you didn't have to deal with the panic of it being YOUR kid.
Re: finding items that are hand written instead of visuals. Really? You don't know where you keep your brown belts, but if you had a picture, that would help?
Lastly, here's the thing with receipts: They're easily lost. When you hand it to me instead of putting it in the bag, it goes into the recesses of my purse which is quite small but apparently bottomless, because I'll never find that thing again. Here's another thing. Your website says if I bring in the card with which I made the purchase, you can do my return. You'd just rather not look it up.
Retail employee, get over yourself.
