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Working Retail

I had a HHHHHUUUUUGGGGGGEEEEE woman come in the store, said that "I have a problem with water weight". I almost exploded with mindf*ck.
 


Luckily I usually don't have to deal with customers all the time but I still have to deal with them.

We close at 9 and we make it pretty obvious when we close. All the tvs get shut off and so do some lights. Every friday night for the last 6 weeks we have had to stay late because someone decides they need to look around for 20 mins.

I have loaded up pretty much every type of appliace and electronics into pretty much every type of car. People don't believe me when I say their 50 in tv they just bought is not going to fit into their 2 door civic. I have to try it just so they realize it. Everyone thinks you can lean a tv to get in inside the vehicle and then just stand it up once its inside. In 4.5 years, that has worked once. There isn't enough room to stand them up inside. I mean, I wouldn't know because I try it every day but you just bought it so of course you know what it will fit it.

At least a couple times a week someone will talk in the back to pick up something and be like "you can just throw that 60 in in for me hahahaha." its not funny. I have heard it a million times. stfu
 
i had a ***** bring in a geo prizm and bought a huge grill, and yea the good old oh it will fit, i had to take it all apart to get some parts in it and bungee corded the main body to her roof
 
i had to take a grill out for an impalaand put it in her backseat and trunk back when i worked in garden land lol
 


luckily im more or less out of retail. im not a patient person and have had some anger management problems. i worked at a mobil gas station for three years, it was my first job and i loved it. so i always tried to keep my mouth shut and bear it. but there was this one guy that i lost it on

he walks in, doesnt bother to pull the phone from his ear, and throws a $20 at me. ok that was rude, but i was used to it. so i activate the gas pump that he walks out to for the 20 bucks. he gets off the phone and starts to pump. from my seat i see him glare inside about half way into his pumping( it was bright out and im sure he couldnt see i was watching him through the glass.). he stops the pump at $16. something and starts to walk in. being the nice guy i am i got his change ready. he comes in and i give him the change. he asks for the rest of it. i said there is no more you pumped XX.XX and i gave you X.XX back, which makes the twenty you gave me. he says i wanted ten, through his broken english. i told him he should have stopped the pump at ten then. AND he should have expected change the first time i saw him. he accused me of stealing it and ripping him off. i told him listen im sorry if i misunderstood you but the numbers add up. you put most of it in your car and what isnt is in your hand... by this time my blood is boiling because hes so thick headed.... he ****ing told me to get off my lazy ginger ass and go siphon the gas out of the tank. i went off on the guy soo bad i dont evan remember what i said. but i do remember the mechanics hearing me yelling over there air tools and coming out to help. lol
 
I hate it when people some in a pickup to pickup their otr and they want it in the backseat. Wtf. you bought a pickup for a reason.
 
Thank you for calling Advance Auto Parts and Batteries, this is Mike.
-"Hey, yeah, I need an alternator."
Ok sir, what is the alternator for?
-"What do you mean?"
What vehicle will the alternator be going in?
-"Im not sure what it is.."
Is it your car?
-"Yes, why would I call for a car that's not mine?"
I thought maybe you could be fixing it for a friend, you dont know what car you drive?
-"No, cant you just give me the alternator like I asked?"
I have to know what car it is so I can give you the correct part, if you dont know what it is, you can always drive it here and we can identify it for you.
-"What are you? F**king stupid? How simple is this? ALTERNATOR"
Sir, I need to know the make, model, and year of the car or else I cant give you the correct part, not all alternators are the same.
"I thought this was an auto parts store, do you make your business by giving your customers a hard time and being cocky? You'll be hearing from your corporate office soon. <hang up>

I swear, I almost broke the phone after that.

Also, we've had someone straight up drop a big fat number 2 right in the middle of an aisle.

Oh, and this actually made me feel better rather than make me angry... tonight someone called when I answered they said they needed a part for a DeLorean, I asked what they were looking for and they told me a flux capacitor... I started laughing and then he started laughing and hung up, lol.
 


I used to work in audio installation and had a rather large woman (250+) that wanted an amp install. Upon getting into the car, I noticed that it was trashed inside. Clothes and trash everywhere. It wasnt until I popped the trunk before I realized what I got myself into. Fuggin hoarder. Trunk was full of the same, but more dense. In order to do the install, I had to move that crap to run the wires and mount the amp. After picking the car up, she accuses me of going through her things and has the audacity of saying "You were prolly sniffin my panties and $hit, I aint payin for dis!" I charged her double for "installation difficulty" She filed a law suit.
 
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How the hell do you go to a place where you're paying people to work inside your car... and then NOT CLEAN OUT YOUR CAR?!

...especially to that point where it's trashed and packed in there...

If I was having my car electronics worked on, I'd have the whole thing cleared out... even when I take my car to a garage and it's all going to be under the hood, I still make sure the interior is free of junk just to be considerate.
 
FriboRage said:
How the hell do you go to a place where you're paying people to work inside your car... and then NOT CLEAN OUT YOUR CAR?!

...especially to that point where it's trashed and packed in there...

If I was having my car electronics worked on, I'd have the whole thing cleared out... even when I take my car to a garage and it's all going to be under the hood, I still make sure the interior is free of junk just to be considerate.
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Werd! I wont take my car to the muffler shop without it being spotless. But I gotta tell ya...woman are pretty nasty when it comes to their cars. I'd get a cute girl that wants some chit done, and after seeing the inside of her car, shes not so cute anymore.
 


I love my job, I work at a nice hotel in Ohio. I am the only one here all night (11p-7a) I can kick people out if its necessary. I also watch movies and play on my laptop all night lol.
 
i want that job ^^^

but then again i've got it made too. i play with my cousin all day and get $13 an hour, full time with union benefits
 
Working in Garden Center at Wal-Mart always made me want to go ape on people. I loved working out there but occasionally you get the idiots that get 50 bags of topsoil that they want loaded in their ford focus. 50 bags at 40 lbs a bag equals me pissed at fitting all of it in their car, but a smile when I know their struts will be blown by the time they get home. Or the idiot yesterday who WANTED a grill assembled. We assembled it; I got it out to his vehicle (which I assumed was a truck...never assume it's a truck) and it's a small suv. Mother effer won't fit and he wants me to disassemble some of it. I wanted to punch the dude. Thank God I moved back to Sporting Goods but now I get to deal with all of the idiot 16 year olds who bounce the balls from toys and knock out ceiling tiles. I wasn't aware that coming to Walmart at 10 pm in a group of 4 was the cool thing to do, but apparently it is... My ultimate all time favorite is the old people in motorized carts that run into the lift i am driving as I am stopped. I'm stopped, they see me, yet they still hit me...

Retail is a joke.
 
we announce the store closings 3 times. if theres someone still wandering the store AFTER all the lines got emptied we close the registers and tell him to come tommorow. plenty of people got pissed but that how we roll.
 
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