Working in retail

Ziegfeldgirl27

Just relieved today to finish work as I now have a full week off! But it got me thinking of how difficult it is working in retail and if anyone had any funny/interesting stories to share?

I worked in customer service before and some woman bought a slow cooker. She tried to bring it back initially saying she hadn't opened it, when I opened it it had clearly been used (it had dried food on it) so she then said she'd like to return it because it took too long to heat up....

Another woman bought a laptop and it had to be repaired after 6 months with a faulty hard drive, she went mental when she got it back from repair because I refused to say that it would definitely NEVER have a problem EVER again.

You lose faith in humanity working in retail.

Kylo Ren

I sold this guy a jacket once and he came back a few days later as it didn't him. hahaha

Where To

Keno 92 wrote: »

I sold this guy a jacket once and he came back a few days later as it didn't him. hahaha

krudler

Cries of Retail thread, funniest thread on boards by far.

mattjack

Keno 92 wrote: »

I sold this guy a jacket once and he came back a few days later as it didn't ' ' him. hahaha

I think you a forgot a ' ' by accident.

Seren_

Skadoosh! wrote: »

Cries of Retail thread, funniest thread on boards by far.

Yup definitely! Check out the Ranting & Raving forum OP, it's class.

Edit: forgot that it's private. You'll need to PM one of the mods (dr.bollocko, Fluorescence, Handsome Bob, keefg) for access

Keno 92

Keno 92 wrote: »

I sold this guy a jacket once and he came back a few days later as it didn't him. hahaha

Hope you told him to go himself!

Ziegfeldgirl27

Today a woman bought a stamp off me and came back about 30 minutes later asking me to lick it and put it on her letter. I quickly did it and threw it in the post bag and she started screaming at me saying I didn't lick the stamp and I had to search through the entire mail bag to find the letter to prove to her that I did.
From now on I'm going to say I'm allergic to stamps!! Why can't they lick their own bloody stamps.

Ziegfeldgirl27

Your Text Here wrote: »

Yup definitely! Check out the Ranting & Raving forum OP, it's class.

Edit: forgot that it's private. You'll need to PM one of the mods (dr.bollocko, Fluorescence, Handsome Bob, keefg) for access

Ah, ok I was wondering why I couldn't access it!

Kylo Ren

Keno 92 wrote: »

I sold this guy a jacket once and he came back a few days later as it didn't him. hahaha

Where To wrote: »

mattjack wrote: »

I think you a forgot a ' ' by accident.

Sacramento wrote: »

Hope you told him to go himself!

Ah for sake.

Lawrence1895

Not sure, if I could do such a job, I guess, you have to smile all day, being friendly to every customer, even if you don't feel well

Where To

Ziegfeldgirl27 wrote: »

Today a woman bought a stamp off me and came back about 30 minutes later asking me to lick it and put it on her letter. I quickly did it and threw it in the post bag and she started screaming at me saying I didn't lick the stamp and I had to search through the entire mail bag to find the letter to prove to her that I did.
From now on I'm going to say I'm allergic to stamps!! Why can't they lick their own bloody stamps.

If that was me I'd have wiped my arse with the stamp and stuck it on her face and posted HER in the bag.

Or, I might have smiled, and remembered the old adage 'the customer is always right'.

Lando Griffin

Working one Saturday this crack pot and his dog came to the counter. I gave him his collection docket and the dog sat down and the man put the docket into his mouth. " What do ye think if that lads isnt he the best dog" and off the stores they went wagging happily. A few minutes they came back and tail between the legs the man came uo to another lad at the counter an said "Can you believe I forgot something" Without looking up the assistant said "I thought the dog would have reminded you"

cabledude

Ziegfeldgirl27 wrote: »

Today a woman bought a stamp off me and came back about 30 minutes later asking me to lick it and put it on her letter. I quickly did it and threw it in the post bag and she started screaming at me saying I didn't lick the stamp and I had to search through the entire mail bag to find the letter to prove to her that I did.
From now on I'm going to say I'm allergic to stamps!! Why can't they lick their own bloody stamps.

Too posh to lick????

.ak

I once worked in a well known Irish electronic retailer - every Christmas the place would be besotted with zombies looking to buy 'iPods MP3 players' - ofcourse we obliged, yet we didn't actually sell any Apple products at the time. Once one customer starts asking you questions about them you would suddenly find yourself surrounded by dozens of them, all trying to listen into your answers on 'MPD players that plugged into UBS ports on a lapbook' :rolleyes:

One day, one of the other staff got surrounded, and the thing is you get stuck because everyone has a question (note: all the same question, just generally phrased different). So anyway the staff member goes onto to say 'Well this MP3 player is 8gigs, and can hold thousands of songs...' to which one of the customers interjected, 'Thousands? Does it get heavier with the more music you put on it?'...


The answer given was ofcourse 'Yes'.

fando

There should be a special allowance for those exposed directly to customers - it's a hazardous environment, or at least psychologist on stand by.

El Weirdo

Your Text Here wrote: »

Yup definitely! Check out the Ranting & Raving forum OP, it's class.

Edit: forgot that it's private. You'll need to PM one of the mods (dr.bollocko, Fluorescence, Handsome Bob, keefg) for access

Skadoosh! wrote: »

Cries of Retail thread, funniest thread on boards by far.

What they said.

Thanks lads/lasses.