I am not privy to that information

[Pixelated]

This isn't under 'Sucky Customers' because these people were mildly annoying but not particularly sucky.

Our store is closing down (well, the entire chain of our stores, actually) so we currently have "merch" on sale ... but not the teas, not yet.

My first shift under the closing sales netted me three people who asked some variant of the following:

Customer: "So, when are your teas going on sale?"

Me: "Next week."

Customer: "Yes, but when?"

Me "Next week."

Customer: "But when??"

The first time it finally dawned on me that they wanted to know on what specific day the tea sales will start. The times after that I didn't cut the questioner off quickly only because by then I was so befuddled by the business we were doing (even without tea sales) that I admit it took me a couple of minutes to realize "OMG here we go again."

I have no clue, folks. Really. Here's our website; email corporate and see if they'll tell YOU.

[Trixie]

I get that all the time with any of our holiday clearance. People ask when it's going to go real cheap and I always say I don't know. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Let's face it though by the time things go below 50% mostly it's just junk left. And people still fight over the price.

[KellyHabersham]

I got that sometimes back when I worked at Macy's.....I'd tell the customer(s) that I didn't know specifically when the item in question would be on sale, just that we usually had our big sales on Friday-Sunday.

[dalesys]

re: Thread title "I am not privy to that information"

Hmm. "Don't should on me." ?
"They didn't dump that here." ?
"My interest is dropping." ?

[Pixelated]

re: Thread title "I am not privy to that information"

Hmm. "Don't should on me." ?
"They didn't dump that here." ?
"My interest is dropping." ?

Don't make me come over there and hit you ...

[Pixelated]

I'm not getting the repetition anymore ("But when? But WHEN?!?") but of course I'm still getting The Question ...

I might have to start coming to work with this on my apron:



And yeah, I know that the 35th person who asks The Question doesn't realize that 34 others have asked it before him/her. That's the only thing (so far) that's kept me from beaning somebody with a cast-iron teapot.

And we still have 25 days left ...

[dalesys]

Don't make me come over there and hit you ...

Oh crap!

Danger, Will Robinson!

[Nunavut Pants]

Don't make me come over there and hit you ...

You never know, Dalesys may like that....

[Trixie]

You could just always say Thursday. I mean it could be a Thursday. Or not. Chances are they would probably come back and complain about "that girl" who told them today the sale would start and not realize it was you.

[RealUnimportant]

"I'm not entirely sure, but I think it's a day ending in Y."

[Slave to the Phone]

Do you have a co-worker that you don't like (or one who is your BFF and pranking each other is an expression of love)? Check the schedule for the next day that he or she is working and you are not.

To customers: the sale will start promptly at 2pm on Saturday. To yourself

[Javarod]

I'm only sorta surprised by the question. Stores used to start their sales on the same day every week/month/etc, but really I don't think anyone aside from grocery stores do that any more, outside of special annual sales.