Retail Work depicted in Movies

[TruthHurts]

I also don't like how hotel workers (maids or cleaners) are depicted always going through guests' stuff, trying on their clothes, etc. Somehow I doubt that happens as much in real life as it seems to in the movies.

I can assure you I refuse to touch people's stuff when I'm cleaning rooms. Seeing films like Blue Crush or Maid in Manhattan always annoys me because it reaffirms the myth that housekeepers try on your clothes and go through your stuff.

[powerboy]

I don't like, how they have the salesperson, with a huge smile on there face, when helping with SC's. Also, that the cashiers, start juggling the products. If I done that, they would think I am out of my mind. Also how on films, and shows, that stores are always clean, and that the supervisors has the backs of the employees.

[CreepyCarrie]

All employees in Movie World can just go off and take a break whenever they feel the need, and it doesn;t matter how long they're gone because they'll never get in trouble when they come back.

[AirHostess]

All flight attendants are attractive, very well paid, have gorgeous uniforms, huge appartments in central New York and lots of good looking male passengers who ask them out on dates. If Only.

[SuperDan]

I doubt my co-workers will throw me a donkey show if/when my last day at the store happens.

PrincessKatie, would you feel better if you got asked out by a mediocre looking passenger with a crappy retail job who still lives with his parents at 25? Cause I can make arrangements....

[Misanthropical]

The only thing I really noticed about any jobs that I have worked and seen depicted in movies is security.

The security person is always a fat lazy man and is always the first killed off in any movie.

Only once did I see a movie with a woman as a security guard (I don't remember the name of it) and yes, she was the first one killed off.

[Sofar]

The most poorly represented profession in the motion pictures: henchmen.

[Gurndigarn]

The security person is always a fat lazy man and is always the first killed off in any movie.

The most poorly represented profession in the motion pictures: henchmen.

One of my problems with movies is that so many of them are predictable in who's going to be killed, and even about when.

[Becks]

The most poorly represented profession in the motion pictures: henchmen.

Followed by tenders of the salad bar.

[Scooter]

Clerks. The movie that started Kevin Smith's empire... and yes, he was a store clerk in real life, too. Aside from the slacker life the characters live (which doesn't accurately portray a lot of retail worker's lifestyles in my opinion), the portrayal of general customer stupidity was bang-on, as well as some of the crappy circumstances that seem to plague people with lower incomes more than richer folk.

And sadly, the disturbing alternate ending - where Dante gets shot finishing up the day-end alone in the store after closing - is all too real a danger for many of us.

[Scooter]

Oh, yeah, this was supposed to be about cliches in movies that script customer service. oops.

Well, I guess one is that customer service workers are never cast as having any personal depth or dimension - hell, I know some that have university degrees and some that have quite technical side-interests that have made them more knowledgeable (and perhaps qualified) than some 'professionals'. But they are always portrayed as having diminished intelligence, few (if any) personal interests or significant goals...

Oh yeah, and their living space is always a total mess.

[BusBus]

I doubt my co-workers will throw me a donkey show if/when my last day at the store happens.

I sure as hell hope that my coworkers don't do this!

[BookstoreEscapee]

How abut just the way every day jobs are portrayed?

My favorite is the movie Office Space. The manager of Chotsky's(sp?) is hilarious.

Office Space is on this weekend on Comedy Central. Saturday 2/10, I think So for the uninitiated, check your local listings!

[Ringtail Z28]

Clerks. The movie that started Kevin Smith's empire... and yes, he was a store clerk in real life, too. Aside from the slacker life the characters live (which doesn't accurately portray a lot of retail worker's lifestyles in my opinion),

No, but some of us can dream.

[Food Lady]

I just want to know where my fancy-schmancy cashier break room is. I was head cashier for the better part of 8 years and I didn't get no leather furniture and free vending machine!

It's at my store. Seriously. I love my company.