It's 8:02! Why aren't you all open yet?

[greensinestro]

So, I went to Home Depot Sunday morning to pick up a couple of items. They open their doors at 8am on Sundays instead of 6am like other days. At 7:45am, there were already at least a dozen or so people waiting outside to get in right when they opened. A number of us just shoot the breeze, talking with each other, killing time, except for this impatient woman. She must have looked at her watch twenty times or more, before the store opened. And, because her watch said 8:00 on the nose, she figured that meant Home Depot's watches are synchronized to hers. At 8:02, she went up to the glass doors and says out loud to nobody in particular, "It's 8:02!" About thirty seconds later, someone opened the doors and let us all in.

Do people really get this impatient over two freaking minutes, let alone do they think everyone's watch is the same as theirs?

[DesignFox]

Of course, didn't you know? The universe revolves around our customers. We must be in perfect sync with every one of their watches and day time habits to perfectly suit all of their needs the exact MOMENT of the day that they demand them.

[ExHDCashier]

as a former HD cashier, i was amazed at how many ppl would be waiting at the doors for the store to open... there were times when I had to be there an hour before they opened and there were already ppl waiting and complaining because we weren't open yet... sorry but we dont open for another hour!!.. but those waiting there to open are just as bad as those coming after we closed and saying but i need just 1 item!!..sorry but we were open for 16 hours today and if you couldnt finf the time to get here during business hours tough crappola.... i would have loved to actually go to a customers place of employement and pull the same disrespectful crap they pulled on HD workers... oh to give them a taste of their own medicine!!

[air914]

Ugh I worked at a gym once and we opened at like 5:15 AM.... and somedays at 5:10 people would be banging on the doors..... listen first of all I think you're crazy to be exercising at this time (I guess it's good they are exercising at all but still no way would I be exercising at 5:00 AM), secondly - I don't have to deal w/ your suckiness for another 5 minutes and I'm going to take my time........ 1) b/c I have to set things up and make sure we're ready to open and 2) b/c I don't want to let you in any sooner than I have to...

[Mr. Rude]

*Enter scene already in progress*

SC: WHY AREN'T YOU OPEN!! *taps watch* MY watch says it's *** o'clock. What does yours say?

Me: Don't wear one, I use this *flips open cell phone* because it syncs to a digital network, which in turn is also in sync with with the providers comp. system which just happens to sync with the rest of the networks around the world & I'll bet you they sync to something a bit more accurate than....your....watch....I'll be open in 3 minutes.

Repeat at closing

[Becks]

as a former HD cashier, i was amazed at how many ppl would be waiting at the doors for the store to open... there were times when I had to be there an hour before they opened and there were already ppl waiting and complaining because we weren't open yet... sorry but we dont open for another hour!!

Happens at the store I work at now, and when I worked at Goodwill. Oh, and the gas station, too. I still can't figure it out.

OK, once I went to GW before it opened, but they had a gargoyle I wanted to buy.

[icinii]

We get a huge glut of people at the bank before the doors open. I don't understand this because it's the same people everytime. These people then complain about waiting in line for 5-10 minutes. If you just showed up at 9:15 or 9:30, there would be -no- line. It isn't like we have a special deposit bonus if you show up outside before 8:55 AM.

[Boozy]

This sort of bull always pissed me off when I was closing at the wine store. We were always the last booze supplier in the area to close, so people would get pretty mean when faced with - *gasp* - having to stay sober for one night.
We got a lot of "You can't close yet! My watch says 8:59!" or whatever.

Once, when dealing with a guy who just wouldn't frickin' drop it, I responded with:

"My watch says 9:05. The computer clock says 9:01. My cell phone says 8:58. I don't own an atomic watch, and I have to assume you don't either. So let's just say its nine-ish. If booze was this damned important to you, you shouldn't have cut it so close." And then I slammed the gate closed.
Jackass.

[blas]

It happened at the gas station almost every time I opened. It was because my manager pampered a few too many nonworthy regular SCs. She'd be in the middle of opening the store, but if she saw their vehicle pull up, she'd unlock the door and just take their change for coffee (kinda like in the first Clerks movie, that whole spiel) and the newspaper. This would happen nearly an hour before opening, because she needed to allow herself an extra half hour or 45 mins to do paperwork and lotto reports and whatnot of all the previous day's shifts.

When I opened the store, I made sure I was ready to open on the hour at that second. But I refused to let anyone in before opening hours. No one was "special" to me. One day I sleepily trudged to the door at 5:20 am, smoking a cigg, ready to unlock the door and haul the papers in, and the truck of a regular SC pulled up, and he promptly bitched me out when I told him I wasn't going to let him in and get a coffee and throw 50 cents at me for the newspaper. He saw even more red when I wouldn't let him grab one of the papers from the bundle that was sitting right next to the door.

Once an SC pulled up at 6:30 am on a Sunday (the store opened an hour late on Sundays) as I was opening the safe and counting the till, and unlocking all the scratch offs. He pulled up to a pump and tried to pump gas, and he waited and he waited and he waited.........I just pressed the pump # but not the authorize button (pressing the pump # button would stop the noise from wailing) and ignored him. He eventually came up to the window and banged on it, nearly giving me a heart attack, as I'd been ignoring him. I shook my head no, and he shook his fist at me, kicked his leg out in fury, and drove off.

Come on here......if I let one customer break the rules, then I'd have to let EVERYONE else too! And if people driving down the road saw vehicles parked outside before hours, they'd all assume we were open too!

[Tria]

Ugh I worked at a gym once and we opened at like 5:15 AM.... and somedays at 5:10 people would be banging on the doors..... listen first of all I think you're crazy to be exercising at this time (I guess it's good they are exercising at all but still no way would I be exercising at 5:00 AM)

Sick, sick people.... Even the dayball is smart enough to still be in bed!

[Linda]

I live near a post office which opens at 9am. Every Monday and Thursday, there is a massive queue outside when I leave for work. At 7.30am.

Why??? people!

[simplyanother]

do they think everyone's watch is the same as theirs?

Yup.
I got into a bit of an argument with a customer a couple of weeks ago, it was after closing, and we'd made several closing announcments. We were chatting about people still lingering in the store and she said "well they probably looked down at their watches/cell phones" and saw that it was 15 minutes earlier than y'all said". Which is a good point, except, our clocks are no more than 5 minutes off. And of course because her phone was set by Verizon or Sprint or some big cell phone company, that means she gets to shop longer than the rest of us. Oh freakin well. Our clocks say it's 9:00, it's 9. We're closed. Get out. (I'm just saying. She was rude. I actually agreed with her point...).

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Sick, sick people.... Even the dayball is smart enough to still be in bed!

I am most days, except Wednesday when I'm already at work, helping the SA change the weekly ad.

Believe me, excercise is the LAST thing on my mind no matter what day of the week it is.

[bigjimaz]

It's 8:02! Why aren't you all open yet?

I'm sorry ma'am. Your watch wasn't available so we, regrettably, had to use ours.

[Reyneth]

Isn't it interesting that an SC's watch is always faster than yours when they are waiting for your store to open and always slower when they want to shop longer after closing? Amazing.