The sign says "CLOSED", dumbass!

[CrazedClerk]

Thanks! I love them. I can't wait either!



Oh yeah they never leave. Once I had a customer who saw that my light was out, came into my line and said "I know your light is out but I'm coming here anyway."

Oh that so would have put me straight in to smartass mode:

"No you're not." (close up and leave register.)

"Sure but you'll be waiting awhile." (proceed to close register and ignore SC)

"Apparently my light isn't the only thing that's not too bright right now." (ok I'd probably get in trouble for that one but it would almost be worth it.)

[dispatch]

while in training for the cruise line you do your job at the school and hotel campus, while cleaning bathroomsit got to the point to where I was blocking off the door with my cart so that you couldn't walk into the bathroom, and people still moved the cart, poked their heads in and asked "are these closed?" I'd say yes, but they'd barge in anyways, so I'd walk out and wait (I was subject to prosecution if I cleaned either bathroom with someone in there, exposed or not) there was a set of bathrooms right accross the lobby, or they could have waited three minutes for me to finish, but no. then they'd complain later that the bathrooms looked like shit

[Lace Neil Singer]

Oh, I have loads of stories pertaining to this.

1. The newsagents that I worked in briefly while at college to pay for booze and ciggies. I used to have to get there early in the morning to open up and sort out the till before the paper round kids arrived. Now, obviously it's dark at 7 in the morning with all the ad posters plastered to the windows and door, so I'd turn on all the lights. I was meant to open the store at 8, but obviously the door had to be open for the paper round kids. There was a sign on the door that said "CLOSED"; did that stop idiots coming in? NO. I'd then waste ages telling said idiot customer that I wasn't open yet and they'd have to wait til 8 to buy their paper and fags. Some of them went, others whined, "But I'm here now!" Yeah, moron, you just walked accross the road from your house... just walk back and wait til I'm open.

2. At the garden centre. We used to put staff from outside or sometimes me or the fish boys on the doors cuz the outside bit and pet and fish centre closed at 5 instead of the 5:30 that the main store did. We'd go on the door at 5 minutes to closing time in order to stop customers coming in; the whining we'd hear, you wouldn't believe. No, you can't come in to get just one thing, you've had all day to shop.

I'd also get people coming over to the pet section when I was cashing up, saying they wanted to buy a budgie or hamster. I'd tell them I was closed and the best I could do is reserve said budgie or hamster and they could come in tomorrow morning to buy it then, but if they didn't come in tomorrow it would go back on sale. "But I want it now! It's my kid's birthday tomorrow!" What, and you waited til I closed before you decided to get your kid's present? Not my problem; we close at the same time every day and your kid's birthday's at the same time every year.

3. The supermarket. This is an ongoing problem that happens all the time. I put a closed sign on my till; if the opposite till is closed, the barrier goes up. Doesn't stop customers coming up to my till with their shopping tho. If we're busy as hell, then sorry, customers; but if my shift has finished and there's no-one to come on my till then I'm still closing. Don't care how much you whine, moan or threaten; I am not serving you. Yeah, I know queueing sucks... but so does having to hang around after you're meant to have finished. So, the sign is up, you got here after it went up? Too flipping bad. I'm not serving you, so you can toddle off to another till. Don't like it? Then too bad; that's how life is.

[Becks]

there was a set of bathrooms right accross the lobby, or they could have waited three minutes for me to finish, but no. then they'd complain later that the bathrooms looked like shit

Like I've said before, "Can't win, don't try."

It's like my customers at the salad bar who stand in my way, ignore me or give me CBF looks when I say "Excuse me" and then complain that one of the salad items they want is empty.

[CritterGirl]

Ah, I saw a few amusing instances of this.

All of the employees had to set up our pet store before we opened, and it was about 2 weeks of work. The only things up in the store were fixtures, registers, and most of the signage. No merchandise or animals whatsoever. We'd have pallets in the middle of the main aisle, nothing on the shelves, all the employees standing together in a circle listening to a training manager, the doors closed, "caution" tape around the entire entrance area, and oh yeah, signs on the door saying when our opening day was.

Guess what? Customers would still push open the turned-off automatic doors, and then act seriously confused when we all blankly stared at them wondering what the hell they were doing. Eventually the stun would wear off someone, and they would tell them we weren't opening for another week or two like the signs all said. I guess they also missed the huge display of multicolored flyers in the stand just outside the door.

[codemonkey]

When does a restaurnat close?

From someone who used to be in the resturaunt business, haveing held every position from dishwaser to general manager, there was only one thing that could get under my skin. . . PEOPLE WHO STAYED PAST CLOSING!!!
(Side note the more expensive the resturaunt, the more likely this was to happen)

Now if I had to close and we closed at 10 pm, i normally wouldn't get to upset if I still had a table finishing up dinner. I have things to do and I won't be leaving for at least another hour. Take your time (tip me well) and then leave.

You would think that when the fireplace, that you just had to sit by in the middle of August when it is 85 degrees out, was shut off it might be a clue to LEAVE. Or the background music is off, or you are the last table in the place, or the lights are turned all the way up (or off in an adjoining room), or the bartender has put the chairs up? OR IT IS PASSED CLOSING TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Personally I don't think that there are any worse entitlement whores than the people who decide that they can sit at their table for as long as they want, and keep, me, and the management staff at work, cuz we can't leave untill you do. This is made even worse by the fact of if you paid your tab an hour ago. I can't leave until my station is clean, and I can clean that table you are sitting at untill you leave, so get up, get the fuck out, and you had better tip me more the 20% for me loosing sleep becuase you had to sit in my section