I work at a pharmacy as a "back up" photo tech. Four of the five days I work, I am on front register. I answer phones, help customers, stock shelves and do any project my manager so desires to throw at me.
I just have a few pet peeves regarding some regular behavior with my customers:
When I am counting cigs, customers regularly come up to me and do one of three things: Ask me if I am counting cigs (dr. obvious speaking), start talking loudly despite me telling them I will be with them in just a second, or they start "throwing" numbers out to miss up my count.
I am a small person (5 foot 3 inches, under 100 pound). People constantly say (in a tone you use with infants), "I did not see you hiding there! You are so small!"
Imagine hearing that a dozen times a day!
When I am not counting cigs, I am working on one of many projects. I go to leave my register and out of no where comes this lady who breathlessly tells me, "Stop! You're not going anywhere just yet! You can work on that later!"
If she knew she would not get arrested, I think she would drag me back to my register by my ears! This particular lady gets offended when I answer the phone when I am helping her. Hello! I have three rings to answer the phone. This particular lady takes longer to help than the three rings allow.
Speaking of phone, I hate customers who rattle off a list of items they need and want us to make sure we have. We are NOT personal shoppers. Do not ask us if we have dried Lipton onion soup. When we tell you we don't, don't ask us if we are sure! We work here! For the most part, we know what we carry and what we don't carry!
The holidays are around the corner. We have this mat that when you walk on it, it screams. Kids have found this quite amuzing. They jump on it, jump off, jump on over and over and over again. You can hear that thing throughout the store. Between that, the motion activated skeletion that says, "I can see you! Hey! Where you going!" and the motion activated witch that says something along the lines, "Trick or treat. Give me something good to eat.... or I'll turn you into a hound!", I have lost any sanity that I once possessed.
Another thing that gets my panties into knots is customers who interupt me when I am with other customers. It's over something stupid to. For instance, "Where's such and such product?" A regular customer is a habitutual interupter. I asked her indirectly to stop, that it is not fair to other customers. Her reply, "Oh, that's okay." She still continues to do it every single time she is in the store. With her being in the store all the time, one would think she would know where products are already!
Add also, customers who seem to think that they should be in everyone's business. True story: something happen to my co-worker's parent. He ran out of the store crying. My customer looked at me and said, "Did he get fired or something?"
I replied, "I don't know what happened. It's none of my business. If my coworker wants to tell me what happened, that's his choice." I could not believe a customer had the gulls to ask something like that!
I am in a desperate need of a break from work!
Feel free to add any rants about your customers.
I just have a few pet peeves regarding some regular behavior with my customers:
When I am counting cigs, customers regularly come up to me and do one of three things: Ask me if I am counting cigs (dr. obvious speaking), start talking loudly despite me telling them I will be with them in just a second, or they start "throwing" numbers out to miss up my count.
I am a small person (5 foot 3 inches, under 100 pound). People constantly say (in a tone you use with infants), "I did not see you hiding there! You are so small!"
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When I am not counting cigs, I am working on one of many projects. I go to leave my register and out of no where comes this lady who breathlessly tells me, "Stop! You're not going anywhere just yet! You can work on that later!"
If she knew she would not get arrested, I think she would drag me back to my register by my ears! This particular lady gets offended when I answer the phone when I am helping her. Hello! I have three rings to answer the phone. This particular lady takes longer to help than the three rings allow.
Speaking of phone, I hate customers who rattle off a list of items they need and want us to make sure we have. We are NOT personal shoppers. Do not ask us if we have dried Lipton onion soup. When we tell you we don't, don't ask us if we are sure! We work here! For the most part, we know what we carry and what we don't carry!
The holidays are around the corner. We have this mat that when you walk on it, it screams. Kids have found this quite amuzing. They jump on it, jump off, jump on over and over and over again. You can hear that thing throughout the store. Between that, the motion activated skeletion that says, "I can see you! Hey! Where you going!" and the motion activated witch that says something along the lines, "Trick or treat. Give me something good to eat.... or I'll turn you into a hound!", I have lost any sanity that I once possessed.
Another thing that gets my panties into knots is customers who interupt me when I am with other customers. It's over something stupid to. For instance, "Where's such and such product?" A regular customer is a habitutual interupter. I asked her indirectly to stop, that it is not fair to other customers. Her reply, "Oh, that's okay." She still continues to do it every single time she is in the store. With her being in the store all the time, one would think she would know where products are already!
Add also, customers who seem to think that they should be in everyone's business. True story: something happen to my co-worker's parent. He ran out of the store crying. My customer looked at me and said, "Did he get fired or something?"
![EEK!](https://www.customerssuck.com/board/core/images/smilies/eek.png)
I am in a desperate need of a break from work!
Feel free to add any rants about your customers.
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