Whoooa boy, talk about entitlement!!

[bainsidhe]

Do we just live to serve you until you leave, and then unfold our sleeping bags on the floor and spend the night in the store? WTF????!

We get to sleep? I thought we were just robots programmed to serve.

[PepperElf]

Failing that, rig some chainsaws to the fronts of those electric carts, then have employees drive around

While yelling out, "Klaatu Verada Nikto!"
and extra points if the employee actually works in Housewears

[AriRashkae]

This ... is my boomstick!

[Skeksin]

PA Announcement: "Ladies and gentlemen. The store is closing in X minutes. Anyone in the store after this time who is not an employee will be charged with trespassing"

[LillFilly]

A Manager at one of my stores told me she had a girl come-in at exactly 9:00PM to buy something. Except she just kept hanging around. When asked if she was ready, she said she was waiting for her dad to meet her so he could pay for her items. The Manager ended-up staying until 9:30PM when daddy showed-up. What did he teach his kid??

[TimmyHate]

My old A.M at the Fast Food Hell used to have the best technique. He'd simply tell them "In 5 minutes they stop paying me, and i become a member of the public who wants to go home. You want to deal with me then?".

Never failed.

[marlovino]

Just turn off the lights everywhere except in the front area, near the doors.

Hopefully this will get to come to the front and if not then just do one last announcement, 'Attention Staff. The front door will be closed and the alarms turned on in 60 seconds. If you are not at the front by then you will be locked in. Time starts ............. now! Thank you.'

[Racket_Man]

Do the retail peons not have lives too? Do we just live to serve you until you leave, and then unfold our sleeping bags on the floor and spend the night in the store? WTF????!

No. We have cots in the backroom.

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you have sleeping bags and cots???????? WOW I thought we just had to sleep on the cold concrete floor in the back room like little Olivers

[excuse me??]

How about this anouncement:

Charlie, are you ready to unleash the Dobermans??

[Red_Dazes]

tell them your new computerized cash registers shut off at 10 minutes after closing so if they want to buy anything they have to hurry to the front.

PA Announcement: "Ladies and gentlemen. The store is closing in X minutes. Anyone in the store after this time who is not an employee will be charged with trespassing"

I agree with these. Get your shit and get out. Now that we have our LP guys wondering the store every night we have less and less people we have to chase out.

Seriously, if I ever own a store, if you're not at the very least in line when the store closes, you ain't gettin' checked out.

How about this anouncement:

Charlie, are you ready to unleash the Dobermans??

I actually asked my managers if we could do this on Halloween.... they said no...

[Mike Taylor]

you have sleeping bags and cots???????? WOW I thought we just had to sleep on the cold concrete floor in the back room like little Olivers

You were lucky, they made us sleep in the trash dumpster behind the store.

[XCashier]

You were lucky, they made us sleep in the trash dumpster behind the store.

You were lucky to have a trash dumpster! There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road.

[Broomjockey]

There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road.

You had a shoebox? Lucky. We were just hung on the telephone poles and light standards out front to scare away pidgeons.

[RetailKate]

When I worked at a clothing store I always was given the job of chasing the stragglers out of the store. I would be pulled off of whatever I was doing and told to "Follow" them. Which usually meant I would sneak up behind them then jump out with a piercing "HI!!! CanIhelpyou?Youlooklikeyouneedhelp,didyouseeoursal es?
Wehaveclosedbutthatsokifyouneedmoreshoppingtime
I'llhelpyoufindwhateveryouneed!!!"

Usually they got the hell out of there and away from the fast talking sales clerk who may or may not have been about to eat their face.

One time though they would not leave and I was stuck doing customer service stuff so I couldn't go badger them (and that was one night the spineless manager was working. So I got on the intercom and announced chipperly that the store was closing in 5 minutes and people had better get out now cause other wise we were locking them in for the night!
Everyone scuttled on out of there in a hurry!

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

You were lucky, they made us sleep in the trash dumpster behind the store.

Lucky you. Dumpster-brand trash receptacles are top of the line.

I just got a TrashCo-brand waste disposal unit.