Ok, so this one may be something specific to my shop, but that doesn't detract from the annoyance factor...TRUST ME on that! I've been meaning to put this one on here for ages and just never got around to it
The centre we're in had a rent hike about 2 years ago, because of that, the previous owner of my shop decided to call it a day and sold us off, lock, stock, staff and shelves to someone else. The locals were deeply miffed about this and actually got up a petition in an attempt to keep us open. It didn't work, but we were touched by the thought nonetheless.
I'm not even going to get into the disgusting behaviour of the vultures picking the closing down sale dry. Suffice to say, it was worse than anything I'd seen before or since at Christmas time and something I will never forget.
We were closed for a month during this change over so that the place could be re-fitted and re-stocked without customers messing it all up again. We had 4ft long banners in the blanked out window explaining in detail that we would remain a bookshop, but that we would be changing names and management.
Naturally, we're quite eager to move on from the entire incident and we have done our best to forget it all since death threats and poison pen letters aren't a nice thing to deal with when you're trying to open a shop up again (and yes, the police were involved in that one and it's a story for another day!), but the local population seem to either not realise just how RUDE they are, or, they just don't care!
Not a DAY (sometimes hour) goes by without someone saying something like:
"You're not closing down are you because I seem to remember you were going to..." *insert pause where they look at us with a raised brow like they fully believe the whole thing was a scam*
We closed the old company down TWO YEARS AGO! We were closed for a MONTH! we opened again under a NEW NAME! Why do people think that the same staff behind the counter = same company?! What part of this are they just not getting?! Someone actually came in last week with a book they'd brought from the previous company and wanted a refund! Honestly, when someone accuses me of lying about the old place closing down, do they not realise they're insulting me and completely missing the fact that I was lucky to keep my job?!
So yeah...they all suck...
/rant off
The centre we're in had a rent hike about 2 years ago, because of that, the previous owner of my shop decided to call it a day and sold us off, lock, stock, staff and shelves to someone else. The locals were deeply miffed about this and actually got up a petition in an attempt to keep us open. It didn't work, but we were touched by the thought nonetheless.
I'm not even going to get into the disgusting behaviour of the vultures picking the closing down sale dry. Suffice to say, it was worse than anything I'd seen before or since at Christmas time and something I will never forget.
We were closed for a month during this change over so that the place could be re-fitted and re-stocked without customers messing it all up again. We had 4ft long banners in the blanked out window explaining in detail that we would remain a bookshop, but that we would be changing names and management.
Naturally, we're quite eager to move on from the entire incident and we have done our best to forget it all since death threats and poison pen letters aren't a nice thing to deal with when you're trying to open a shop up again (and yes, the police were involved in that one and it's a story for another day!), but the local population seem to either not realise just how RUDE they are, or, they just don't care!
Not a DAY (sometimes hour) goes by without someone saying something like:
"You're not closing down are you because I seem to remember you were going to..." *insert pause where they look at us with a raised brow like they fully believe the whole thing was a scam*
We closed the old company down TWO YEARS AGO! We were closed for a MONTH! we opened again under a NEW NAME! Why do people think that the same staff behind the counter = same company?! What part of this are they just not getting?! Someone actually came in last week with a book they'd brought from the previous company and wanted a refund! Honestly, when someone accuses me of lying about the old place closing down, do they not realise they're insulting me and completely missing the fact that I was lucky to keep my job?!
So yeah...they all suck...
/rant off
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