Worked boxing day yesterday and boy. Wow.
-First up was a woman who got offended on the price of a PS3. Claims she wants one, has me pull it out, I quote the price at 379.99...
Her eyes get as big as saucers. Angry saucers.
"I called two days ago and she told me 349.99!!!!!eleventy"
"I'm sorry ma'am but this is the price on it."
"Well MAKE IT 349$!"
"I can't. I can't change prices."
"Find me someone who can!"
Nobody can, of course but eh, might as well humor her. So of course the managers aren't stupid and are gone by now, so I ask JR to look up our Playstation prices. Sure enough, nothing matches her claim. The 250g is 379$ and the 120g (which we were out of) is 329$.
I tell her as such and she leaves with the most glacial remark ever (in her head) "FINE. I'M GOING ELSEWHERE."
And? It's boxing day and I already sold the last Wii and 2 XBoxes.
- Secondly, a rather....haughty "gentleman" wanting to do a return that I can't honor until Monday.
Please note, the entire conversation is in french.
"Yes, I'd like to return this game. It's in English."
"I can't do returns this weekend, you'll have to come back Monday."
"I take NO RESPONSIBILITY for this. I came to this store with the name of the game on a piece of paper and the other girl went and got it for me!"
"....and? You didn't specify if you wanted english or french?"
Snooty tone "AM I SPEAKING ENGLISH?"
"I speak french too sir, but *switches to english* I also speak perfect english."
"Oh."

- Finally, it was 5 o the clock and we were closing. All the registers were closed, the cashiers were counting their money and this old dude shows up, waving and pointing at the closed door.
I open it "Yes?"
"I need 10$ Telus phone cards!"
"I can't, sir, all our registers are closed and we're counting the money."
"But it's 5 o clock!"
"Yes sir, and we're closed."
"But my thing (Phone card, I guess) ends tonight!"
"We're still closed, we can't do anything."
"There's none nowhere!"
"We're closed, sir."
"I was about to buy for 300$!"
"We can't do anything. We're closed."
"I just talked to you five minutes ago!"
(Oh you mean you're that old dude 5 seconds ago waving at the other door?) "Sir. We are closed. We can't help you anymore. You will have to come back tomorrow."
*leaves in a huff* "I'LL TALK TO THE OWNER!!!"
Yeah, you do that. You go tell the owner we closed at the time he told us to close, how dare us.
I told the owner's wife and she said they let people in, but I replied that if we started doing that, we'd be there till 9 because if we let one in, the other one wants in, then the other one then the other one then what's the point of a schedule?
Phew, a couple more days then I get nearly an entire week off. Looking forward to that, I'll try to make the scanner work and FINALLY get to work on my Christmas art gifts.
Not that I don't like my job anymore, just that the holidays being hectic, I don't have time for myself. Didn't even get to make my cookies yet!
-First up was a woman who got offended on the price of a PS3. Claims she wants one, has me pull it out, I quote the price at 379.99...
Her eyes get as big as saucers. Angry saucers.
"I called two days ago and she told me 349.99!!!!!eleventy"
"I'm sorry ma'am but this is the price on it."
"Well MAKE IT 349$!"
"I can't. I can't change prices."
"Find me someone who can!"
Nobody can, of course but eh, might as well humor her. So of course the managers aren't stupid and are gone by now, so I ask JR to look up our Playstation prices. Sure enough, nothing matches her claim. The 250g is 379$ and the 120g (which we were out of) is 329$.
I tell her as such and she leaves with the most glacial remark ever (in her head) "FINE. I'M GOING ELSEWHERE."
And? It's boxing day and I already sold the last Wii and 2 XBoxes.
- Secondly, a rather....haughty "gentleman" wanting to do a return that I can't honor until Monday.
Please note, the entire conversation is in french.
"Yes, I'd like to return this game. It's in English."
"I can't do returns this weekend, you'll have to come back Monday."
"I take NO RESPONSIBILITY for this. I came to this store with the name of the game on a piece of paper and the other girl went and got it for me!"
"....and? You didn't specify if you wanted english or french?"
Snooty tone "AM I SPEAKING ENGLISH?"
"I speak french too sir, but *switches to english* I also speak perfect english."
"Oh."

- Finally, it was 5 o the clock and we were closing. All the registers were closed, the cashiers were counting their money and this old dude shows up, waving and pointing at the closed door.
I open it "Yes?"
"I need 10$ Telus phone cards!"
"I can't, sir, all our registers are closed and we're counting the money."
"But it's 5 o clock!"
"Yes sir, and we're closed."
"But my thing (Phone card, I guess) ends tonight!"
"We're still closed, we can't do anything."
"There's none nowhere!"
"We're closed, sir."
"I was about to buy for 300$!"
"We can't do anything. We're closed."
"I just talked to you five minutes ago!"
(Oh you mean you're that old dude 5 seconds ago waving at the other door?) "Sir. We are closed. We can't help you anymore. You will have to come back tomorrow."
*leaves in a huff* "I'LL TALK TO THE OWNER!!!"
Yeah, you do that. You go tell the owner we closed at the time he told us to close, how dare us.
I told the owner's wife and she said they let people in, but I replied that if we started doing that, we'd be there till 9 because if we let one in, the other one wants in, then the other one then the other one then what's the point of a schedule?
Phew, a couple more days then I get nearly an entire week off. Looking forward to that, I'll try to make the scanner work and FINALLY get to work on my Christmas art gifts.
Not that I don't like my job anymore, just that the holidays being hectic, I don't have time for myself. Didn't even get to make my cookies yet!

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