You Are NOT Helping Me!

[BrenDAnn]

Note to my customers: I like most of you. I would hope you like me too. So just to keep things halfway pleasant--Stop telling me how beautiful/nice/warm it is outside in the middle of my seven and a quarter hour shift! You know damn well that I can't get out and enjoy it for a few hours, aside from changing the outside garbages. You're not helping my general desire to be any where but at work, and you aren't funny. Adding things like "Oh, I guess you're stuck here" or "Oh, that was kind of mean of me, wasn't it?" doesn't make it any better. For the love of <insert deity here>, just stop. Saying. It. Please and thank you! Gah...Thank goodness tomorrow is a short shift!

[ottid]

Do you have it better than me? Can you actually see the outside?

Grumble and moan, I don't, I work in one of those new fangled things called a mall

[Department stores *sigh*]

I wish we had a giant can opener to lift up the ceiling from time to time, just to get some sun

[blas]

I used to hate that in all my retail jobs when I worked all the undesirable shifts.

Nowadays, I have this huge urge to punch every 1st shifter who rubs it in my face that I have to sleep all day and they still have all afternoon and evening off (now that it's spring and the days are getting longer) or if 2nd shift makes comments about being able to enjoy the mornings and early afternoon before work.

[aurelemsrealm]

Usually, I just shrug indifferently and pretend not to be interested when such things annoy me.

[BrenDAnn]

Yes, I have large windows to look out (have to be able to see the gas pumps), but that gets in me in trouble, since I tend to stare outside quite a bit. Either way, telling me it's nice out is just cruel. Go and enjoy it and leave me to sulk!

[ottid]

Sorry, only meant to be having you on :P

I frequently do a check on the weather with the customers "Is it still wet/windy/nice outside?" Often I get the "I haven't been outside or a couple of hours" reply. Even though we have three malls joint together that would be the size of a mediumish mall (I'm guessing from seeing those in larger cities) together.

[SG15Z]

I'm rarely awake during the daylight hours anymore unless I'm at work, so I don't even remember what the sun looks like. Is it still all round and super bright?

[Kristev]

And needlessly hot.

[Darkforge]

Eh, at least you get some shelter from the sun, I spend far too much time with the sun beating down on my head. We have to wear suits so no sun hat for the poor guy with pale skin, freckles and ginger hair = me putting on factor 100 suncream almost constantly.

I just wish I had an umbrella for the shade.

[Fly]

Trust me, sometimes its better not to see it at all. I work in a "mall", but just inside the doors. Seeing the weather, sun or rain, and not being able to enjoy it is more painful then being completely oblivious. Except when it pisses down rain and we get to watch the commotion. I make an exception there

[Andara Bledin]

I work next to a huge window. I like watching the weather, on the rare ocaisions we get some.

Which is so much nicer than the last place my desk was, which had absolutely no windows at all. >.<

^-.-^

[BlaqueKatt]

We have to wear suits so no sun hat for the poor guy with pale skin, freckles and ginger hair = me putting on factor 100 suncream almost constantly.

Try Aloe Gator from REI(online if you have to)it is really waterproof up to 8 hours(not just water resistant)-I am a fellow ginger and put it on once spent the entire day in and out of the water at a waterpark-no burns-everyone else burned badly-even with reapplying every 90 minutes-also wore it in arizona on vacation-put on in the morning-no burn entire vacation, and we walked everywhere.......

[GroceryGIrl]

I'll just bet they feel sorry for those of us who have to work during beautiful days, weekends, holidays, etc. All they really care about is that we're there to serve them.

[Jay 2K Winger]

I get people like this sometimes, especially when I'm doing FDLP work by the front door.

Them: "I hope you get outside soon! Such lovely weather!"
J2K: (Shatner Dramatics) "But. For. How long?"

Or...

Them: "Great day out there! Sorry you're stuck in here."
J2K: (Rictus Grin) "Thanks!"