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Just thinking about my time thirty years ago working in the sweet shop.In general I enjoyed it but there were a few sucky customers/things which happened there.
Cant make my mind up
For some reason back then we had loads of different penny sweets and some halfpenny sweets, and they were behind glass so I had to physically pick them out and give them to the cutsomer.We woud get people wanting 100 with a long queue waiting.
"i'll have five of those, and seven of those, and.........ooh i cant decide, no put some of the seven back, ill have three of those and four of those instead"
The not cold enough drink
In summer we would have drinks in the cooler cabinet and obviously with it being hot they would sell out and we would keep restocking but they woudn't be cold anymore and customers would complain the drinks weren't cold enough.
Up a ladder down a ladder
we had those glass jars of sweets right up to the ceiling which had to be weighed on a scale, and those are heavy jars when theyre full and youre balancing on a ladder.
So I would get "can i have *jar up at ceiling" brings it weighs it puts it back.While still up ladder asks customer if wants anything else.No says customer.comes back down ladder.Customer then wants something else back up ladder.
Arguing about dates
we used to have a noticeboard for cutsomers they would put a note maybe selling something and the date would be noted on it for a weeks time when it was to be removed, they paid for it to be there a week.They would always argue, no the person who wrote the date got it wrong it shouldnt come down yet.
Cant make my mind up
For some reason back then we had loads of different penny sweets and some halfpenny sweets, and they were behind glass so I had to physically pick them out and give them to the cutsomer.We woud get people wanting 100 with a long queue waiting.
"i'll have five of those, and seven of those, and.........ooh i cant decide, no put some of the seven back, ill have three of those and four of those instead"
The not cold enough drink
In summer we would have drinks in the cooler cabinet and obviously with it being hot they would sell out and we would keep restocking but they woudn't be cold anymore and customers would complain the drinks weren't cold enough.
Up a ladder down a ladder
we had those glass jars of sweets right up to the ceiling which had to be weighed on a scale, and those are heavy jars when theyre full and youre balancing on a ladder.
So I would get "can i have *jar up at ceiling" brings it weighs it puts it back.While still up ladder asks customer if wants anything else.No says customer.comes back down ladder.Customer then wants something else back up ladder.
Arguing about dates
we used to have a noticeboard for cutsomers they would put a note maybe selling something and the date would be noted on it for a weeks time when it was to be removed, they paid for it to be there a week.They would always argue, no the person who wrote the date got it wrong it shouldnt come down yet.
I never thought of that
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