I'm not sure what peoples' deepest, darkest desires drove them here for, but they were out for blood this morning.
Two staff and two managers get there half an hour early for store preparation. We put out the furniture that is kept inside overnight so nobody steals them, unlock the carts, prepare our workstations, etc. While we do this, we usually get one or two people asking "Are you open yet?" and we reply with the time we open, and they drive off.
But not today.
Today, there was just one person after another after another trying to not only knock feverishly on the door to see why the doors are locked, (Come on the hours are posted literally in front of your nose!!) but trying to actually open the doors. We kept having to shoo the people outside. But of course, those are just the people who tried to go in by the exit door, which also has hours posted on them. The entrance doors are an entirely different story, as those are the ones we use to shuttle the furniture outside. We can't lock those.
We found one person actually wandering around the middle of the floor looking at everything. One guy surprised the hell out of me as I was putting paper towels back into the bathroom, and I swear my elbow made a huge dent in the stall wall near me out of the shock of it, as I urged him out of the store before they call the cops for trespassing.
So the other coworker and I got fed up with it, because it was just us two, and we still had 20 minutes left of this ... this siege. So we take up a few things and barricade the doors with them. It's very clearly noticeable even from outside of the building that there are things blocking the entrance. Things like basket holders and shopping carts and displace cases turned around to face inside the store, not the horrid wilting moaning masses.
But no. Our doors open toward the outside, not toward the inside where the barricade is. So very quickly, we see a small trickle of humans picking their way past the barricades to get in. Nobody even comments on the fact that there is a barricade there. They just pick their way past it, even picking up a basket from the barricade, (LOL!!) and march right on in despite our shoutings.
*sigh*
Sometimes I think it'll take turning off the lights to the store to make them stop.
But would you believe it didn't? We tried that several times. It only inconvenienced us because we couldn't see in the building. Customers still walked up, tried the door, banged on it, and shouted in the direction of nobody in particular (Coworker and I were well off to the side, and weren't noticed.) and continued their incessant bangings before giving up and going home to eat their young.
I remember the time the store was on fire and people still tried to come in to shop. I truly, honestly wish that I was kidding. It would provide such an astonishing relief off the weight on my soul, but I can't. I can't say that people didn't try to walk into a burning building to shop.
Please excuse me if I begin to weep.
Two staff and two managers get there half an hour early for store preparation. We put out the furniture that is kept inside overnight so nobody steals them, unlock the carts, prepare our workstations, etc. While we do this, we usually get one or two people asking "Are you open yet?" and we reply with the time we open, and they drive off.
But not today.
Today, there was just one person after another after another trying to not only knock feverishly on the door to see why the doors are locked, (Come on the hours are posted literally in front of your nose!!) but trying to actually open the doors. We kept having to shoo the people outside. But of course, those are just the people who tried to go in by the exit door, which also has hours posted on them. The entrance doors are an entirely different story, as those are the ones we use to shuttle the furniture outside. We can't lock those.
We found one person actually wandering around the middle of the floor looking at everything. One guy surprised the hell out of me as I was putting paper towels back into the bathroom, and I swear my elbow made a huge dent in the stall wall near me out of the shock of it, as I urged him out of the store before they call the cops for trespassing.
So the other coworker and I got fed up with it, because it was just us two, and we still had 20 minutes left of this ... this siege. So we take up a few things and barricade the doors with them. It's very clearly noticeable even from outside of the building that there are things blocking the entrance. Things like basket holders and shopping carts and displace cases turned around to face inside the store, not the horrid wilting moaning masses.
But no. Our doors open toward the outside, not toward the inside where the barricade is. So very quickly, we see a small trickle of humans picking their way past the barricades to get in. Nobody even comments on the fact that there is a barricade there. They just pick their way past it, even picking up a basket from the barricade, (LOL!!) and march right on in despite our shoutings.
*sigh*
Sometimes I think it'll take turning off the lights to the store to make them stop.
But would you believe it didn't? We tried that several times. It only inconvenienced us because we couldn't see in the building. Customers still walked up, tried the door, banged on it, and shouted in the direction of nobody in particular (Coworker and I were well off to the side, and weren't noticed.) and continued their incessant bangings before giving up and going home to eat their young.
I remember the time the store was on fire and people still tried to come in to shop. I truly, honestly wish that I was kidding. It would provide such an astonishing relief off the weight on my soul, but I can't. I can't say that people didn't try to walk into a burning building to shop.
Please excuse me if I begin to weep.
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