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  • #1

    Don't tell me how I should do my job when you can't even count to 5



    So I and two coworkers were talking to each other because there were no customers around. A coworker from another department was heading towards us but hadn't quite reached us yet when this guy came around with a little girl.

    SC: *very loudly* Well, there's FIVE of them just standing around!
    me: Can I help you sir?
    SC: yeah, I'm looking for a telephone directory.
    me: *now, we have a dinky little phone book from one of our phone companies, but it's not for public use, I don't realize at first that he wants to use it like he's at a library or something* Telephone directory?
    SC: *very 'are you stupid' tone* Yeah, a PHONE BOOK. I need a number.

    I suppose that it doesn't hurt anything really *other than him sticking around a bit longer* so I get it out for him.

    SC: *opens the phone book to the pizza section and points at it turning the book around towards me* Now, you've got glasses on so I'll have you read me the number for Pizza Hut.
    me: *reads the number*
    SC: *walks away, but comes back before I even put the book away* That was the Pizza Hut in *next town over* I need the one in *this town*
    me: Well, that was the only Pizza Hut listed under pizza, but I'll see if it's under restaurants. *It is, I read him the number*
    SC: *as he walks away, really loudly* If you've got time to lean, You've got time to clean!
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    Geeze-o-pete! He wanted nothing you had to sell, he wanted info for another business, you gave him the info he asked for, twice...and he's still a prick???
    WTF?
    I no longer fear HELL.
    I work in RETAIL.

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    • #3
      "I'm sorry we have no phone books here for public usage."

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      • #4
        Yea, I thought about it, but I also figured that someone else may have told him that he could use ours real quick and didn't want to get into a fight.
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        • #5
          Quoth Enjis View Post
          Geeze-o-pete! He wanted nothing you had to sell, he wanted info for another business, you gave him the info he asked for, twice...and he's still a prick??? WTF?
          Not to mention that if he's not management there, he has no right to make any judgements. For all he knew, you were discussing work, or waiting to get keys, or on a break, or whatever. It doesn't matter.
          "Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably

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          • #6
            The old "You must be working all the time" nonsense again. Consumers love to throw it around, but they sure can't take it dished back at them.
            Customers should always be served . . . to the nearest great white.

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            • #7
              He didn't need to act like a jerk, but I understand his ire about chatting employees. This is no reflection on you or your coworkers, just my own personal experiences from working retail. It looks bad. I'd have coworkers, leaning/texting/calling/chit-chatting/eating a sandwich/etc instead of pretending to do anything.

              I suspect all "five" of you could've been scrubbing the floor on your hands and knees, but he'd assume you weren't doing anything since you were in the same area. He also should've directed his complaint to management. Since when is snarky comment towards a retail peon going to be effective?
              A lion however, will only devour your corpse, whereas an SC is not sated until they have destroyed your soul. (Quote per infinitemonkies)

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              • #8
                Quoth bainsidhe View Post
                Since when is snarky comment towards a retail peon going to be effective?
                Since never, but they still continue to do it.
                I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
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                • #9
                  was he even a customer? who does this shit think he is, anyway? first he's making what he thinks are rightgeous comments about operation then isn't specific about what he wants? get bent, asshole.
                  look! it's ghengis khan!
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                  • #10
                    I don't know if he bought anything before he left or not.

                    and we were just talking, not loudly, and not leaning or anything. and we were all keeping an eye out for customers, there just weren't any around until he came around the corner.

                    and our managers don't really mind, they've seen us talking before, as long as we still get our work done.
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                    • #11
                      Quoth raine_naoe View Post
                      SC: *as he walks away, really loudly* If you've got time to lean, You've got time to clean!
                      "And if you've got time to breed, you've got time to be a decent role model."
                      Sorry, my cow died so I don't need your bull

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