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Hello everyone! 
This is my first thread. So it is the end of the first week of the Easter half-term break in the UK, and although I am certainly not new to this phenomenon, I am certainly very sick of children now. I am certainly NOT looking forward to another week of this stuff...
Oh WHY did I accept the overtime!?
Oh yeah, because I need the monies
Well, this week, the children have gone feckin' nuts. I mean, we're used to badly behaved kids and chavvy parents (I live in a very "chavtastic" part of the UK, although I don't expect many Americans to get that...look up "Vicky Pollard" of "Little Britain"...I've seen BBC America, I know you've been exposed to it
) anyway, but I guess all that Easter chocolate and possibly even mild sunstroke due to the lovely weather is just making them worse. Over the course of the week, we've had to put up a sign stating that "children must be supervised" due to their unrulyness, really step up on our normally-ignored ban of food and drink in the shop (the mess has been disgusting), and finally, we've had to ban scooters. Not mobility ones, but those stupid things that are a cross between a bike and skateboard. They've been around since I was a wee bunny, but they are all the rage again for some reason. We normally ask that kids just push their scooters about the shop, but many insist on speeding around as fast as they can, and the inevitable happened this week when one little snot ran right over the assistant manager's foot, inciting rage ^^;;
It's a shame actually, because we understand theft is a problem and don't expect people to leave them outside, but we do also expect them not to go mowing down the staff
Yesterday, a 6-year-old boy had a furious tantrum, the like I don't regularly see, because his mother was insisting on buying him a cheaper t-shirt than the one he so desired. After his tears and screaming seemed to have no affect on her (as she was ignoring him like a a duitiful parent! [/sarcasm]) he decided to trash our kids department instead, knocking clothing off the racks and onto the floor, where he stamped and screamed and generally acted like a little monster. All the while his mother continued to ignore him.
And today a toddler decided to smack me! I saw him toddling about (unattended by mum) and carrying a very large ready-to-spill-any-second milkshake and I said "Hey there hon, you can't drink that in here. Can you put the top back on please?" His brother helped him, but he seemed so reproachful that I added "You're a good boy, thank you for doing that". Lets face it, no need to jump to conclusions, he didn't seem to know better after all! Didn't want him to feel like he was told off. Well a couple of minutes later, he was sitting in a chair, and as I walked past him, he grinned and then smacked me on the arm. Of course, being such a small child, it was more like a tap. I gave him a
sort of expression, but said nothing. Mother-dearest did nothing, of course. A tad a worrying really...his smacks don't hurt now, but they WILL one day!
So yes, Retail Rabbit is not child-friendly at this time. I have another week of this yet >.<
So um...yes that was all I had with to begin, but going by past experiences, I'm sure I'll have more, and more interesting, stories to share.
This is my first thread. So it is the end of the first week of the Easter half-term break in the UK, and although I am certainly not new to this phenomenon, I am certainly very sick of children now. I am certainly NOT looking forward to another week of this stuff... Oh WHY did I accept the overtime!?Oh yeah, because I need the monies
Well, this week, the children have gone feckin' nuts. I mean, we're used to badly behaved kids and chavvy parents (I live in a very "chavtastic" part of the UK, although I don't expect many Americans to get that...look up "Vicky Pollard" of "Little Britain"...I've seen BBC America, I know you've been exposed to it
) anyway, but I guess all that Easter chocolate and possibly even mild sunstroke due to the lovely weather is just making them worse. Over the course of the week, we've had to put up a sign stating that "children must be supervised" due to their unrulyness, really step up on our normally-ignored ban of food and drink in the shop (the mess has been disgusting), and finally, we've had to ban scooters. Not mobility ones, but those stupid things that are a cross between a bike and skateboard. They've been around since I was a wee bunny, but they are all the rage again for some reason. We normally ask that kids just push their scooters about the shop, but many insist on speeding around as fast as they can, and the inevitable happened this week when one little snot ran right over the assistant manager's foot, inciting rage ^^;;It's a shame actually, because we understand theft is a problem and don't expect people to leave them outside, but we do also expect them not to go mowing down the staff
Yesterday, a 6-year-old boy had a furious tantrum, the like I don't regularly see, because his mother was insisting on buying him a cheaper t-shirt than the one he so desired. After his tears and screaming seemed to have no affect on her (as she was ignoring him like a a duitiful parent! [/sarcasm]) he decided to trash our kids department instead, knocking clothing off the racks and onto the floor, where he stamped and screamed and generally acted like a little monster. All the while his mother continued to ignore him.
And today a toddler decided to smack me! I saw him toddling about (unattended by mum) and carrying a very large ready-to-spill-any-second milkshake and I said "Hey there hon, you can't drink that in here. Can you put the top back on please?" His brother helped him, but he seemed so reproachful that I added "You're a good boy, thank you for doing that". Lets face it, no need to jump to conclusions, he didn't seem to know better after all! Didn't want him to feel like he was told off. Well a couple of minutes later, he was sitting in a chair, and as I walked past him, he grinned and then smacked me on the arm. Of course, being such a small child, it was more like a tap. I gave him a
sort of expression, but said nothing. Mother-dearest did nothing, of course. A tad a worrying really...his smacks don't hurt now, but they WILL one day!So yes, Retail Rabbit is not child-friendly at this time. I have another week of this yet >.<
So um...yes that was all I had with to begin, but going by past experiences, I'm sure I'll have more, and more interesting, stories to share.
I hope your AM wasn't injured, but I am still glad the kids ran over AM's foot. Why else would management lay down the law? And be glad that was all that happened. At *big box retail* we had a few customers mowed down, not to mention kids injuring themselves when they fell poorly or cracked into a shelf edge.
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