I recall once a “customer” asked us to hold the doors because he wanted to place a big order. The of us waited for half an hour after closing until he turned up. He spent another half an hour looking at all of our products, and then said he’d try somewhere else.
I worked retail and was opening my store. About 20-30 minutes until doors unlock and I was opening my till. Dude standing outside knocking on the door. Try to ignore for a minute but he doesn’t go away. Walk to the door and crack it hoping he was asking a simple question. Nope, dude wants to pay his phone bill. Told him I don’t open yet and he threatens me with refusing to patron my store. Told him “alrighty” and lock back up.
We don’t even get any money from people paying their phone bills. Just go to the grocery store next door and buy a gift card dude.
Urgh I hate the people who complain when you open a couple minutes late. Like, lady, we get paid from 9am and there are things we have to do before we open for security’s sake. Don’t complain to us for not working unpaid, complain to the company for not scheduling us and paying us from 8:45.
This is how it is at the medical clinic I work at. People get there at 7:30 and sit in the parking lot. We open at 8 and we get people complaining in the exam room to the doctor at 8:10 that they’ve been waiting for 40 minutes. No sir. You‘ve been waiting 10.
One woman had an 8am appointment. She was registered, had intake done, evaluated by a doctor, prescribed meds and was walking out the door by 8:18. Her comment leaving was “well I guess appointment times don’t mean anything here, huh?” Lady, you can’t even get your meds until 9, what are you going on about?
This is annoyingly accurate. Retail employee here, I recently had a *customer* complain directly to my *district manager* because I wasn’t at the store to have it opened at 6:30 when they were there. The store opens at 7. You would think the DM would have my back on that, instead I had to make an “action plan” to send him with different ways to make sure the customer’s needs were being met.
If my insurance wasn’t so good I would’ve put my 2 weeks in on the spot.
When I worked retail there was a dude who’d show up once a month or so and he’d wait in the parking lot staring at the door at 7:00. The store opened at 9:00. It opened at 9:00 every day. It always did. Why this guy wanted to sit in the car for 2 hours was beyond me.
Just a few days ago someone screamed at us at the pharmacy that they’d been waiting there since 8. She said she looked us up and it said we open at 8. We open at 9 and literally on every source you can imagine on the Internet it says 9. She said it was about time we showed up for work. Good times at the pharmacy
Last week I went into Walgreens and this lady walked in, maybe in her late 70’s/ early 80’s. She told the cashier, “I was here at 1:31, and they closed the window to go to lunch at 1:30. Now I have to wait.” Then she asked , “when are they going to be open 24 hours like the rest of them?”
When I’m at the supermarket at an early hour (8.30-9.00) I always notice that it’s always the retired and pensioners that are always in a hurry to get in or to pay at the register. On a saturday morning i was doing groceries at LIDL and an old woman basically forced her way in front of at least 5 people because she “only had a couple of items”. I never care, the weekend is my free days and i have all the time in the world, but the retired people behind me weren’t happy at all and started grumbling, even against me because i let the other woman pass. Wanna go in front of me? go ahead, i don’t give a shit, if you live like you have Death itself breathing over your neck maybe doing groceries wouldn’t be your main priority in your day
When i worked retail i used to open the store very often. We also sold tickets for concerts though ticket master. If people were super rude about getting in early i would takey time opening the gates, i would watch them ruch my station to order tickets and i would takey sweet time walking the isle and reaching my register. If the concert was big enough (like when bieber came to visit) it would be enough time to have most of the important tickets sold out. (If u know ticket master sometimes you have seconds before everything sells out).
The anger, the spite, the spit out of old people mouth while the scream yo our managers. Luckily they cares little enought to just tell them it wasn’t our problem if the item sells out online before we have a chance to order it. ( We made almost zero money from TM sales, it was kore of a way to pull people in).
On the other side if people acted normal o would have the pc already on the site, multiple tabs open with the big events on deck ready to order and we qould be acutally one of the highest selling stores in our group.
Don’t miss even a minute of reatail work, bot even one.
Stores in the UK are only allowed to open for 6 hours on a Sunday. My store opens half an hour early for browsing before opening the checkouts. It baffles me how many people show up for browsing and then wait 20 minutes for the checkouts to open so they can beat the queues.
Lol I heard this story the other day from a co worker from a different perspective. When I saw him I was like what happened someone was late as fuck today. Then he says let me tell you about my stupidity this morning. I had to pick up a script for my wife and do one other thing before work so I decide to hit the pharmacy first since it’s close. so I get there about five min early so I can run right in when they open. They don’t open the doors till like 815. I rush in there and turns out the pharmacy doesn’t open till 9. Now I don’t have enough time to do the other thing first so I had to wait till nine get that and then do the other thing bc my dumbass didn’t read the sign.
I used to be an opener at a retail furniture store. Nearly every day, some “customer” would be standing outside our doors, often yanking the door handles frantically at some time between 8am ant 10am.
We didn’t open until 10.
This was clearly indicated on the very door that they were yanking. The bank next door had a massive clock, to which I would frequently point, while also pointing to our hours. No one ever understood me, and they regularly got irate that I wouldn’t open up.
I always wondered what urgent furniture purchases these folks were wanting to make at 8:45 AM.
I worked at a tmobile store and we opened at 10. One morning we had a guy show up at 9:30 banging on the door for us to ket him in. Told him “we don’t open until 10.” He argued he just needed to pay a bill and he’s been waiting since 8. “We open at 10,” and then he walks off screaming. A small line forms by 10, so we help those customers and dude comes back livid that we won’t stop helping them to help him (he walked away). Just as he starts threatening us, my coworker finishes with his customer and greets this man… he didn’t even have tmobile. My coworker, me, and my customer couldn’t stop laughing as he stormed out.
When I was in high school I worked at a mall that opened at 10:00am, but would allow customers inside at 7:00am, before all the shops were open, so they could do their early morning mall-walks.
It would literally be 7:01 and those old entitled pricks would start banging on the door and harassing security to let them in. They weren’t even customers! I once informed a lady that the only reason they opened the doors at 7 was to let the workers in, and that they should be grateful that they were allowed inside, too.
She didn’t take it well, but I didn’t get into any trouble, since she didn’t know which store I worked for and the security team wasn’t going to go out of their way to help them.
I’ve had far too many encounters like this to remember them all but the one that sticks out was when I worked at a gun range. We opened at 10 I got there at 9, dude doesn’t say anything I’m half hung over thinking he’s a new hire. Dude stands at the register I’m thinking he’s waiting for the boss man and I just don’t want to deal with new guys first thing.i go through all the opening stuff, get the registers up, start the vents, test the target systems ect… dude never says a word to me the whole time. 10 minutes before we open the manager finally shows up and this guy goes off screaming about how he’s been waiting an hour and I never greeted him and it’s unacceptable behavior. My manager at the time was a retired marine, he just looks at the guy says, ‘we open at 10 get out’ and walks away. Guy keeps throwing a fit about how we are just lazy. Boss man just calls the base security and gut gets taken out by mps and we never saw him again.
I remember working retail at a discount store. Ross, TJ Max style. A woman came in a week before bought like a thousand dollars of clothes then came to return them at closing time, 11 PM to do her return because she needed the money to pay her school loans. We were all done and waiting and our manager was still there processing the returns we would then have to put away. The manager said “Well she spends a lot of money here.” Bitch no, no she doesn’t. She is bringing all that back. Shes the opposite of spending money and it’s coming up on 1 am with how long this has taken.
I work in a liquor store in Texas and I love customers like this.
“How come you guys don’t open until 10 am?”
“State Law, ma’am.”
“Why do you guys close so early?” (9 pm)
“State Law, ma’am.”
“Well it’s bullshit”
“Yes ma’am. Please contact your representative.”
They never do and the schadenfreude I experience every time it reaches 9 o’clock and that door has to *legally be locked* rolls around is just beautiful.
I used to work at Pic n Pay when I was 17 and the store would close at 9:00. One night it was like 8:58 and I’d locked the door so no more customers could come in and I could take the till to the back and count it out. My manager would leave me by myself and I sure as hell wasn’t counting money alone in front of the huge windows where everyone could see me. Anyways I was up front opening the register and some lady knocked on the door so I cracked it open and said “hi do you need something” and she was like “no, I just wanted to let you know you store closes at nine” and then she walked off. Ooooookay…
Good. It feels original.
I am so glad I no longer work retail.
I recall once a “customer” asked us to hold the doors because he wanted to place a big order. The of us waited for half an hour after closing until he turned up. He spent another half an hour looking at all of our products, and then said he’d try somewhere else.
Lesson learned.
Bitch is probably retired and has nothing to do the rest of the day. Bitches gotta bitch.
I worked retail and was opening my store. About 20-30 minutes until doors unlock and I was opening my till. Dude standing outside knocking on the door. Try to ignore for a minute but he doesn’t go away. Walk to the door and crack it hoping he was asking a simple question. Nope, dude wants to pay his phone bill. Told him I don’t open yet and he threatens me with refusing to patron my store. Told him “alrighty” and lock back up.
We don’t even get any money from people paying their phone bills. Just go to the grocery store next door and buy a gift card dude.
I worked retail in the mall once and that comic is not an exaggeration
Urgh I hate the people who complain when you open a couple minutes late. Like, lady, we get paid from 9am and there are things we have to do before we open for security’s sake. Don’t complain to us for not working unpaid, complain to the company for not scheduling us and paying us from 8:45.
I did the opposite, showed up at 7 to get a product I really wanted.Well, store opened at 8.
I took a nap in my car and made a purchase without mentioning my own dumbassery, because I try not to be the cause of someone finally snapping.
Come to think of it, it is somewhat amazing the US does not have more retail rampagers, shooting up the customer service desk or something.
This is how it is at the medical clinic I work at. People get there at 7:30 and sit in the parking lot. We open at 8 and we get people complaining in the exam room to the doctor at 8:10 that they’ve been waiting for 40 minutes. No sir. You‘ve been waiting 10.
One woman had an 8am appointment. She was registered, had intake done, evaluated by a doctor, prescribed meds and was walking out the door by 8:18. Her comment leaving was “well I guess appointment times don’t mean anything here, huh?” Lady, you can’t even get your meds until 9, what are you going on about?
This is annoyingly accurate. Retail employee here, I recently had a *customer* complain directly to my *district manager* because I wasn’t at the store to have it opened at 6:30 when they were there. The store opens at 7. You would think the DM would have my back on that, instead I had to make an “action plan” to send him with different ways to make sure the customer’s needs were being met.
If my insurance wasn’t so good I would’ve put my 2 weeks in on the spot.
The appropriate response – Now I will waste 53 minutes of your time, register won’t turn on until 9. 😁
I had one when I worked at McDonald’s.
I showed up at 05:45 and someone was sat outside.
They asked am I opening, I said yeah, in an hour and 15 minutes, they weren’t happy with my answer.
They were expecting me to open at 6, not a chance in hell that was happening, there’s a lot of stuff to do before hand.
When I worked retail there was a dude who’d show up once a month or so and he’d wait in the parking lot staring at the door at 7:00. The store opened at 9:00. It opened at 9:00 every day. It always did. Why this guy wanted to sit in the car for 2 hours was beyond me.
And half the time he didn’t even buy anything!!!!
Once had a lady mad that our store closed early.
Because there was a mass shooting outside.
Just a few days ago someone screamed at us at the pharmacy that they’d been waiting there since 8. She said she looked us up and it said we open at 8. We open at 9 and literally on every source you can imagine on the Internet it says 9. She said it was about time we showed up for work. Good times at the pharmacy
Looks like a kid at the counter. Must be Arkansas.
Last week I went into Walgreens and this lady walked in, maybe in her late 70’s/ early 80’s. She told the cashier, “I was here at 1:31, and they closed the window to go to lunch at 1:30. Now I have to wait.” Then she asked , “when are they going to be open 24 hours like the rest of them?”
I worked retail in a card shop at the height of the Beanie Baby craze. ‘Nuff said.
When I’m at the supermarket at an early hour (8.30-9.00) I always notice that it’s always the retired and pensioners that are always in a hurry to get in or to pay at the register. On a saturday morning i was doing groceries at LIDL and an old woman basically forced her way in front of at least 5 people because she “only had a couple of items”. I never care, the weekend is my free days and i have all the time in the world, but the retired people behind me weren’t happy at all and started grumbling, even against me because i let the other woman pass. Wanna go in front of me? go ahead, i don’t give a shit, if you live like you have Death itself breathing over your neck maybe doing groceries wouldn’t be your main priority in your day
Alternate response: so you’re waiting for your anti-psychotic meds?
Sometimes, the early bird can eat a fat brick of shit.
When i worked retail i used to open the store very often. We also sold tickets for concerts though ticket master. If people were super rude about getting in early i would takey time opening the gates, i would watch them ruch my station to order tickets and i would takey sweet time walking the isle and reaching my register. If the concert was big enough (like when bieber came to visit) it would be enough time to have most of the important tickets sold out. (If u know ticket master sometimes you have seconds before everything sells out).
The anger, the spite, the spit out of old people mouth while the scream yo our managers. Luckily they cares little enought to just tell them it wasn’t our problem if the item sells out online before we have a chance to order it. ( We made almost zero money from TM sales, it was kore of a way to pull people in).
On the other side if people acted normal o would have the pc already on the site, multiple tabs open with the big events on deck ready to order and we qould be acutally one of the highest selling stores in our group.
Don’t miss even a minute of reatail work, bot even one.
Stores in the UK are only allowed to open for 6 hours on a Sunday. My store opens half an hour early for browsing before opening the checkouts. It baffles me how many people show up for browsing and then wait 20 minutes for the checkouts to open so they can beat the queues.
Lol I heard this story the other day from a co worker from a different perspective. When I saw him I was like what happened someone was late as fuck today. Then he says let me tell you about my stupidity this morning. I had to pick up a script for my wife and do one other thing before work so I decide to hit the pharmacy first since it’s close. so I get there about five min early so I can run right in when they open. They don’t open the doors till like 815. I rush in there and turns out the pharmacy doesn’t open till 9. Now I don’t have enough time to do the other thing first so I had to wait till nine get that and then do the other thing bc my dumbass didn’t read the sign.
Quick, call the pharmacist and tell them to open at 9:07!
I used to be an opener at a retail furniture store. Nearly every day, some “customer” would be standing outside our doors, often yanking the door handles frantically at some time between 8am ant 10am.
We didn’t open until 10.
This was clearly indicated on the very door that they were yanking. The bank next door had a massive clock, to which I would frequently point, while also pointing to our hours. No one ever understood me, and they regularly got irate that I wouldn’t open up.
I always wondered what urgent furniture purchases these folks were wanting to make at 8:45 AM.
I worked at a tmobile store and we opened at 10. One morning we had a guy show up at 9:30 banging on the door for us to ket him in. Told him “we don’t open until 10.” He argued he just needed to pay a bill and he’s been waiting since 8. “We open at 10,” and then he walks off screaming. A small line forms by 10, so we help those customers and dude comes back livid that we won’t stop helping them to help him (he walked away). Just as he starts threatening us, my coworker finishes with his customer and greets this man… he didn’t even have tmobile. My coworker, me, and my customer couldn’t stop laughing as he stormed out.
When I was in high school I worked at a mall that opened at 10:00am, but would allow customers inside at 7:00am, before all the shops were open, so they could do their early morning mall-walks.
It would literally be 7:01 and those old entitled pricks would start banging on the door and harassing security to let them in. They weren’t even customers! I once informed a lady that the only reason they opened the doors at 7 was to let the workers in, and that they should be grateful that they were allowed inside, too.
She didn’t take it well, but I didn’t get into any trouble, since she didn’t know which store I worked for and the security team wasn’t going to go out of their way to help them.
I’ve had far too many encounters like this to remember them all but the one that sticks out was when I worked at a gun range. We opened at 10 I got there at 9, dude doesn’t say anything I’m half hung over thinking he’s a new hire. Dude stands at the register I’m thinking he’s waiting for the boss man and I just don’t want to deal with new guys first thing.i go through all the opening stuff, get the registers up, start the vents, test the target systems ect… dude never says a word to me the whole time. 10 minutes before we open the manager finally shows up and this guy goes off screaming about how he’s been waiting an hour and I never greeted him and it’s unacceptable behavior. My manager at the time was a retired marine, he just looks at the guy says, ‘we open at 10 get out’ and walks away. Guy keeps throwing a fit about how we are just lazy. Boss man just calls the base security and gut gets taken out by mps and we never saw him again.
I remember working retail at a discount store. Ross, TJ Max style. A woman came in a week before bought like a thousand dollars of clothes then came to return them at closing time, 11 PM to do her return because she needed the money to pay her school loans. We were all done and waiting and our manager was still there processing the returns we would then have to put away. The manager said “Well she spends a lot of money here.” Bitch no, no she doesn’t. She is bringing all that back. Shes the opposite of spending money and it’s coming up on 1 am with how long this has taken.
I work in a liquor store in Texas and I love customers like this.
“How come you guys don’t open until 10 am?”
“State Law, ma’am.”
“Why do you guys close so early?” (9 pm)
“State Law, ma’am.”
“Well it’s bullshit”
“Yes ma’am. Please contact your representative.”
They never do and the schadenfreude I experience every time it reaches 9 o’clock and that door has to *legally be locked* rolls around is just beautiful.
I used to work at Pic n Pay when I was 17 and the store would close at 9:00. One night it was like 8:58 and I’d locked the door so no more customers could come in and I could take the till to the back and count it out. My manager would leave me by myself and I sure as hell wasn’t counting money alone in front of the huge windows where everyone could see me. Anyways I was up front opening the register and some lady knocked on the door so I cracked it open and said “hi do you need something” and she was like “no, I just wanted to let you know you store closes at nine” and then she walked off. Ooooookay…