19 Incredibly Annoying Things All Retail Workers Have To Deal With On A Daily Basis
This is why everybody should work in retail at least once. It will humble you.
1. Everything's going fine until someone gripes about the amount of items allowed in the fitting room.
Even though almost EVERY STORE has a limit.
2. And then they try to tell you they should be an exception because they're not just a ~regular customer~.
I don't care if you come here all the time or have lots of money or some new employee let you take in 20 items once! Rules are rules!
3. Someone complains to you about the price of an item.
As if you control it.
4. And then asks for a discount because "this should really cost less."
Once again, I do not control pricing. I just work here.
5. A customer leaves all their items on the floor, inside out, in the fitting room.
Kill me now.
6. A customer holds up the line by re-deciding on each of their 20 pieces while at the register.
Why didn't you do this before??
7. A random guy ASKS YOU OUT while you're on the clock.
It's my JOB to be nice to you. Please don't put me in this position. Especially if you're significantly older than me.
8. An item won't scan or you forget to ring it up until the end, and the customer makes a joke about it being free.
9. Someone says "Wow, you're busy today!" and then proceeds to ask you eight million common sense questions or try on 35 items and take ZERO.
10. Someone asks you to throw out their FULL smoothie/coffee in your tiny trash bin.
The leakage! There are trash cans outside!
11. Someone blatantly ignores you standing outside the fitting room and tries to speed past you with 20 items.
Did you not see me?
12. Someone starts telling you in-depth stuff about their personal life even though you're helping other customers.
I don't know if you should tell your ex's new GF that he's bad, but I don't exactly have time to think it over!
13. An older male customer starts making inappropriate comments to you.
"How do you like the shoes?" "I don't know, but I definitely want to take you home!" EW!
14. Or even worse, has you BUTTON THEIR SHIRT or TIE THEIR SHOES so they can get close to you.
I do not get paid enough for this.
15. Two (or more) people try to go in the dressing room together.
I don't know what you want to do in there! Plus, if it's teenage girls, you just know they're going to leave all their jeans inside out on the floor.
16. A big group of people comes in two minutes before close and say "thank god we made it in time!"
And then proceeds to try the whole store on.
17. After you're already closed (or before you open), someone bangs on the door and asks you to open for them.
I don't care if you're the queen of Genovia, we're closed!
18. Someone lets their kids run rampant in the store for hours and mess up all the clothes while they shop.
19. And finally, at least one person angrily asks to speak to a manager.
You walking over to the manager knowing they're going to tell the customer the same thing you just did.
