1.You take out hundreds of pieces of jewelry for the customer and they almost always go with the first piece they looked at.
2.Or worse, they try on everything and leave with absolutely nothing.
3.Customers think that they can return a piece of jewelry without you realizing that it's been worn for months on end.
4.The idea of personal space is completely foreign even with a glass counter between you and the customer.
5.When you tell the customer a price and they say, "I'll definitely be back," you know they're lying.
6.You start to question whether people understand the difference between a sales associate and a therapist.
7.Taking out heavy trays of jewelry over and over again to the sound of the store's playlist starts to make you feel like you're doing a bad workout tape.
8.You can't even begin to explain your frustration when you're helping a customer and someone interrupts you to ask to see something in a case all the way across the store.
9.Your customer gets genuinely upset when you don't have a piece of jewelry that they have come up with in their head.
10.And they think that when you don't have something you can just go into the back and whip it up for them.
11.There are different keys to each display case and you can never figure out which goes to which, despite labels.
12.You constantly forget that you are wearing the store's jewelry and come back to work the next day with the guilt of having it overnight.
13.Once you take out a tray of jewelry, the customer thinks that everything is available for picking up and trying on.
14.When you ask a customer what size ring they are, they usually lie.
15.Or they have no idea and you have to measure every single one of their fingers.
16.You know that hearing the words, "I'm just looking" really means "I'm about to ask you a million questions in just a minute, so get ready."
17.Inventory is your idea of hell.
18.You're constantly asked if you work on commission.
19.Every morning there's a customer screaming for you to open the store because they NEED to see a piece of jewelry right this second.
20.And when closing time is fast approaching, there's always one customer who makes you take out several trays of jewelry at once.
21.Customers think they're sly when they try to haggle prices with you.
22.Customers don't understand that you help hundreds of people just like them every day.
23.You've heard the phrase, "So it's free then, HA!" in response to an item missing its ticket so many times you want to cry.
