Don't take it out on the check out girl/boy

kittygiles

cosmic-dust wrote: »

:rolleyes: Just been to Tesco where the checkout boy, thought it was his job to comment on the products that were in my trolley "OMG how could you possibly eat that"

Swifly to him that I will buy what I want with my money! and I made a complaint to the duty manager on my way out.
Won't be shopping there again.

If he was a teenager then he was probably just trying to make conversation in his strange teenage boy way.

If he was an adult...well yes then he may need to rethink his sales tactics

vyle

Esqui wrote: »

I was actually wondering today, what would happen if I saw someone walking out with a TV they'd just bought and said "That's a rubbish one". But then I realised that normal people don't do things like that!

I've fought back the urge so many times to do that. Worst is when a friend wants me to go and see their WONDERFUL new tv and they want my opinion on it and it turns out to be something like a low end toshiba or a Sharp or one of the bad LGs (their recent ones are decent enough for the money...) and I have to pretend not to be aghast. If they wanted my opinion surely they should have got it before spending the money :rotfl:.

Jo_F

Esqui wrote: »

I was actually wondering today, what would happen if I saw someone walking out with a TV they'd just bought and said "That's a rubbish one". But then I realised that normal people don't do things like that!

Nope have done that before now when working at Asda, had a lovely couple in one night and they were nice and friendly and chatty, and then they asked about one of the tvs or something like that, and I told them that basically you get what you pay for, and they would get better for their money elsewhere.

Have also been known to send shoppers to other supermarkets so they can get what they were looking for!

username

I really hate it when people can't take no for an answer and that what I am telling is true.

Scenario, man comes up to the till with goods, I scan through and he quieried the prices.

I explained to him why; they were from different offers and that he couldn't have all of them on a buy 2 get a 3rd free offer (one of the items he chose was in a half price offer and because of this they couldn't be used in conjunction with the 3for2 - yes it's that old clause again, oh how we hate it).

Then, he said I was "making the prices up" in a very loud and condescending manner and proceeded to launch into a rant about how everything is cheaper elsewhere etc. Class A w.anker.

adouglasmhor

laurad85 wrote: »

i used to work in a shop and hated xmas eve, you would get the men frantacly running around 5 minutes before the shop was to close picking up any gifts they could get their hands on. i also worked in the clothes section and being a size 8 this apparantly gave larger ladies the right to be rude to me. "you're awfully skinny" was one comment i remember from a particularly big woman, obviously trying to make herself feel better, If i ever asked one of them how they got on in the changing rooms i was often told "its ok for you" or "this shop is only for very skinny people like you", actually the clothes started a at a size 10 so i couldnt wear the clothes if i wanted to. comments like this used to annoy me at first and i admit i had to hold back from saying something horrible once or twice!

My GF used to work in a cafe bar and actually had a pair of Restaurant reviewers from a Glasgow evening paper put comments on one of the female waiting staff.
They were obviously jealous that she had an athletic build not “portly” like their’s and they also assumed that she was veggie as it was a veggie menu, she wasn’t she just worked there. The owner banned the reviewers from all his premises after this happened, (Craig is a top bloke and backs up his staff when appropriate).

Esqui

Jo_F wrote: »

Have also been known to send shoppers to other supermarkets so they can get what they were looking for!

I do this too. On Saturday, I even placed a reservation for a customer at Argos across the road because we didn't have stock of the TV they wanted! I see no point in getting people to buy things they don't really want...I'll only see them again for a refund.

amie

I have worked on a till for far too long and had far too much abuse - including having stock thrown at me by customers too impatient to queue! In my last job we had to offer extra items at the till "Because you have spent over £5 you can have any of these items at half marked price" it was my job and I could be disciplined for not saying this during every sale over £5, people get so aggressive about it, I've had customers ignore me, just laugh at me, start a full on argument about my trying to spend their money, if they wanted it they would have picked it up when they were shopping! Seriously, how hard is it to just say yes or no then just move on? Most people think because you work behind a till that you are stupid and because you are stupid and earn minimum wage you deserve to be treated like a second class citizern, I truly feel for anybody working behind a till

Dave101t

dont worry all you checkout people, most of us respect you!

AsknAnswer

laurad85 wrote: »

i also worked in the clothes section and being a size 8 this apparantly gave larger ladies the right to be rude to me. "you're awfully skinny" was one comment i remember from a particularly big woman, obviously trying to make herself feel better, If i ever asked one of them how they got on in the changing rooms i was often told "its ok for you" or "this shop is only for very skinny people like you", actually the clothes started a at a size 10 so i couldnt wear the clothes if i wanted to. comments like this used to annoy me at first and i admit i had to hold back from saying something horrible once or twice!

This gets on my nerves. I too am a size 8. I have never dieted or had a regime for exercise a day in my life. I have tried to put on weight, and I can't. People think it's perfectly okay to pass comment on my weight. I've even had people blatantly joke that I may be bullimic (I eat A LOT!!). The comment of the month is "skinny mare" Why do people think it's acceptable to do this? I'd never walk up to an obese person and call them a fat hefer and expect to get away unscolded. It really gets on my (lack of ) tits.

ljbnotts

I've worked in retail a few times and some customers have no respect for you at all! I use to work in an upmarket toiletries shop and generally it was a good place but the one day i remember the most was Christmas Eve. We had many signs up saying we were closing at 3pm. 2:50 we had a few guys coming in saying i want this gift set.
Sorry sir we sold out of those a few weeks ago and it has been out of stock at the warehouse, may i recommended this.
NO
That was not acceptable to him who demanded to see the manger and was going off at all of us. We eventually got him out of the shop and the mangers response was: people pick on shop assistants as they are paid not to bite back.
But really its 2:50pm on Christmas eve!

Also on Christmas eve, the shop was shut just after 3, doors locked etc. We then had to remove the Christmas decorations, clean the shop throughly and start preparing the sale stock. This took around 3 hours which was bad enough as usually we finished at 5 but as i was taking the tree down in the window to make way for the sale display i had 3 ladies shouting abuse at me through the window, knocking on the window and saying i was ruining Christmas and i should be ashamed of myself!

Erm hello, not my fault, just following orders so i could go home and enjoy Christmas!

I have such sympathy with everyone who works in retail, it doesn't matter how much training you have, some people will just shout and scream until they get what they want.