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Nicest check-out assistants in Ireland?

  • 21-08-2008 9:18am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭


    I had occasion to stop in Dunnes yesterday in Charleville, County Cork and I have to say the middle-aged english gentleman who served me at the check out was the most pleasant shop assistant I have ever met.

    It was a refreshing change from those people who usually stare blankly right through you as youre receiving your change, and dont even say "thanks, bye". (They usually wear Olympic-sized rings on their ears)

    So my vote goes to the jolly guy in Dunnes Stores Charleville! :D
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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭chamlis


    I thought this was gonna be a hot chick picture thread.


    /me wanders off


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,584 ✭✭✭c - 13


    Theres an old-ish chap in the Tesco petrol station in Clonmel and I've never met anyone as cheerful as him, any time of the day/night he's always the same.

    Plus he talks to the customers half in English and Half in Irish which is pretty amusing at times.

    EDIT:
    Actually another for the list. One of the checkout/canteen ladies in the WIT Industrial Estate campus. I dont want to go naming names but if you've been in there you should know who she is. She's got a real friendly air to her (your on first name terms after two visits) and a bit of a Mrs. Doyle attitude to her as well -

    Lady: Do you want a bit more of anything on that ?
    c - 13: Ah, no I think that should be ....
    Lady: Ah you will, a bit more of everything ... there we are

    She's often heard screaming from out the back when she sees someone she recognises at the counter "Make sure you give X more chips there Mary, or ill kick the arse off you !"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,231 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    How many jobs has this guy got? No wonder he's happy - with multiple pay-cheques.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,813 ✭✭✭BaconZombie


    There is a very nice and friend blonde Polish {I think} girl working in SuperValu on the Aston Quay.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 442 ✭✭Defenestrate


    chamlis wrote: »
    I thought this was gonna be a hot chick picture thread.


    /me wanders off

    I am equally disappointed. :(


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,119 ✭✭✭Wagon


    chamlis wrote: »
    I thought this was gonna be a hot chick picture thread.

    Yeah. bollocks to this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,182 ✭✭✭dionsiseire


    I use to be such a nice assistant when i was working in dixons a long time ago

    but through lack of appreciation and general loss of faith in people i became one of them and stopped being nice. it made me no extra money and didnt seem to brighten anyone's day.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 260 ✭✭adsgirl


    Pair of right miserable gits work in the shop at Connolly Station:mad:
    They must work 24/7 always there...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 110 ✭✭A_M101


    I worked in a clothes shop for 2 years and I think I was absolutely charming 98% of the time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,472 ✭✭✭highlydebased


    In some random shop I was in, probably in the middle of nowhere (think it was in Hospital or Bruff in Limerick)

    (middle aged female shop assistant)
    "Hello Handsome, how are you"
    (me taken aback) "fine thanks"
    (hands me change whilst smiles and looks in my eyes)
    "take care now!"


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  • Posts: 8,016 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I had occasion to stop in Dunnes yesterday in Charleville, County Cork and I have to say the middle-aged english gentleman who served me at the check out was the most pleasant shop assistant I have ever met.

    It was a refreshing change from those people who usually stare blankly right through you as youre receiving your change, and dont even say "thanks, bye". (They usually wear Olympic-sized rings on their ears)

    So my vote goes to the jolly guy in Dunnes Stores Charleville! :D

    I bet you went home and had relations with your fruit bowl after that little trip. Ya durty fecker :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,119 ✭✭✭Wagon


    I remember i used to be a nice lad when i worked in an internet cafe but after a while the work got depressing and i developed a hatred working for chinese people and customers in general :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,687 ✭✭✭Dun laoire


    Nice chinese fella in spar.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    There's a malaysian guy what works in the Spar on nassau st,very efficient and is always in a good mood.
    The rest of the staffa re usually okay too.
    I tend to find if you get one cranky wanker in a shop it rubs off on the rest of them and they all start behaving like crabby ****.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,182 ✭✭✭dionsiseire


    Dun laoire wrote: »
    Nice chinese fella in spar.

    All the spars? i hope he's paid well


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,039 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    Centra on north king street seem to have more than their fair share of pleasant staff. There is the romanian girl who works in the deli, a really nice genuine person, the chinese girl who works on the till in the evenings and an indian or pakistani chap as well, smallish guy who's always smiling.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 2,432 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peteee


    chamlis wrote: »
    I thought this was gonna be a hot chick picture thread.


    /me wanders off

    So did I, but once I saw Charleville mentioned I knew that there would be no hot girlies!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 446 ✭✭phenomenon


    I use to be such a nice assistant when i was working in dixons a long time ago

    but through lack of appreciation and general loss of faith in people i became one of them and stopped being nice. it made me no extra money and didnt seem to brighten anyone's day.

    Unfortunately this is so true. I used to be like this too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,044 ✭✭✭gcgirl


    I think if you are going to work in a place where your serving customers you have to be nice ! Supervalu in Wicklow have a problem their afternoon staff have a total attitude problem it totally turned me off going there as for Tesco they are so nice and will give you a hand in packing bags Even Lidi have good staff!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,957 ✭✭✭The Volt


    Dunnes in Blessington annoys the crap outta me, they take forever!! Its like they're doing you a favour!


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  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,446 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    M&S in Dundrum are the friendliest I've met.. Very pleasant..


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 7,486 ✭✭✭Red Alert


    Yeah I'm always shocked particularly at the checkouts in the food section.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    On Daybreak on College Road in Cork there's a girl behind the deli from somewhere in Eastern Europe.
    Anyway, she usually looks grumpy and makes sandwiches/rolls without smiling. But she's served me so often now that I always get a smile off her, and once even a wink! ;)

    If I wasn't so hideously unattractive, I'd think she fancied me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,375 ✭✭✭fonpokno


    There's a lovely fella working in Dunnes in Stephen's Green in the restaurant and he is the only happy person I've ever seen working in any Dunnes ever.

    He's actually lovely! Smiles and makes eye contact and a bit of banter, he's just a sweetheart!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 446 ✭✭phenomenon


    Self-service check-outs FTW


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,509 ✭✭✭Jigsaw


    On Daybreak on College Road in Cork there's a girl behind the deli from somewhere in Eastern Europe.
    Anyway, she usually looks grumpy and makes sandwiches/rolls without smiling. But she's served me so often now that I always get a smile off her, and once even a wink! ;)

    If I wasn't so hideously unattractive, I'd think she fancied me.

    For Boardsies that like to "fix" other peoples' posts, I can see a golden opportunity within the body of this post.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭missmatty


    I find the people in M&S are the friendliest in general, and it's not put-on. I always notice it when I'm in there :o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    Jigsaw wrote: »
    For Boardsies that like to "fix" other peoples' posts, I can see a golden opportunity within the body of this post.

    By all means fix it yourself.

    Go on. You know you want to :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭marti101


    Im always nice to the customers even help pack their bags even the narky feckers.:DEspecially the narky ones cause it annoys them even more.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    Londis, north main street in Cork. I think they're practicing their english in there or something, for whatever reason they're ridiculously chatty and friendly. I learned about world hot chocolate day in there :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 442 ✭✭Defenestrate


    Jigsaw wrote: »
    For Boardsies that like to "fix" other peoples' posts, I can see a golden shower on my body in this post.

    Diiiiiiirrrrrrrty.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,613 ✭✭✭✭Clare Bear


    A middle-aged woman upstairs in M&S on Grafton Street.
    An Indian girl that works in Boots in Stephen's Green shopping centre.
    Really nice Polish guy and a young Irish girl that work in Eurospar in Malahide (unlike the rest of them who are the rudest shop assistants I've ever met).

    I'm sure there's a few more but in general I only remember the really rude ones.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭Fringe


    I remember one time getting a bus and asking if it went to town. He didn't just say yes, he gave me the most enthusiastic and excited yes ever. I was really surprised because bus drivers are never that cheery. I remember leaving that bus with a more positive attitude.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 99 ✭✭balon


    marti101 wrote: »
    Im always nice to the customers even help pack their bags even the narky feckers.:DEspecially the narky ones cause it annoys them even more.



    Anyone else notice that as soon as we started paying for plastic bags, they never* got packed anymore and shop attendants turned to dropping the crumpled bag in front of you. Before the introduction of the plastic bag levy, your bag was always** packed for you with a smile

    *almost never
    **almost always


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,751 ✭✭✭newballsplease


    In some random shop I was in, probably in the middle of nowhere (think it was in Hospital or Bruff in Limerick)

    (middle aged female shop assistant)
    "Hello Handsome, how are you"
    (me taken aback) "fine thanks"
    (hands me change whilst smiles and looks in my eyes)
    "take care now!"



    now why is it, and i dont mean to go off the topic but....................
    if that was the other way around, and it was a middle aged male shop assistant to a girl, the guards would be called!!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,705 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    now why is it, and i dont mean to go off the topic but....................
    if that was the other way around, and it was a middle aged male shop assistant to a girl, the guards would be called!!

    same is not true in reverse due to the unequal dynamic between men and women


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    The staff in Marks and Spencer in Grafton street seem okay.
    Although a lot of them are obviously mildly touched.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


    Fringe wrote: »
    I remember one time getting a bus and asking if it went to town. He didn't just say yes, he gave me the most enthusiastic and excited yes ever. I was really surprised because bus drivers are never that cheery. I remember leaving that bus with a more positive attitude.

    Are you sure he wasnt like on drugs or anything ?

    There is a very polite helpful american girl in the tescos at dun laoghaire.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,039 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    Degsy wrote: »
    The staff in Marks and Spencer in Grafton street seem okay.
    Although a lot of them are obviously mildly touched.

    Mildly touched???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,583 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    On Daybreak on College Road in Cork there's a girl behind the deli from somewhere in Eastern Europe.
    Anyway, she usually looks grumpy and makes sandwiches/rolls without smiling. But she's served me so often now that I always get a smile off her, and once even a wink! ;)

    If I wasn't so hideously unattractive, I'd think she fancied me.

    I'd say you should leap over the hot counter next time and show her your breakfast roll; I'm romantic that way.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 592 ✭✭✭kieranfitz


    fonpokno wrote: »
    There's a lovely fella working in Dunnes in Stephen's Green in the restaurant and he is the only happy person I've ever seen working in any Dunnes ever.

    He's actually lovely! Smiles and makes eye contact and a bit of banter, he's just a sweetheart!


    I work for Dunnes and i think its actually policy to make the staff miserable. An example, one of the east european lads in the deli, who is by his nature a smiley happy person, was told by the store manager to not smile and laugh while at work, no word of a lie.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,583 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Degsy wrote: »
    The staff in Marks and Spencer in Grafton street seem okay.
    Although a lot of them are obviously mildly touched.

    If it's the ones I'm thinking of it was me who mildly touched them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 165 ✭✭abitlonely


    adsgirl wrote: »
    Pair of right miserable gits work in the shop at Connolly Station:mad:
    They must work 24/7 always there...

    They're pretty upbeat considering they are always there.

    That lad who works the food counter in tesco, mullingar deserves a mention
    for putting up with me changing orders and still being cheerful.

    Them women in Maynooth station as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 588 ✭✭✭Hauk


    I work in Easpoint business park in Clontarf. There is this old guy working behind the till at lunchtime who always chats to me. Get on great with him, and always asks me how the weekend was etc.

    A1 legend.

    Hauk


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    You retards are just not using the internet correctly. This thread was supposed to be about jigsaw-jizzing away to people who are unaware you are looking at them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭JerryHandbag


    chamlis wrote: »
    I thought this was gonna be a hot chick picture thread.


    /me wanders off
    I am equally disappointed. :(
    Wagon wrote: »
    Yeah. bollocks to this.

    This ok for ye lads??
    I bet you went home and had relations with your fruit bowl after that little trip. Ya durty fecker :p

    I beg your pardon? Please do elaborate....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus


    There is a Polish(?) girl in Hi Cafe in Cork who always has a great smile, it makes a big difference. I was in tescos last night and the girl serving was as miserable as f*ck, I felt about as welcome as Gary Glitter at a creche.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭chamlis


    There is a Polish(?) girl in Hi Cafe in Cork who always has a great smile, it makes a big difference. I was in tescos last night and the girl serving was as miserable as f*ck, I felt about as welcome as Gary Glitter at a creche.

    That, Sir, is my post of the week :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭JerryHandbag


    Update....yep imo Dunnes are beating Tescos at the moment in "nicest staff" stakes....asked a Polish girl at the counter for a clubcard application form and she looked at me as though I had 3 heads and 5 arses...in the end I just gave up....meh


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    This ok for ye lads??



    I beg your pardon? Please do elaborate....
    Durrp.

    The Indian guy in the off-licence across the way is fairly sound and always polite.
    He always tells me about any bargains I might be interested in.
    I'm not allowed to go into an off-licence or pub at the moment though.

    There's a hot chick in SuperValu across the road and she's really nice too.


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